Great Live Records
 

Ive noticed lately that with the right band or musician a live record can open a new perspective to their work.Live Rust kind of makes me feel what it would be like to be at a neil young show, even though i havent gone to one.Built to spill's live cd also shows how they're a different band showing how they expand upon their songs and really stretch them out in such an interesting direction.

So what are some of your favorite live records or bands u think are really something special live? (please refrain from the predictable phish and grateful dead references, i wanna hear other answers)

Some of Mine:
Neil Young- Live Rust
Velvet Underground- The Quine Tapes, LIve 1969, Legendary Guitar Amp Tapes, 93 Reunion show
Built To Spill- Live
Bob Dylan- Bootleg series live 1966
Television- The Blow Up
Beatles- Apple Rooftop Concert
Any dino jr or sonic youth live bootleg
Pillows- Live at the liquid room 97
Pixies Reunion live cd (love that extended feedback version of "vamos")

Bob Dylan - Hard Rain

Thats one. I'm off for now. But I'll try and post some more later. That ones particularly good.

neil diamond- live live at the toubadour
white stripes- live under blackpool lights
hendrix- band of gypsies

^Nice ones man.

The Police-Live!
The Doors-In Concert
Ramones-It's Alive
Jimi Hendrix-Band of Gypsys
Nirvana-Unplugged
The Who-Live at Leeds
Bob Dylan-Before the Flood
Radiohead-I Might Be Wrong
Pearl Jam-Washington DC, September 4, 2000.....don't hate
Frank Zappa and the Mothers-Just Another Band from LA
Any of the live Fugazi's

The Doors for sure.

I have the Police one but rarely listen to it. Heh, stole it from my dad (okay...with permission...). Two full shows, too.

Any James Chance album.

i forgot about this one!

pearl jam - live on two legs
rollins band - electro convulsive therapy
janes addiction - janes addiction
SY - Live In Holland 12/27/83
johhny cash - live at san quentin
tool - salival (selected tracks - album is not all live)
the necks - aether
nick cave and the bad seeds - best of bonus live disk

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are great live. I have a few DVDs.

I also like seeing all the Dylan and Johnny Cash mentioned in this thread and forum inparticular.

jsust curious, how many dylan records do you own?

oh yea i forgot to mention hendrix band of gypsys, i just listened to that this week and had my mind blown away by his incredible way to convey his energy through his guitar. Also Pink Floyd-Live 66/67 is a great cd and is the only good quality material of syd barrett playing live. Its simply amazing to see how he just improvises all this great soloing off the top of his head.

Love and Theft
Empire Burlesque
Infidels
Saved
Slow Train Coming
Street Legal
Hard Rain
Desire
Blood on the Tracks
Planet Waves
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits
New Morning
Self Portrait
Nashville Skyline
John Wesley Harding
Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits
Blonde on Blonde
Highway 61 Revisited
Bringing It All Back Home
Another Side of Bob Dylan
The Times They Are A-Changin'
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan

I think that's it. Still collecting.

Edit: this post is in regards to finding nobodies question.

niice. i've got 30 cds. most of which were downloaded, so im not sure if that really counts

Ha ha.

None of them are downlaoded. All store bought.

in that case you win :-)

What's yr guys favorite from the Bootleg Series....mine is Volume 5, The Rolling Thunder one.

I only have Hard Rain. I don't have the other live albums, I will do though, eventually. The Rolling Thunder Review would have been amazing to witness.

Yeah man, with Ginsberg jumping about.

Indeed. I have a Dylan photo book which was from one particular photoshoot out in the country, where Ginsberg, and his lover, accompanied Dylan. So lot's of him in the book, too. Great book.

Nice....I still need to pick up Chronicles.

With apologies for going back on topic ;):

Motorhead - No Sleep 'til Hammersmith

i have it. it's great

Chronicles is great. I do hope he writes a volume 2.

As for the thread: Big Black - Pigpile, is another.

Ramones - It's Alive (but definitely NOT loco live)
Husker Du - Land Speed Record
Minutemen - Ballot Result

jimi hendrix live at woodstock is a masterpiece.
i wish i could play just a little like that.

Overhang Party - Live At Showboat

Bauhaus - Press Eject and Give Me The Tape

Loop - red Italian boot

High Rise - Live

pontiac lady - vibracathederal orchestra

That one sucks big time.

That one is great.

Nirvana unplugged
The who-live at leeds (why has no one said this one?)

I'm always a bit unsure as to what Zeppelin bootlegs to get. They're one of them bands like Nirvana were one show could be great then the next nights show could be a piece of shit.

get
Trick or Treat 10/13/91 Seattle - Nirvana sbd

get
Dallas Remains the Same sbd

most Led Zeppelin boots are horrible audience recordings...stick to the few (20 or so) soundboards & you'll be happy

I nearly got Trick or treat. Until I got bored with the whole trading thing that is.

Led Zeppelin? I'll get one at a bootleg fair one day.

Xiu Xiu - Life and Live

does the live recording on Slanted and Enchanted: Luxe and Reduxe count?

Stop Making Sense-Talking Heads

AB bustin' out with the Live in Japan triple disc...I shared that one at the yahoo group awhile back...by the end, Trane had lost his band & was playing with fellow burn-outs like himself...good stuff though. when i discovered it, I was impressed at how good it still sounds.

the earlier quintet is hot & swingin' on Falkonarteatret Copenhagen '61
one of my absolute favorite live recordings ever...it definitely would make my top 10...on the subject of favorite bootleg recordings:
4/7/96 & 3/18/96 - SY
&
complete rooftop concert - The Beatles
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some of Zappa - Guitar is really good

the Grateful Dead
wow, there's opening up a huge can of typing...
Europe '72 is a good officially released one & the more recent update too & if I had to name just one bootleg it would be the radio station thing they did in Luxembourg on that tour.
Amazing vocals, setlist & sound on that one.

Screeching Weasel-Thank You Very Little

Ramones-Live set off Leave Home Re-Issue

Elvis Costello-Armed Forces Disc 2 Live portion

Dis-honorable mention (not that I hate the album but for a live album its kind of a bummer) Radiohead-I Might Be Wrong Live Sessions

I like the Dylan 1966 Royal Albert Hall thing, and Cash's Folsom Prison. I have a couple of pretty good Stones boots from the late 60s, early 70s--Liver than you'll ever be (1969 tour), Madison Square Garden 1972, Get Yer Leeds Lungs Out (1971), and Nasty Music (Europe, 1973)--from the great Mick Taylor period. Also have a Stones boot of the 1975 tour but they kind of sucked on that one.

& even though the recording quality sucks, there's a pretty interesting live album (offical, not boot) of the Dolls from 1974 that I'm proud to own on vinyl!

Tim Buckley's "Dream letter live in London 1968" and "Peel sessions" are awesome.