Whats your Favorite Live CD

[jamie2112]

Wondering what your favorite live cd's are? Sonic wise....

[Tomorrow]

Wondering what your favorite live cd's are? Sonic wise....

You are of course going to get replies that speak to the responders' favorite bands. But for my money, the best produced and engineering-wise cleanest live album I've ever heard is Bring It Back Alive by the Outlaws. Check out the teaser clips (except the introduction)...http://www.amazon.com/Bring-Back-Alive-Outlaws/dp/B000002VCE This has outstanding guitar interplay done by Fender Guitar Living Legend (no longer living, sadly) Hughie Thomasson and Billy Jones (also deceased).

Rock on! \m/ :)

What is/are yours?

[jamie2112]

I think James Taylor-Live is an amazing live recording there are a bunch that I really like including: Steely Dan live in America, Neville Bros- Live on planet earth,and any of the hundreds of live 311 soundboards that I recorded to name some.....

[j_garcia]

Patricia Barber's Companion SACD
Dave Brubeck's Concord on a Midsummer Night SACD

[chas_w]

I think James Taylor-Live is an amazing live recording.....

Is that the 2-cd version with 30 tracks?

[Exit]

My favorite live CDs are Crosby, Still, Nash and Young 4-way - Street and Emerson Lake and Palmer - Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends. The recording with the most distortion in it that I have heard is Uriah Heep Live - it makes you cringe the whole way through.

[jostenmeat]

Wondering what your favorite live cd's are? Sonic wise....

Interestingly, in classical music, some live recordings are not done in front of an audience/concert. Off top of my head.

in front of audience, I think of
Shostakovich 5th, Bernstein/NY in Tokyo I think*
Stavinsky stuff, M.T. Thomas/SF in SF.
something I lost a long time ago, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #3 Horowitz/Ormandy/Philly, but they actually edited.., my guess is that the virtuoustic cadenzas were part of that... but who knows!

not in front of audience
Bunch of Beethoven sym's Gardiner/O.R.R.
Brahms' 4th, Bernstein/Berlin

I think all above are excellent sonic wise, mebbe the Brahms not up to par. Maybe I should delete that.

Jazz is real tough to find excellent sonic-wise, live, at least for me.
Only one with good SQ I can think of is Stephane Grappelli's 85th bday concert at Carnegie Hall.

cheers. :)

[Geno]

Neil Young: Live at Massey Hall:cool:

[Joe Schmoe]

Supertramp-Paris.

[zumbo]

Led Zeppelin-How the West Was Won
http://www.forzashop.sk/ganet/forza/music/shop.nsf/B2451C79E9A3E76AC1256D2700479EAE/AbstImgA/0.84

Alice In Chains Unplugged
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a227/dmilesfan13/alice_in_chains_unplugged.jpg

[EJ1]

Call me new-fashioned but my favorite right now is Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds: Live At Radio City.

[adk highlander]

Call me new-fashioned but my favorite right now is Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds: Live At Radio City.

I have to agree with you here. I have yet to not pick chins off the floor after playing a few tracks from this. I have a few other bootlegs that have a more personal historical meaning but none sound like that BluRay.:D

[jamie2112]

Call me new-fashioned but my favorite right now is Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds: Live At Radio City.

OK new fashioned.....:D

[jliedeka]

Not counting classical, I'd have to go with the Scorpions' World Wide Live. It was my also my favorite on vinyl except for maybe Blue Oyster Cult's Extraterrestrial Live.

Jim

[wave rider]

For sonic bliss, try Pat Metheny: Speaking of Now: Live

[The Dali]

A great DVD package is Rush in Rio. Not only do you get a full lineup of their best tunes, you get a great behind the scenes documentary. Plus, there are two Easter Eggs - one which unlocks a COOL early 70's music video that I'd never seen before.

Sonically it sounds great. It scares my kids every time I put it on and the dragon flies down in the intro...

[caupina]

For sonic bliss, try Pat Metheny: Speaking of Now: Live

That's a DVD, not a CD:confused:. I haven't seen a CD of this concert live, instead you can find "Travels" and "More Travels". It is a shame though that they didn't include "Are you going with me?" on More Travels CD, whereas it appears on the VHS edition.

