It's a tough one, picking just one...
It can't kick more ass than AC/DC's "If you want blood". J. Geils Band's "Full House" is one of my faves too, all about energy.
The Stones' "Brussels Affair" is just unbelievable - Keith himself couldn't believe his own ears listening to it!
Creedence at the Oakland Colyseum ("The Concert") is a powerful one too.
John Fogerty's "Premonition" (1998) is really amazing.
Choosing from the list, Thin Lizzy and Ozzy are the ones i've actually listened to more than just heard to be honest. My favs wuold be Iron Maiden Live After Death and Queen - Live at Wembley.
Indeed - or "Live Killers". The Queen live were killers.Originally Posted by saint
There are some great boots out there and that's one of the reasons I came to this site; for the Van Halen w/Dave boots.
I dug through a couple of crate bins last night and found the BOC Some Enchanted Evening and:
Foghat Live!
A NATION OF COWARDS - Jeffrey R. Snyder
or "Rock Montreal".
Why settle for something you have, if it's not as good as something you're out to get?
It's like putting up a YouTube of Bach and playing Chopstix on your Bontempi...
I've never really understood why people get so excited about Queen...........
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My personal fav live albums are Motley Crue - Decade of Decadence , The Police Live, and Judas Priest - Live. As far as best for the artists career, its a clear win for Frampton. Although Cheap Trick @ Budokan was quite influencial and boosted them.
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Of my 3 favs i give the nod to The Police.
The Police album sounded good, but I didn't like the choice of formatting. I think they should have released two separate albums, one from 78 or 79 and then another from the Synchronicity tour. Because going from one disc to the other is just a reminder of how much the band changed in such a short time.... and not necessarily for the better.
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I've never heard a live album by The Police, but I remember a film of their first world tour - they were good. This is intercut with off-stage footage, but the first tune kicks in at about 1:30
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Mercury's charisma, I guess... (0:45)
What's your pick VHscraps ?
I seen R.E.O. Speedwagon You Get What You Play For on someone's list. That was a great album, with Golden Country, and of coarse Riding The Storm Out. Before the pussy ballads. When they were a jam band. My goodness what happened to Gary. There is a clip of him on stage with the new R.E.O. playing Stormout. I wanted too weep !! He looked horrid !! 250 and 6 chins !! Man I was bummed too see that. What a great player ! One of my favorite shows in 89 outside in the rain. Killer sound ! He had a awesome tone.
The live Ozzy show from the new Deluxe 30th Anniversary Edition of Diary of a Madman is pretty ballz out.
gnaw on it
Back before Miles Copeland had grey hair. Got to love his intro.
No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!
The Allman Brothers Band @ the Fillmore East, James Brown's Love, Power, Peace from the Olympia Theater in Paris, or UFO's Strangers in the Night.
Is it true that Michael's parts are "as is"? I had read somewhere that he allegedly insisted that his performance remain unaltered.
~T.
Hot August Night.
Hey, tree people? I'm singing for you, too!
Yes the JB Paris show is fucking amazing I need to spin that one. And Strangers in the Night is definitely my next purchase but fucking amazon has been out of stock for a month now. I'd love to find it on vinyl somewhere cheap...
UFOs Strangers in the night on vinyl...great! I had forgot about them...I must have put it in garbage sometime ago along with all my vinyls.....my first live album purchased was Bob Seger nine tonight...Another one I remember purchasing as an import was Rainbow - On Stage.
Now who`s that babe with the fab-u-lous shad-ow?
KISS Alive is still my favorite, despite how "live" it is or not. Lots of good one's listed here. James Brown at the Apollo is great. Black Sabbath, Live Evil is a good document of the band with RJD in his prime. I really like Bob Dylan's, Hard Rain. Dylan is so inconsistent in concert, but that recording captured some raw energy and anger over his breakup. I'll try to embed it, but this version of Idiot Wind is so goddamn good!
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=405_1311641334
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the most famous live albums from the list are:
1. Song Remains The Same, Zep.
2. Frampton Comes Alive, Frampton
Both are great live albums, brings back memories.
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because you are too young to even talk about them...when you were still jumping over the fences in your father's nutsack I have seen them live (twice!). this band could simply kill anybody on stage. I am a diehard Dave fan but when it comes to live shows and ruling a crowd I will rank Freddie on number one any day of the week. not to mention the musical brillance of May, Deacon and Taylor.
now cry in your pillow, kiddo, that you will never get the chance to see these guys at their peak like I did...watch this and remember...it's a kind of magic!
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Actually, I'm on the downside of my 40s and I agree with Binnie. I like Queen. I have a few of their albums, but I never have understood people who get crazy over them. To me they were a good band but nothing that ever made me listen and go "wow" outside of "Bohemian", which was like nothing ever heard before in rock.
