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

 

[Joe Schmoe]

Supertramp-Paris.

 

[zumbo]

Led Zeppelin-How the West Was Won

Alice In Chains Unplugged

 

[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.

 

[jamie2112]

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

OK new fashioned.....

 

[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. 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

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.