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Top 5 Live Albums???

#25
these are some of my favs...

1. Allman Bros. Live at the Fillmore East -- Defines live album to me.
2. Bob Marley - Live at the Roxy
3. James Brown - Love Power Peace, Live at the Olympia, Paris 1971
4. The Doors Live - a double album with the blue cover? -- NOT Hollywood Bowl
5. Muddy Waters - Muddy "Mississippi" Waters - Live

Honerable Mention...
Tom Waits - Glitter and Doom
Bob Dylan - 1966 Live at Royal Albert Hall
U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Live at Cafe Mogambo (DVD)

Plus many other that have already been listed...
 
#27
Bob Marley - Live!
Probably the best sonical anti-depression pill ever made.

King Crimson - The Great Deceiver 1973-74
It's hard to choose between this and Absent Lovers, but when i got GD i hardly listened to anything else for many months.

The Who - Live at Leeds
Rock 'n' Roll!!!

Uriah Heep - Live 1973
I've never been a big Heep fan, but this is as good as they aver got. And Gary Thain's bass playing is incredible.

Allman Bothers - Live at Fillmore East
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed gets me every time.
 
#30
For big band live recordings, this is a terrific one:

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#35
A bit of a mixed bunch here based on recent listenings, and in no particular order.

Aretha Franklin - Live at Filmore West
Buena Vista Social Club - Live at Carnegie Hall
Bob Marley - Live at The Roxy
Michael Schenker Group - Live at Budakon
Mr Big - Live at Budakon
The Band - Live at Watkins Glen

oops, thats 6. sorry!
 
#37
Marvin Gaye live at the London Palladium
Bill Evans: Waltz for debby & sunday at the village vanguard
Donny Hathaway: Live
Jimmy Smith : Root Down
Charles Mingus: Mingus at Antibes
Tower of Power Soul Vaccination Live
Just about every Coltrane live album
Miles Davis: Agharta & Pangaea, Live at the Plugged Nickel, Four & More
Art Blakey: Live at birdland 1954
Wes Montgomery: Smokin' at the Half note
Gil Scott Heron: It's your World
Jimi Hendrix: Band of Gypsies
Bob Marley : Babylon Bus
Sonny Rollins : Complete Live at the Village Vanguard 1957
Sly & the Family Stone: The woodstock Experience
Clifford Brown & Max Roach : Live at Basin Street


I'm forgetting about 1000 others.......
 
#39
ugly_bassplayer said:
Marvin Gaye live at the London Palladium
Bill Evans: Waltz for debby & sunday at the village vanguard
Donny Hathaway: Live
Jimmy Smith : Root Down
Charles Mingus: Mingus at Antibes
Tower of Power Soul Vaccination Live
Just about every Coltrane live album
Miles Davis: Agharta & Pangaea, Live at the Plugged Nickel, Four & More
Art Blakey: Live at birdland 1954
Wes Montgomery: Smokin' at the Half note
Gil Scott Heron: It's your World
Jimi Hendrix: Band of Gypsies
Bob Marley : Babylon Bus
Sonny Rollins : Complete Live at the Village Vanguard 1957
Sly & the Family Stone: The woodstock Experience
Clifford Brown & Max Roach : Live at Basin Street


I'm forgetting about 1000 others.......
Click to expand...

Man, all the great live jazz albums -- right on with that.
 
#40
Add my HUGE +1 to Buddy Rich - Big Swing Face as mentioned by Alvaro.

Also:

Made in Europe - Deep Purple
Yessongs - Yes
Livestock - Brand X
The Bruford Tapes - Bruford
8.30 - Weather Report
Between Nothingness and Eternity - Mahavishnu Orchestra
Live and Dangerous - Thin Lizzy
How The West Was Won - Led Zeppelin
Bits of "Sheikh Yerbouti" by Zappa (heavily tickled about in the studio)

AND just in case anyone missed it, I'll say it again - "Made in Europe" by Deep Purple. The very best live album by anyone, ever.
 

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