Boomers, of these "Live" albums, whats your favorite?

[maveric]

Poll question: Boomers, of these "Live" albums, whats your favorite?

I'm listing my favorites here but feel free to add your own favorites from the 1967-78 era.

[tarkus]

1. Yessongs didn't make the cut?

That version of Siberian Khatru makes my hair stand on end every time I hear it- and I try to hear it pretty regularly.

[maveric]

2. Thats one of my favorites too. Just not enough slots in the poll mode.

I cant tell you how many times I played Yessongs while I was cooped up in my room, on restriction.

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. 'Made In Japan'

Deep Purple.

Best. Live. Rock. Album. EVarrr. :headbang:

[maveric]

4. Wasnt that post-Blackmore?

Or am I thinking of the "Burn" album?

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. 'Burn' was Blackmore's last album with 'em

It didn't have Gillan or Lord.



Whoops — "Stormbringer" was Blackmore's last. :blush:

[mitchum]

6. "Get Yer Ya Yas Out"

[swag]

7. Of those ones, I favor Lou Reed "Rock 'n' Roll Animal," and its companion

"Lou Reed Live."

Also Lou Reed's "Take No Prisoners Live," done a couple years later, which is mostly improvised spoken insults toward Patti Smith, Robert Christgau, and audience members - one long double album "binaurally" recorded rant, really - is quite a treat.

I also very much like The Who "Live at Leeds," The Rolling Stones "Get Yer Ya Yas Out," Iggy & the Stooges "Metallic KO," and Iggy Pop "TV Eye Live."

I might have the wrong definition of the broad era, though. If so, I apologize.

[leftofthedial]

8. No Nukes

was pretty damn good

[Burma Jones]

9. Grateful Dead - Europe '72

[Robeson]

20. Grew up on that one....

....:thumbsup:

[dajoki]

10. The Who-"Live at Leeds"

A little taste of a Who concert.

[kwassa]

44. Seconded, a great live album

Ain't No Cure for the Summertime Blues.

[ChoralScholar]

11. I thought you meant the group 'Live'

I was going to nominate "Throwing Copper"

Going with the Allman Brothers on this one.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

12. Other: Woodstock

Crappy sound but what an ensemble of artists!

[Susang]

15. Hey you!

I just heard about your accident yesterday. How're you feeling? :hi:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

16. crappy...big time

so I am lying in bed with a laptop escaping from the boredom of lying in bed at all...I am going to try to work tomorrow..I have to wear a corset in order to stand so that will look quite cute....good thing it's still cool enough to wear a jacket over it

[Susang]

17. You're going to work?

I'd use it as an excuse to play hookey, but then I really don't like my job very much! ;-)

Wearing the corset-thing must suck. I didn't even have to do that after my back surgery. Of course, I ended up re-herniating. Maybe I should borrow it after you're finished with it, might keep me from further injuring myself. :D

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

18. I can't play hookey

too much work...too few people to do it..I did lighten up my court schedule though

Yeah they want me to wear the corset for a few weeks ...I had to wear one for eight weeks after surgery

[Susang]

21. That sucks

I hope you're not in too much pain. :hug:

(and just so this isn't a total threadjack, my favorite live album is Stop Making Sense by The Talking Heads)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

23. I like that one too but that was the 80's, no?

[Susang]

25. Yeah, but I'm not a boomer either.

I had to go with what I know. That, and I don't read instructions or follow direction well. :blush:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

26. HAHAHAHA!

What you know is good though...that's one of my all time favorite discs!

[6000eliot]

13. Rock 'n' Roll Animal is the rockingest live album ever.

You also should have included Thin Lizzy's "Live and Dangerous."

[enigmatic]

14. "Velvet Underground Live 1969"

Not the "Live At Max's Kansas City" album (which I think is inferior; even though John Cale had left by then the Velvets never sounded better, especially in the amazing guitar interplay between Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison, especially on "What Goes On".

And it's still got the best version of "Heroin" on record as far as I'm concerned, though the version on the CD reissue isn't the same version on the original vinyl release...

[JeffR]

19. The Band: Rock of Ages

[Ron Green]

27. Yes! I'll vote for that.

[Swamp Rat]

22. "Yessongs," "Get Yer Ya Yas Out," "Live At Leeds," "Live Rust," and

"All the World's a Stage" (1976) - Rush.

