Live Albums/DVDs

BRISTOL86

What are your favourite (readily available) live albums/DVDs? I love listening to live music of most genres - so what are some essential live albums to check out??

DiscoStu

Portishead NYC.
Led Zeppelin.

MagicPigDetective

Iron Maiden, Live After Death, a favourite since I was ten years old, has all the Maiden that I need. 

Strat54

Joe Ely - Live Liberty Lunch
Robben Ford- Soul On Ten
Danny Gatton - The Humbler

Neill

IMHO Status "Quo Live" from 1977 is the finest live album of all time, it's almost as good as being there and, crucially it is 100% live, many are not.  Others in similar vein are The Ramones "It's Alive" and Dr Feelgood "Stupidity"

Thin Lizzy's "Live and Dangerous" is regarded as a classic but has been the subject of much debate/argument over the years, even among the band members!   What is for certain is there is a huge amount of "tidying" on that album, as there is with most.

Other acknowledged classics are Wishbone Ash "Live Dates", Peter Frampton's "Frampton Comes Alive" and Humble Pie's "Rockin the Fillmore" 

If you like the Floyd, Dave Gilmour's "Live in Gdansk" is a terrific album, though again I can't believe it hasn't been edited. 

There are a lot of disappointing efforts out there eg few of the punk/new wave bands managed to record a convincing live performance, the Ramones being a notable exception. 

pintspiller

I always wanted to see Live Rust

TTony

You *have* to watch Fleetwood Mac's The Dance.  In 5.1 and loud.

All of it is good.

Some of it is stupendous.

StageStruck

CDs
Allman Brothers - Live At Filmore East
Deep Purple - In Concert 1970-72
Led Zep - BBC Sessions
Humble Pie - King Biscuit Flower Hour 1973
Status Quo - Frantic Four Reunion (either the 2013 or 2014 shows, both excellent)
Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour 74

DVDs
Deep Purple - Concerto for Group & Orchestra Live At The Royal Albert Hall '99
Pink Floyd - Live At Pompeii
Led Zeppelin - DVD
Procol Harum - Rockpalast Live 1976
Rory Gallagher - The Rockpalast Concerts
Gary Moore - One Night In Dublin & Blues For Jimi (Almost companion pieces, Gary on top form on both tribute shows)

Philly_Q

Robin Trower - Live!
Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes and World Wide Live

Phil_aka_Pip

anything by James Taylor
anything by camel but especially The Opening Farewell

frank1985

DVDs...

Talking heads - stop making sense....weird and wonderful
Miles Davis live at the Isle of Wight...amazing performance during the funky electric era
The Led Zep dvd, particularly the RAH gig...
SRV - El Mocambo....balls to the wall, cocaine fuelled blues

CDs

Am not a huge fan of live albums but Band of Gypsies is very good....this incarnation of the band with buddy miles and billy cox brought out the best in hendrix

boogieman

Philly_Q said:

Robin Trower - Live!

Great album, still sounds the business despite being 40+ years old. 

Live at Leeds has survived very well too, a real powerhouse of an album, especially in the extended cut with the extra tracks from Tommy. The Who at their best. 

DVD’s: Jeff Beck at Ronnie Scotts. 

I bought a Blockheads live dvd yesterday from 2004, all of 50p from the local charity shop. No Ian Dury by that stage of course, but what a cracking live band. Norman Watt Roy and Dylan Howe are the tightest rhythm section going. 

UnclePsychosis

Any of the Eels ones. All tremendous. 

dtr

Octahedron

I'm not a huge fan of live albums, but there's a few exceptions, and they are... 

AC/DC "Live" 
Joe Bonamassa "...from nowhere in particular" 
Queen "Live at Wembley Stadium" 
Aerosmith "A Little South of Sanity" 

Those are the only live albums I've ever been able to listen to front-to-back, and sometimes even on repeat. 

cpcompany

AC/DC if you want blood.
Ramones It's Alive
Talkihg Heads Stop Making Sense.

stimpsonslostson

cpcompany said:

AC/DC if you want blood.
Ramones It's Alive
Talkihg Heads Stop Making Sense.

Wisdom. The first two are brilliant. 
I also like 
How The West Was Won by Led Zeppelin- is worth it for Over the Hills alone! 
Live: 75-85 by Bruce Springsteen- I wore out the cassette copy my dad owned. 

stimpsonslostson

YouTube is a great resource for live video too: 
Jason Isbell playing House of Blues:


Iron Maiden Flight 666


Biffy at Reading-


Alexisonfire at Copps


Pearl Jam at Miami (good sound, not great video)

Neill

Forgot to mention BB King's "Live at the Regal", widely acknowledged to be one of the great live recordings.

Alvin

ZZTop Live From Texas on Blu-Ray for picture quality , it is how all Blu-rays should be (a pity they are not though).
  As for Live albums  Rory Gallagher , Irish Tour 74 .

munckee

Another one for Allman Brothers at the Fillimore East.  Pixies at the BBC is a good cd.