Listening to some live music today, and it made me think of some of my favorite live albums. We know that the Allmans have some great live stuff, so I won't be listing them this time. Here's some of my favorite live albums:
AC/DC - If You Want Blood You've Got It
Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More From The Road
Bob Seger - Live Bullet
UFO - Strangers In The Night
Eric Church - Caught In The Act
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Live At Montreux 1982 & 1985
Humble Pie - Performance: Rockin' The Fillmore
Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo
Blackfoot - Highway Song Live
B.B. King - Blues Is King
That's just a small number. Let me know what some of your favorite live albums are please!!!
I like all of the OPs original list.
Paul MCcartney-Tripping The Live Fantastic
Peter Frampton- Frampton Comes Alive
Widespread Panic-Live In The Classic City
cool topic
There's more than one?
I'll go with
Stones Ya Yas
Derek and The Dominos In Concert
Live Dead
Marshall Tucker Where We All Belong
Jeff Beck Live at Ronnie Scott’s ,John Mayall Movin On,Rolling Stones Totally Stripped,Gov’t Mule live at Roseland,Bob Dylan and the Band before the flood,Traffic welcome to the canteen,Umphreys McGee live at the Murat,Mountain the road goes on forever,Warren Haynes live at Bonnaroo,Cream Wheels of Fire,EC live at the hammersmith Odeon April 27th 1977. There’s so many,I’ve listened to these of late.Humble Pie live at the Fillmore is one of my all time favorites as well.
Live at Leeds.
then, everything else... 😮
Blaze Foley - Live At The Austin Outhouse
Little Feat - Waiting For Columbus
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Live Rust
Muddy Waters - At Newport
Johnny Winter And - Live
Band of Gypsies.
rockin the fillmore-humble pie
fm live-climax blues band
livestock-roy Buchanan
road work-edgar winter's white trash
band of gypsies-Hendrix
live at leads-the who
live dates-wishbone ash
zappa in new York-frank zappa
Woodstock 1 and 2
boston tea party-Fleetwood mac
live album-grand funk railroad
undead-10 years after
skull and roses-grateful dead
Here are a couple of my favorites that haven't been mentioned.
Ten Years After Live at the Filmore East
Blue Oyster Cult On Your Feet, Or On Your Knees
Hard to pick.
MSG-One Night At Budokan
Rainbow-Finyl Vinyl(maybe not technically a complete live concert. Contains songs live from various eras of the band and a couple of rare studio material at time. But that stuff aside ,great work from Blackmore and company!)
Rich Robinson-Live at the Knitting Factory
This one flies under the radar
If you are a Deep Purple fan and don't have it I highly recommend it. It came out about 5yrs ago and it is from there 1984 tour. Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers Live(also a dvd). This is when the band gets back together,makes PS and tours behind it. Still proves how talented,and dangerous this band of superb musicians are. The organ guitar battles between Lord and Ritchie on a couple of the songs are other wordly. Jon was a beast on the keys.
Everyone has a plan, till you get punched in the face,
Deep Purple Made In Japan
Rainbow - On Stage
Little Feat - Waiting For Columbus
Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East
Johnny Winter - Live In NYC
Grateful Dead - any show 72/73 era
ABB - Live At The Fillmore East
Blue Oyster Cult - On Your Feet Or On Your Knees
I’ll second:
Derek and the Dominos
Band of Gypsys
Waiting for Columbus
I also really like 24 Nights. I think I listened to that a billion times in high school and college. Somehow growing up that was my favorite live album. Clapton Unplugged.
THE BAND. ROCK OF AGES!!!!!
Jay-Z Unplugged.
Love most of the LIVE albums listed above......some other go to’s for me ! ....”gotta have it”
Neil Young...Massey Hall 1971
Crosby,Stills,Nash & Young ...Four Way Street
George Harrison....Live in Japan
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers...The Live Anthology
Bob Dylan ...Live 1966 The Royal Albert Hall”
Genesis ....Seconds Out
David Bowie....Welcome to the Black Out ...Live 1978
Yes ...Yessongs
Pink Floyd ...Pulse
The Who ...Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
Rush ...Live in Rio
Grateful Dead... most any of the box sets released 72-74 , 77-78
Good choices so far, quite a few are on my top ten list.
