And the BEST LIVE ROCK RECORDING IN HISTORY IS:

[Tyler Durden]

"Conquistador" by PROCOL HARUM with The London Philharmonic Orchestra, hands down.

Close second, "Boom Boom (Out go the Lights)" by the Pat Travers Band.

[umcwb]

1. The Allman Brothers

"Live at Fillmore East."

[Tyler Durden]

3. I was thinking "song"...

...but the live version of "Whipping Post" IS pretty God Damned Dramatic as I ponder it.

[umcwb]

5. Oh, my mistake,

But yes, that live version of "Whipping Post" is insane.

[SCantiGOP]

30. Allman Brothers without a doubt

I wore out two albums, a tape and now have it on CD.

[44wax]

50. yep

whipping post was my teen angst theme song

[sexybomber]

59. OMG yeah

that album is in-f***ing-credible.

[quispquake]

2. The BEST...

...is The Who "Young Man Blues" from Live at Leeds

Runner-up...Motorhead-No Sleep 'til Hammersmith

[MiddleRiverRefugee]

4. Wishbone Ash, "Live Dates"

n/t

[Tyler Durden]

9. Thank you for reminding me of better times...

Wishbone Ash....aaahhhh.

You know you need a higher prescription when you start longing for a time when you worked for $2.50/hour or were homeless.

[usual_suspect]

6. Best

Live at Leeds, the Who. Yes it is pat23.

[DBoon]

8. Second Best

Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock, playing the "Star Spangled Banner"

[Feanorcurufinwe]

7. How 'bout

'Soul Sacrifice' - Santana at woodstock

[MnFats]

43. Santana's drummer at Woodstock...

...Michael Schreive, I believe his name was. He was supposed to have been something like 16 at the time. What a trip, huh?

[demnan]

10. Okay, but as an old fart

Here are a few Honorary Mentions/Old Favorites

Various Artists - Woodstock

Frank Zappa and the Mothers - Just Another Band From L.A.

The Band - The Last Waltz

The Who - Live at Leeds

[Tyler Durden]

20. THANK YOU TOO, DEMNAN!!!

I'm starting to perk up a little!!

[pfitz59]

69. Rust Never Sleeps....

Niel Young and Crazy Horse........
"I Wanna Live with a Cinnamon Girl"

[RobertSeattle]

11. Peter Frampton Comes Alive

Woke up this morning with a Wine Glass in my hand..

Do you feel like I do?

[WoodrowFan]

29. Now Look What You've Done

I got "Do You Feel Like We Do" running through my head. THANK YOU! :thumbsup:

[radwriter0555]

51. I WANT you to WANT me, I NEEEEED you to NEED me, I'd LOOOOOVE you

to love me, I want you to want MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE,

Didn't I didn't I didn't I see you crying?

Ooooh oh didn't I didn't I didn't I see you CRYING?

Cheap Trick. LIVE. At Buddha Kahn...


Just don't get no mo betta dan dat.

[arwalden]

35. Definitely Frampton Comes Alive... I Saw Frampton in Hampton (VA) Live!

[usual_suspect]

12. Almost Best.

Humble Pie- Rock'in the Fillmore.

[Tyler Durden]

17. AH DON' NEED NO DOCTOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

PIE!!!

[flamingyouth]

13. Who Live At Leeds

I'm freaked out, because I was just listening to this album and thinking, I should post this in the Lounge.

woo-eee-woo...

[stlsaxman]

58. Recently purchased the COMPLETE Live At Leeds CD Set

and it is worth every penny!

They played Tommy complete AND A Quick One...

I get goosebumps just thinkin about it

[Tyler Durden]

14. Maybe "Woodstock" is in its own category.

He's a drugstore, truck drivin' man,
And he's the head of the Ku Klux Klan!
When Summer comes rollin' around,
We'll be lucky to get out of town!


GIMMEE AN "F"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

[flamingyouth]

18. Yeah, I agree

It stands alone! :-)

[sweetheart]

63. hendrix's star spangled banner

from woodstock makes the hair stand up on the back of my head...

Live!!! the kinks: lola?

Molly hatchet: freebird

Led zepplin: pick one...

talking heads: stop making sense

Heart: live version of magic man

[Tyler Durden]

15. Maybe "Woodstock" is in its own category.

He's a drugstore, truck drivin' man,
And he's the head of the Ku Klux Klan!
When Summer comes rollin' around,
We'll be lucky to get out of town!


GIMMEE AN "F"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

[jfxgillis]

23. Damn

I was about to claim Hendrix's "Instrumental Solo/Star Spangled Banner."

