Top 10 Live Albums

Eric Clapton "Live in San Diego"

feat. JJ Cale n' Derick Trucks 

I listened to Lotus on Qobuz but don’t think it’s that version.  3 CDs.  Sounds excellent as always with Santana.  

I have the original pressing of Lotus pressed by MFSL from a few years ago. Need to pull it out again.

I listened to the newly released MoFi Santana Lotus album tonight. It's a winner, with superb SQ and a very nice rendering of the 'live' space. As usual, the percussion section is mind blowing! That and the keyboards are the main stay of the band, with Carlos doing his thing...but the percussion section really does carry the band, IMO. 

"How The West Was Won" Led Zeppelin 

Has this been listed yet?

Dixie Dregs - "Bring 'Em Back Alive."

John Mayer "Try"

Bad Influence feat. Whop Frazier & Junior Tash

"Live @The Bad Habits Cafe"

Mapleshade/Wildchild

Drink Small "Electric Blues Doctor Live!"

Mapleshade

I will keep my list exclusive with Pop/Rock bands that released "Live" albums in the 1970's.

1.Deep Purple-Made In Japan

2.Yes-Yessongs

3.The Who-Live At Leeds

4.Led Zeppelin-The Song Remains The Same

5.Santana-Lotus

6.Bob Seger & The Siver Bullet Band-Live Bullet

7.Rory Gallagher-Irish Tour '74

8.Renaissance-Live At Carnegie Hall

9.Queen-Live Killers

10.Rush-All The World's A Stage

Wow, I think I’m a late comer to this thread.

I’m not sure I have 10 favorites off the top of my head, but I’ll think of them as I list some...

Sarah Vaughn Live at Mr Kelly’s

Kurt Elling Live in Chicago

Elvis On Stage 1970

Van Morrison It’s Too Late to Stop Now

Sinatra At The Sands

Sinatra In Paris

Eric Clapton Unplugged

Eric Clapton Slowhand 35th Anniversary Hammersmith Odeon 1974

10,000 Maniacs Unplugged

Bill Evans Live at The Village Vanguard

Everybody Digs Bill Evans

John Coltrane Live At The Village Vanguard

Peggy Lee At Basin St East

Well I got to 10 pretty quickly and then some and I still have more..

referring to point 4 of the original post, Pictures at an exhibition of Emerson Lake and Palmer is an exceptional live album.

Sinatra live at the Sands

@mashif , +1 for EmmyLou at The Ryman.  I bought it for her cover of Guitar Town, but I love the cover she did of Lodi as well.  The entire CD is pretty good--great sound and good songs.  

Lots of incredible music noted here.  It's nice to know that there's lots of people paying attention to this stuff!!!!

A new one in my list:

Emmylou Harris at The Ryman. 

Great performance, great set list, and it sounds like The Ryman. You can really hear the room. 

I believe I must of, I said I believe I must of, I must of got lost….cue J Geils guitar. 

So it's 3am and I'm compiling this list for you.  Using Amazon Music I have this playlist called "Bad Ass Rock n Roll"  Listening to some of my favorite Live tracks on my Sony MDR-1000X wireless headphones so as to not wake-up you-know-who....

UFO - Strangers in the Night (2008 Remaster)= If you just want to p-off the neighbors and/or blow-up your speakers.  Purest form of freakin' loud hard rock concert.  This is the definition of Head Banging music.  Take a couple bong hits and crank up those Klipsh Heritage speakers.  I can't begin to tell you how many times I've air-guitar'd to this album...

"they're changin' the mic, can I fill-in..."  Turn UP the volume and then skip to "this is something called 'Let it Roll"...then "Too Hot to Handle followed by "Shoot Shoot"

Check this album out on Wiki....Michael Shenker, opening for Kiss, pretty interesting history to this album.

Led Zeppelin (duh, see the shirt) The Song Remains the Same -  (this movie is why I bought a Sony A9G) some of the coolest behind the scenes clips ever!  I love that dude running from security and the 2 guys who snuck in the loading dock.  But my personal fave is "Since I've Been Loving You"

Tom Petty Pack Up the Plantation  - "Breakdown" - "your gonna put me out of a job!" This song always gives me goosebumps.  I think about what it must be, as a musician/songwriter, to play a concert and have the crowd sing your song back to you. 

Kiss Alive - "I Wanna Rock n Roll all Night and Party Every Day" it's the kegger party anthem!

Bob Seger Live Bullet If you don't know the the words to "Turn the Page" there's something wrong with you.  "with the echo from the amplifiers ringing in your head"

Lynyrd Skynyrd Pronounced 'Leh-'Nerd 'Skin-'Nerd has some good live tracks like 19 minute "Free Bird".  I'm partial to "Simple Man".

AC/DC Live at River Plate test your subs with "Thunderstruck".

Queen On Fire: Live at the Bowl - personally I prefer "Fat Bottom Girls" 

just sayin...

and lastly because it's now 4:41am and I'm going back to bed...

The J. Geils Band Live: Blow Your Face Out "Love comes once and you better grab it fast because some times the love you grab ain't gonna last"

Lots of great albums! The sicko in me wants to add Mothers of Invention Fillmore East - June 1971. 

Derek and the Dominoes Live. Amazing musicianship from all but Clapton really shines.

A few more....

ROME: THE NATIONAL LIVE IN ROME

LUCINDA WILLIAMS LIVE AT THE FILLMORE

DIANE KRALL LIVE IN PARIS

MARIANNE FAITHFULL: BLAZING AWAY

RAMSEY LEWIS TRIO LIVE AT THE BOHEMIAN CAVERNS

and yes...

the usual suspects: THE ALLMAN BROS. LIVE AT THE FILLMORE EAST;

THE TALKING HEADS: STOP MAKING SENSE;

THE ROLLING STONES: GET YER YA-YAS OUT!

