Best Live Album Of All Time

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For the win!

You have to remember that in 1971 there was no real production available aside from Plate Reverb (and some other nasty sounding gizmos with garden hoses etc), Acoustic Chambers, and Tape Slap. This meant the players needed to play every note, and on this album it's all live, no OD's, and this album created or popularized Southern Rock, Harmony Guitars, Jazz/Blues/Rock fusion, i.e. it changed the music world at the time.

I saw them live multiple times when this show was repeated at the Fillmore West later on, and they played and jammed until 6:00AM the next morning! Amazing band until Duane and Barry died, and while they were still great afterwards with Dicky writing their hits, the band's fire on this album was forever gone without them.

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Rush: A Show of Hands.
-Hard to pick just one, they were just so killer live; but the version of Mystic Rhythms on this on is one of my all time favorites

Van Halen Live: Right Here Right Now.
-I know there was supposedly a lot of fixing it up post show, but if you could wear out a CD, I would have as an early teenager.
 
If goosebumps are a requirement for calling something best, I got them right now at minute 40:55 of the concert that I posted above. Just when Rick Wright starts the Moog solo.



As I recall now, I also had goosebumps every time they pressed the Moog Taurus pedal when I saw Genesis live in Barcelona, back in 1981

Or with this

A lot of Moog Taurus joy there
Not that Collins was my preference as a singer, but I did not have the pleasure to see them with Gabriel.
 
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I had a school friend (Ian) when I was just getting into music who introduced me to Thin Lizzy's Live and Dangerous and Rory Gallagher's 74 Irish Tour albums. This would have been around 1978. For Christmas that year I know having listened to my friend Ian's albums over and over again Santa was kind enough to drop these two albums down the chimney along with a load of now-forgotten presents.

Back then I had a really poor quality record player in my bedroom (sound wise), but it did have the option of being able to turn at 16, 33,45 and 78 rpm. I used to play the records at 16rpm to listen to the guitar solo's which was at the time a great way to learn. My pal Ian's parents had a radiogram, which looked like a coffin on legs but sounded glorious due to it having some good old fashioned things called valves in it. It had a rich warm sound. It may have been about 46 years ago but I can remember it as if it was yesterday.

I replaced the Live and Dangerous album along with Rory's more than once as I must have listened to them thousands of times.

But still to this day some of the best live music that I have heard. I think. LOL.
 
Here's one I don't believe has been mentioned, but I still play it to this day (I'm old). Johnny Winter And Live. Best version of Jumpin' Jack Flash ever IMO, and the Rock and Roll Medely smokes. Btw, He gets a great piecing, biting tone that I can't get with my FM3, but I know it's a volume thing.
 
"of all time" is the hardest....just the 70's alone would result in 10 (for me :P) - thinking LiveKillers, ALIVE!, Frampton Comes Alive, Strangers, SongRemainstheSame, Live at Budokan, Live Bootleg, YESSONGS, etc.

mmm.....gotta pick one from all decades....

AC/DC "If you want blood youve got it"
 
Some of my favorites:

'78 AC/DC Live If You Want Blood You Got It. angus in his glory. if you ever got the chance to see him in his prime, sitting on the shoulders of Bon/Bryant as they walked the entire loop of the floor seats....w angus soloing non-stop...nothing like it. ...and to learn he was sober....i still have a hard time believing it.

Delicate Sound of Thunder. Floyd

24 Nights & Just One Night. Clapton

Jackson Brown Solo Acoustic.

Greatful Dead. Cornell '77 and RFK '?

Eagles Hell Freezes Over

Rattle & Hum. U2

RHRN. Van Halen
 
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Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More
Hearing Hendrix's SSB at Woodstock made me beg my parents for a guitar. That's all it took. He plays it like a man possessed. I heard things in there that to this day myself (many hours logged attempting) and nobody else duplicates. Nobody even considers trying. Others have played their version of USA national anthem on electric guitar. To me nothing compares It still makes me smile every time i hear/see it.

 
I won’t venture into which is best. These are a few I’ve listened to over and over in my younger years and either wore out on cassette or 8-track. (My first car in high school had an 8track in the cassette era).

  • Rush: Exit Stage Left
  • U2: live at Red Rocks, Under a Blood Red Sky
  • Cheap Trick: Live at Budokan
  • Journey: Captured
 
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