There are too many great live albums to choose from when considering other genres of music.

[Telly Savalas]

24. Fillmore-band fans should check out Vault Radio

From its webpage:

About Vault Radio

Bill Graham and his concert promotion company, Bill Graham Presents, produced more than 35,000 concerts all over the world. His first venue, the legendary Fillmore Auditorium, was home to many of rock's greatest performers - Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Prince - and the list goes on and on.

Graham taped thousands of live performances and stored the tapes in the basement of the BGP headquarters. These tapes and the concerts they captured lay dormant until the Bill Graham archive was acquired by Wolfgang's Vault (Bill Graham's given first name was Wolfgang) in 2003.

Vault Radio is now playing selected tracks from these concerts in an FM-quality, 128K digital radio stream. Songs will be added to and removed from the radio show on a regular basis. We will be broadcasting unaltered live performance music from many of the greatest bands of the last 40 years. The music you hear on Vault Radio has not been sweetened or polished. You'll be listening to what the band played that night - nothing more, nothing less.

was groovin' on it at work earlier this evening. good stuff


http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/Static.aspx?Type=Audio/Radio.htm&CategoryID=RA&LeftNav=Audio/RadioNav.htm

[Skittles]

28. Rainbow Rising

yes INDEED

[maveric]

29. Wow! Not ONE vote for 4-Way Street!

Unbelievable!

[Richardo]

30. I'm a big CSNY fan, but 4-way Street sucks big time.

Many crappy live albums made in the 70s. Chicago's Live at Carnegie Hall album is another one that stinks up the joint.

[LynneSin]

31. Although I voted for LZ you should have included Bowie's Live at the Tower

That would have been #2 on my list

#3 - Queen Live Killers

[mikeytherat]

33. Whoa! The Bowie and Queen would have been MY #1 and #2!

Pretty cool!

mikey_the_rat

[XNASA]

32. "Live at Leeds"

Duh.

[evlbstrd]

34. The Last Waltz is another Fillmore show that kicks ass.

[Richardo]

35. That's the best of the lot IMO...

:thumbsup:

[evlbstrd]

37. Thanks for the vote!

I really like the Last Waltz Theme.

[maveric]

40. Ever listen to the Concert for Bangaladesh?

George Harrison
Ravi Shankar
Leon Russell
Bob Dylan
Eric Clapton
Ringo Starr
Billy Preston
Badfinger

Granted it was thrown together quickly, but the talent and the quality of the music is unbelievable!

[Richardo]

42. Yes - I do like that one also..

I've never owned it for some reason --> :dunce:

[wildhorses]

36. you are making my head hurt

CAN. NOT. CHOOSE.

[Squeech]

38. Henry Cow Concerts

Jefferson Airplane Bless Its Pointed Little Head

Quicksilver Messenger Service Happy Trails

Live Dead

Genesis Live

The Band Rock of Ages

Over the Rainbow (last week of London's Rainbow Theatre before it closed for renovations in 1975, various artists including Richard and Linda Thompson)

[Ishoutandscream2]

39. The Who "Live at Leeds" and Stones "Get yer Ya Yas out"

[TallahasseeGrannie]

41. Talking Heads Stop Making Sense

[kwassa]

45. I saw the actual concert where Jonathan Demme saw them and

was inspired to make the film. The concert was amazing, better than the film, and the film was quite good.

Live at the Greek Theater in LA in 1983.

I also went to art school with most of them.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

46. I'm envious!

my all-time favorite band. I still listen to that album to clean the house! Did you know Byrne personally? Was he insane??? Wonder what he is doing now.

[kwassa]

49. well he still makes records ...

Byrne was hard to know, as he was unsocialized. I'd go to a party, he'd sit in the corner and not say much. Most of the time I knew him, so to speak, he wasn't really enrolled in the school but would hang out there. He was a lead singer for a school band called the Artistics, and Chris Frantz played the drums.


Another classmate, Gus Van Sant, taught Byrne to play guitar. Gus has directed a few movies since then.

[mikeiddy]

47. I second that - best concert ever

[bif]

43. MC5-"Kick Out The Jams"

[Joey Liberal]

48. BeBop Deluxe Live

They rocked.