Well, discussing about live albums we often mention some “classics”. “Get Yer…”, “ Live At Leeds” (Who), “Last Waltz” (Band) “Live In Europe” (Rory), etc, etc. Here is a catalogue of 20 live albums I really love. I think they’re underrate, a bit or completely. Some of these albums are “almost famous”, but still underrate, in my opinion (like V. Morrison’s “It’s Too Late To Stop Now” or Skynard’s “One More From The Road”)

My catalogue in alphabetical order:

ALLMAN BROTHERS - At Filmore East
BLACK OAK ARKANSAS - Rounch ’n’ Roll
BLUE OYSTER CULT - On Your Feet Or On Your Knees
ERIC CLAPTON (R. WOOD, ST. WINWOOD, P. TOWNSEND) - Rainbow Concert
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL - Live In Europe
DR FEELGOOD - Down At The Doctors
MARIANNE FAITHFULL - Blazing Away
RORY GALLAGHER – Stage Struck
KINKS - One For The Road
LYNYRD SKYNARD - One More From The Road
MOLLY HATCHET - Double Trouble
VAN MORRISON - It’s Too Late To Stop Now
MOUNTAIN - The Road Goes Ever On
RAMONES - It’s Alive
LOU REED - Rock ’n’ Roll Animal
ROLLING STONES - Live Licks (*)
SIMPLE MINDS - In The City Of Light
GEORGE THOROGOOD - Live In ’99
JOHNNY WINTER - Captured Live
NEIL YOUNG
Weld

(*) I mean it, I mean it, I mean it!! I like LL…

Any thoughts? Other preferences? Add yours.

Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison is a great live one, his San Quentin album is alright as well, but Folsom Prison is better. Also Cheap Trick at Budokon is great, third only to Leeds and GYYYO. Dylans live 66 is cool to.

Live albums are not what they used to be. It's true. Bands today rely so much on studio chicanery that live they end up sounding flat. That's why I have support the bands today who make a point to saty true to their sound in studio too. The Crowes, Lucinda Williams. Green Day had EIGHT people on stage recreating their "guitar"/"Punk" rock.
Some great Live albums:
Rock'n Roll Animal/Lou Reed Live
Kick Out The Jams
Sex Machine/Live @ Apollo - JB
Genesis Live (with Gabriel of course)
Rockin The Fillmore - Humble Pie
Slide On Live - Ron Wood
Before The Flood - Dylan & the Band
What do you want from Life? - Tubes

stickydion Wrote:
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> Well, discussing about live albums we often
> mention some “classics”. “Get Yer…”, “ Live At
> Leeds” (Who), “Last Waltz” (Band) “Live In Europe”
> (Rory), etc, etc. Here is a catalogue of 20 live
> albums I really love. I think they’re underrate, a
> bit or completely. Some of these albums are
> “almost famous”, but still underrate, in my
> opinion (like V. Morrison’s “It’s Too Late To Stop
> Now” or Skynard’s “One More From The Road”)
>
> My catalogue in alphabetical order:
>
> ALLMAN BROTHERS - At Filmore East
> BLACK OAK ARKANSAS - Rounch ’n’ Roll
> BLUE OYSTER CULT - On Your Feet Or On Your Knees
> ERIC CLAPTON (R. WOOD, ST. WINWOOD, P. TOWNSEND) -
> Rainbow Concert
> CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL - Live In Europe
> DR FEELGOOD - Down At The Doctors
> MARIANNE FAITHFULL - Blazing Away
> RORY GALLAGHER – Stage Struck
> KINKS - One For The Road
> LYNYRD SKYNARD - One More From The Road
> MOLLY HATCHET - Double Trouble
> VAN MORRISON - It’s Too Late To Stop Now
> MOUNTAIN - The Road Goes Ever On
> RAMONES - It’s Alive
> LOU REED - Rock ’n’ Roll Animal
> ROLLING STONES - Live Licks (*)
> SIMPLE MINDS - In The City Of Light
> GEORGE THOROGOOD - Live In ’99
> JOHNNY WINTER - Captured Live
> NEIL YOUNG
> Weld
>
> (*) I mean it, I mean it, I mean it!! I like LL…
>
> Any thoughts? Other preferences? Add yours.
>


B.B. King at San Quentin, AC/DC's '74 Jailbreak and Nirvana's Unplugged must go in there too.

And GYYYO, LYL, Flashpoint and NS too of course.

JumpingKentFlash

warren zevon- stand in the fire- just flat out rocking versions of "excitable boy, i'll sleep when i'm dead, poor poor pitiful me,"...just a great album...

Lou Reed - Take no Prisoner... listen to monologues on Sweet Jane, Walk on the wild side

Hey, stickydion, I believe I was the only who liked The Kinks' "One For The Road". I know it's from their arena-rock era, but for sure it has some great performances of some Kink Klassiks...

BTW, JumpingKent, AC/DC's 74 Jailbreak isn't live, is it???

[There'll be no wedding today...]

Kinks-"live at Kelvin Hall"...Ramones-"It's Alive"..."Mott the Hoople Live"...Jerry Lee Lewis-"Live at the Star Club"...Sex Pistols-"Live at the 100 Club"...Waylon Jennings-"Waylon Live"...Motorhead-"No Sleep 'Till Hammersmith"...CCR-"The Concert"...Bob Dylan-"Hard Rain"...The New York Dolls-"Paris is Burning"....Johnny Thunders-"Live at Max's Kansas City"...Johnny Cash-"Live at San Quentin" & "Live at Folsom Prison"...Neil Young-"Live Rust"...Tom Waits-"Big Time"...Black Sabbath-"Past Lives"...Billy Joe Shaver-"Live at Smith's Olde Bar"...David Bowie-"Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars Live"...The Kinks-"To the Bone"...Foghat-"Foghat Live"...James Brown-"Live at the Apollo 1962"



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Bob Seger's Live Bullet and Nine Tonight are very good.