[Hep]

16. Who live at leeds and the boss

Just about any bootleg of a Springsteen show kicks ass.

[WoodrowFan]

19. Cheap Trick

Live at Budokahn (sp). Followed by "Do You Feel Like We Do" by Frampton.

Worst: Kiss Alive.

[Tyler Durden]

21. "Kiss Alive" ....ISN'T..

Saw two minutes of a special on MTV where they confessed to overdubs!


Lynch Them! (Anybody got any "lynch"?)

[flamingyouth]

24. Oh, KISS Alive is awesome

Yeah, maybe it was sweetened or whatever, but man, I can put that record on and any depression I might feel about the world is temporarily gone.

I love that record - but not Alive II very much, or Alive III (at all) and I'm horrified by KISS Alive IV with the Melbourne (?) symphony. Scary.

[ScreamingMeemie]

37. Live at Budakan is the absolute best ever, by the best ever band!!

[flamingyouth]

66. Oh yeah

That is amazing. I'm humming "Surrender" right now as I type!

Thousands of Japanese teenagers can't be wrong! Ah, Cheap Trick, the pride of Rockford, Illinois! That is a great album!

Well, obviously, I love live albums. As evidenced by this thread, I love innumerable live performances...

[Skittles]

22. I'M GOING HOME

ALVIN LEE AT WOODSTOCK.

[flamingyouth]

25. Great song

Alvin Lee - he's amazing.

[MnFats]

42. Geeez! The Hell? Nobody mentions The DEAD?

am I too old for this place?
No on mentions the Grateful Dead?
"Europe '72?"
The Bozos and the Bolos?
OK, maybe it's because they released such a shitload of live stuff. And on occasion, they could suck live.
But Europe 72 .... it had some terrific music on it.
and it brings back memories of dancing with a beautiful hippy girl named Shelley that I was crazy about.
I wore out two vinyl copies of Europe 72.
loved it.

[stlsaxman]

60. yes to Europe '72...

The only Greatful Dead album IMHO... i love that album and it's funny
because i hate The Dead.

[MnFats]

44. Alvin Lee always was under-rated.

Never got his due, as I could see.
He was terrific, and his performance at Woodstock was a great showcase for his skills and his work ethic.
'I'm goin' home...by helicopter.'
home to see my baby....shoo=bop shoo-bop shoo-bow.
great stuff.
i wore out a copy of 'cricklewood green' in my youth. it's supposed to be out as a remastered CD now....I continue to search for it...

[flamingyouth]

57. I agree - he never did get his due

I just love the guy. I'll see if I can find a copy of that CD for you and let you know...

[chenGOD]

26. Phish.

Their Halloween performance of The Beatles "White Album"

[RandomKoolzip]

27. Ben Folds Five's version of "Twin Falls" on Naked Baby Photos

Originally a Built to Spill song. This is probably the most heartbreaking live experience on record. Everytime I hear this I tear up.

Also:

"ballot Result"- The Minutemen; not ALL live, but the tracks from the Radio Tokyo session are the shit.

"You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore, vol. 1"- Zappa

"Manchester 1966'- Dylan and the Hawks

[seventhson]

28. Jimi Hendrix Live at the Fillmore East - Band of Gypsies

New Year's Day 1969


I was there!!!

(Saw him at Woodstock too)


Voices of East Harlem and Moody Blues were on the Bill too.


Maaaaaannnnnn!!!!

[Feanorcurufinwe]

31. Changed my mind

Grateful Dead at Fillmore East 2-14-70

[On the Road]

32. Kind of Obscure, but

I always liked Hot Tuna's "Come Back Baby" at the closing of the Fillmore. An electric number when Papa John Creach played fiddle with them.

[Bluzmann57]

33. J. Geils Band

Both live albums, especially the "Full House" album with "Whammer Jammer". That was one high energy band. Albums. Damn I'm old.

[radwriter0555]

52. Me and Bono shared a coca cola and laughed at the J. Geils Band

in 1982. Tallahasee FLA.

Sat on a road case, stage right, watching the keyboard player with a big old mirror over his board; we laughed cause the keys man said he needed it to watch the band behind him (cough cough) but it sure looked to US like he was watching his ol' bad seff.

It was U2's first US tour, they opened for the J. Geils Band. Those were the days. Mullen was hiding his hair. He had bleached it blonde and thought it was too shocking to let people see it.

[Bluzmann57]

34. J. Geils Band

Both live albums, especially the "Full House" album with "Whammer Jammer". That was one high energy band. Albums. Damn I'm old.

[Tyler Durden]

36. I was there at the FULL HOUSE concert.

Recorded at Bowen Field House, Eastern Michigan University, 1972.

