@stuark: Oops, right you are! Live at The Troubadour, the venue in which I myself played my first L.A. gig. I attended a lot of great shows in that room, including those of Lucinda Williams, Iris Dement (heavenly!), and countless others. No Dan Hicks, though.
Best live albums from 1970's college days
Okay..... for you all old farts like me who enjoyed college life in the mid 1970's ..... what are your five favorite multi-LP live album purchases from those good old days ? Mine, in no particular order are : CSNY "Four Way Street," Yes "Yessongs," Grateful Dead "Europe '72," Peter Frampton "Frampton Comes Alive," and the Allman Brothers Band "Live at Filmore East." How about it guys and gals ..... shake up your memories and make a list !
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Quick note on 1970 Can concert at Rockpalast: You can quickly realize that it was the best band ever recorded on this planet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zhdNviS0Vs |
Single discs? Elvin Bishop "Raisin' Hell" Half of Marshall Tucker's double "Where We All Belong" "Viva Terlingua" by Jerry Jeff Walker "First Pull Up, Then Pull Down" by Hot Tuna "Thirty Seconds Over Winterland" by J. Airplane "Live" by Jean Luc Ponty "Robin Trower Live" Mike Bloomfield: "Live at Fillmore West" also parts of N. Gavenite's "My Labors" ... ...and no-one mentioned "Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper" or "The Gregg Allman Tour"-- both doubles! |
In no particular order... G. Dead: "Skull and Roses" G. Dead: "Europe 72" The live sides of the Allman's "Eat A Peach" Derek and the Dominos: "In Concert" Santana: "Lotus" Brian Auger: "Live Oblivion Volumes I, II" Joni Mitchell: "Miles of Aisles" Laura Nyro: "Seasons of Lights" (originally not a double but later released with enough extra tracks to have been a double). |
I grew up on soul and funk, and Earth Wind and Fire's 1975 iconic live album was a staple. It was, and is, terrific. A lesser known group, though, and album that I remain very fond of is the 1973 War Live, recorded over four nights at Chicago's High Chaparral club. Slipping' Into Darkness, The Cisco Kid, All Day Music... Howard Scott/guitar, Harold Brown/drums, BB Dickerson/bass, Charles Miller/reeds, Lonnie Jordan/Hammond organ, Lee Oskar/harmonica, etc. Outstanding, classic funk. |
Are you ready to rock? This is the best live album of the 70’s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Enchanted_Evening_(Blue_%C3%96yster_Cult_album) Enjoy! |
The OP specified "multi-LP" live albums, yet most suggested here are single-LP albums. 1975's Frampton Comes Alive made multi-LP live albums more commonplace, very few previously having been recorded and released. Of those that were, my faves are The Band: Rock Of Ages, Dylan/The Band: Before The Flood, and Derek & The Dominos: In Concert. By the way, Rock Of Ages is an abbreviated release of the recordings The Band made at The Academy Of Music on December 30th and 31st of 1971.. An expanded release containing both complete shows was years later made available as a 4-CD/1-DVD boxset entitled Live At The Academy Of Music 1971. I had seen and heard The Band the previous year at The Berkeley Community Theater, a night of music unlike any other in my life. |
A few I didn't see listed yet: -Zappa / Bongo Fury (Advance Romance and Muffin Man are musically brilliant brain eaters that never fail to amuse) -Kraan / Live 74' (Criminally under appreciated jazzrock, really catchy riffs, and on this album Kraan were head and shoulders above most jam bands that came along later) -Miles Davis / Agharta (Pretty much redefined what a live album could sound like, lots of clear, unhurried heavy twin guitar work w/ sharp crunchy organ accents. Much of the record sounds pretty relaxed, but its as electric and psychedelic as just about anything that came out in the 60's. -Roxy Music / Viva (Manzanera, Wetton and Jobson really play great on this one. The studio versions of the songs may be real classics, but can seem a little stiff and safe when compared to these... In Every Dream Home A Heartache provides a good example. -Gentle Giant / Playing The Foole (Maybe not the best fidelity in the world, but this band was tight, extremely imaginative and had chops to burn... again the live versions seem to breathe more than the studio releases. -Rory Gallagher / Irish Tour 74' (Great blues expander and guitar wizard at his peak). |
I pulled out the copy of Delany & Bonnie and friends with Eric Clapton which I bought new, when it was released. At the time, i wasn't into it, b/c it veered country, and away from the Cream/Blind Faith thing that I was into from Mr. Clapton. Now, with age, and an appreciation of the whole Layla thing (plus look at the band on this record), it deserves listening. |