what's the best live album

so what's your favorite live lp/cd,choice enough. this is mine-grateful dead:live fillmore west 1969

 

maybe Ani Difranco's Living in Clip or George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh or Jimi Hendrix Experience Live at Berkeley

 

listening to phish live in brooklyn and its very good, maybe not the best but its often recognized as atleast the best live phish CD.

 

atm, rust never sleeps by neil young

 

Country Joe & the Bevis Frond - Eat flowers and kiss babies (1998). I really recommend this album to Country Joe fans, they also do a superb version of Bass strings!

 

Oh yeah, I also love Mellisa Auf der Maur's Hand of doom (2002) very much.



Hand of Doom is actually a live tribute album to Black Sabbath, some of the musicians are Hole bassiste Melissa Auf der Maur, Queens of the Stone Age's Nick Oliveri and Money Marks Pedro Yanowitz and they really fucking rock on this live record! Melissa's voice suits the Sabbath songs perfectly

Tracklist: Iron Man intro, Hand of Doom, Fairies Wear Boots, War Pigs, Paranoid, Mob Rules, Changes and Black Sabbath.

 

Jimi Live at Monterey
Janis Live at Winterland
Black Sabbath Live Evil
SRV and Double Trouble Live
PF Live at Pompeii is my fave live vid lately!

 

Rock Of Ages by The Band

and
Too Late To Stop Now by Van Morrison
Live At The Cellar Door by the Seldom Scene
Bob Dylan Bootleg Series vol 5

 

excellent choices!

also "the allman brothers live at the fillmore east"
absolute favorite would be bruce springsteen live at winterland 1978.

 

the best live album

the who live at leeds. hands down.

 

Hendrix at Woodstock would have to be in there... As it was a seminal performance..

I have lots of personal favs though...

 

you are right drumminmama,four way street is a beautiful album! don't know the john denver concert.

 

stevie ray vaughan & buddy guy live at legends

b.b king live at the regal
stevie ray vaughan & double trouble live at montreaux
albert king live '69

a few that come to mind

 

my personal favorites are:

Live At The Fillmore East (Allman Brothers Band)
Absolutely Live (The Doors)
Get Yer Ya Ya's Out (The Rolling Stones)
Live at the Philharmonic Hall 1964 (Bob Dylan)
Concerto for Group and Orchestra (Deep Purple with the Royal London Philharmonic)
Is There Anybody Out There? (Pink Floyd)
Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
Wheels of Fire: Disc 2 (Cream)
Blue Wild Angel: Live at the Isle of Wight (Jimi Hendrix)
The Last Waltz (The Band)
Live Cream Vol. 2 (Cream)
Jimi Hendrix At Woodstock (Jimi Hendrix)
Yessongs (Yes)
Live/Dead (The Grateful Dead)
...the whole Woodstock and Monterey Pop Festival and many others, I know I've forgotten too many.

 

Reckoning- Grateful Dead
Rust Never Sleeps- Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Anything by the String Cheese Incident

 

yesterday i bought quicksilver messenger service live at the kabuki theatre new years eve 1970,one of the san francisco hippy bands at their peak.check it out!!

 

Not a fan of live albums myself, but Hendrix's 'Live At Woodstock' is great (DVD is awesome) and 'Band Of Gypsys' owns all.

 

Tommy on Live at Leeds by The Who is pretty damn amazing, Buried Alive by swedish prog band Anglagard is a gem... Is There Anybody Out There? by Floyd is better than the studio version in a hundred ways, in my opinion, and any superb Dead shows out there. Yessongs by Yes is pretty good as well.

Deja Vroom, a live King Crimson DVD, is one of the most insane performances ever, Yes Symphonic is good too.

 

for official releases
The Who - Live at Leeds
Jefferson Airplane - Bless it's Pointed Little Head

but i also have some great Black Sabbath bootlegs
Paris 1970
Cal Jam 1974
Asbury Park 1975
Fresno 1978 (One For The Nose!!!!)

JOn