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Best Live Rock recording

#41
Some of the ones that had the most impact on me as a kid:
Allman Brothers: Fillmore
Free: live
Who: Live At Leeds
Little Feat: Waiting For Columbus*
Humble Pie: Performance Live At The Fillmore
Johnny Winter And: Live
King Curtis: Live At The Fillmore West
Woodstock: Soundtrack




*I was a little older when this came out.
 
#46
JimK said:
"Fever"- Madonna...as in the SNL version with Vistor Bailey on bass & Omar Hakim on cans. Yeah, Weather Report's rhythm section (because Madonna was a fan).
SNL has a music DVD box set...this performance was one of the reasons I bought this set.

Anyway, this version cooked so hard that I was at the record store the next day...waiting outside for them to open the doors. I buy the album with "Fever" & it blows...glorified karoke...Madonna's vocals over a sequenced/synth'd-out track.
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This story has a moral: Never buy any Madonna product.
 
#55
LAG said:
Allman Bros Band - Fillmore East.

The Bob Seger live album from 1975.

I'm quite certain "Frampton Comes Alive" was a studio album with crowd noise added, not an actual live recording.
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According to Wikipedia, which we all know is the gods gospel truth... :D

The album was recorded in 1975, primarily at Winterland in San Francisco, California and the Long Island Arena in Commack, New York. The Winterland recordings were recorded on a 24 track master recorder. Other concerts were recorded on a 16 track recorder. Recordings from 4 different shows were used for the original album. Master tapes were recorded at 15 inches per second using professional Dolby "A" noise reduction.[9]
 
#57
LAG said:
I'm quite certain "Frampton Comes Alive" was a studio album with crowd noise added, not an actual live recording.
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"Benny and the Jets" was that way. Most people think it's a live recording, but it was done all in Strawberry Studios with Elton doing a lot of the whistling and clapping.

Hoping to get back to my original thread point. My question was really more to single tracks and those live tracks that make the studio tracks obsolete.

While there are many great live albums out there, not too many make the original albums obsolete.

So, to bring the question back...what live songs make their studio counterparts unnecessary?
 
#58
kenfxj said:
The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again off The Kids Are Alright soundtrack (live at Knebworth).
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i am always surprised how popular The WHO are in the usa..
while i am not a huge fan i do love some of their stuff ..

for me i love
Ace of spades .motorhead(dont know where or when)


private hell.. by the jam (Dig the New Breed)great album but then i am a fan

i also like most of ACDC live stuff.(not a huge fan of studio recorded stuff)

all of S+M metallica..(i know iam in for a bashing now lol)
 

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