[Alex's Trip]

I agree with Dead-Air. You have to take each individual band into consideration. You can't make a generalizing statement about whether live shows or the record are better. Some bands are better live than recorded and vice-versa, and some bands that have amazing recorded stuff simply just don't translate well to the live setting, and you can't capture some of the energy on record that is on stage.

Personally I love seeing bands live, and I love listening to recorded albums, but which I love more is always in flux because of a number of variables (crowd energy, how the band played that day, how good the record in question is, what kind of music it is, etc.) that are thrown into the equation.