Top 5 Favorite Live Albums

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

Originally Posted by ksandvik

I wonder if that tape has the famous situation where a drunk Finn goes close to the stage and screams to Frank Zappa to play Whipping Post. The band didn't know that song but Frank rehearsed and made a cool new interpretation of this Allman Brothers track that was then later played a lot.

It's in the album. Hear it here.

[Winoman]

Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard (Scott LaFaro)

Jaco - The Birthday Concert (Who else? )

Frank Zappa - The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life/Make A Jazz Noise Here (Scott Thunes)

Edgar Winter's White Trash - Road Work (Randy Jo Hobbs)

Donny Hathaway - Live (Willie Weeks)

There are so many more. Limiting the list to five is really hard!

[CiceroProfundo]

Slade- Slade Alive! Polydor records 1972
The Who - Live at Leeds (original vinyl issue)
Deep Purple- Made In Japan

I got the above three albums in a very short time period in 1972/73. They have shaped my bass playing ever since and the type of "feel" and "attitude" I approach every performance with. Jimmy Lea is a very underated bassist.

When I first heard Billy Sheehan play his tone reminded me somewhat of that of Jimmy Lea. A very aggressive tone. Probably because of the Gibson EB humbucking pickups.

Jimmy Lea is also one of the most dynamic performers I have ever seen on stage with one of the biggest bass rigs.

To the list I would add CD four from "Songs Of Yesterday" boxset by FREE. this contains all the original live recordings that were efited down for "Free Live". Andy Fraser is yet another bass player with a great tone from EBO pickups.

And finally "trio of doom". The live recording that made me totally rethink my attitude towards Jaco Pastorius.

[Barkless Dog]

The Who Live At Leads
King Crimson Live (with Bruford & Wetton)
Frank Zappa - Roxie & Elsewhere
Grand Funk Railroad Live
Genesis Live with Peter Gabrial

[Farley]

Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan
Yes - Yessongs
Rush - Exit Stage Left
Wilco - Kicking Television
Chicago - Live in Japan

[lfmn16]

B.B. King Live at the Apollo
Grand Funk Live
Johnny Winter And Live
Rolling Stones Get Your Ya Ya's Out
Steppenwolf Live

[Bassbubble11]

Luna - Live
The Kinks - One for the Road
Aimee Mann - Live at St. Ann's Warehouse
Cheap Trick - At Budokan
Lynyrd Skynryd - One More for the Road

Farley mentioned Wilco - Kicking Television. That is great too.

[I<34080]

Rush - Exit Stage Left
Rush - A Show of Hands
Queens of the Stone Age - Over the Years and Through the Woods
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Rush - Taurus Pedals From Hell

[Grabow]

Jimi Hendrix - Live in the west
UFO - SDtrangers in ther night
Pat Travers - Go for what you know
Rush - All the worlds a stage
Rainbow - on Stage

[Richbass101]

RUSH - Different Stages, Rush in Rio, Snakes & Arrows live, Time Machine Tour

The Who - Live at Leeds ( Deluxe Edition )

Yes - Yessongs

Bill Bruford - The Bruford Tapes ( live in NY @ my fathers place - just incredible )

Led Zeppelin - How the west was won

[Thrust Meatnozl]

UFO - Strangers in the Night
Kiss - Alive
Deep Purple - Made in Japan
Foghat - Live
Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo

[jbybj]

Originally Posted by D.A.R.K.

Grateful Dead- Live Dead
Butthole Surfers- Latino Buggerveil
801- 801 Live
Michael Hedges- Live on the double planet
Miles Davis- Bitches Brew

This was tough, but these came to mind first.
So many great live records....
But live can be a grey area, considering albums like Miles' "Kind of Blue" or Coltranes' "A Love Supreme" is essentially
live, albeit without an audience.

added emphasis. this record has blown my mind everytime I have heard for the past 30? years

[Corevalay]

I'd have to think about this to come up with a top 5 but I figured I'd just throw this out there since it's pretty new and I've been listening to it alot lately...

Maroon 5 - 1.22.03 Live Acoustic

[4StringAxe]

Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East
Robin Trower - Live
Rush - Exit Stage Left
Rush - All The World's A Stage
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma (Live + Studio)

[Freez]

No particular order...

The Who - Live at Leeds
The Kinks - One for the Road
Rush - Exit Stage Left
The Beatles - Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Deep Purple - Made in Japan

[Freez]

Originally Posted by Bassbubble11

Luna - Live
The Kinks - One for the Road
Aimee Mann - Live at St. Ann's Warehouse
Cheap Trick - At Budokan
Lynyrd Skynryd - One More for the Road

Farley mentioned Wilco - Kicking Television. That is great too.

I posted before I read the other posts; can't believe it's only been mentioned twice. This Kinks album is unreal; it's sooooo good!

[theobass416]

"Yessongs" Yes
"Live at Leeds" The Who
"The Song Remains the Same" Led Zeppelin
"Cream Live vol. 2" Cream
"The Birthday Concert" Jaco

[James Hart]

to pick 5...

Portishead - Roseland NYC Live
Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere
Peter Gabriel - Secret World Live
King Crimson - The Great Deceiver
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis Live!

but Tina Dico's "Live With The Danish National Chamber Orchestra", "Live at the Copenhagen Jazzhouse" and "Live In The Red" get a LOT of play time.

[gfaulkner]

1. Live at Leeds - The Who
2. Fillmore East - Allman Brothers
3. Double Live Gonzo -Ted Nugent
4. Sunday at The Village Vanguard-Bill Evans Trio
5. Get Your Ya Ya's Out-Rolling Stones

[4Mal]

Billy Joel - live ( the one recorded at Toad's... Saw the show, was fabulous. Somehow the record captured what I heard.)
The Dead - euro 72. Tied with Waiting For Columbus.. I'm huge Little Feat fan still. Saw that tour as a serial offender, including the Middletown, CT show just before Lowell passed)
Heads - Stop Making Sense
The Bro's Fillmore East
Maynard Ferguson - Live At Jimmy's


In Ascending order... Live at Jimmy's - now there is a lunch I wish I'd had!

Dang... Can't getbit under 6 ...