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Best live album?

#102
vbchaos said:
I call that one of the poopiest live performances that has ever been brought to stage. Never saw someone raping the Solo of "Comfortably numb" in such a cruel way. Not to mention the poopieload of bad vocalists along the show.

Nevertheless (as a german) I remember that we were all glued to the TV when it was broadcasted live. Although a bad performance in my opinion, it remains the biggest production ever brought to stage and the only one that happened in two different countries simultaneously.

I prefer PULSE (both CD and DVD) as possibly the best live performance. Although there had been some dubbing here and there from other shows at the same venue, it reflects the perfection of this production in sound, playing skills and atmosphere. Having "the dark side of the moon" in it entirely is just the icing.

In general, Machine Head shows are what I enjoy most, but it is impossible to capture that in a DVD or any form of recording. You have to be there, I have all their live albums but I have to say they suck in a way.

Oh, and Blind Guardians live performance at the Blind Guardian festival (not sure whether or not that is available as CD, it is as DVD for certain)
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Must be nostalgia clouding my memory. I was an American high school student and my family was stationed in Germany at this time. I had run a track meet (DoDDS) in Berlin the year prior when it was a divided city and then again after the wall fell. I was at this concert and it was part of my formative years. For a 17 year old at the time, it was the musical experience.
 
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Plectrum72 said:
Must be nostalgia clouding my memory. I was an American high school student and my family was stationed in Germany at this time. I had run a track meet (DoDDS) in Berlin the year prior when it was a divided city and then again after the wall fell. I was at this concert and it was part of my formative years. For a 17 year old at the time, it was the musical experience.
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Liked for the story....Not so much the album :)
 
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Plectrum72 said:
Must be nostalgia clouding my memory. I was an American high school student and my family was stationed in Germany at this time. I had run a track meet (DoDDS) in Berlin the year prior when it was a divided city and then again after the wall fell. I was at this concert and it was part of my formative years. For a 17 year old at the time, it was the musical experience.
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Emotion can make any show the most valuable one. I guess I'd call this one the best ever, too, when I had been there in this hot pot of people, emotion and atmosphere. At least standing at the side of the stage that had sound :-D
 
#108
Oldie but a greatie. 801 Live.

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bassfootballguy said:
I've been listening to some live Peter Gabriel today and it's just smashing. Tony Levin's bass work just elevates and grounds the music at the same time.
What are your favorite live albums?
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That one is up there on my list. I was at one of the shows (KC) they recorded for the "Plays Live" album in 1981. They did something like five encores. Tony is totally at home holding down the bass in Peter's music. The backbone of his music on the fourth album (which the tour was supporting) was bass, drums and Peter's voice. And Peter is an amazing performer, totally absorbed in his character in any tune.

Otto
 
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Fleetwood Mac - The Dance

Having grown up listening to McVie, this was the first chance I'd had to actually see him play those songs with the reunited Rumours-era band. It's one of a few albums I still listen to all the way through.

*I also like how he's the only one in the cover picture who didn't get the memo on dress code for the photo-shoot... :cool:
 
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#115
I love all the classic live albums since I prefer a live performance or a recording of one over the most perfectly produced studio creation any day of the week.

But the most extraordinary live album/DVD I've heard in a long time is Snarky Puppy's Family Dinner series.

Family Dinner is an unusual combination of performances by local musicians in NYC along with a youth music education program. All the money from Family Dinner Volume 1 & 2 go to support that project.

This is what it's about:



Some highlights: first with this amazing sounding 12-year old Jayna Brown who is a student in the program and co-wrote (with Mike League) the song I'll Do Me:



And Invalid Link Removedwho needs no introduction and who can sing chords as well as sultry single notes! Check it out beginning around the 6:00 mark and watch the rest of the band freak out big time. :laugh::thumbsup::

 
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#120
Ramones - It's Alive
Runaways Live
Kiss Alive (I)
Rush - All the World's a Stage
Yessongs
Led Zeppelin - Song Remains the Same
Frampton Comes Alive
The Who - Live at Leeds
Allman Brothers - Live at the Filmore
Band of Gypsies
Hendrix in the West
Lou Reed - Rock and Roll Animal
Deep Purple - Made in Japan
Bob Seger - Live Bullet
Wings Over America
The Last Waltz
Cheap Trick - At Budokan
Queen - Live Killers
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps

Just off the top of my head. I know Song Remains the Same is considered sub-par, but I love it. I actually like it better than How the West was Won. Live Bullet just for Beautiful Loser alone!
 

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