[vizionut]

I just found a pretty cool live set from a band called rose hill drive on archive.net. They do zeppelin's dazed and confused which sounded very cool. The set called the "silo" set because there was a echo in the building. Sounds good anyway.

[gixxerific]

Alice In Chains Unplugged
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a227/dmilesfan13/alice_in_chains_unplugged.jpg

I totatly second that one

Dono

[walter duque]

Roger Waters "Berlin 1990". Because I was at that concert. Still have the facemask they gave out.

[Sounds Good]

i caught a dave matthews concert on HDnet one night... i thought it sounded great...

i cant wait to get the oppo BD player and explore the world of SACD... the only thing ive heard to this point is DVD-A... and it is equally amazing... imo

[hwkn]

My favorite live cd at this time is the 11/11/73 set from the Grateful Dead's Winterland 73 box set.

[jamie2112]

My favorite live cd at this time is the 11/11/73 set from the Grateful Dead's Winterland 73 box set.

Check out closing of Winterland NYE 78.....3 disc set smokin...

[hwkn]

I had that cd set but I sold it when the dvd came out.

[ksjennai]

Camel- A Live Record. Almost all the album you don't know its live until the song is over and the applause rings in (it is a shame that they lost alot of the original tapes to the original concert)

Tomita "Live at Linz". Even though it Electronica, and considering it was Played and recorded on both sides and in the middle of a river(with Helicopters too!), it nearly comes out Like 5.1 Dolby(in a time that it wasnt around!)

[tattoo_Dan]

Wondering what your favorite live cd's are? Sonic wise....

there are a very many,but the first that comes to mind that is on my short list,and for sure not "sonic wise",
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and http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ZY9JHK2BL._SS500_.jpg

[stato]

The 2 cd set was standard fare but the song Once upon a Time in the West on the double live album Alchemy - Dire Straits always gets turned up loud at home.

[dlr]

3rd on the AIC - Unplugged

[3db]

Mine would have to be Cream "Live at Royal Albert Hall" . I've never heard such a good live recording before.

[nibhaz]

Dave Brubeck's Concord on a Midsummer Night SACD

+1 for this alblum

Other favorites:

Moe.: Warts and All Vol. 1
Dave Matthews: Live at Red Rocks 8.15.98
Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall
Pink Floyd: Pulse

[PeterWhite]

Roxy & Elsewhere, Frank Zappa

[Masher]

http://www.neptunepinkfloyd.co.uk/images/news/2008/20080504_david-gilmour-live_in_gdansk-dvd-small.jpg

This is better sounding than Pulse, if that is possible.

[robmlisanti]

http://assets.fishpond.co.nz/696998618220.jpg

That one

[griffinconst]

Check out Pat Travers - Go for What You Know. Hard rock with a few jazz chords and top notch musicians!

[cwall99]

I have a few:

The re-released Waiting for Columbus disk by Little Feat. This is the one with two disks, not one, and it includes all the tracks from the original LPs (an earlier version of WFC did not include "Don't Bogart that Joint"). This release is split onto two CDs and features a lot less compression, plus a mess of bonus tracks featuring the Tower of Power Horn section.

The re-released Live at Leeds disk by the Who. Features the full concert on one disk (not just the 6 tracks on the original live LP) plus, on a second CD, a complete performance of Tommy at that same concert.

Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense - though, really, I'm talking about the concert DVD. Best concert on video EVER.

[griffinconst]

+1 for Talking Heads' Stop making sense. Good call cwall.

[walter duque]

+1 for Talking Heads' Stop making sense. Good call cwall.

Great album.

[Christopher__BA]

Absolutely love ET Live by BOC...one of my favs. I must say, I haven't found too many people who like that one besides myself (even BOC fans - they tend to like On Your Feet Or On Your Knees or One Enchanted Evening). Good to see I'm not alone.

I also thought World Wide Live by the Scorps was a nice recording. I think it was an all digital recording which sounded great for the mid-80s.

