For all you BOC fans...yes, I did not mention Some Enchanted Evening. I prefer these two over that one, but be on the lookout for that album in Part 2!
Hi Pete great show thanks for doing it , The question i have is what is your view of a band from the 60's called LOVE I have not heard you mention them in any of shows talking about ranking albums or groups from that time period If you havent heard of them I would suggest listening to their first 4 albums I think you will like their diverse musical style. Hope to hear back if you can.
Lou Reed- Rock and Roll Animal Peter Frampton- Frampton Comes Alive Rush- All the World's a Stage Kiss- Alive Ted Nugent- Double Live Gonzo Queen- Live Killers Jethro Tull- Bursting Out Rick Derringer- Derringer Live Pat Travers- Go For What You Know Live! Cheap Trick- Live at Budokan (Complete) Yes- Yessongs And... and... and... Oh just forget it... there are just too many!!
Whenever I’m on the London Underground and I see the signs with ‘High Voltage’ written on them, I find myself singing “High - HIGH! High - HIGH!” to myself, at times perhaps audibly.
All the World's a Stage - Rush (My favorite album of all time) If You Want Blood You've Got It - AC/DC Live! Bootleg - Aerosmith How the West Was Won - Led Zeppelin Yessongs - Yes Live in Paris - Diana Krall (Fantastic jazz live album) Eagles Live - Eagles Stages - Triumph Foghat Live - Foghat Double Live Gonzo - Ted Nugent Live and Dangerous - Thin Lizzy Strangers in the Night - UFO Alchemy: Dire Straits Live - Dire Straits MTV Unplugged In New York - Nirvana Live Evil - Black Sabbath Made in Japan - Deep Purple On Your Feet or On Your Knees - Blue Oyster Cult
I've got to say I love your channel. I am discovering so many cool bands and artists through your reviews and history videos. You've turned me on to bands like Gentle Giant and Starcastle, plus many more. I also like the diversity of your musical tastes. How you can go from talking about a jazz album to a ripping heavy metal album. Love the work, please keep it up.
- Iron Maiden ‘Live After Death’ doesn’t get the love I think it deserves. - Hendrix @ Woodstock is another release that doesn’t get much love...Awesome. - Jaco Pastorius - ‘The Birthday Concert’ ??? (Exceptional!)...no Jazz...I get it.
Damn, Pete! Great to hear you speaking up for Eloy. I have a lot of their albums but always forget about to put them on. I discovered them when I was really into Hawkwibd and Floyd and wanted more spacy prog. People often criticize Eloy for being a bit too derivative of Wish You Were Here era Floyd in their late 70's period, but Eloy were only comparable texturally. Their mid to late 70's stuff is so good. I enjoy the earlier ones too, as they have a heavy space rock/psych vibe, but the songwriting isn't as strong, in my opinion.
UFO-Strangers In The Night Rush-All The World's A Stage Thin Lizzy-Live and Dangerous Ted Nugent-Double Live Gonzo AC/DC-If You Want Blood You've Got It Kiss-Alive Slayer-Decade of Aggression Little Feat-Waiting For Columbus Deep Purple-Made in Japan Cheap Trick-Live at Budokan The Who-Live at Leeds Allman Brothers Band-Live at Fillmore East Iron Maiden-Live After Death Neil Young and Crazy Horse-Live Rust Motorhead-No Sleep Till Hammersmith MC5-Kick Out The Jams Led Zeppelin-The Song Remains The Same Scorpions-Tokyo Tapes The Band-Rock Of Ages Judas Priest-Unleashed In The East
Some of my favorite live albums: Allman Brothers: Live at Ludlow Garage; The Fillmore Concerts; Atlanta Pop Festival Beach Boys: Concert/Live in London; In Concert Chicago: At Carnegie Hall (I have the original 3-CD set); Live in Japan Eumir Deodato: The 2001 Concert Live at Felt Forum Dixie Dregs: Bring 'Em Back Alive; California Screamin'; King Biscuit Flower Hour; Night of the Living Dregs Creedence Clearwater Revival: Live in Germany Eagles: Eagles Live; Hello Freezes Over Elton John: Here and There (2-CD expanded version) Journey: Captured; Live in Houston 1981 Kansas: Two For the Show Lynyrd Skynyrd: One More From the Road Led Zeppelin: How the West Was Won
