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Two standouts from the selections mentioned, are Bob Marley's 'Live', and excellent album, and the Who's 'Live at Leeds'. Those two would go right below my first five. Duke Ellington at Newport is another great. I'm surprised no one else picked Band of Gypsys.

It was the first pick of the first post.

Band of Gypsies was Hendrix falling apart and that horrible Buddy Miles just made it worse. I saw them live once...most boring show i think i have ever seen with Hendrix involved. And when Jimi let Miles play guitar...i considered just leaving then and there.

jb

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Band of Gypsies was Hendrix falling apart and that horrible Buddy Miles just made it worse. I saw them live once...most boring show i think i have ever seen with Hendrix involved. And when Jimi let Miles play guitar...i considered just leaving then and there.

jb

Not my favorite Hendrix but "Machine Gun" is genius.

1. Blue Oyster Cult -- On Your Feet or on Your Knees
2. Little Feat -- Waiting for Columbus
3. Otis Redding -- Monterey Pop Festival
4. The Beach Boys -- Concert (early 70s band)
5. The Kinks -- live LP of Everybody's in Showbiz

Could flip Ya Yas with any of those.

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Band of Gypsies was Hendrix falling apart and that horrible Buddy Miles just made it worse. I saw them live once...most boring show i think i have ever seen with Hendrix involved. And when Jimi let Miles play guitar...i considered just leaving then and there.

jb

Not my favorite Hendrix but "Machine Gun" is genius.

1. Blue Oyster Cult -- On Your Feet or on Your Knees
2. Little Feat -- Waiting for Columbus
3. Otis Redding -- Monterey Pop Festival
4. The Beach Boys -- Concert (early 70s band)
5. The Kinks -- live LP of Everybody's in Showbiz

Could flip Ya Yas with any of those.

Oh yeah! That live Monterey Otis Redding Album is killer. It’s pretty much the Stax band. Killer stuff.

The Brussels Affair bootleg
Who Live at Leeds
Allman Brothers Fillmore East
Dylan Live 1966
King Crimson Great Deceiver

Brussels Affair
The Who Leeds
Concert For Bangladesh
Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary
Lou Reed Rock n Roll Animal.

Stones- Ya-Ya's (or the original Brussels' bootleg)
Yes- Yessongs
Neil Young + Crazy Horse- Live Rust
The Band, etc.- The Last Waltz
Be Bop Deluxe- Live in the Air Age (The solo on "Adventures in a Yorkshire Landscape" alone propels this into my top 5)

Honorable Mention: Skynyrd's One for the Road, Genesis' Live '73, The Who's Live at Leeds.

Is there a favorite Stones live albums thread? I can't remember. I suppose if there is, and it includes the FTV albums...

1. GYYYO
2. Still Life
3. Live In Texas
4. Brussels
5. Hampton
6. No Security
7. Totally Stripped - Paris
8. Leeds 1982
9. Love You Live
10. Live Licks - Disc 2

Nobody for:
Uriah Heep Live 1973 ?

Neil Finn & Friends - Seven Worlds Collide (2001)

Great guest spots from Eddie Vedder, Johnny Marr, Lisa Germano, and Phil Selway/Ed O’Brien. All tracks are great, but in particular Anytime, Take a Walk, There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, and I See Red from this disc are worthwhile additions to anyone’s library.

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Ya-Yas and
Love you Live by The Stones
Live at last by The Dingoes
Free Live by Free
Parkerilla by Graham Parker and the Rumour
Pack up the Plantation by Tom Petty

I forgot one that in my youth, courting my wife, I played and enjoyed to death...

Alive by Slade.

Rod

Rolling Stones - Get your Ya-Yas
Etta James - Rocks the House
Alejandro Escovedo - More Miles than Money
J Geils - Blow Your Face Out
Almost any Fillmore set (ABB, Tom Petty, Drive By Truckers)
Todd Snider - Tales from Moondog Cafe
Link Wray - At The Paradiso
Neko Case - The Tigers Have Spoken
David Johansen - Live It Up
Johnny Cash - At Folsom
Otis Redding - Whisky a Go-Go
Mundy - Live and Confusion
Neil Young - Live Rust
Hawkwind - Space Ritual Live

I recommend the Etta set as one of the most incredible live albums ever. It starts out easy and then she hits the gas and doesn't let up until the end. Wow

Concert for Bangladesh
Queen Live Killers
Kiss Alive 2
Yessongs
Clapton at the Rainbow
Rolling Stones Still Live

Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore
Johnny Winter And Live
Stones Ya Ya’s
Frampton Comes Alive
The Band The Last Waltz

Strange that nobody has mentioned "Jerry Lee Lewis live at Star Club" yet. It's not in my top 5, but it's darn good.

I can't make a "top 5" myself. That's way too few. That's like asking "you can keep 3 fingers, the rest will be chopped off - which fingers will you choose?"

So I'll make a top 5 Dylan....that, I can do

Rolling Thunder Revue 14 CD box
Live 1966 36CD box
Hard Rain
Trouble No More 8CD box
Real Live

Not a single mention of something written entirely in the 21st century.

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Not a single mention of something written entirely in the 21st century.

Nope. Then again, I bet there's not many people on this board less than 18 y.o.
If there was an "IORR teen" board, you'd see Bieber and the likes listed....or; can them artist even play live?