Missing so far:
Dave Mason - Certified Live
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - WELD
Frank Zappa - Does Humor Belong in Music? (Killer version of Whipping Post)
Well for Allman Brothers fans At Fillmore East is the greatest album period. And even better if you have the version with the Eat A Peach live tracks with it.
I have a Gary Moore live release doing Jimi Hendrix songs and two guys from Hendrix' s band play on a few tracks. It's a hot live release recorded live in London. All tracks are just Gary, bass and drums.
Woodstock 1969 is a favorite.
The Little Feat Goodbye Columbus is top notch. Stevie Ray Vaughn and anything live from Clapton is fine. I have EC Was Here and Further Up The Road smokes!
I bought a Harry James live release from the early 60's because Buddy Rich plays drums on it . Great musicianship. When Buddy was cursing out his young band late in his life he said " I've played with the best f****** musicians in the world! I dare you to play like that around me!!"
Derek Trucks Band- Road Songs and Live At The Georgia Theater
ABB- LAFE, Play All Night, Fox Box
Tedeschi Trucks Band- Live From The Fox
Col. Bruce Hampton & the Aquarium Rescue Unit
Phish- A Live One
Talking Heads- Stop Making Sense
Miles Davis & John Coltrane- The Final Tour
Grateful Dead- Reckoning
[Edited on 9/22/2018 by IPowrie]
I always liked Grateful Dead - Two From The Vault
My favs are Made In Japan, Strangers In The Night, and Live Rust. AFE is okay I guess...:P
Live DVDs:
Blackberry Smoke - Live At The Georgia Theatre
Gregg Allman - Back To Macon
Sound great played back to back!
I have many, many favorite live albums... I may have to add to this thread often!
J.Geils Band- Full House
Lou Reed- Rock 'n' Roll Animal
Uncle Ted- Double Live Gonzo
The Who- Live at Leeds
Black Sabbath- Live at Last
Deep Purple- Made in Japan
Foghat- Live
Robin Trower- Live
Kiss- Alive
Johnny Winter And- Live
.... just 10 to start, there are more!
Excluding ABB live albums
1.Black Sabbath Reunion
2.Nirvana Unplugged in New York
3.Alice in Chains Unplugged.
4.Cream Reunion
5.Metallica Live S&M
6.The Rolling Stones live in Havana
7. Deep Purple made in Japan.
Leon Russell...... Leon live....big fan of this one
Elvin Bishop........Raisin Hell...the whole band is having fun!
Bob Seeger..........Live Bullit
REO Speedwagon.You get what you play for...I know, I know. Good old stuff
Not mentioned-
Mad Dogs and Englishmen- Joe Cocker
Deliverin'- Poco
I’ll also second the call of the Miles / Coltrane “Final Tour”. It’s awesoem.
I have the one record vinyl, but there’s a multi-disc set of the same that I listen to on Spotify.
It’s not hyperbole to say you can feel and hear the tension. It’s just superb music.
I’ll also second the call of the Miles / Coltrane “Final Tour”. It’s awesome.
I have the one-record vinyl, but there’s a multi-disc set of the same that I listen to on Spotify, and you can listen for hours.
It’s not hyperbole to say you can feel and hear the tension. It’s just superb music.
[Edited on 9/24/2018 by cmgst34]
I will have to include "The Song Remains the Same".
Back in the day, this was the only way we had access to live Zeppelin. Unless you were lucky enough to see them in person.
Where We All Belong was mentioned 
Another good studio/live record is Headkeeper, by Dave Mason
Jimi and Otis at Monterey Pop comes to mind -- "it didn't even rain -- no buttons to push" 😮
Not discounting, but not including, LAFE....
1) Waiting for Columbus - Little Feat
2) Get yer Ya-Yas out - Stones
3) Rock & Roll Animal - Lou Reed
4) The Concert for Bangladesh
5) Eric Clapton - "Unplugged"
6) The Last Waltz
7) Running on Empty - Jackson Browne
8) Rory Gallagher - Live in Europe
9) Alison Krauss & Union Station - Live
10) Frampton comes alive
We've had some epic threads on this site about Live Albums. I'll add a few of my all-time favorites that I'm not sure have been mentioned yet:
The Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration......beyond 5 Stars
And if you are only going own one record from these artists....I'd go with these:
Alison Krauss + Union Station - Live
James Taylor - Live
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Live at Carnegie Hall
Indigo Girls - 1200 Curfews