1st International Blues Rock Concert 1971 ... Manfred Mann, FREE and Gillan Deep Purple. Open air in Sydney Australia. 1972 Led Zeppelin at their peak then Jethro Tull 'TAAB'. 1973 Black Sabbath Vol 4, Santana, Yes, and Rolling Stones. 1974 Slade Alive, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Black Sabbath 'Sabbath Bloody Sabbath', Jethro Tull and Uriah Heep. 1975 Rory Gallagher, Bad Company, Wings and Eric Clapton. Live is good 🥳🤘🇭🇲
Pete 1. My favorite live album EVER is "Woodstock" 2. "Fillmore: The Last Days" and "Frampton Cones Alive" are special live albums to me because I'm in the audience. 3. I'd love to know if you remained a Deep Purple fan when they experimented with R & B and funk on "Burn" and "Stormbringer"
Great review, Pete. Just a note - tracks 1-5 on disc 3 of Genesis Archive Volume 1 are taken from the same tour as Genesis Live. So, if you're looking for an extended version of that release, that's a good start (capturing a number of tracks from Selling England by the Pound).
I always liked the first Cheap Trick live at Budakon lp . But Damn the newer version is worth it's wait in gold. Also they toured to promote it . Where did I see the show . How about my home town Smyrna Ga .At Dobbins Air Force base .On a beautiful spring day.😀😀It was mind blowing !!
The live album was really a contractual obligation along with a Greatest Hits package but that was part of the job and hopefully it caught you at your best and occasionally launched your career - Kiss Alive or Bob Seger - Live Bullet and of course Frampton being examples. UFO and Thin Lizzy were perfect in being a souvenir of that tour and a package of hits, well recorded and played. The Last Waltz/Song remains the Same were film soundtracks
I know you sooner or later gonna mention 'Beck, Bogert & Appice, Live in Japan' but....anyway! And....'Bongo Fury' Zappa/Beefhart!! And....Mahavishnu Orchestra, 'Between Nothingness & Eternity'! Clearly in part 2?
Ten of my favourites (in no particular order) J Geils Band - “Live” Full House MC5 - Kick Out the Jams AC/DC - If You Want Blood Peter Hammill - The Margin Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous (Overdubbed and Dangerous? Who cares, still ace) Fairport Convention - House Full The Who - Live at Leeds Randy Newman - Live Whitesnake - Live.. in the Heart of the City Motörhead - No Sleep Til Hammersmith Sod it. Some more... Bob Marley and the Wailers - Live at the Lyceum Joni Mitchell - Miles of Aisles Richard Thompson - Small Town Romance Grant Green - Live at the Lighthouse Dan Penn and Spooner Oldham - Moments from This Theatre Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Live Rust Little Feat - Waiting For Columbus Genesis - Three Sides Live
About five years ago I purchased a double live set of two '74 concerts (part of KC's collectable series), one in Mainz Germany and the second one in Asbury Park NJ. The latter is the source of USA, without the Eddie Jobson overdubs, plus Fracture and one of prog rock's anthems, Starless. IMHO, the quintessential Crimson performance and my all time top 5 live album. A few weeks later they would go to the studio and make Red, and KC would begin a 7-year hiatus before the Belew-Levin era commenced.
Soo Pete, MASSIVE PROPS for wearing the TBolin T!!!! You and I are kindred spirits in that we both have devoured the histories and mystiques of all the legendary bands!!!... Keep up the great work my Brother!
Love the Bolin t- shirt! He tends to get overlooked and largely forgotten however he produced a lot of great music in his short life. Thanks for the reminder.
He was a really underrated songwriter. I love his writing and playing on "Come taste the band." He and David Coverdale had a fantastic writing partnership going and Tommy weighed in with 7 co-credits on the album.
