Hadn’t known that Chuck recorded My Dingaling years earlier in the studio - on a 1968 album - it’s called My Tambourine

Ted Nugent’s Double Live Gonzo was mentioned
What about his live comp from the early 80s - a great title indeed - “Intensities in 10 Cities”

But what about the others - is one ‘better than’ another

ZEPPELIN
The Song Remains The Same or How The West Was Won

DEEP PURPLE
Made in Japan or Made in Europe

BOB SEGER
Live Bullet or Nine Tonight

J GEILS
Full House or Blow Your Face Out

10 YEARS AFTER
Undead or Recorded Live (also the later Fillmore release

MOUNTAIN
The Road Goes Ever On, or Twin Peaks

ELP
Pictures at an Exhibition or WB.....Never Ends

JUDAS PRIEST
Beast of the East or Priest Live

JOHNNY WINTER
JW And Live, or Captured Live

PAUL
Wings Over America or Tripping The Live Fantastic

THE BAND
Rock of Ages, or The Last Waltz

90s-ERA STONES
Flashpoint or No Security
(Still Life? Love You Live????:o)

CREAM
Live Cream, Live Cream Vol II or Goodbye Cream
(also Royal Albert Hall or Wheels of Fire)

CLAPTON
Timepieces Vol II: Live in the 70s, or EC Was Here

TRAFFIC
Welcome to the Canteen or On The Road (1973)

JIMI
Hendrix in the West or Band of Gypsies
(know there are others, unsure of titles)

ALLMANS
Evening With, Second Set or Play All Night, 90s
Cream of the Crop or One Way Out, post 2000

Bands that have put out multiple live shows, surely others too

[Edited on 5/5/2020 by Stephen]

Gov't Mule's Live With A Little Help From My Friends is just amazing. But the collector's edition. Not the other one.
Collector's Edition is pricey and not real easy to find but it is well worth it.

Neil Young's Rock Rocks Volume 1. All Along the Watchtower with Chrissie Hynde is worth it alone. I don't even like the song but this is amazing.

Don't think he ever got around to a Volume 2. 😮

No particular order

1. Allman Brothers Band- Live at the Fillmore East
2. Deep Purple- Made in Japan
3. Humble Pie- Rockin the Fillmore East
4. Jimi Hendrix- Band of Gypsys
5. Rolling Stones- Get Yer Ya Ya's Out
6 Uriah Heep- Live 1973
7. John Winter And- Live at the Fillmore East 10/3/70
8, Fleetwood Mac- Live in Boston 1970 Vol-1-3
9 Status Quo- Quo Live
10. The Cult- Live at the Marquee Club
11. David Bowie- Santa Monica 1972
12. Savoy Brown Hellbound Train Live 1969-1972
13. Foghat- Extended Version Live
14. Santana- Live at the Fillmore East 1968
15 Ten Years After- Live at the Fillmore East
16. ELP- Welcome Back My Friends Live
17. Yes- Progeny- Highlights from 72
18. Lynyrd Skynyrd- One More From The Road Deluxe
19. Govt Mule- With a Little Help With Our Friends

[Edited on 4/16/2020 by Bill_Graham]

[Edited on 4/16/2020 by Bill_Graham]

James Brown- Live at the Apollo Theater

road work-edgar winter's white trash
live dates-wishbone ash
house full-fairport convention
light fuse get away-widespread panic
live at leeds-the who

1Talking Heads Stop Making Sense
2 ABB @Fillmore
3JGeils Full House
4Marshall Tucker Take the Highway
5Skynyrd One More From the Road

ABB - Live at the Fillmore East
Rush - All the World's a Stage
Black Sabbath - Live Evil
Peter Frampton- Frampton Comes Alive and Frampton Comes Allive II
UFO - Strangers in the Night
Michael Schenker Group - Live at Budakon
Blue Oyster Cult - Extraterrestrial Live
Rainbow - Live at Munich
Pagans Mind - Full Circle
Motorhead- No Sleep Till Hammersmith

Another great live album also missing from this list...
Humble Pie...Performance...Rockin The Fillmore.

Great album alright (Bill_Graham mentioned it)
Not too many Springsteen fans by the look of it - that would include me too, but his Live 1975-85 box set belongs on the list imo - that was a game changer

Great album alright (Bill_Graham mentioned it)
Not too many Springsteen fans by the look of it - that would include me too, but his Live 1975-85 box set belongs on the list imo - that was a game changer

I love it & just listened to it last week on a hike but taken from concerts spread out over years and doctored up a lot in the studio. I have a hard time placing it along my favorites because of this.

I also love Petty's Live Anthology but same circumstances.