Other favorites are.....
1. Elvis - Alternate Aloha
2. Pink Floyd - Live @ Pompei (DVD)
3. Iron Maiden - Flight 666 (DVD)
4. Pink Floyd - Pulse
5. David Gilmour - Live in Gdansk
6. Slayer - Live Decade of Aggression
7. Neil Young - Unplugged
8. Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsies
9. Queen - Live Killers
10. Ozzy Osbourne - Speak of the Devil (not the best recording)

[Guitar_Frost]

Bela Fleck - Live Art
Peter Gabriel - DVD - Growing Up Live
Todd Rundgren - Live In Japan
Rundgren - Nearly Human (Recorded Live, but not in front of an audience)
Rundgren - Second Wind (SERIOUSLY, check this live in front of an audience... though you only hear them once.)
Bowie - DVD - A Reality Tour
Allison Krauss and Union Station Live

Frampton Comes Alive... Oh wait, that's not really a live recording at all, is it? :-)

And I second (third?) Stop Making Sense.

[Guitar_Frost]

Check out Pat Travers - Go for What You Know. Hard rock with a few jazz chords and top notch musicians!

Hey, I actually got to share the stage with Mr. Travers a couple of years ago. This guy was a real guitar hero for me.

[mnnc]

Sonics...

Pat Metheny-Way Up Live DVD
Jean-Luc Ponty- Semper Opera Live CD
Seal-Live in Paris CD or DVD
Porcupine Tree-Arriving Somewhere DVD
Dianna Krall- Live in Paris CD or DVD
Steely Dan- Two Against Nature DVD
Alejandro Sanz- Mtv Unplugged CD or DVD

Any of these off the top of my head will kick arse sound wise whether you like the genre or not. I listen to blk metal to big band and these are some darn good sounding recordings.

[mnnc]

Mine would have to be Cream "Live at Royal Albert Hall" . I've never heard such a good live recording before.
That does sound good...the reunion...? was better or is that the one you are referring to?

[lsiberian]

Throwing Copper!!

I Alone, Pillar of Davidson, Lightening Crashes. ****town

:D

[Willard]

This is my first post, so I thought that this would be a good place to jump in. My favorite live music would have to be:
1. Allman Brothers - @ The Fillmore East
2. Little Feat - Waiting For Columbus
3. Grateful Dead - Skull and Roses
4. Lots of great Live Jazz.....too many to list

[STRONGBADF1]

Throwing Copper!!

I Alone, Pillar of Davidson, Lightening Crashes. ****town

:D


I get it...:)

[BWG707]

Just a couple off the top of my head, Ten Years After: "Recorded Live", Deep Purple: "Made In Japan", Jeff Beck: "Live at Ronnie Scotts".

[jinjuku]

Rush: Exit Stage Left, Eric Johnson: Alien Love Child, Eric Johnson: Austin City Limits, B.B. Live at the Apollo.

[GO-NAD!]

Cheap Trick at Budokan - may not be the best recorded live disc, but I LOVE it just the same.

Rush - Snakes & Arrows Live.

I second Neil Young at Massey Hall - beautiful.

[BWG707]

Little Feat "Waiting for Columbus"
Deep Purple "Made in Japan"
Cream "Live"

[Geno]

My update: The BR of Jeff Beck@Ronnie Scotts. This guy is in a class of his own, and this show is stunning.:cool:

[cwall99]

Oops... I already responded to this one. My bad. At least I was consistent.

Two fave live CDs:

Little Feat's Waiting for Columbus (not the original release that crammed almost all the music from the original double-live album onto one CD - that one sucks; the one I'm talking about is the double-live CD enhanced version that includes a bunch of tracks featuring more the the Turbo Tower of Power horn section and includes "Don't Bogart That Joint"

The other one is the re-release of The Who's Live at Leeds and includes all of the original album plus a number of other tracks on one CD and all of Tommy, live, recorded at the same concert. The sound is raw, but it's all about the immediacy of the performance.

[cwall99]

Roxy & Elsewhere, Frank Zappa

I have this on vinyl, and it's an amazing recording.