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I'm sure this topic has been covered here somewhere, but what are some of your all time favorite live recordings? I just got Little Feat's Waiting For Columbus cd. I had heard a good bit of it when I was a punk ass kid growing up since everybody had a copy. And even though I always kinda dug their sound, at that time, it was way too southern rock sounding and un-hip for me to want it. Boy was I an idiot... because it's one of the greatest live albums ever! A few more of my faves are Zappa's Roxy And Elsewhere, Genesis' Live and Seconds Out, Blue Oyster Cult's On Your Feet Or On Your Knees and Phish's A Live One. I think I have more live jazz recordings than rock or pop albums. With the exception of Frank Zappa, who had a million great "live" albums. Any more recommendations?
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A Live One is one of the great official releases. I assume we're talking about those, rather than shows downloaded from tapers or ETree.
People are right to recommend Dave and Tim at Radio City as an amazing recording, but I actually found the setlist to be kind of weak. Music-wise I still prefer the original release from Luther College.
Call me crazy but I still get a kick out of the Metallica concert with an orchestra.
But my all time favorite is the Grateful Dead live at the Fillmore box set from 1969. Something about the bluesier PigPen era just gets me. Always has.
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Loreena McKennitt, Nights from the Alhambra.
Frampton Comes Alive.
Led Zep, How the West Was Won/The Song Remains the Same.
The Band, Last Waltz.
Neil Young, Live Rust.....
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As far as live recordings, I think I prefer concert DVDs, or better yet, concert Blu-rays, to anything else. I have some live CDs I'll listen to on occasion, like Rasputina's A Radical Recital, but mostly if I want to try to experience the "live" performance at home, I want the visual aspect of it as well.
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I agree with CV, my fav DVD is the Eagles Farewell tour - Melbourne and for BR it is David Gilmore - Remember That Night.
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I agree about live dvds. That's one of my favorite things about HT! And all of your suggestions I've heard and seen. The Last Waltz is one of the greatest "band" films ever. Of course it helps that Martin Scorcese directed it! I think the Yes' Symphonic dvd is one of the most impressive concert dvds you'll ever see, performance and sound quality-wise. And King Crimson's live dvds will spoil you forever. And knock your head off! Anyone see any Radiohead dvds? I might be interested in that. Although I don't think I've liked much of anything after OK Computer. Those first three albums are the best of their work imho.
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As far as concert DVDs, my go-to ones are Tori Amos's Welcome to Sunny Florida, Guster's Guster On Ice: Live From Portland Maine, Rodrigo y Gabriela's Live in Japan, Björk's Vespertine Live at Royal Opera House, and Green Day's Bullet in a Bible. On Blu-ray, the only one I really love so far is Regina Spektor's Live in London, for obvious reasons. I hope a lot more artists start releasing concert Blu-rays.
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I must have watched the Rush: Grace Under Pressure tour video (on VHS!) dozens of times in high school. It holds up well. My current favorite concert of theirs is R30. Another favorite is Oasis, There and Then (DVD). It catches them at their peak in 1995-1996, playing football stadiums, with tens of thousands of fans singing along. Really makes you feel like you're there. Really improved my enjoyment of "Live Forever". Crank up the bass!
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Gotta agree on the Green Day mention, Charles!
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My 2 favorites live recordings are Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds at Radio City on Blu and the Eagles Hell Freezes Over on DVD.
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Ken, ya gotta throw Cunning Stunts in there as well. I haven't watched the S&M concert for a while. I'll have to drag that out for a listen this weekend.
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I've only seen Cunning Stunts once, but I think it has my favorite rendition of One on there. Seems like the bass is actually doing something in that recording, as opposed to all the others.
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I haven't watched Cunning Stunts for a while as the language is a little too colorful for my 6-1/2 year old son at this point in his life.
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SRV at the El Mocambo is a classic, very small intimate venue. ZZ Top live from Texas is a good one too.
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SRV at the El Mocambo is a classic, very small intimate venue. Awesome performance, but horrible camerawork/switching and mediocre sound stop it from being on my list...even though it's SRV!
