CPF's 5 LIVE Albums I Can't Live Without

[MFS62]

Earth Wind and Fire - Greatest Hits
Stan Freberg - Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America
The Limelighters - The Fabulous Limelighters
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
Dave Brubeck Quartet/ NY Philharmonic Orchestra -Bernstein Plays Brubeck Plays Bernstein.

Subject to change daily

Later

[kcmets]

This is the LIVE thread.

[cal sharpie]

1 Sam Cooke at the Harlem Square Club
2 The Who Live At Leeds
3 The Name of this Band Is Talking Heads
4 Mad Dogs and Englishmen - Joe Cocker
5 Allman Brothers at Fillmore East

Honorable mention to James Brown At the Apollo; Judy Garland At Carnegie Hall; Stand In the Fire - Warren Zevon; and Bob Dylan Live 1966 (the Royal Albert Hall Concert). Cheap Thrills is great but only partly a live album

[vtmet7]

1) Judas Priest: Unleashed in the East;
2) AC/DC: If You Want Blood (You got it);
3) Blue Oyster Cult: On Your Feet or on your knees;
4) Foghat: Live;
5) Saxon: The Eagle Has Landed;

[metirish]

Wow we played that Saxon album to death , good ole Biff Byford

[vtmet7]

Wow we played that Saxon album to death , good ole Biff Byford

My son in law gave me a few CD's for Christmas...

One of the CD's is: Saxon "The Eagle Has Landed 40 Live" which is a newer collection of Saxon live songs that comprise 3 CD's and has 40 songs on it

fyi, the other CD's that he gave me:
Saxon: "Denim and Leather"
Saxon: "Strong Arms of the Law"
Judas Priest: "Reflections 50 Metal Years of Music"

The first 2 I already have on vinyl but nice to have a digital copy of them...and the JP one, has songs that I already have on vinyl and/or CD, but have a few live songs as well (including "Beyond the Realms of Death" with Les Binks on drums from 1979 in NYC)

[metirish]

Nice , probably remastered too

[RealityChuck]

1. Allman Brothers Band Live at the Filmore East.
2. J. Geils Band -- Full House
3. The Who -- Live at Leeds
4, Grateful Dead -- Grateful Dead (Skull and Rose)
5. The Kinks -- One for the Road

[Edgy MD]

I'd like to note that, while lovers of J. Giels Band's Full House are certainly correct in recognizing it as a career standout, what a terrible cover it has for a career-defining live album. Rather than tease the audience with a blurry, stage-lit photo that hints of the excitement of being at a show, the artwork looks like it's from a rushed-to-market album from an aging country star who didn't return any usable prints from his last photo shoot. It doesn't even actually depict a full house!

[kcmets]

The K and Q are dad and mom and the J's are the kids. A full house?

In 2022 they'd have to release alternative covers with K and K, Q and
Q or even 2 and 2! (Duces being wild). The combos are endless.

[vtmet7]

The K and Q are dad and mom and the J's are the kids. A full house?

In 2022 they'd have to release alternative covers with K and K, Q and
Q or even 2 and 2! (Duces being wild). The combos are endless.

I don't play card games other than Cribbage, but isn't a "full house" supposed to be 3 of a kind and a pair? So the album cover wouldn't really be a full house, but 3 jacks and either 2 kings or 2 queens would be

[kcmets]

Yes, in poker it's three of a kind and two of a kind.

[metirish]

I totally forget Warren Zvon Stand in the Fire , brilliant set

[A Boy Named Seo]

Tom Petty’s Live at the Fillmore, 1997 that came out this year is fuggin fantastic, y’all.

My other favs lately:
Springsteen - 1979 No Nukes
Wilco - Kicking Television, Live in Chicago
Fleet Foxes - A Very Lonely Solstice
Pearl Jam - May 3, 2003 State College, PA (a marathon of a show, that one)

[Frayed Knot]

I'll put in an honorable mention for Elton's 11-17-70 (or, if you bought it overseas, 17-11-70)

Never intended to even be an album, it was a live radio concert [WABC-FM just prior to it turning into WPLJ] that was rushed into production shortly afterward in an attempt
to thwart the proliferation of bootlegged copies hitting the streets as well as to capitalize on Elton's early success and particularly to bring to the masses his live show appeal
which had been displayed at his U.S. debut show at L.A,'s Troubador a few months earlier.

Just a three piece band -- piano, bass, drums -- but still loud and raucous at times. Certainly not one of his biggest sellers, but his career was right on the verge of taking
off so I'm sure those who did purchase it were a step ahead in seeing what was coming.