Ok my top ten live rock albums very very very hard choice but here we go 1. UFO - Strangers in the night 2. Deep Purple - made in Japan and live In Paris 75( had to pick to as they again are my fav band of all time and adore both line ups 3. Thin Lizzy - Live and dangerous 4. AC/DC - IF YOU WANT BLOOD 5. Lynyrd Skynyrd - One more from the road 6. Led.Zeppelin - the song remains the same 7. Rush - all the world's a stage 8. Wishbone ash - live dates 9. Rainbow - onstage 10. Queen - live killers And thanks Pete for doing this you've turned me on to.so many of these bands I haven't listened to yet
@@rhythmstyx1945 my side 2 was pressed in reversed. So interesting, just not listenable. I guess I could put it in audacity and reverse it, but then again, at that point, just stream it
I love live albums, but if you are a collector of bootleg live recordings like me, the allure wears off. There are so many FM broadcast and unreleased soundboard recordings out there, not to mention audience recordings, some of very high quality. many are better to listen to than official live albums because they aren't prettied up in the studio.
I know what you mean. And then there are those bands that have released so many live albums. How many times does one need to hear the band at different gigs during 1972 or whatever ! But each to their own, I guess.
For me, the live album should reflect the concert, as if you were there. By that, I mean the songs should be in the order they were played live and the album should include all the songs that were played at the show. This is why I prefer a live album that was recorded at a single concert. I don't care too much about overdubbing, but it has to be minimal.
Nice that you showed two from Queen. Must recommend a later "old" release from Queen called "A Night At The Odeon". I am not sure how well known that album really is since it is just a few years old in present package but I'd say it is a MUST album for a Queen fan. Especially those who enjoy their eariler material.
Great show....love the Tommy Bolin shirt....absolutely one of my favorites....Tommy Bolin Live at Ebbets Field '74......Energy Radio Broadcasts.....Deep Purple King Biscuit Flower Hour Show from Long Beach '76.....all 3 of these are absolutely killer live Bolin.....Zephyr Live '73 as well.....
What about Elton John Live 11/17/70? This is when it was him , Nigel Olsson and Dee Murray captured live at a A&R Recording Studios, New York, NY, for a live radio broadcast on WABC-FM . When it became a very hot selling bootleg MCA decided it should get a proper release (so they could cash-in of course). The concert has a raw energy from Elton and the boys and it also captures the excitement and near hysteria that followed him on his first US tour.
Over the years I have really not liked live albums. Instead I like concerts, live shows, or the live dvd/Blu-ray. However here are my top 5 live albums: 1. Iron Maiden - Live After Death 2. Jimi Hendrix- Plays Monterey 3. Metallica - Live Shit Binge and Purge 4. The Doors - Live in L.A. 5. Helloween - United Alive
Just a couple that you may be interested in: Gamma Rays's Hell Yeah The Awesome Foursome, Therion has two albums - Live Gothic that's a more double-live album and The Miskolc Experience with one disc classical songs and the other Therion songs. The last one is Helloweens Keeper of the Seven Keys The Legacy. Good stuff there.
Hi, just found your channel and dig it very much. You have a lot of CDs but what is your LP collection like? .....and that Gov't Mule is awesome but go get the 4CD set version. LOTS of great songs not on the 2CD. Spanish Moon is worth the price of admission all by itself, 20m of pure joy .
In my opinion, the greatest instrument of the last 70 years and it has serious competition so I don't say that lightly. I love most instruments {I hate the sopranino saxophone} but there is something about the mellotron that rarely ceases to move me.
AC/DC : If you want blood Mott the Hoople: Mott Live Deep Purple: Made in Japan Allmans: Fillmore East David Bowie: Stage Jonnny Winter: Live And Oasis: Familiar to millions Neil Young: Rust never sleeps Steven Stills: Stills Live The Greatful Dead.... The Stones: Get your ya yas out Cheap Trick: Live at Budakan There are so many more.....tons of jazz, Monk, Coltrane, Bill Evans, On and on.
I've always dug live albums. Haven't seen Part 2 yet but Jerry Lee Lewis Live at the Star Club 1964 has to be on any list. Wishbone Ash Live Dates 1973 was also very good.
