Lately, I've been into live albums. For me there's a certain ambience captured on live recordings that makes listening to them especially enjoyable through headphones. The MTV unplugged concerts come to mind. I've also been listening to music for so long, that the little variations that happen in concert can give a song I've grown tired of new life. So, any genre included, what is everyone's recommendation for favorite live album?
1. Allman Brothers Band - The Fillmore Concerts
2. Widespread Panic - Light Fuse, Get Away
3. Dave Matthews Band - Live at Red Rocks
4. Grateful Dead - Europe '72
5. Jimi Hendrix - Live at the Winterland
6. The Who - Live at Leeds
7. Pearl Jam - Many of their official North American and European tour bootlegs
8. Phish - Their recent 6 volume live set is supposed to be pretty good
9. B.B. King - Live at the Regal
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Live Art
Dave Matthews Band - Live at Red Rocks
Dave Matthews Band - Listener Supported
Dave Matthews Band - Live in Chicago - 12.19.98
Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds - Live at Luther College
Did I just list all the live DMB albums?
Hehe, anyway, I really like them, more than the studio albums. Can't wait to get the shows from gloco that I want
Allman Bros. Band - Live at the Fillmore East
Hendrix - Band of Gypsy's
Frank Zappa - Shut up and play yer guitar (2 discs)
Blue Oyster Cult - On your feet or on your knees (high school - 20 + years ago)
Weather Report - 8:30
Shakti - remember shakti
McLaughlin, DeMeola, DeLucia - Friday Night in San Francisco
Ok, something a bit "unofficial" and in no particular order:
1. Elton John/Billy Joel: face to face
2. Metallica: Ministry of Sound
3. smashing pumpkins: Exit mellon collie
4. radiohead: the best thing you ever had
5. oasis: 250,000 oasis fans cant be wrong (took me a year to get it!)
6. sarah mclachlan: under a blackened sky
7. Dave Matthews band: live at loreley festival
8. Better than ezra: in the zone
9. smashing pumpkins: 2nd to last show
10. dave matthews band: lillywhite sessions (unreleased album)
All of these shows are SOUNDBOARD and sound very very NICE!
First couple copies I had many years ago were tapes, and were eaten up. Then CDs, one lost, one hacked up -- and come to think of it, I don't know where my 5th copy is now.
genesis - the way we walk volumes 1 & 2. especially 2 (the longs) where they do a medley of firth of fifth etc.
james taylor - live. heard this on a top notch hifi including tannoy dimension 12 speakers (sorry 4 swearing) and it was absolutely tremendous
Well, to bring in some classical...I am a big fan of the concert Vladimir Horowitz's gave on his return to Russia in 1985. He played solo piano to a crowd of thousands. There was almost a riot to get in. The police tried to kick out all the conservatory students, so that party officials could watch, but the students refused to leave. You can hear the commotion in the first couple of minutes. By the end of the concert, people were overcome with emotion -- crying, cheering --the passion permeated the whole concert hall. It's palpable in the recording. It is remarkable. It is available on Deutsche Grammophone. Check it out.
Another fantastic one is a cd with the premiere's of Shostakovich's 1st violin and cello concertos in the U.S. They were so good, that the Soviets brought Shostakovich, David Oistrakh (violinist) and Mstislav Rostropovich (cellist) to play them with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia orchestra and Dmitri Mitropoulos and the New York Philharmonic. This was back in the 50s. It was totally unheard of, and the political tension was strong. Yet once they begin to play, you can feel it dissipate, as people just begin to appreciate the music for how amazing it is. It is on Sony Classical's Masterworks Heritage series. These are two great recordings if you like classical music, and are at all interested in history. Even if you are not, you will certainly be able to feel the drama present in the recordings.
Sorry for the length.
Stuart
My old LP of 801 Live from the mid-70s, fronted by a young Brian Eno, is my favourite live rock recording.
Favorite live jazz recordings:
Keith Jarrett Live at the Blue Note
Shelly Manne and his Men vol 4
Bill Evans, Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby
Classical - a few favourites: Karajan's 1951 live recording of Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg from the Bayreuth Festival, Knappertsbusch's Parsifal from the 1963 Bayreuth Festival, Gunter Wand's recording of Bruckner 9 recorded in Lubeck Cathedral.
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