[MFS62]

Simon and Garfunkel - the Concert in Central Park
Alan Sherman - My Son, the Folk Singer
The Limelighters - Alive! In Concert 1
Earth, Wind & Fire: In Concert (1981)
Barbra Streisand - Happening in Central Park

Later

[RealityChuck]

I'd like to note that, while lovers of J. Giels Band's Full House are certainly correct in recognizing it as a career standout, what a terrible cover it has for a career-defining live album. Rather than tease the audience with a blurry, stage-lit photo that hints of the excitement of being at a show, the artwork looks like it's from a rushed-to-market album from an aging country star who didn't return any usable prints from his last photo shoot. It doesn't even actually depict a full house!

And that's the point of it. Quite clever design and far better than the photo of the band cliche.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Five more I really like:

1) UFO- Strangers in the Night. I kinda like the original version than the one they came out with a few years ago .

2) Aerosmith - Live Bootleg

3) Kiss - Kiss Rocks Vegas -- From the residency with the new members. Working the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" into "Lick it Up" is really cool!

4) Newsboys - Newsboys Live: Houston, we are Go

5) ABC - Lexicon of Live

[vtmet7]

Five more I really like:


2) Aerosmith - Live Bootleg

my 4th and 5th choices were between: Live Bootleg, Nugent Double Live Gonzo, Foghat and BOC...I really like all 4 but out of the 4, I like BOC as a band better; and Foghat live is about the only live album that I've ever heard where the band sounds better than they do on a studio album...

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Five more I really like:


2) Aerosmith - Live Bootleg

my 4th and 5th choices were between: Live Bootleg, Nugent Double Live Gonzo, Foghat and BOC...I really like all 4 but out of the 4, I like BOC as a band better; and Foghat live is about the only live album that I've ever heard where the band sounds better than they do on a studio album...

Live Bootleg might have been the second or third album I ever bought and I played the heck out of that thing! My buddies were more into BOC than I was, and they had Some Enchanted Evening. I bought Extraterrestrial Live after seeing the Black and Blue Tour with the Dio-led Sabbath at the Coliseum.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I'd like to note that, while lovers of J. Giels Band's Full House are certainly correct in recognizing it as a career standout, what a terrible cover it has for a career-defining live album. Rather than tease the audience with a blurry, stage-lit photo that hints of the excitement of being at a show, the artwork looks like it's from a rushed-to-market album from an aging country star who didn't return any usable prints from his last photo shoot. It doesn't even actually depict a full house!

And that's the point of it. Quite clever design and far better than the photo of the band cliche.

The album title was a band inside joke -- the joke being to have the album appear to reference the poker hand when in reality, the band was referring to a packed concert venue. Ha ha ha. Not! The poker hand on the album cover isn't a "full house" and the giveaway that the album cover was an inside joke is supposed to be the "winking" queen. Because queens don't wink. At least not the queens depicted on playing cards. Misdirection. Whatever. Great live album. Not so great inside joke.

Whammer Jammer, from Full House, featuring Magic Dick, the greatest Rock and Roll harmonica player ever.

[vtmet7]

Five more I really like:


2) Aerosmith - Live Bootleg

my 4th and 5th choices were between: Live Bootleg, Nugent Double Live Gonzo, Foghat and BOC...I really like all 4 but out of the 4, I like BOC as a band better; and Foghat live is about the only live album that I've ever heard where the band sounds better than they do on a studio album...

Live Bootleg might have been the second or third album I ever bought and I played the heck out of that thing! My buddies were more into BOC than I was, and they had Some Enchanted Evening. I bought Extraterrestrial Live after seeing the Black and Blue Tour with the Dio-led Sabbath at the Coliseum.

I saw the "Black and Blue" tour at the Lebanon Valley Speedway near Albany, NY...it was a wild event, Sabbath went before BOC at my show but I heard that they would alternate show to show...

I grew up with my older brothers playing Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, Todd Rudgren, J Geils "Blow your face out" and Masters of Reality on 8 track a lot...before I even bought an album of my own

[metirish]

A great live album

[vtmet7]

A great live album

not amongst my top live albums but...Peter Frampton at the Albany Palace Theatre was my first concert...not sure what year but I was either 13 or 14

[Frayed Knot]

Long-timers here (REALLY long-timers) will remember that Frampton Comes Alive started a minor feud on the old forum (we got scolded for veering off topic) and maybe was an early step towards our eventual separation.

I saw Bruce at the Albany Palace theater.
Spring of '78, the second day of the 'Darkness' tour.
Nice joint IIRC. Maybe 3,000 seats?