Best Live Recording on LP

If you like western swing/honky tonk style, check out Wayne "The Train" Hancock's "Swing Time". It was recorded at the Continental Club in Austin,Texas. Really well recorded and great songs.

The widely distributed bootleg of Allman Bros. '92 acoustic tour is a gem.
Van Morisson - It's Too Late To Stop Now is another winner.

Agree w/Little Feat - Waiting For Columbus

I second Audiofeil's "Waiting for Columbus" (Little Feat). I assume he means the MFSL edition.

The first time I heard the Bill Evans "Send in the Clowns" was two years ago at the Audiofest during the after hours session in our room (drop on by on Saturday night if you're at the 'Fest this year).

Our good buddy Dre_j brought it, this was one of my peak musical experiences - whether live or recorded.

The spell had to be broken of course, and at the very end, in came a rowdy bunch led by our good buddy, Jim Hagerman. The hotel bar apparently couldn't contain them anymore.

Get the MFSL issue of Waiting for Columbus only if you can't find the standard one. The MFSL isn't too bad but the original is better.

For sheer musicianship and raw energy, try "Bless It's Pointed Head" by the Airplane - a live Fillmore East recording (from 1968, I believe). The sonics are only ok, but the musicianship captures the Airplane at their peak.

Grace does an incredible blues number called "Bear Melt" which Jorma, Jack, and Spencer stretch out into an incredible jam.

It's a little known fact that when the Airplane were looking for a singer to replace Signe Anderson, the short list came down to Grace and Janice. I think they made the right choice, as Grace's and Marty's voices blended the way sibling's voices do. Janice was "right" for Big Brother.

The year after this album was recorded, I had the privilege of seeing the Airplane at the Fillmore East (Thanksgiving weekend in 1969).

Grace and Marty sang a haunting duet of Wooden Ships that still sends chills up my spine when I think about it. A CD was released from that concert weekend. Unfortunately, it too is very rough, but again has some great moments on it - including "Won't You Try/Saturday Afternoon" from "Baxter's".

Cheers,
Thom @ Galibier

Actually I was alluding to the Warner Bros. release which is just as good as the Mofi version. I have both and there is little, if any, difference.

Some times Mofi gets it right. See "Crime of the Century".

While others, most notably "Aja" and "Sticky Fingers", make for better frisbees than listening.