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Favorite Live Albums


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By Tor's DMB tribute inspired this post. So here are a few of mine,not necessarily in this order

Traffic - Live at the Canteen

Who - Live at Leeds

CSNY - 4 way street

Allman Bros - Live at the Filmore East

The Band - Last Waltz

Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

Neil Young - Live Rust

Stehen Stills- Stills Live.

Nirvana- Unplugged

Ok, so I am old.

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Ok... here's my favs. I love live albums. Actually I prefer bootlegs from many bands (Rush, DMB, Zep) but these are my favourite official releases:

1. Rush - Different Stages

2. Rush - Rush in Rio (Maracana Stadium 2002)

3. Dave Matthews Band - Live Trax vol. 2 (with Carlos Santana)

4. The Who - Live at Leeds

5. Genesis - Seconds Out

6. Camel - Pressure Points

7. Led Zeppelin - How the west was won

8. Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous

9. Queensryche - Operation Livecrime

10. Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound of Thunder

11. The Who - Join Together

12. Elvis Presley - Aloha from Hawaii (via satellite)

13. Neil Young - Live Rust

14. Fleetwood Mac - The Dance

15. David Bowie - Stage

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Most of my faves have already been mentioned, but I'm surprised no one included

Springsteen Live 75-85

or

Woodstock (that one dates me for sure!)

And how about the Grateful Dead's Live Dead ???

Another decent live album is 10,000 Maniacs Unplugged

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Most of my faves have already been mentioned, but I'm surprised no one included

Springsteen Live 75-85

or

Woodstock (that one dates me for sure!)

And how about the Grateful Dead's Live Dead ???

Another decent live album is 10,000 Maniacs Unplugged

i have them all. that 10,000 maniac's album is extremly underrated.

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And how about the Grateful Dead's Live Dead ???

I have plenty of Dead boots... and while most of the gigs have their great moments they're usually filled with boring jam sessions (for me anyway). Nothing against Dead though, I respect them a lot. They got their massive live success without any support from the mainstream media (in that sense they were a lot like Rush and DMB). And I love all the songs by Brett Mydland. Very beautiful.

They have always been virtually unknown in Europe, so I can't probably fully understand their attraction among the masses. They were so "American"... if you know what I mean... I guess they were sort of "hippie gathering"... and Phish adopted a lot of their old audience later.

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:thumbsupsmileyanim:

The KINKS .one for the road

L Skynyrd . one from the road

WideSpreadPanic . light fuse get away

Jupiter Coyote . live

Lou Reed . rock'roll animal

and of course tha allman bros, little feat, marshall tucker band,and many others

regards

roby

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Led Zepplin, BBC Peel Sessions

U2, Rattle & Hum

Frank Sinatra, Live @ The Sands

Bjork, Vespertine Tour @ The London Royal Opera house (DVD)

The Three Tenors, in concert 1994 (Dodger Stadium)

The Cure, Entreat (Wimbley Arena)

Midnight Oil, 20,000 Watts RSL

and possibly The Smiths, Rank

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When I was in college I only listened to bootlegs since for some reason I don't remember I believed that Rock and Roll was only meant to be played live. Mpstly i just spent all my money @ Wax Trax Records--I have a hundred or so bootleg LP's in my basement somehwere if any old timers want a CD of their fav 80's college rock band playing live. The ones I remember are:

R.E.M--live in Ames Iowa ,1985. I think I had the entire Reckoning tour.

The Minutemen--San Diego, 1987?. Maybe the greatest 30 minutes of live music ever recorded.

The Replacements--CGBG, 1988 Someone yells "You Suck!" Paul Westerberg Replies, "Dad, you made it." Their encore consists entirely of horrfic versions Black Sabbath.

The Ramones--Cabaret Metro, Chicago 1983.

Husker Du: Minneapolis 1984.

Somebody (Metallica?) playing an entire set of Misfits songs around 1988 or 89.

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Incredible. I recently saw their cover band, zoso. Pretty amazing, I really wish I had been able to see the real deal :(

Still trying to see clapton live....

I saw Clapton play maybe 15-16 years ago at Shea Stadium with Elton John. Terrific show.

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