The Greatest "LIVE" album.

[Huggy Love]

At Walrus & Goat-n-Gitter's request we have your picks for Greatest Live Album. Soooo many to choose from for they have been produced since the advent of recording, in fact before multi tracking *ALL* recordings were live. Very prominent in the Jazz era and Rock of the 70's and 80's, although not many being produced or marketed today, there is still a lot to choose from. What's your pick?

I'll start with Frampton Comes Alive!

Not for being an "end all" Live album, but because it happened at "that time" in my youth when music really hit me.

*Honorable mentions, Deep Purple-Live, Gratitude-EWF, Santana-Moonflower.

 

[Collywobbles]

Not the 'greatest' but my favourite.

 

[sergiodeblanc]

I’d like to say Babylon by Bus or The Big Takeover by The Wailers and Bad Brains respectively to appear cool but... it’s really Elton John: Live in Sydney Australia, that means the most to me.

 

[walrus]

"How The West Was Won" - Led Zeppelin.

Honorable mention: "Live at the Hollywood Bowl" - The Beatles

 

[BrianC]

For me and numerous other guitar players, there is NO greater album live or otherwise that -

UFO STRANGERS IN THE NIGHT

I have listened to it for 40 years and never get bored with it - it always gets to me. Schenker is God and the songs are great.

 

[WA Paul]

Rush In Rio - crazy energy by the humongous crowd, long set list from the Vapor Trails tour after their multi-year hiatus. I played this every day for about a year on my 90min 1-way commute back then. I’m also biased because my first Rush concert was this tour at the Gorge in WA state with my now wife.

That said, any live album from them gets played quite a bit.

 

[markd21]

Hmmmm, my preferred type of album is live, even though these days "live" is often very doctored......

One of my favs is Gamma Ray's "Alive '95". It's just RAW and in your face power metal. I really dig Kamelot's "One Cold Winter's Night" because my band opened a couple of the shows on that tour (not the show that was taped, sadly). I ALWAYS go back to Maiden's "Live After Death" - it was my first live album, and showed my that a band can be "organic" and NOT stick to the tempo of the record, lol.....in fact, "LAD" killed the first 4 Maiden records for me - the speed that they delivered those songs opened the door for me to begin exploring this new thing called speed metal.....

There are many more, but those would be among the top three, with "Live After Death" being number one.

 

[bodia]

Man, so many to chose from. I gotta go with KISS ALIVE. There are several others that I like more, but that KISS album came along at a particular time in my musical development/childhood.

 

[bodia]

Hmmmm, my preferred type of album is live, even though these days "live" is often very doctored......

One of my favs is Gamma Ray's "Alive '95". It's just RAW and in your face power metal. I really dig Kamelot's "One Cold Winter's Night" because my band opened a couple of the shows on that tour (not the show that was taped, sadly). I ALWAYS go back to Maiden's "Live After Death" - it was my first live album, and showed my that a band can be "organic" and NOT stick to the tempo of the record, lol.....in fact, "LAD" killed the first 4 Maiden records for me - the speed that they delivered those songs opened the door for me to begin exploring this new thing called speed metal.....

There are many more, but those would be among the top three, with "Live After Death" being number one.

Sweet call out for Gamma Ray. I saw them with Helloween back in 2008. Great show! Live After Death was the first of many Maiden shows I saw.

 

[walrus]

Oh, good calls! Rush! UFO! Kiss! Let's face it there are a lot of great live albums!

walrus

 

[Outlier22]

I always liked Allman Bro's live at Fillmore East

 

[WEDGE]

Gary Moore’s Blues Alive VHS and CD are crazy good as is SRV Live at The El Macombo. Also shout out to Kiss Alive 2. I was like fifteen when it came out and it was a huge influence.

 

[László]

I’m with Outlier.

Allman Brothers Live at the Fillmore.

Runners-up:

The Who, Live at Leeds
The Rolling Stones, Get Yer Ya-Yas Out

 

[Shawn@PRS]

It's Alive by the Ramones

 

[sergiodeblanc]

Hmmmm, my preferred type of album is live, even though these days "live" is often very doctored......
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That's what kept me from nominating Slayer's Live Undead.

 

[Rider1260]

Robin Trower Live
UFO- Strangers in the Night ( I was at the show )
Rush - All the worlds a Stage
AC/DC - If you want blood you got it
Ted Nugent - Double live Gonzo

 

[markd21]

That's what kept me from nominating Slayer's Live Undead.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA - forgot about that one!! That's a vicious slab of vinyl for sure!!!

 

[11top]

Billy Joel live at Shea Stadium. “Don’t take any $hit from anybody!”

 

[mad monk]

Foghat-Live There is so much awesome slide playing by Rod Price. Not the best editing, though.

 

[bodia]

Robin Trower Live
UFO- Strangers in the Night ( I was at the show )
Rush - All the worlds a Stage
AC/DC - If you want blood you got it
Ted Nugent - Double live Gonzo

I can get on board with this list!