Best Live album by favourite Band or Bassist?

[Bo0tsy]

Here's a topic I don't think I've seen before on this forum. What, in your opinion, is the best live CD you've heard by your favourite band/bassist(s)?

For me I would 100% vouch for Raphael Saadiq (All Hits At the House of Blues - great singer, songwriter, producer and bassist and a double album of souful funkiness - check out D'Angelo's appearance on disc 2) and also Bootsy Live in Louisville 1978 - the only live CD of Bootsy worth getting that fully captures Bootsy's intense space bass playing. A real tour-de-force. Probably the best and funkiest live CD I have ever heard and one of the reason's I decided to pick up a bass and give it a whirl.

Interested in hearing other people's opinion's - (PS: - it doesn't have to be limited to soul & funk! )

[sk8]

Iron Maiden - Live After Death. Still got the gatefold Vinyl

[Yoda]

I'm not [i]really[/i] a massive fan of live albums, but you'd have to go a looooong way to beat "LIve And Dangerous" by Lizzy IMHO etc...

2nd would come "If You Want Blood" by ACDC

Both tick all my boxes

Edited November 7, 2011 by Yoda

[PaulWarning]

Glad you included the PS,
The Ramones - It's Alive
there has been something similar recently
[url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/157507-when-a-live-version-is-better-than-the-recording/page__fromsearch__1"]http://basschat.co.uk/topic/157507-when-a-live-version-is-better-than-the-recording/page__fromsearch__1[/url]

[winterfire666]

primus - suck on this!
iron miaden - Live after death

[Big_Stu]

My fave band & fave music changes quite often; but the mainstay band in my life is or was Slade. Their celebrated live album was Slade Alive which was recorded on the same night as the TOTP show they did with their first number one in '71; therefore in Nod's words "they were on fire that night".
Slade do Loving Spoonful
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t4lxIMcLiM[/media]

PS. To the OP - what the hell is that bass in your avatar????

Edited November 7, 2011 by Big_Stu

[RhysP]

Magazine - "Play".
Porcupine Tree - "Coma Divine".

[LiamPodmore]

Avenged Sevenfold: Live In The LBC is a personal favourite of mine, although i have had the one Green Day did on my MP3 for the past week or so and its quite good actually.

Liam

[LiamPodmore]

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1320673844' post='1429716']

PS. To the OP - what the hell is that bass in your avatar????
[/quote]

I'm not the OP, but its a Bootsy signature i think.

Liam

[Big_Stu]

[quote name='LiamPodmore' timestamp='1320674755' post='1429736']

I'm not the OP, but its a Bootsy signature i think.

Liam
[/quote]
Cheers, I was starting to think in that direction when I saw the JB content in the other thread. Maybe the OP's name shoudla given me a hint!

Edited November 7, 2011 by Big_Stu

[Ed_S]

"Arch Enemy - Tyrants of the Rising Sun" is an absolute masterclass on being a tight metal band, and "Ozzy - Live at Budokan" is likewise for lone guitarists.

[yorick]

Sammy Hagar, Loud and Clear

[rOB]

RATM - Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium

Powerful

[John Schoen]

The Who - Live At Leeds. I love Entwistle's tone on that album.

[Cosmo Valdemar]

[quote name='Big_Stu' timestamp='1320673844' post='1429716']
My fave band & fave music changes quite often; but the mainstay band in my life is or was Slade. Their celebrated live album was Slade Alive which was recorded on the same night as the TOTP show they did with their first number one in '71; therefore in Nod's words "they were on fire that night".
Slade do Loving Spoonful
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t4lxIMcLiM[/media]

PS. To the OP - what the hell is that bass in your avatar????
[/quote]


This, plus:

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5Owf_cQwPw"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5Owf_cQwPw[/url]

[MB1]

MB1.

"The almost complete Rezillos"
Can't Stand The Rezillos/Mission Accomplished...but the beat goes on (Live in Glasgow)

[Bo0tsy]

OP here - Yes the avatar is a Washburn Bootsy Collins Space Bass.

[KevB]

Made In Japan. Band at the top of their game, genuine atmosphere and some songs are better than their studio counterparts. Also relatively little (maybe even none?) additional studio overdubs I believe so gets high marks for honesty.

[Big_Stu]

[quote name='Bo0tsy' timestamp='1320678279' post='1429804']
OP here - Yes the avatar is a Washburn Bootsy Collins Space Bass.
[/quote]
V nice! I do like a unique looking guitar/bass.

[TransistorBassMan]

Gary Numan (Paul Gardiner) - Living Ornaments '79/Living Ornaments '80/Living Ornaments '81

Level 42 - A Physical Presence

Edited November 7, 2011 by TransistorBassMan

[louisthebass]

[quote name='TransistorBassMan' timestamp='1320679037' post='1429827']

Level 42 - A Physical Presence
[/quote]

Gotta go with this one - great album!

[originalfunkbrother]

Donny Hathaway - Live with Willie Weeks on bass!

[brick]

my fav live album def has to be Experience Jill Scott 826+, awesome songs and some really tasty playing

[Tinman]

Genesis - Seconds Out

[ezbass]

[quote name='yorick' timestamp='1320676315' post='1429767']Sammy Hagar, Loud and Clear[/quote]Nice to see The Red Rocker get a mention, I had this on red vinyl, great album. Other live albums I love already getting a mention here viz; Made in Japan, Live & Dangerous, Slade Alive (blast from the past there, Darling Be Home Soon, brilliant).

But if I had to choose just one it would have to be Peter Gabriel's Secret World, a great band on top of its game with Tony Levin's bass sounding monstrous. It's a great DVD too.