Review: What's your favorite live album?

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: lesblank
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 12:12 PM

Bud and Travis - Live at the Santa Monica Civic
Bud and Travis - Live at the Cellar Door
The Limelighters
Doc and Merle Watson - On Stage

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: GUEST,Mike in DC
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 12:06 PM

Some very nice suggestions so far, but I'll go with

A Canary's Song - The Smith Sisters with Al Petteway Live at the Birchmere - Why? I don't know. I guess just great songs, singing, guitar, bass and bohdran.

And

Live Wizardry - Silly Wizard - Same reasons as above, except add tunes and replace bohdran with fiddle and box.

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: GUEST,huw
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 11:14 AM

I can only second Sedayne as regards the Man Band who are local heroes in Swansea....and the choice of Pete Bellamy who I saw in Neath of all places in 1976.
Mickey Jones the guitarist and singer with MAN is seriously ill in hospital. Such a talented musician.
Huw

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 07:08 AM

I'm also digging Old Blind Dogs Live and particularly love their version of Tramps and Hawkers, rousing and with great singing and playing.
Also Grateful Dead (hard to pick one but the one unofficially called Skull and Roses with "Bertha" on it is K.A.)
Townes Van Zandt at Gruene Hall.
Pete and Arlo the first live one (because I haven't heard the others).
The Planxty reunion CD which you can purchase with the DVD and ditto the Solas 10 year reunion CD and DVD.

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: GUEST,Wayne
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 06:51 AM

Dan Fogelberg - Greetings from the West
R.E.O. Speedwagon - You Get What You Play For
Crosby & Nash - Another Stony Evening

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 26 Jan 08 - 04:55 AM

First, it's always been a toss up between the live sides of Back into the Future featuring the Jones / Ryan / Williams / Lewis / Youatt lineup and Live at the Padget Rooms, Penarth which features the classic quartet of Jones / Ace/ Williams / Leonard. The former features a near definitive C'mon (with the Gwalia Male Voice Choir) and the latter the absolutely definitive Many are Called But Few Get Up. I think right now I'd for the latter, especially the newly released double disk edition on Esoteric which includes the entire gig, including a rendering of Spunk Rock that even surpasses that on Greasy Truckers. Both of these are by the Manband by the way (otherwise known as Man; big on the posters lads but damn near impossible to Google!).

Second would be Soft Machine Live at the Paradiso, March 1969.

And third Peter Bellamy's Songs and Rummy Conjurin' Tricks.

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: GUEST,DonMeixner
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 09:32 PM

Of all Time?

Traditionally At The Troubadour: Paul McNeil

Don

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: Beer
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 09:25 PM

Bob Dylan: At Budokan

The versatility of how he could rearrange his old hits floored me.
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: Mooh
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 09:12 PM

Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out - The Rolling Stones

Live At Leeds - The Who

BBC Sessions - Led Zeppelin

Delicate Sound Of Thunder - Pink Floyd

The Last Waltz - The Band

...and any number of classical recordings which are essentially live.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: Joe_F
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 08:34 PM

That old one of a Newport Folk Festival, I forget which one, where Eric von Schmidt gets kicked under the table, or something, for starting a dirty stanza to "My Love Come Rolling Down", and the old blind man goes into a trance & plays "Rock of Ages" on the harmonica again & again till they fade him out, and.... That's live as in life!

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: Severn
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 08:26 PM

The first side especially of B.B. King "Live At The Regal" was as good an example of working an audience as there ever was, though the whole thing's good. Set the standard years ago and is still unbeatable.

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: kendall
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 07:05 PM

seagulls & summerpeople folk legacy

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: Mark Ross
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 06:35 PM

LEGENDS OF FOLK w/Utah Phillips. Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Spider John Koerner.

Mark Ross

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: alanabit
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 05:47 PM

I really love "Get Yer Ya Yas Out" by the Rolling Stones. It's faked, of course. There are tracks with three guitar parts on and several songs have harmony vocals, which they never could do live in those days. Yet it has that dark, brooding power of the band at their peak along with the virtuoso guitar playing of Mick Taylor. It was also the last real blues album they ever made.
On the folk side, I loved Paul Downes and Phil Beer. However, although their only live album had several tracks, which were inspired, it lacked the editing, which would have given it some cohesion. I recently heard some early live stuff of Dave Swarbeck and Martin Carthy. It was one of the few times I have ever wished that I had been born five or ten years earlier.

