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Best live album you've ever heard?

This is certainly inspired by the album that is kickin' it very LOUD here. I have many many live albums by every one from A-Z, but NONE come close to this one except Johnny Winter And Live, or the Allman Brothers Live at Fillmore East. The Stones' Get Your Ya Ya's Out has to be the best live rock'n'roll album ever. God bless Mick Taylor. I live in a concrete block house, and it is still shakin'. If any of you know of a better live recording than these, please fill me in. Thanks, Tom
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mg123
192 posts
 
I think Bonnie Raitt's "Road Tested" is excellent, especially the DTS 5.1 version. On "Love Me Like a Man" her guitar and vocals are right there!!
broadwaychris
3 posts
 
Jerry Lee Lewis at the Star Club

Sinatra in Paris (London's even better)

Honorable mentions; Ellington at Newport Complete
Sinatra at the Sands
Wynton Marsalis Village Vanguard Box
Kurt Elling in Chicago
duanegoosen
355 posts
 
Massacre, Meltdown sounds clearer and has more velocity and concussion than 90% of the discs in any collection. Frith, Laswell and Hayward do some of their best work on this one.

Harriet Tubman, Prototype, also sonically light years beyond most live rock recordings. Most gigs don't sound as good even when you're right in front of the mixing board.

Kraan live 74, Amazingly skilled and inventive jazz rockers refined and developed their great studio stuff by playing 200 plus live dates per year. Wolbrandt was like an early George Benson on mescaline and steroids. The electric sax, bass and percussion are also superlative.(not the best fidelity tho').

The Who, Live at Leeds, CRAPPY!! recording, but in this case, it doesn't matter. In terms of raw euphonious explosive power, no live record of this era that I've listened to comes close. You gotta look at Hendrix and then skip ahead to the Mahavishnu Orch. before even attempting to make a comparison.
ben_campbell
1,169 posts
 
I tend to find live albums just don't transmit.
Thin Lizzy's Live and Dangerous was and is viewed as the high point of their career.
If You Want Blood by AC/DC is highly regarded too....
Likewise Bob Marley Live and James Brown's Live At The Apollo often are touted as the greatest live album ever...
As I say I really tend to avoid live stuff,I'm just starting to work through a lot of Miles Davis live stuff,certainly 50's/60's Jazz works better live than rock music to my ears.
I'm actually on two live albums-The Waterboys-Live Adventures and Exit Stage Left by Rush-neither of which really capture what it was like to be there which is where I came in..........................
elgordo
530 posts
 
Belafonte at Carnegie Hall and Bravo Brubeck! Don
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