Best Live album by favourite Band or Bassist?

[clarkpegasus4001]

Bruford - Live tapes and Jan Akkerman - Live, are two of my faves.

[wateroftyne]

Lindisfarne's 'Magic in the Air'. Rod Clements' unmistakeable fretless Precision tone. Great player, and a huge influence on me.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upb_kVfy9PA"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upb_kVfy9PA[/url]

[jd2112]

+ 1 Rush - Exit Stage Left

Hard to understand how Ged, Neil and Alex pull this off even though I've seen it with my own eyes more than once.

This is my favourite Rush live album, musically they can still deliver but the vocals havn't been the same since about 1985.

[EBS_freak]

More along WoTs line of acoustic brilliance, The Waifs - A Brief History.

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuGk16mLTW4"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuGk16mLTW4[/url]

Things really pick up around 2:00 when harmonica action kicks in.... stick with it... it'll blow your mind.

[ezbass]

[quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1320759547' post='1430903']
of course, this opens another can of worms, how many of these live albums are actually totally live? not many I suspect
[/quote]The totally 'live' warts n all concept vs touched up versions debate doesn't bother me, if it sounds good and pleases me while adding a different slant from the original recorded version it's all good.

[moonbass]

Currently Chic live at the Budokan. Such a sad story surrounding it, but amazing to hear Bernard Edwards on such fine form considering. And I heard that Nile Rodgers left it 'as played' out of respect.
A.

[Ogien]

Miles Davis 'Live Around the World'

[Gilby]

Forgot to mention Siouxsie and the Banshees, Nocturne.
(gothy punk teenage years)

[MB1]

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

MB1.
Best Band you've never heard!

[Lylodile]

The Cure - Entreat Plus

[Stu-khag]

spiritualized live at royal albert hall. Absolutely love the dynamics and sounds. Always restores my creative mojo during dark days and the bass playing is solid with some great groove

[MB1]

MB1.
ACR- Live in America.
Roxy Music-Viva!
Stranglers X Cert Live!
S.A.H.B Live!
Thin Lizzy-Live and Dangerous.
Spin Doctors - Homebelly Groove.
Steve Gibbons Band- Caught in the Act!
Be Bop Deluxe - Live in the Air age.
Judie Tzuke- Road Noise.
Pink Floyd- Pulse.
Who -Live at Leeds/ Isle of Wight.

Edited November 8, 2011 by MB1

[Vinny]

Gotta be 'Live Dates' all the way for me.

[Spike Vincent]

[sub]Hawkwind's Space Ritual.Lemmy.Nuff 'said.[/sub]

[DaveFry]

John Martyn's Live At Leeds ( Danny Thompson )
and
Little Feat -Waiting For Columbus

[pnefc42]

[quote name='allihts' timestamp='1320703920' post='1430427']
Queen - Live at Wembley '86
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Sorry have to disagree here, as a massive Queen (& JD in particular) fan I have to say I was so dissapointed with the 'Magic Tour' output ('Live Magic' followed by 'Live At Wembley' some years later) Don't get me wrong the shows were good (I was at both Wembley and what was to be the last ever Queen show at Knebworth) but the recordings are trerrible

If you want to hear Queen live at thier best, then it's 'Live Killers' (78 European Tour) all the way

Cheers
Dave

[ead]

Some of my personal favs (I make no apologies for being a proghead ):

La Gazza Ladra - Marillion
Seconds Out - Genesis
Atlanta - Porcupine Tree
A New Day Yesterday - Joe Bonamassa
and of course Yessongs

[Bilbo]

+1 for Seconds Out but other favourites include

Joni Mitchell - Shadows and Light

Weather Report - 8.30

Cheap Trick - Live at the Boudakan

Sammy Hagar - Loud and Clear (All Night Long in the US)

Blue Oyster Cult - Soem Enchanted Evening

Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East

SF Jazz Collective - Horace Silver Tribute

Antonio Sanchez - Live at the Jazz Standard

I guess the bizarre thing is that 99% of jazz albums are by definition live anyway!

[dmccombe7]

Already mentioned but Genesis Seconds Out and Floyd's Delicate Sound of Thunder are top of my list.
Rush - All the world's a Stage i always liked warts and all.

Dave

[paul_5]

"Evilive" by the Misfits. Appalling quality recording of some almost-falling-apart horror punk performances. The bass tone is superbly dirty and the attitude is incredible.

Jerry Only used to have his bass tuned E,A, E, A just in case he broke one.

[JTUK]

Delicate sounds of thunder for sure.

Paul Simon in Central Park ( Graceland era )

Brian Ferry/Roxy Music Live at Frejus

Deep Purple Made in Japan.

Sheryl Crow @ Daytona

Hon mentions
Bonnie Rait,
Sting
Toto

[wateroftyne]

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1320844948' post='1432150']
Paul Simon in Central Park ( Graceland era )
[/quote]

Good call.. love this tune from that gig:

[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZegjDaDsu9Y"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZegjDaDsu9Y[/url]

[EBS_freak]

[quote name='JTUK' timestamp='1320844948' post='1432150']

Paul Simon in Central Park ( Graceland era )

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Oh yeah!! Nice one.

[Bassnut62]

'Flood' by Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters (line in Japan in 1975).
Holy Freakin A - wot an album of extended funkiness and serious virtuosity, especially from Paul Jackson on bass and Mike Clarke on drums.

[wombatboter]

Wings over America - the triple live album by Paul McCartney and Wings around 76-77...great songs, a superb bass-sound (one of the best live bass-sounds I have ever heard on an album). I wish he had never got rid of that horn section he used back then (keyboard Wix could never replace them with his synths)

Joe Jackson - The BBC sessions (Graham Maby plays even better than on the studio-albums)

Level 42 - Physical Presence

Japan - Oil on Canvas.

James Taylor - Live (Jimmy Johnson flies through this great repertoire)