I’ll second @xcool with “Live Rust” - Neil & Crazy Horse These may require 2 purchases to combine vol. 1 & 2 with some releases, but they are essentially live-double albums: “In Person Friday and Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk” - Miles Davis Quintet “Live at the Golden Circle Vol. 1 & 2” - Ornette Coleman Trio A “Historic Concerts” release double-live LP featuring Max Roach and Cecil Taylor @ McMillin Theater, Columbia University 1979 is a stunning (if not particularly conventional) listen |
@boxcarman "If Little feat IS touring, it could never be the same without George, Barrere and Hayward." The Allman Brothers certainly weren't the same without Duane, Berry, and Dickie, but one could argue that the lineup with Warren, Oteil and Derek was just as strong. And a better band than LIttle Feat ever was. :-) |
boxcarman, I wasn't trying to pick a fight, just saying a band with new members may be just as good as the original, and shouldn't be written off just based on the change in members. I love Journey's first album, but Journey evolved into a very different band - not worse, just different. Other bands keep the same sound with different personnel; I expect the Stones won't sound too much different with the loss of Charlie Watts. |
... Little Feat currently touring: https://www.littlefeat.net/tour ... also from their website: The members of Little Feat 2021 are: Bill Payne, Keyboards and Vocals; Sam Clayton, Percussion and Vocals; Fred Tackett, Guitars and Vocals, Kenny Gradney, Bass; Scott Sharrard, Guitars and Vocals; and Tony Leone, drums. (unfortunately, they're becoming more like George Washington's hatchet...) |
@officerat - I live in San Francisco and was able to see the original Journey with Greg Rollie on vocals several times. I went off 'em after Steve Perry joined; his voice is real fingernails-down-the-blackboard stuff for me. @kb673 - I figured Little Feat were still touring, and I know they've been doing annual gigs in Jamaica for at least 10 years; I was at the first one of those. But I saw them several times with Lowell also... |
Another vote for Joe Cocker’s "Mad Dogs and Englishmen", same as for Miles Davis’ " Live at the Blackhawks" sets. The first "Live Dead" double album with ’Turn on Your Love Light’ and ’Dark Star’, The Who’s "Tommy", Stevie Wonder’s "Songs in the Key of Life", "The Name of This Band Is the Talking Heads", The Clashes’ "London Calling" Derek and the Dominos "Layla and other Assorted Love Songs", Muddy Waters’ "Fathers and Sons" with Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, Donald "Duck" Dunn, and others, Fleetwood Mac in Chicago (with Peter Green at his best, an outstanding blues double album), Aretha did a nice gospel double album at her Dad’s church if I remember correctly too, to name a few. Almost forgot Cream’s "Wheels of Fire", first album I ever purchased with my own money. Miles Davis "Bitches Brew" and the Beatles double "White " albums get honorable mentions, although not my favorite albums by either of these artists.. |
Having made the tragic mistake of selling my vinyl in ‘84, i began collecting again about two years ago. I made an effort to find three double live albums which had been in my collection and they didn’t disappoint. The Allman Brothers band “Eat a Peach,” Little Feat “Waiting for Columbus” and, The Tubes, “What Do You Want from Live.” my tastes changed over the decades. More recent doubles include Explosions in the Sky, Eno, Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson.
My personal FAVORITE ? Little Feat.
time does “love a hero.” |
A lot of people are mentioning Little Feat’s ‘Waiting For Columbus’. I will agree that the recording is pretty good for when it was recorded but I saw Jean Luc Ponty at the Lisner Auditorium and that hall has the worse acoustics of any hall I’ve been in. It’s an engineering marvel that anything could be recorded at Lisner Auditorium given how the sound bounces around like it’s in a pin ball machine. |
@deadtrader thanks for your HARD work and keeping this to double live albums only For me - first it was Frampton Comes alive and CSNY 4- way street . it was 15 to 20 years later when I realized how poor a recording of 4-way street was. Then it was one side of AB Live at Fillmore I was stuck on .... But the clincher was: Little Feat “Waiting for Columbus” which has always held its own and until this day - as my fav. double live. at one point my college roommate played it so often that we had to buy another copy.... Somehow I ended up with a CD in my collection titled Fox Theater, Atlanta GA , 11-23-1988 Source: master 1/4" reel SBD recording from LF archives transferred to DAT sounds pretty darn good - but prefer my vinyl
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@yyman23 +1 It's a shame Queen "Live Killers" is poorly recorded. |
@dayglowTrue, but the performances are great. Time for a remaster maybe? |
There were definitely many great ones in the 70’s. I have to throw down four favorites that I wore out more then one copy of each of album. And yes there probably was some leafy stuff in the folds.
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Can’t believe nobody has mentioned George Benson’s Weekend in LA. True 1-4, 2-3 records and well recorded. Yessongs was a triple so cant be 1-4/2-3 obviously. Frampton is fantastic-saw him live a couple years ago in the first row center and got the album cover signed now hanging framed in my office.
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