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Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall 1971 Norah Jones - Live in New Orleans & New York City (with the Peter Malick Group) John Butler Trio - Live at St. Gallen Playing For Change (if you haven't heard this you must give it a listen, it doesn't get any live-er then this, they go around the world and record different street musicians playing different parts of the same song and mix them all together) http://www.playingforchange.com/episodes/2/Stand_By_Me
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My 2 favorites live recordings are Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds at Radio City on Blu and the Eagles Hell Freezes Over on DVD. Ditto. I also own Live in Melbourne, and it's on par.
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I'm looking forward to the new Rage concert Blu-Ray that's supposed to be out in April!
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I love live recordings. Great thread idea.
Elton John 11-17-70.
AC/DC at Donnington.
Alison Krauss and Robert Plant - Crossroads
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals - Live at Skowhegan
Joe Jackson - Big World (technically, a studio album, but recorded live as a full band with no overdubs)
Tragically Hip - Live between us
The Who - Live at Leeds
I know I'm forgetting a lot. Just wanted to get in on the fun.
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I didn't know that anyone south of the 49th even knew of The Hip. Tom Petty & The Heartbreaker's Live Anthology set has been dominating my iPod lately.
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Agreed, Mark. I don't think it was intended to be put to VHS/DVD, more of a local broadcast, City TV Toronto I think. SRV at the El Mocambo is a classic, very small intimate venue. Awesome performance, but horrible camerawork/switching and mediocre sound stop it from being on my list...even though it's SRV!
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Gotta agree on the Green Day mention, Charles! I didn't even realize Bullet in a Bible was also released on Blu-ray. I may upgrade sometime.
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I didn't know that anyone south of the 49th even knew of The Hip. I've seen the Hip! They opened for Blues Traveler in the middle of nowhere Pennsylvania over a decade ago. There might've been more Hip fans there than Traveler fans.
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[CD] Santana - Sacred Fire (Live in South America)
[DVD] Pink Floyd - Pulse
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Derek and the Dominos - Live at the Fillmore Allman Brothers Band - Live at the Fillmore Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More From the Road AC/DC - If You Want Blood You've Got It Rolling Stones - Get Your Ya Ya's Out Wings Over America Kiss - Alive Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East Jethro Tull - Live Bursting Out Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Welcome Back My Friends... Yes - Yessongs George Harrison - Live in Japan Chicago - At Carnegie Hall
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Bob Marley and The Wailers - Babylon By Bus Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense (Blu-ray)
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I always misread Cunning Stunts, as I'm sure was intended.
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I believe you are correct on that one.
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Robin Trower- Live Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Live Bullet! Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
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I've never witnessed a concert DVD better than Underworld: Everything, Everything http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything,_Everything
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Queen - Live at Wembley (DVD released 2003 from a 1986 concert).
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Try the 'Anesthetize' BD from Porcupine Tree. The audio and video gurus have rated this as one of the top live concert discs out there.
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I've GOT to check this out! Thanks!
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If its live its on my favourites list.
CSNY, 4 way street was the first I picked up. I was introduced to Dire Striats via a tape copy of some live performance though I never knew which. Live at the BBC is in my current colleciton.
I saw Zappa live, that was more than enough for me (more the crowd than Zappa...).
I also had a Jethro Tull live tape, but it died a while back.
Moody Blues at the Isle of Man 1971 is another good one.
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I saw Zappa live, that was more than enough for me (more the crowd than Zappa...).
Where? What tour and line-up? What about the "crowd" turned you off?
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That would have been back in '77 or '78. It was before Sheik Yerboutiwas released
The crowd was a bunch of druggies. Its the only concert I have been at where people were openly shooting up in the washrooms. Watched one guy casually turn his head and puke while walking past where we were sitting.
Given Zappa's distain for drugs, it was a bizzare scene.
The most memorable song was 6.The Illinois Enema Bandit. Hmm. Doing a search that would put it in '78.
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