The best live Queen album is in my opinion Queen Rock Montreal. It was originally released as a concert film in 1981, but they finally released it on audio in 2007 and man, it's the best they ever sounded. Live Killers is troubled by a very bad mix and the Wembley show, while legendary, suffers from Freddie's vocals sounding slightly strained. And of course the Rainbow album from a few years ago is excellent for those interested in Queen's more hard rock early period. Their rendition of "Liar" on that album is scorching hot. But my favourite live album of all time still has to be The Who's Live at Leeds. Pure, unadulterated rock. An unrelenteless hurricane of a performance. The original 1970 release only contained six songs but since then deluxe editions have given access to the full two-hour show, including a nearly-complete rendition of Tommy that makes the original album sound like elevator music. The recording and mixing allow the mayhem on stage to wash over you like you were there witnessing this tour de force yourself. If you're on the fence about putting in the time to listen to it, look up their 1968 performance of A Quick One at the Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus here on RU-vid for a taste of the energy they were putting out around that period.
That's why I LOVE On Your Feet Or On Your Knees by Blue Oyster Cult, their live shows were absolutely and continue to be killer. BOC didn't need the help or a crutch, almost every note was as played in concert, just like all their live releases. They stood up and brought down houses.
"On Your Feet Or On Your Knees" is one of my top 5 live albums. It's poorly recorded, you have to strain to hear the bass, the drums sound like Albert is tickling them yet all of this doesn't matter a bit because it is so brilliantly played and sung, with so much fire and panache and we even get a full and a half version of "Buck's boogie." It's a crazy album that barely lets up at any point. About the only calm point is "Last days of May" which allows one to breathe a moment before heading back to the intensity. I've dug this album for 39 years and never gotten bored of it.
All of Trower's live stuff is top shelf. And I've really been listening to all the Hendrix live releases that have come out in the last 20 years. And the Doors Felt Forum set is a must have.
Trower, Travers, Heep, Priest, Yes, and much more coming up in Part 2! I agree on Hendrix-so many great live releases...I could have done a full show just on Jimi live albums!
Metallica's live albums have always been some of my favorites, especially their Seattle 1989 show, pre Black Album when it was all this crazy energy, Jason going insane on backup vocals, James before he blew up his vocal chords doing So What.
Hi Pete, great 2 rants about live albums. I love live albums, but it's also where the men are separated from the boys: only the truly great artists are able to top the studio versions in a live situation. Especially for prog, which after all is often fairly complex, this is a challenge. Prog has more precisely structured songs than, say blues or jazz, but the great prog bands manage to either extend and improve songs or "simply" make them sound more dynamic and powerful. My all-time fav live albums are Genesis-Seconds Out, Pink Floyd-Pulse, Jethro Tull-Seconds Out and Renaissance-Live at Carnegie Hall. Some other favorites (which were not on your list) include Roxy Music-Live at the Apollo (where WAS Roxy Music, by the way?), Curved Air-Live, Caravan-Live at the Fairfields Hall, Horslips-Live at the O2, David Gilmour-Live in Gdansk, Ayreon-Universe, Grobschnitt-Solar Music Live, Dire Straits-Alchemy, Steve Hackett-Hammersmith or Royal Albert Hall, Eric Clapton-Just One Night, Fleetwood Mac-Live, Kate Bush-Hammersmith Odeon, Alison Krauss & The Union Station-Live. From Yes, I would have picked: Keys to Ascension 1 or Symphonic Live, and from Gov't Mule: Dirk Side of the Mule. Glad to hear your praise for Gentle Giant's Playing the Fool and the two Blue Oyster Cult albums!
"only the truly great artists are able to top the studio versions in a live situation. Especially for prog, which after all is often fairly complex" I actually disagree with you on this.....but you mentioned Horslips so we are bonded in brotherhood and you can say what you please !
Brian May hates 'Live Killers' because it's totally live and he wasn't allowed to fix any mistakes through overdubs. I never liked much of the Queen stuff after '79/'80, they lost so much of their heaviness and the 80's commercialism left me a bit cold. Great that you mentioned Clem Clempson, I played in a band with his son Joel (great drummer).