As far as the last few posts on Queen, I'm somewhere in between. Freddie had the best voice in rock and huge stage presence, May is a great guitarist and both Deacon and Taylor were very solid musicians and all took their craft seriously. This is why Queen upstaged Live Aid - because they were simply so much better than everyone else musicianship wise. So I can see why people love them say they were sort of the penultimate rock band. But at the same time, I can see how some will criticize their over-polished production and lack of versatility and their limitations when it came to producing new music consistently. Although it's not an "album", it's difficult to top the Montreal DVD with a Queen at the top if its "Game" though. Very little pyrotechnics or stage show lighting fluff, just a band doing what it does best....
By that logic I'm too young to talk about all '70s and '80s bands - not sure that age has much to do with it if you have ears.
I know that I'm in the majority when it comes to Queen, so I must be missing something. But to me, they just sound more like cabaret than rock. I'd say they're an awful lot closer to ABBA than most of the rest of the music that would fall under the 'hard rock' label. If people like that, fine, but it's just not for me, for the most part.
The performance at Live Aid was phenomenal enough, but Queen's records of that time were nothing to sell your soul over.
Now their 70s catalog, that's a different matter. And since the "Live Killers" album was actually from that era, it's worthy of the list, in this Devil's most unholy opinion.
What about Johnny Winter And Live?
Be it just for this (can't find a video version from the legendary live album, though):
And the rest delivers too.
Here's the audio anyway:
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Of course Johnny Winter And Live isn't really to be considered as the best live album ever, but it's one of the best to me at least, one of the most full of energy.
The Who's "Live at Leeds", the Stones' "Get yer Ya Ya's Out" or "Brussels Affair", The Queen's "Live Killers", AC/DC's "Got Blood if you Want It" are the ones that may make it.
I'd put "Brussels Affair" first, and the "Got Blood if you want it" very close after personally.
And among the most memorable, Janis Joplin in Calgary in 1970 with her Full Tilt Boogie Band was a real bomb as well. Compiled in "In Concert", alongside with a dozen tracks with her previous band, the Kozmic Blues Band. "Cheap Thrills" with Big Brother kicked major ass too.
1.the kinks- One for the road
2. the who -Live @ Leeds
3.Johnny Cash- Live @ San Quentin
4.Stones-Get yer Ya"s Ya"s
5.Wings-Wings over America
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This is my fave from that album. Winter and Derringer just go nuts playing all over each other.
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I forgot too put Kiss on the list. That was a big one. Wings and both live Johnny Winter albums are great stuff.
The thing is bin, some of us geezers had to wait eight or nine months between album issues to grow with a band over several years. I believe the resentment directed comes from you younger dudes not having to live with a group as it evolved. On the contrary, you can simply pick up a platter of CDs or Youtube clips and instantly derive an opinion.By that logic I'm too young to talk about all '70s and '80s bands - not sure that age has much to do with it if you have ears.
I know that I'm in the majority when it comes to Queen, so I must be missing something. But to me, they just sound more like cabaret than rock. I'd say they're an awful lot closer to ABBA than most of the rest of the music that would fall under the 'hard rock' label. If people like that, fine, but it's just not for me, for the most part.
It's not a big deal, and in fact is yer birthright. Fuck, I saw a band called the Stray Cats on an ABC latenight show called Fridays, and believed they were the second coming of Christ. It was a few weeks later that I discovered a musical genre called "rock a billy", of which I'd never heard of at that time.
The experience opened up doors fer me. I found that Elvis Presley wasn't only cool for a tv special from Hawaii. That my guitar playing did not have to rely on flashy wizardry, and my solos could include chords. And a guy standing up armed with nothing more than a bass drum, a snare and a beat-to-crap cymbal could become part of the greatest rhythm section in the world, with or without a stand up bass.
Ya live, ya learn. What you find is your own journey. Open yer mouth, and feel free to speak yer piece. Do what ya feel. Shit, my dad hated the Stones and Beatles, let alone my beloved Elton John.
Fuck him and the crippled horse he rode in on. The music that matters most matters to me, and me alone. As a result, I don't give a flying fuck about who feels contrary to my opinion.
State yer case, and move on. Ya don't need to defend yerself post by post. Put yer opinion up there, then let it breathe.
And good on yer.
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Cool post chef
fuck your fucking framing
And now for some real music...
This has to be one of the gheyest threads in a long, long time.
What Kristy really meant to say was that her favorite live album ever is......
Eat Us And Smile
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Naw. But this thread does belong in the Smithsoiaian.
have you seen this?
Don't notice most of my posts are less than 2 lines...
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another video of this lineup
Cheers, Cato!
It's actually the same line-up as in "And Live" released in '71, and both the stage and lights look a lot like what you see on the sleeve.
It's sheer fury!
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