Best Live album by favourite Band or Bassist?

[TransistorBassMan]

[quote name='louisthebass' timestamp='1320679194' post='1429831']

Gotta go with this one - great album!
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I was fortunate enough to be in the audience one of the shows recorded for the album (Woolwich Coronet) My first Level 42 gig. I was a 17 year old pianist/wannabe guitarist, and I went to "see what this Mark King was all about"

[arthurhenry]

Free Live - Andy Fraser at his best and one of the best albums of all time. Go and learn it note for note - now! You'll be a better player for it.

[stingrayPete1977]

Nirvana-Unplugged FTW

[gary mac]

[quote name='arthurhenry' timestamp='1320691642' post='1430127']
Free Live - Andy Fraser at his best and one of the best albums of all time. Go and learn it note for note - now! You'll be a better player for it.
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Got to agree that is a cracker.

Generally not mad on live albums but I do still thoroughly enjoy and regularly play Humble Pie, Rockin' the Filmore.

[Mickeyboro]

[quote name='arthurhenry' timestamp='1320691642' post='1430127']Free Live - Andy Fraser at his best and one of the best albums of all time. Go and learn it note for note - now! You'll be a better player for it.[/quote]

Plus a million!

[whynot]

Live at Leeds, The Who.
Went to see them as a kid at the Edmonton Sundown Theatre about 4 years after that was recorded and the same vibe came through on that gig as on the album.... magic.

[rOB]

[quote name='stingrayPete1977' timestamp='1320691770' post='1430131']
Nirvana-Unplugged FTW
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oo good call

[Gilby]

Wouldn't say it's a fave but just got the Rush ABC 74 album (the "bootlegged"), Lifesons guitar pans all over the place at times but loving that Geddy aggressive ric.

Again not a massive live album fan as such ( been some good ones shouted out already though ) but I do love Floyds Delicate Sound of Thunder.

[allihts]

Queen - Live at Wembley '86

[stef030]

for me it has to be

it bites-thankyou and good night

[Vibrating G String]

Gentle Giant - Playing the Fool was a good one.

[TPTroll]

[quote name='John Schoen' timestamp='1320676859' post='1429777']
The Who - Live At Leeds. I love Entwistle's tone on that album.
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That is the correct answer. 10 points to you.

[Deep Thought]

Live at Leeds for me too-or any of Frank Zappa's You can't do that on stage anymore albums.

[casapete]

Stones - Get your ya ya 's out.

Notable mentions -
Springsteen - Live 75-85
Stevie Wonder - Natural Wonder (often overlooked 1995 double cd)
Band - Last Waltz
BB King - Live at the Regal

Edited November 8, 2011 by casapete

[Guest McBass]

Weather Report - 8.30
D'Angelo @ The Jazz Cafe.

[Fredde]

Leonard Cohen - Live in London. (Roscoe Beck on bass)

[rapscallion]

[quote name='rOB' timestamp='1320676533' post='1429772']
RATM - Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium

Powerful
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This!

and Primus - Hallucinogenetics

[Len_derby]

Two of my favourites that I always come back to.

Humble Pie - Rockin' the Filmore

Robert Cray Band - Authorized Bootleg, live in Austin Texas

[LiamPodmore]

Although not a live album as such(Well, it is if you rip the audio like i did), i'm also a fan of the The Poison: Live At Brixton by Bullet For My Valentine, as well as the others i've already mentioned.

Liam

[apa]

[quote name='Vibrating G String' timestamp='1320708902' post='1430499']
Gentle Giant - Playing the Fool was a good one.
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Good call

But it has to be that old chestnut Live at Leeds

Others to mention:

Stupidity - Dr Feelgood
Live at the Marquee - Nine Below Zero
Bursting Out - Jethro Tull
Get your Ya Ya's out - Rolling Stones
Red Rocks - U2 (Dont laugh - thats when they were good)
Toyah Toyah Toyah - Toyah (again dont laugh it is actually good since its pre 'Its a mystery')
Rust Never sleeps - Neil Young

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[ezbass]

Ooh I'd forgotten about Bursting Out, good call; John Glascock RIP

[Oopsdabassist]

Another shout for Slade Alive...That one REALLY opened my eyes as a youth,

Bursting Out and Seconds Out were also faves of mine, In fact the Tull is still on my iPod!

[pst62]

All brilliant in their own individual way.
UFO - Strangers In The Night.
Ramones - It's Alive.
Genesis - Live & Seconds Out.
Queen - Live At The Rainbow 1974.
Deep Purple - Made In Europe.
Eddie And The Hot Rods - Live At The Marquee 1977.
Be Bop Deluxe - Live In The Air Age.
Rory Gallagher - Stage Struck.
Thin Lizzy - Live & Dangerous.
Stranglers - Cert X.
Talk Talk - Live 1986.
Rush -Exit... Stage Left.
etc etc

[4000]

[quote name='Yoda' timestamp='1320670983' post='1429663']
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
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Ah, great wisdom, as I would expect from Yoda!

In addition to the above, my personal faves would arguably be Seconds Out by Genesis, Yessongs by Yes and Space Ritual by Hawkwind. Oh, and the Golden Years Live EP by Motorhead!

Made In Japan and Made in Europe are up there too....Glenn Hughes's bass tone on MIE is just stunning. I love Matt Garrison's live cd/dvd too.

[PaulWarning]

of course, this opens another can of worms, how many of these live albums are actually totally live? not many I suspect