Is that ten? Oh well...

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band Live: 1975-1985. Awesome on vinyl.

@slaw: My copy of Townes' live album is also the VMP version. By the way, VMP eliminating their Country "track" earlier this year was for me sad news.

Correction for my first post in this thread: It's role model not roll model. I'm surprised no one called me on it already. 

„Hans Zimmer live in Prague „

one of best performances I’ve seen.

wonderful movie compositions performed by huge orchestra.

with huge, powerful sound.
We saw this concert in Wells Fargo arena in Philadelphia 

@bassbuyer 

Wow that’s quite a list we’ve got going.

Yes -- thanks to you for starting the thread! 

Just a "shout out" to jillan for mentioning Danny Gatton. I'll use any opportunity to call attention. Heard a great story about some guy hoping to find fortune in Nashville. Walks into hotel lobby, sees this guy sitting on the floor playing and almost left town right then and there.

@stuartk , send me a message you would like high quality boots of those two shake concerts.  The Berkeley Performance Center one is a soundboard, I believe!

Scrounged through my digital collection of live shows and came up with these additions to the list:

John Hiatt - Live from Austin TX

Bill Monroe - Live from the Opry

John McLaughlin & Carlos Santana - Love, Devotion, Surrender

Johnny Cash- Live at San Quentin 

Marc Ribot - Live at the Village Vanguard

MOZAIK - Live from the Powerhouse

Sonny Terry & Browinie McGhee - Live at Sugar Hill SF

Television - The Blow Up

Van Morrison - Too Late to Stop Now (Up there with ABB Fillmore, Live Dead, and a couple of others as the greatest live rock album imo)

Simon & Garfunkel "Central Park"

@bdp24 

+1 Townes Van Zandt "Live @ the Old Quarter" is amazing. Got the VMP AAA lp.

@slaw 

Mike Cooley, Patterson Hood & Jason Isbell 

"Live at the Shoals Theatre" - Just listened to this last night...

JJ Grey & Mofro "Brighter Days"

Oasis "Familiar To Millions"

Anderson East "Live In Tennessee"

Big Star "Live At Lafayette's Music Room"

David Bowie "Live in Santa Monica"

Couple of real good ones here...

Bill Evans - “Some Other Time: the Lost Session from the Black Forest”

John Coltrane - “Live in Japan”

Grateful Dead - “Live Dead”

Velvet Underground - “The Matrix Tapes”

Neil Young - “Live at the Cellar Door”

The Ramones - “It’s Alive”

Talking Heads - “Stop Making Sense”

Nirvana - “Live at Paramount”

The Cure - “Paris”

Sonic Youth - “Brooklyn, NY 8/12/11”

Ian Hunter "Welcome to the Club"

In no particular order:

1 - Paul Robeson at Carnegie Hall

2 - Harry Belafonte at Carnegie Hall

3 - Jefferson Airplane - Bless Its Pointed Little Head - Live at the Filmore East/West

4 - Quicksilver Messenger Service - Happy Trails - Live at the Filmore East/West

5 - Eva Cassidy - Nightbird - at Blues Alley

6 - Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers live - at the Fonda Theatre

7 - Velvet Underground - Live at Max’s Kansas City

8 - Bruce Springsteen - Live at Max’s Kansas City, 1974 (I was there, sitting in the front row)

9 - Pink Floyd - Ummagumma, the 2nd disc

10 - The Doors - Live at the Hollywood Bowl

11 - because why not?: Hot Tuna - Live at the New Orleans House, Berkeley

Colin Meloy "Sings Live"

Mike Cooley, Patterson Hood & Jason Isbell 

"Live at the Shoals Theatre"

My favorites are on vinyl or CD as well as source from DVD/Blu-ray

1. Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus

2. The Band - Rock of Ages

3. Boz Scaggs - Greatest Hits Live

4. CSNY - 4 Way Street

5. Phil Collins - Serious Hits Live (full concert on DVD)

6. George Strait - The Cowboy Rides Away (Blu-Ray)

7. Dire Straits - Alchemy

8. Renaissance - Live at Carnegie Hall

9. Pink Floyd - Pulse

10. Van Morrison - A Night in San Francisco

Chris

Linda Ronstadt- Live In Hollywood.

ozzy

REO "You Get What You Play For"

a guilty pleasure....

Warren Zevon "Stand in the Fire"

@bassbuyer 

I don't know whether "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" or "Leon Live"  have been mentioned, either...

Big Star "Complete Columbia Live at University of Missouri 4/25/93"

RSD/2016/Legacy

The Concert for Bangla Desh - George Harrison and friends.  The concert that started all-star concert relief efforts.  Still sounds great today.  

My Morning Jacket "Okonokos"

A great live band that has many on physical media 

@moto_man 

Wow -- lucky you!  

@stuartk , I have seen the YouTube videos of Shakti performing, and they are excellent. However, I have seen shakti both at Berkeley performance center in Boston and at the Orpheum in Boston for their first and second tours. Truly mind blowing experience that I will never forget!

Girls With Guitars (Live) 2012 Blues Caravan. Dani Wilde, Victoria Smith, Samatha Fish

ozzy

@moto_man 

FYI, here's a video performance of one of the tunes from that first Shakti album, from the same era, this one live at Montreux:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnW2g6qbbrA