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Post by mulv on Jul 14, 2023 18:27:28 GMT
Best and worst live albums.
Best - torn between Focus at the Rainbow and ELP's Pictures At An Exhibition. Both bear frequent relistens.
Worst - Kate Bush Live At Hammersmith Odeon. So overproduced it might as well not be live, and missing all the tracks that made her famous (and if she didn't sing them she's disrespected the people who put her there). I have it but I've only listened to it once.
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Post by anglais on Jul 14, 2023 19:03:18 GMT
Tough Question.
Mad Dogs and Englishmen.
Honorable mentions to Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense, Procol Harum Live with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsies, and The Greasy Truckers Garden Party.
Worst goes to The Who - Live at Leeds. I have it but played no more than a couple of times. I saw them at the Rainbow Suite in their pomp and I didn't enjoy that either.
I was going to put Jethro Tull - My God. The sound is shocking. But it is a bootleg so I guess that doesn't really count.
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Post by mulv on Jul 14, 2023 21:16:43 GMT
Ooh. Tull's Bursting Out is fabulous.
Also an honourable mention to both Supertramp for Paris and Bob Dylan Live in Budokan (though you'd have to be a Dylan fan to appreciate that one)
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Post by anglais on Jul 14, 2023 23:01:09 GMT
Ooh. Tull's Bursting Out is fabulous. Also an honourable mention to both Supertramp for Paris and Bob Dylan Live in Budokan (though you'd have to be a Dylan fan to appreciate that one) Is the Dylan one the live in Japan jobbie with the Symphony Orchestra? If it is then I have seen the film of it a few times. I came late to the Dylan party and love his work now and have most of his recordings, but not that one. The version of A Hard Rains Gonna Fall is epic. Can I throw in Neil Diamonds Hot August Night for good measure? Nirvana Unplugged. Johnny Winter, BB King and James Cotton live somewhere I forget. Another contender for worst live is The Blues Brothers. A huge disappointment after the OS and the spin off double album of Chicago blues standards. |
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Post by will on Jul 15, 2023 8:21:49 GMT
Sorry, I meant to answer this last night, but typically for something Saddo(e)s related, I fell asleep.
As with Mulv, top of my list is Pictures at an Exhibition (which even at 70s prices was a snip at £1.49!), closely followed by Yessongs and Welcome Back My Friends.
On a completely different track, I really enjoyed Don Mclean's 1976 live album Solo. I saw Mclean three or four times in the 70s, and that album perfectly captures the stuff that he was doing at the time. Things that I've heard recently about his personal life have turned me off him as a person, but his music reminds me of happy times as a teenager.
Although it's not a totally live album, Five Bridges by the Nice is also a favourite, but in the late 60s it's clear that classical orchestras had not yet got used to playing alongside rock bands, which is a bit of a negative.
One of the best gigs I ever went to was The Faces in 1974, just before they broke up. Around that time they released Coast to Coast: Overture and Beginners. It's a classic example of the shambolic gigs for which they were notorious. But again it reminds me of a very happy time in my life when I was changing from a child to an adult, a time which I find myself constantly looking back on the older I get.
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Post by anglais on Jul 15, 2023 8:31:29 GMT
If you are talking part live albums then Cream Wheels of Fire is fabulous. As is Pink Floyds Ummagumma. The live albim is brilliant but the studio album is not, with the exception of Grantchester Meadows which is very pastoral.
Ummagumma was part recorded at Mothers in Erdington. I think Tom said he was there. I was not.
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Post by anglais on Jul 15, 2023 8:44:58 GMT
Hey Will,
Was that Faces concert the one at the Mayfair Suite? I saw them there about that time and it was a shocker. It is second concert I have walked out of. I expected to hear music not the band playing football on stage. The other concert I walked out of was Kraftwerk. I was never a fan really anyway, more curious.
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Post by will on Jul 15, 2023 12:57:01 GMT
Hey Will, Was that Faces concert the one at the Mayfair Suite? I saw them there about that time and it was a shocker. It is second concert I have walked out of. I expected to hear music not the band playing football on stage. The other concert I walked out of was Kraftwerk. I was never a fan really anyway, more curious. No, it was a gig in Anaheim, California, recorded in October 1973, after Tetsu Yamauchi had replaced Ronnie Lane. But most of their gigs were shambolic, mainly due to them being pissed by the time they got on stage. I know I've mentioned this before, but the gig I saw at the Odeon was 9 days after the pub bombings, and maybe the band thought it would be in bad taste to perform while inebriated, and so it was actually a tremendous performance. Did you see Kraftwerk at the Town Hall? If so, I was there too. One of my mates had got tickets for him and his girlfriend, but had omitted to tell her until the day before. Her reaction was apparently along the lines of "You must be f*****g joking!", so I came off the bench as an 89th minute substitute. I got on really well with this mate, but I would have preferred to have filled in for him and gone with his girlfriend, as I really fancied her!  Anyway, I found it hard going, especially as there was visually little happening. But I enjoyed their famous songs like Autobahn and Tour de France. I'm sure that Mulv would agree with me that if ever there was live album of Muse playing on The Den in Teignmouth in 2009, that would feature in our top 10 live albums - sadly that probably will never happen. |
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Post by anglais on Jul 15, 2023 13:22:40 GMT
Yes Kraftwerk were at the Town Hall. After 45minutes of inaction except for the playing of Pinball Machines I gave up and adjourned to The Royal Mail pub and pondered wasting 2 quid and an hour of my life.
I saw Tetsu play with Kossof, Kirk, Tetsu and Rabbit. Cannot remember a thing about it except that it would have benefited from having Andy Fraser and Paul Rodgers. Then again I would have been watching Free.
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Anyway, I found it hard going, especially as there was visually little happening. But I enjoyed their famous songs like Autobahn and Tour de France.