Just a few off the top of my head…
David Bowie – David Live
Grateful Dead – Live/Dead
Grateful Dead – Europe 72
Donny Hathaway - Live!
Hendrix – Band of Gypsys
Led Zeppelin – How The West Was Won
Led Zeppelin – The Song Remains the Same (1976 version only)
John Martyn – Live at Leeds
Curtis Mayfield – Curtis Live!
Pink Floyd – Ummagumma live album
Ramones – It’s Alive
Rush – All The World’s A Stage
Thin Lizzy – Live & Dangerous
The Who – Live At Leeds
My favourite Lucinda Williams Live albums:
Two sets of 5 CDs each - at Los Angeles and New York where she plays the whole album.
Albums are: Lucinda Williams, Sweet Old World, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Essence and World Without Tears.
Bought them years ago from the Lucinda Williams website.
Electrif Lycanthrope.
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Albert king and Stevie Ray Vaughan in session
Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby / Sunday at the Village Vanguard
John Coltrane - Live at the Village Vanguard
Eric Dolphy / Booker Little - At the Five Spot
Mingus at Antibes
McLaughlin, Di Meola, de Lucia - Friday Night in San Francisco
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness and Eternity
Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same
I’m very fond of John Martyn Live at the Roundhouse. One from his gigs.
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live at KCRW
Stripped back performance in front of a small audience for KCRW radio and utterly glorious.
Marillion - All One Tonight Live At The Royal Albert Hall
Marillion - Unplugged At The Walls
Nils Lofgren - Acoustic Live (there’s some good songs on this apart from the overplayed at HiFi Shows Keith Don’t Go)
David Gilmour - Live at Pompeii (some of the performances on here are definitive IMO)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Live at the Royal Albert Hall and Live at KCRW
Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall
Art Ensemble of Chicago - The Complete Live in Japan
James Brown - Live at the Apollo
The Velvet Underground - The Matrix Tapes, The Quinn Tapes, Live MCMXCIII
Made in Japan
Accept no substitutes!
New
How about the Eva Cassidy album Night Bird a cracker for a system test,
Who can forget The Last Waltz?
The Last Dance, Runrig. The best concert of the last decade, recorded fantastically.
This was the last concert by the group before retirement
Live albums have tended to leave me unimpressed but some crackers:
Coltrane at the Vanguard
Free Live
Jeff Beck at Ronnie’s
Cream at the RAH - 2005
Regards,
Lindsay
KCRW do a great series of live recordings on their Rare On The Air albums. I’ve got 1-3 Nick is on the first one along with John Cale, Leonard Cohen, Beck and others. Excellent live performances.
Should we include the unplugged series? If so, in order:
1 Eric Clapton
2 Nirvana
3 Rod Stewart
Stiff Little Fingers - Hanx
Van Morrison - A Night in San Francisco
Neil Young - Dreamin’ Man Live ‘92
Dire Straits - Alchemy
Eagles - Hell Freezes Over
Fink - Wheels Turn Beneath My Feet
Leonard Cohen - Live in London
Ry Cooder - Live on Air
Cowboy Junkies - 200 More Miles Live Performances ‘85-‘94
