Top 10 Live Albums

Great stuff here for sure. I would like to add:

Loggins and Messina - On Stage

Niks Lofgren - Acoustic Live

Neville Brothers - Live On Planet Earth

Tower of Power - Soul Vaccination

Stevie Ray Vaughn - Live Alive

Al DiMeola, John McLaughlin, Paco DeLucia - Friday and Saturday Night in San Francisco (2 albums)

More great albums.

I will add one I just started listening to.

Pete Townshend - Live in Concert 1985-2001.  14 CD set streaming online. 

Ramones - It’s Alive 

Johnny Winter - Captured Live

Black Flag - Who’s got the 10 1/2

AC/DC - If you want blood..

New York Stories (Blue Note), exhibiting Danny Gatton’s ability to play, well, anything. Beautiful jazz guitar, nicely recorded. Bobby Watson and Roy Hargrove, amongst others too.

Yes- Yessongs. Amazing performances that showed that they could rock hard on their complex studio arrangements.

Deep Purple - Live at the Olympia '96. 2Cd set from 1996 with Gillan, Glover, Lord, Paice, and new guitarist Steve Morse playing the hell out of the expected (Highway Star, Smoke on the water), the less expected (opener Fireball, Pictures of Home, Dark Night, When a Blind Man Cries) and material from the then recently released Purpendicular album. Sound is fat and you-are-there quality via headphones. Playing is stellar, with much of the vaunted interplay between Jon Lord's keyboards and Morse's guitar, while Ian Gillan (who sang the role of Christ on the original Jesus Christ Superstar back in the day) is in excellent voice, though he hasn't sung 'Child in Time' for quite a while. I think DP are underrated overall, and like the Allman Brothers, they go up several notches in a live setting. There is a company that has tracked down soundboard recordings of many choice shows from the early 70's and issued well-mixed and mastered CD versions of what were so-so sounding bootlegs. I have 3 incoming ordered from Amazon.