I think I weigh in every time this thread topic appears:

Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert (Clapton, N.Young, The Band, Petty, Mellencamp, S.Wonder et al)
UFO - Strangers in the Night
Springsteen & E Street Band - Hemmersmith Odeon, London '75 (well circulated bootleg that was released officially)
Alison Krause & Union Station - Live
Skynyrd - One More from the Road (Deluxe)
Kinks - One More from the Road
Ella in Berlin - Mack the Knife
AC/DC - If You Want Blood, You Got It
REM - Live at the Olympia
Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus
Little Feat - Live from Neon Park
Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won
The Band - Rock of Ages
The Band - The Last Waltz
Clapton - Unplugged
10,000 Maniacs - Unplugged
Rolling Stones - Brussels Affair (well circulated bootleg that was released officially)
Jackson Browne - Running on Empty
Journey - Captured
Black Sabbath - Live at Hammersmith Odeon (archive release better than Live Evil)
Genesis - Three Sides Live (bookend to an underrated period before they went pop)
Yes - Yessongs

And I'll add:

Lyle Lovett Large Band - Live in Texas (if you only own one Lyle album...)
Indigo Girls - 1200 Curfews (if you only own one Indigo Girls album)
Iron Maiden - Live after Death - 1995 reissue

This deep in the thread and lots of greats already mentioned. But I don't think this has...

Dave Mason - Certified Live

Came out around the same time as Frampton Comes Alive did - maybe slightly later. It saw regular rotation on the turntable of my college townhouse. One of the best versions of Watchtower ever recorded...

James Brown- Live at the Apollo Theater

The follow up Live at the Apollo 1995 is all love for The Godfather too - he includes a special studio bonus track at the end, Respect Me, that could be the best thing on the disc

Great deal of prerelease fanfare, also for another similar milestone type live release from around then w/Frampton Comes Alive II, which was mentioned - neither burned up the charts like their predecessors tho

1 - Taj Mahal - "The Real Thing"
2 - Otis Redding at Monterey (blew the Jimi side out of the waters)
3 - Jimi at Berkley

Joe Walsh...
Can't Argue With A Sick Mind

Cheap Trick:

@ Budokan
Music for Hangovers
Silver

A few good ones no one has mentioned

Robert Randolph and the Family Band-Live at the Wetlands

From Every Stage-Joan Baez

On Stage-Loggins and Messina

No particular order:

Col. Hampton & Aquarium Rescue Unit (debut)
AFE
Johnny Winter And... Live!
Lou Reed - Rock and Roll Animal
The Who - Live at Leeds (reissue expanded edition is awesome too)
Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
DiMeola, McLaughlin, DeLucia - Friday Night in San Francisco
Eric Clapton Unplugged
Neil Young Unplugged

I also enjoy Clapton's 24 Nights and some of The Who live recordings of Tommy in 1989-90 time frame. Not classic eras for either of them, but very enjoyable live albums.

Two that I don’t think have been mentioned are the 2-LP Woodstock II (1971) and Mar Y Sol (1972) - two very good various-artists releases

Leading to the opuses - the grandiose over the top lavish
The three-record sets
Woodstock - Atlanta Pop - Concert for Bangladesh - Europe 72 - Leon Live - Yessongs - ELP Welcome Back My Friends - leading to Paul’s later Wings Over America
I’d have to give it to Europe 72 😮

Will jump tracks briefly w/mention of two other three-record albums from around then that were very notable & became popular - only they were from the studio 😮
George’s ATMPass (1970), and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s Will The Circle Be Unbroken (1972)

[Edited on 5/7/2020 by Stephen]

buddy miles live

Except for ABB's AFE, the two live albums that I have played the most are, without a doubt, the Grateful Dead's Skull and Roses, and ABB 2nd Set. I love 'em both and they never get old. I'm surprised that they haven't been mentioned more in this thread.

Also, I bought ABB's WTWCTODollarGas when it first came out, and was a little bit underwhelmed by it at the time. But I have to admit that it's a nice capture of the Chuck/Lamar era. To this day, when I have it on in the background, I stop what I'm doing and just listen to Dickey's solo in Ramblin' Man. What a powerful performance. Very nice Jessica as well; Chuck really shines.

Although technically not a live album, the Crossroads/Spoonful side of Cream's Wheels of Fire is another timeless live recording. I've played it as much as anything else that I've ever had. Such intense interplay and always something new with each listen.

Yeah Randall, for a long time, I listened to "Wipe the Windows" and lessened my enjoyment by comparing it to AFE.
I also couldn't get my head around some of the keyboard sounds.

Once I was able to stop comparing it to AFE, I started really digging it.

I notice Wipe the Windows produced by the ABB ( turned out it was actually Chuck Leavell), Johnny Sandlin and Sam Whiteside has an edit at the beginning of Dickey's Ramblin' Man solo. The 2013 anniversary release of Brothers and Sisters' live accompaning set which is Winterland November, 1973 also, doesn't have the edit. Apparently someone thought the solo began too slowly.

I'm with Stephen on Europe '72.

But if you could only take one album to a desert island, it's gotta be Fillmore East.

Also Gregg Allman Tour with that orchestra and those 3 backup singers, "are you lonely for me baby, oh you know that I am"...

Little Feat Waitin' for Columbus, many times rollin' into New York City with the skyline in the mornin' light...