Best LIVE album recorded albums you've heard.
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Alvin Lee, "Live in Vienna". He's older, and it's post-TYA, but ...... niiiiiiice.Sal Palooza
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Probably my favorite live album...
Fleetwood Mac - The Dance
The bongos in the background on "My Little Demon" makes for a good reference instrument when I made changes to my setup. But yet my other half can't hear them... -
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^^^ Oh, HELL yes! ^^^
My favorite album of all time. An endless classic and one great performance. What a concert!!!
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This is a great, intimate, live-in-studio recording. It's not an amazing recording, but I'll include it here anyway--it's definitely worth a listen.
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Cowboy Junkies Trinity Sessions.
Recorded in the Trinity Church in NYC in 1987 with a single mike over a long night. You want ambience, here it is.
The "return to Trinity' was 20 recorded years later, and is worth a listen. It has a DVD-A version in the disc set.
The "return' with 5.1 mastered DVD can be bought on Amazon for less than $15. Here:http://www.amazon.com/Trinity-Revisited-DVD-Cowboy-Junkies/dp/B0011XFOGU/ref=ntt_mus_ep_dpi_8My 7.4.4 DIY 4k Home Theater:
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Waiting for Columbus is maybe my second favorite, but a very close second. My favorite is:
The Allman Brothers Band - Live at The Fillmore East.[/ATTACH]"Science is suppose to explain observations not dismiss them as impossible" - Norm on AA; 2.3TL's w/sonicaps/mills/jantzen inductors, Gimpod's boards, Lg Solen SDA inductors, RD-0198's, MW's dynamatted, Armaflex speaker gaskets, H-nuts, brass spikes, Cardas CCGR BP's, upgraded IC Cable, Black Hole Damping Sheet strips, interior of cabinets sealed with Loctite Power Grab, AI-1 interface with 1000VA A-L transformer -
A great live album. "The Bad Boys from Bethesda" at their peak
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Oh man, there are so many great ones. Most have already been mentioned but some of the ones I enjoy:
AD, JM, PD, Friday Night in San Francisco
Allman Brothers, Live at the Fillmore East
Little Feat, Waiting for Columbus
Allison Crause and Union Station, Live
Rush, all of thier live stuff but especially Exit Stage Left,R30, and Snakes and Arrows Live at Cleveland
Dave Brubeck Quartet, Live at the Oberlin
Widespread Panic, Live from Athens, Light Fuse Get Away
Moe, Dr. Stans Prescriptions 1&2, Live from the Tabernacle
Government Mule, The Deep End 1&2, Millenium
Stevie Ray Vaughn and Albert King, Blues at Sunrise
Rimsky-Korsakov's Sherezade, conducted by Fritz Reiner with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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john mayall "the turning point" recorded live at the fillmore east in july of '69. the crowd was laid back, almost club like. johnny almond's saxophone solo's are absolutely awesome
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I've probably commented earlier with a different album but The Cult/Pure Cult Live is from the Gods!Too much **** to list....
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I've probably commented earlier with a different album but The Cult/Pure Cult Live is from the Gods!
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I like Jethro Tull's "Bursting Out". Vinyl 2 LP.
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Scorpions-Tokyo Tapes
UFO-Strangers In The Night
Pat Travers-Go For What You Know
Rush-All The Worlds A Stage
Led Zeppelin-How The West Was Won
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Probably already mentioned, but the SACD Jazz at the Pawnshop is superb, especially, for me, disk 2. I am not much of a jazz fan, but this disc is great. The subtle sweep of a brush against a symbol is etched in the air. There is even a xylophone, and it is so clear and defined in time and space it amazes me. And normally, I can't stand that type of instrument. Of course, guitars and trumpets are also perfect. This thread made me start listening to it again.Lumin X1 file player, Westminster Labs interconnect cable
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Probably already mentioned, but the SACD Jazz at the Pawnshop is superb, especially, for me, disk 2. I am not much of a jazz fan, but this disc is great. The subtle sweep of a brush against a symbol is etched in the air. There is even a xylophone, and it is so clear and defined in time and space it amazes me. And normally, I can't stand that type of instrument. Of course, guitars and trumpets are also perfect. This thread made me start listening to it again.
Heard this one on vinyl back in the day. The low level detail was such that you could hear ice clanging in glasses, glasses getting set on tables, no mistaking the [acoustics of] small club ambiance.
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UFO for sure!
I thought Styx did some pretty decent ones also.
"Return to Paradise" sounds pretty good on my system.Testing
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Some more entries
Sergio mendes in person at el matador. I have it on vinyl and you feel you are there with them very intimate ambiance.
John mayer where the light is
Dave mathews and tim reynolds at radio city music hall
Eric clapton unpluggedHT:
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Mumford and Sons Live from Shepards Bush Empire,LondonOh, Listen here mister. We got no way of understandin' this world. But we got as much sense of this bird flyin in the sky. Now there is a lot that bird don't know, but it don't change the fact that the world is happening to him all the same. What I am tryin to say is, is that the course of your life, well its changing, and you don't even see it- Forest Bondurant
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"Babylon by Bus" Bob Marley and the Wailers
"After Midnight" Jerry Garcia
Two of my favorites.Wristwatch--->Crisco -
"Babylon by Bus" Bob Marley and the Wailers
Thanks for mentioning this one! I just got a copy two days ago and it's already my favorite Marley in my collection.
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Mike's post above reminded me of an awesome one I had forgotten about..
Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin, Paco De Lucia Friday Night in San Francisco
Mind blowing great guitar played live
My GF actually just gave me this as a gift last night. The recording is outstanding especially for 1980. The music is outstanding. Its like rodrigo y gabriela before they were born LOLKlipsch The Nines, Audioquest Thunderbird Interconnect, Innuos Zen MK3 W4S recovery, Revolution Audio Labs USB & Ethernet, Border Patrol SE-I, Audioquest Niagara 5000 & Thunder, Cullen Crossover II PC's.