That's interesting what you say about Queen's "Live Killers." The band mixed it themselves and weren't particularly happy with it. There is some info online that says some of the songs were taken from many different performances and spliced together. So one performance on the record of a song may have a first verse from a performance in Spain, the chorus might be from X city, the second verse and bridge may be from Y town and the rest of the song might be from a different Spanish performance. That said, the version of "We will rock you" that opens the album is a heavy rocking inciendiary workout that bears out Roger Taylor's summation of Queen that they were "just a heavy metal band, really !" In my life I've had two vinyl copies of that album and they were bought years apart, yet they had the same fault and jump in exactly the same places !! I really like the album, personally although the "Bohemian Rhapsody" is enough to render one slightly murderous.
My favorite live recording is the Boston Tales Retold bootleg from Yes. Soundboard quality, they play the entire Close to the Edge album and all of Tales from Topographic Oceans
*Barclay James Harvest - (Any Live album)* (band is better live than in the studio) *Golden Earring - The Naked Truth* (Live Acoustic album from 1992 which includes songs up to "The Hole" - includes a kicking Twilight Zone acoustic version with acoustic guitar solo - *get the Completely Naked Truth / Fully Naked* which includes all 3 Baked Truth albums) *Pink Floyd - Pulse* (only official album where *Dark Side of the Moon* was performed in it's entirety) *Roxy Music - Live* (2003 - reunion tour) *Neil Diamond - Hot August Nights I - III*
Queen Live Killers was shot in 70MM film and relatively recently was remastered in HD for Blu-ray and is one of the greatest live Blu-rays I own (and I own a lot!).
McLaughlin's band, the Mahavishnu Orchestra did a superb live album, "Between Nothingness & Eternity" which has never garnered much of a reputation in the jazz fusion world but which, for me, is a tremendous piece of work that I never get tired of hearing. The 3 tracks on it {one of which is in 3 pieces} were unreleased at the time and in fact the album was unique in that regard until the "Lost Trident sessions" came out 30 or whatever years later and some of the songs were on it and had actually been recorded before the live album. Nevertheless, it's heavy, it's jazzy, it's proggy and it's packed with melody among the madness and joy oh joy, no drum solo !
My Top 25 Best Live Albums 1. Elton John- Live in Australia with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra [1987] 2. Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band- Live Bullet [1976] 3. The Band- The Last Waltz [1978] 4. Talking Heads- Stop Making Sense [1984] 5. The Allman Brothers- Live at the Fillmore East [1971] 6. Scorpions- World Wide Live [1985] 7. Peter Tosh- Complete Captured Live [1984] 8. Judas Priest- Priest…Live! [1987] 9. Social Distortion- Live at the Roxy [1998] 10. Ozzy Osbourne- Speak of the Devil [1982] 11. Iron Maiden- Live After Death [1985] 12. Pat Benatar- Live From Earth [1983] 13. 10,000 Maniacs- MTV Unplugged [1993] 14. Jethro Tull- Bursting Out [1978] 15. Rush- All the World’s a Stage [1976] 16. Neil Young & Crazy Horse- Live Rust [1979] 17. Bob Marley- Live Forever: The Stanley Theater, Pittsburgh [2011] (recorded in 1980) 18. Kiss- Alive [1975] 19. Derek & the Dominos- Live at the Fillmore [1994] (recorded in 1970) 20. Deep Purple- Made in in Japan [1972] 21. Pink Floyd- Delicate Sound of Thunder [1988] 22. Alice in Chains- MTV Unplugged [1996] 23. Cosby, Stills, Nash & Young- 4 Way Street [1971] 24. Nirvana- MTV Unplugged in New York [1994] 25. The Clarks- Live [1998] Honorable Mentions: Wattstax- Music From the Original Movie Soundtrack Woodstock- Music From the Original Soundtrack and More Neil Diamond- Hot August Night Crosby, Stills & Nash- Allies Santana- Live at the Fillmore 1968 Oingo Boingo- Farewell: Live from the Universal Amphitheatre AC/DC- Live Bob Marley and the Wailers- Live The Police- Live! Frank Zappa/The Mothers - Roxy & Elsewhere Judas Priest- Unleashed in the East Phish- A Live One Testament- Dark Roots of Thrash Pink Floyd- Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall: Live Alabama- Live Kadavar- Live in Antwerp Pat Benatar- Summer Vacation 2001 Heaven & Hell- Live! Radio City Music Hall 2007 Y&T- Open Fire: Live
I have a few of the live Phish albums (Volumes 6, 13, 16, 17, 20) but I just mentioned their most “official-like” live recording to kinda symbolize all of their endless volumes of great live recordings. I’ve only seen them twice, but I was lucky enough to have the 07/29/03 show at the Post-Gazette Pavilion in Burgettstown as my second show. That show is still hailed as one of their best ever. I have that live performance on CD as well.