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: harpmolly
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 05:35 PM

I like Dougie's live CD too, though his proclivity for having the audience sing along for eighteen thousand choruses (and then another ten by themselves) is really annoying on a CD, I'll admit. And I adore Dougie, too.

I love listening to Alison Krauss & Union Station Live. Though I must admit to a shameful urge to smack Alison silly and scream, "Can't you hit even ONE wrong note? You're making the rest of us look bad! Arrrgh!" I've never heard anyone pull off such a vocally perfect performance live...it's utterly maddening. ;)

This isn't folky, really, but I also love Moxy Fruvous' "Live Noise". Great geek album, including lots of weird little between-song vignettes that leave all but a true Fruhead scratching one's head and going, "huh?"

M

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: topical tom
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 05:34 PM

P.S.:My favourite cd compilation is "Precious Friend"., with Pete and Arlo.

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: topical tom
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 05:32 PM

I'm with Joe Offer.I have seen Arlo and Pete about conservatively 5 times each and five together.I know of no duo (or individually)that has such a magnetic, magical connection with their audience.Unsurpassed, in my opinion.

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 05:26 PM

Humble Pie, Live At The Fillmore

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 05:21 PM

I've never heard that Geoff Muldaur live album. He certainly does possess one of the great singing voices ever and is terribly underappreciated. I'll try to check it out!

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: oggie
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 05:17 PM

Whisky Priests "Bloody Well Live" Played bloody loud!

Steve

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: GUEST,Rich
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 05:15 PM

Cuddles - not got that one, but I will look it up. Thanks for the tip!

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: Cuddles
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 04:42 PM

I'd agree about Dougie's 'Live From The Ends Of The Earth' Rich, but it has to draw equal with 'As You Were' by Show of Hands, their double CD of live appearances up and down the country.

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 04:36 PM

Dave Van Ronk - And the tin pan bended and the story ended

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: GUEST,Rich
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 04:34 PM

Dougie Maclean - Live From the ends of the Earth (one side is from a concert in Scotland, and one from a concert in Australia - is that allowed?) followed closely by Bob Marley - Live!

By the way, has anybody heard Paul Brady's Liberty Tapes? It's pretty much a live album of his early trad album 'Welcome Here Kind Stranger' but played live with a few additions like Arthur McBride - supposed to be good but I haven't got round to getting it yet.

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: Wesley S
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 04:13 PM

Beautiful Isle of Somewhere by Geoff Muldaur. Just one man , a guitar and a great voice.

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 04:09 PM

Too Late to Stop Now, Van the Man.

Well, one of my faves, first that came to mind...

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 03:44 PM

And Townes Van Zandt's Rear View Mirror.

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: Brian Peters
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 03:43 PM

The Who Live At Leeds

Hawkwind, The Space Ritual

Roy Harris, Live At The Lion

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: PeadarOfPortsmouth
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 03:35 PM

Joe,

I remember watching a Pete & Arlo concert on PBS as a teen. I still have one of the songs from that rattling around in my head. It was a jewish folk song, I think, that went "Zehna, zehna [etc.].../Alna, alna...[etc.]".

Still knw the melody by heart, but don't know the lyrics.

Peter

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 03:33 PM

Thin Lizzy : Live and Dangerous. Well, you asked.

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 03:28 PM

I liked the first three songs on side two of John Martyn's "Live at Leeds" album. The way he connects those songs with his playing is just amazing.

Subject: RE: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 03:28 PM

The three live albums by Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie - but then every live album by Pete Seeger is a favorite of mine. One of my big regrets in life is that I've never seen Pete Seeger perform live. What's most wonderful about him is how he engages an audience and gets them all to sing. When you mix that with Arlo's wacky storytelling, it's downright heavenly. I've seen Arlo live several times, but Pete hasn't been to Sacramento for a concert for a long, long time.

-Joe-

Subject: Review: What's your favorite live album?
From: PeadarOfPortsmouth
Date: 25 Jan 08 - 03:24 PM

Here I am, annoyed at work, dying for the end of the day so I can drive as fast as I can to tonight's session...

I want a diversion.

So my question to all 'catters...what's your favorite live album and why?

While I'm currently playing "Old Blind Dogs - Live" with heavy rotation, I'd have to say my favorite concert album is the Makem & Clancy one. Songs I heard growing up, songs that were new when I first heard it, and everytime I hear it I smile. And say what you will, they new how to work a crowd.

How about you?

Peter