Bob Marley & the Wailers--Live

J Geils -- full House

Various -- Concert For Kampucea

Harrison, etc -- Concert for Bangla Desh

Greatful Dead -- Europe 72

runners up:

Hendrix -- Band of Gypsys

Various-- Woodstock Soundtrack

Allmans -- Fillmore East

Brain Wilson -- Live at the Roxy

A few more....

Nirvana - Paramount 91
Black Sabbath - Past lives
The Doors - Detroit 1970
Dylan - 1966 bootleg series
The Who - Isle of Wight

Holy smoke, nobody has mentioned Bata Illic Live either!

Thirty six CDs of Bob Dylan in 1966?

Good Lord.

jb

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Band of Gypsies was Hendrix falling apart and that horrible Buddy Miles just made it worse. I saw them live once...most boring show i think i have ever seen with Hendrix involved. And when Jimi let Miles play guitar...i considered just leaving then and there.

jb

Amazing. You were there?
Those shows are some of Hendrix greatest
Though I'm a sucker for any Hendrix show after Noel Redding left.

I wasn't at MSG or where ever that show was recorded, but I saw them at Cal Expo in Sacramento a month or two of that I believe. And also at either Winterland or another SF area place around then as well. This was after seeing the original Hendrix Experience at the Sac State Women's (could have been Men's) Gym and at a festival out here too. That was the band I really liked.

Band of Gypsies was him really struggling with new music and with the whole black identity thing. I thought it was a very sad time, at the time, and he was obviously not in his previous level of playing at all.

Maybe its just me, because I know a lot of people love that release and short-lived band. I personally thought Hendrix was one third of a good thing when the Experience was happening, and that Electric Ladyland was the most fantastic LP out there at the time (even though a lot of it wasn't strictly Experience). Anything after Voodoo Chile was a letdown for me.

jb

My top 5 would probably all be Stones albums. But perhaps in my top 10:

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Parkerilla by Graham Parker and the Rumour

Love it!!

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Nirvana - From The Muddy Banks Of The Wishkah

Nice! It's a mixture, not of a specific show, but some great selections!

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No Sleep till Hammersmith - Motorhead
Live Era 87- 93 - Guns N Roses

Sweet!

1. Tom Petty and Heartbreakers - Live Anthology
2. Bob Dylan - Live 1975: Rolling Thunder Revue
3. Rolling Stones - Ya Ya’s
4. Bob Dylan / The Band- Before the Flood
5. Foo Fighters - Skin and Bones

"Take all the pain...It's yours anyway"

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Thirty six CDs of Bob Dylan in 1966?

Good Lord.

jb

The electric sets from that tour are brilliant. Got the complete set a few years ago. Manchester gig is my favourite of the lot...

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Holy smoke, nobody has mentioned Bata Illic Live either!

He's got just too many great live albums to include them all, so he's sort of bubbling under the top lists unfortunately.

Also, with his looks he doesn't quite fit the image of a Stones fan wet dream, he's more the ugly 'n dirty Pretty Things kinda guy.

1. Brussels Affair
2. Derek & the Dominos - Live at the Fillmore East
3. Led Zeppelin Complete BBC Recordings
4. Pink Floyd Pompei
5. Live 1966 (Manchester) - Bob Dylan
6. Grateful Dead - Cornell 1977
7. Stone Roses - Blackpool 1989
8. Oasis - Familiar To Millions
9. Traffic - Welcome to the Canteen
10. Fillmore East (Expanded) - Allman Brothers
11. One More for the Road - Kinks
12. One More from the Road - Lynyrd Skynyrd
13. Concert for Bangladesh
14. Leeds 1971 (Sticky Super Deluxe) (for JJF & LWM & LIR alone!)
15. Aerosmith - Live Bootleg

Kick me like you kicked before
I can't even feel the pain no more

"Rocks Off", Exile on Main Street
Rolling Stones, 1972

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Strange that nobody has mentioned "Jerry Lee Lewis live at Star Club" yet. It's not in my top 5, but it's darn good.

I can't make a "top 5" myself. That's way too few. That's like asking "you can keep 3 fingers, the rest will be chopped off - which fingers will you choose?"

So I'll make a top 5 Dylan....that, I can do

Rolling Thunder Revue 14 CD box
Live 1966 36CD box
Hard Rain
Trouble No More 8CD box
Real Live

Of course Jerry Lee at the Star Club is a darn good album, but as you've said, there's just too many good ones out there that it's impossible to make a "top 5". The ones I mentioned are just additions meant as "nobody else has mentioned them". In fact, I've always been a sucker for live albums because I've always wanted to hear how artists and bands sound in a live setting compared to studio recordings. That led me pretty early into the bootleg thing... But, speaking of official releases, there were sometimes real surprises, like bands who were considered "hit singles acts" and as such pretty lightweight turned out as pretty good live acts... That's why I mentioned "Slade Alive" for example, a real surprise when a Slade fan played it to me back in the early 70's. In fact I own most of the albums mentioned in this thread, so a "top 5" - no, impossible.
Speaking of Dylan, what strikes me is that he never released a live album of recent shows after "Real Live" and the collaboration with Grateful Dead again (not counting special events like the Anniversary show or Unplugged, of course)- that's more than 30 years...



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TOP 5:

Ya-Yas: The Rolling Stones
Brussels Affair: The Roling Stones
Band of Gypsys: Jimi Hendrix
Real Live: Bob Dylan
Live at the Fillmore: The Allman Brothers

Honorable Mention:

Live Forever: The Hoax