Hi Pete, I like a lot what you are doing. Just wanted to ask you, are you sponsored in some way by bands or music lables doing this? Maybe you’ve been asked this several times. I will watch more of your videos. Regards, Daniel
Hi Daniel- no, not sponsored at all. Other than some labels/bands supplying me with some of the albums I discuss, this is my own project here that complements what we've been doing on our website since 2001.
Have been listening to a guy called scott morgan out of Detroit with a couple of alias lately. one is Powertrane with Ron Asheton from the Stooges and Denis Tek from our own Radio Birdman with an album called Ann Arbor Revival Meeting from 2002, which you can still get to the best opf my knowledge. And another project called Sonic's Rendezvous Band with Fred 'Sonic' Smith, Patti 's other half with an album called City Slang : Live at Mack Aborn arts centre 1999, still available too to my knowledge! Great street fighting detroit garage rock with a healthy dose of punk attitude. Essential listening if you like anything to do with the Stooges, Black Keys (before they went wierd and electronic or even the Stones as you'll see.
Hey, I'm only 3 years late, but I believe that Frampton Comes Alive was the largest selling album of all time until Fleetwood Mac's Rumors, the following year.
My top 10 favorite live albums Frampton: frampton comes alive Kiss: alive Rush: all the worlds a stage Judas Priest: unleashed in the east REO Speedwagon: live, you get what you play for Ted Nugent: double live gonzo Black Sabbath: reunion Band of Gypsies: live at the Filmore east Frank Marino &Mahagony Rush. Live AC/DC: if you want blood
Not that into Chicago in general....however I would highly recommend classic Crusaders LPs. The live stuff is amazing but if you don't know them, try "Pass the Plate."
Pete please do a show dedicated to the magic that is UFO's "Strangers In The Night". Also how about a show about UFO and all the former members we lost in recent years?
I originally got "Seconds Out" because I just had to hear the rest of "Supper's ready." In the days when I would put all my LPs onto cassette, there would be a few minutes left at the end of a C90 so I used to fill in the space with a song I particularly liked and I had a neighbour who was trying to turn me onto Genesis, REO Speedwagon and Nick Drake but the only thing I liked that I heard was "Supper's ready" so I put it on the end of one of my tapes but only about the first 5 or 6 minutes. For about 14 years, that was all I knew of the song ! Eventually, my sister bought me the "Seconds Out" album {along with "Nabtucket Sleighride" by Mountain} and I finally got to listen to the whole song. It was absolutely wonderful. Some of its sections had me howling at the moon, at least metaphorically. I thought I'd listen to the whole album just to see what might be there and found that I really liked most of it. Genesis are an easy band to knock, especially post-Gabriel. I've even heard reviewers make videos and declare how much they hate Phil Collins. Well, I rate both he and the band highly and it's mainly on the strength of "Seconds Out."
‘Seconds Out’ Second best! Two For The Show From Kansas is the greatest ever live album. Especially the 30th Anniversary which had a second CD from the same 77-78 tours!
@@martinkulkarni3569 "Two for the show" is a really good album. But I only like the songs that I wasn't already familiar with. The songs I already knew aren't anywhere near as good as their studio counterparts. I tend to love whichever version I hear first when it comes to live and studio songs.
Deep Purple - Made in Japan Led Zeppelin - Song Remans the Same Cream - Live JH Experience - Montery Pop Festival 1967 John Coltrane Quartet - Newport Stray Cats - Rumble in Brixton