Agree w/Leonard, Neil Young's Live Rust is also very good.

stickydion has a great list. Most have never heard Black Oak - that's so cool, especially Hot Rod.

From Splattered, All Over Manhattan:

Bob Seger's Live Bullet and Nine Tonight are very good.

Oh, yeah!!! As a 1970's son of the South (as well as Son-of-a-bitch), I really like these 8-tracks!!!!



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Happy Jack Wrote:
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> Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison is a great live one,
> his San Quentin album is alright as well, but
> Folsom Prison is better. Also Cheap Trick at
> Budokon is great, third only to Leeds and GYYYO.
> Dylans live 66 is cool to.


I think exactly the opposite, San Quentin is one of the best live albums ever, Folsom Prison is not so great, live at Madison Square Garden is also better

PETER GABRIEL PLAYS LIVE is fantastic.

Cohen: Field Commander Cohen
Ac/DC: If You Want Blood....You Got It
Dylan: Live 1966
Dylan: Live 1975
Dylan: Hard Rain
Johnny Cash: At San Quentin
Johnny Cash: At Folsom Prison

These should be added.
74 Jailbreak isnt live. (Is it?)

Some truly great live albums, underrated or not:

1968 Elvis Presley NBC TV-SPECIAL
1970 Rolling Stones GET YER YA-YA'S OUT!
1971 Who LIVE AT LEEDS
1975 J. Geils Band BLOW YOUR FACE OUT
1977 Aerosmith LIVE BOOTLEG
1977 Rolling Stones LOVE YOU LIVE
1977 Santana MOONFLOWER
1979 Muddy Waters MUDDY MISSISSIPPI WATERS LIVE
1980 Blues Brothers MADE IN AMERICA
1980 Fleetwood Mac LIVE
1980 Kinks ONE FOR THE ROAD
1981 Motörhead NO SLEEP 'TIL HAMMERSMITH
1982 Rolling Stones STILL LIFE
1982 Trio LIVE IM FRÜHJAHR 82
1995 Iggy Pop WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT COMMERCIAL SHIT!
1997 Stiller Has LIVE AUF MODI TOUR

david live

"Hey, stickydion, I believe I was the only who liked The Kinks' "One For The Road".

Hey Bruno, now you know we are atleast two!!

you forgot the best live album ever:

neil diamond, hot august night.

anyone who doesn't agree : 1) has never heard it; or 2) is lying.

1 that i just scored a little while back ,, ive waited 4ever for this gem 2 come out on cd.,,new riders of the purple sage,,,,home home on the road ,, incredible country rock ,,produced by cherry garcia

be bop deluxe-live in the air age (crappy studio output, amazing live guitar)
floyd-live at pompeii
smiths-rank
genesis live 73
neil and crazy horse-arc/weld (the "arc" cd is all feedback, drononing power chords, and extended endings; crazy horse doin' crazy shit!)
yes-yessongs
kraftwerk-mimnimum/maximum
page and the crowes
pixies-death to the pixies (1 live cd, 1 studio)
mick taylor-stranger in this town
jeff beck-live at RAH, 2004
crimson-bboom, live in australia
stones-stripped
rundgren-from '70's, forget the title, (has the classic "just one victory, stuff from west side story, mr. triscuits jam....)
bowie-50th b'day bash at MSG, PPV, w/ lou reed, rob't smith, frank black, etc...-not sure if officially released

most all the rest that i like are not underrated: yayas, rust, live at leeds, one more from the road, the last waltz, hard rain, allmans fillmore, love you live, etc etc etc

Oh yes winter, I see you like the 70's prog rock, the real stuff. "Perpetual Change" off Yessongs is one of my fave guitar trax ever. And I also metioned Genesis Live 73. I remember Be Bop De;luxe; saw them opening for someone in NYC at the Palladium. That guitarrist was so cool. He would play, then every once in a while step exactly in the field of feedback of his amp, hold it up amnd get this great screech going.

yeah chelseaD,that's cool that you got to see BeBop Deluxe. when i was a kid we had a local radio station that would play complete albums at midnight and one night they played Live in The Air Age all the way through. the guitar swoops and sustain/feedback you mentioned were so cool and the band would go from slamming glam to film noire to circus to swing and back, it was unlike anything that i had heard. when "Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape" came on, i had a new closet favorite guitar solo. although i have since dug up some of their studio stuff, it all sounds flat and thin compared to this gem of a live album. i would never have heard of them if not for that dj. guitarist bill nelson went on to do a bunch of experimental, textural, ambient stuff ever since. i think their last US tour was with The Damned (rat scabies and crew) circa 1978-80 maybe? that'll always be my main underrated live album.



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F.U.C. the Captain Wrote:
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> Some truly great live albums, underrated or not:
>

> 1975 J. Geils Band BLOW YOUR FACE OUT


Yes! I haven't thought about that one in over a decade. That takes me back a few years.....Great album!

of course I just bought it on Amazon.


the shoot 'em dead, brainbell jangler!

I'll add Iron Maiden "Live After Death" to this list. Probably Rock In Rio (2001) too but I only got the DVD, not the album.