"WE GOT THE 'DETROIT DEMOLITION'!"

[Bluzmann57]

39. I think I hear you yelling

on that album. I saw them twice, both times around here. Once, they were an opener for R.E.O. Speedwagon and when REO came on, people started walking out because J. Geils was so good.

[pfitz59]

71. Hot Tuna was great!

I like "Sea Child". Ever hear Kingfish's "Hypnotize" with Robbie Hunter on guitar?

[frylock]

38. judas priest - sinner

from the Unleashed in the East LP.

[Qutzupalotl]

40. Album? Little Feat--Waiting for Columbus

Many good ones.

[Jack The Tab]

41. U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky

The live versions of "Gloria", "I will Follow" and "Electric Co" are so incredible.

[elcondor]

56. Oh, I agree!

Love that albumn . . . "Frampton Comes Alive" I enjoy too.

[Chomskyite]

45. Some of my favorites

Cream's "Crossroads"

Marvin Gaye's "Distant Lover"

Jimi Hendrix's "Little Wing" at the Fillmore East with Band of Gypsies

Van Morrison's "I Just Want to Make Love To You" from Too Late to Stop Now

[markus]

46. China Cat/I Know You Rider

from Europe '72.

Never any finer.
/s/ Markus

a.k.a Dancing Bear

(Been known to close friends as Dancing Bear since 1971, but on advice of my attorney, who was exceptionally sober and lucid when consulted, I have not taken this up with the Dead organization, even tho' they're richer than Midas, as I would have to publicly explain why).

[proud patriot]

47. I'm going with "Live After Death" Iron Maiden

Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner runs 16 plus minutes of pure
Rock N Roll

[Dehumanizer]

73. Wow, we have a winner..IRON MAIDEN

Live After Death is them at their best.

[PittPoliSci]

48. any of the Ramones live albums are excellent also.

their energy is amazing, though, i've never seen them in person, and never will now. :-(

[ProfessorGAC]

49. I Have A Few

Roundabout by Yes (Yessongs)

Shadows in the Rain by Sting and the Blue Turtles Band (Bring On The Night)

In Memory of Elizabeth Reed (Allman Bros. Live at the Fillmore)

Crossroads by Cream (Wheels of Fire)

Highway Star by Deep Purple (Made in Japan)

There are others, but that's enough.
The Professor

[mitchum]

53. "Sister Ray" The Velvets (guitar cabinet tape)

"Love In Vain" Rolling Stones (Get Your YaYas Out)
"Ain't It Fun" Dead Boys (Night Of The Living Dead Boys)

[classics]

54. 1 0 1

[ChillEB]

55. U2 @ Live Aid Doing "Bad"

is definitely way up there. The performance of that song on that day is what launched U2 into international superstar status, IMHO. I remember having tears welling up, singing along to what was my favorite song at that time, by my favorite band, knowing deep down that they just won the hearts of millions of people all over the world, and being so proud of how much they obviously cared about the world and the people in it.

[stlsaxman]

61. Let us not forget '70's era King Crimson...

Much of which was recorded live in concert. Starless And Bible Black has
many live sections on it, but they're so seamlessly blended in with studio
work it gets a bit sticky for this particular post.

In the "Some Call This Rock" Category I have to nominate -

"Between Nothingness And Eternity" by The Mahavishnu Orchestra

[Tyler Durden]

62. OH THANK GOD!!!

Someone finally mentioned the Mahavishnu Orchestra!

[stlsaxman]

64. Saw them live when recording BN&E....

7th row center under a tent in '74 (?) i was 15 and near shit myself with delight!

[JackSwift]

65. My favs are

Eric Clapton, Just One Night
Frampton Comes Alive
Grateful Dead: Live Dead, Europe 72, 2/14/70
Live at the Fillmore East

[madrchsod]

67. cream

wheels of fire,live set. hook the turntable up to 5ft fender speaker,light a joint and turn it up...second- "live at leeds"- third jefferson airplanes` live filmore west album,"bless its pointed little head"

[psychopomp]

68. Couldn't pick one track

[Khephra]

70. WTF??? NO ONE HAS MENTIONED "STOP MAKING SENSE"???

By the Talking Heads???

What is this world coming to?

Runner-up: Laurie Anderson's "Home of the Brave"

And the neat thing is both of them have movies for those concerts too.

[Bake]

72. Do you wanna see me crawl across the floor

Clapton, Bell Bottom Blues, from 24 Nights. One of the great songs of all time, with a truly feel-it-in-your-gut performance! The soaring guitar solo. The gutsy chick singer(s). The whole damn thing. There have been some great live performances named (particularly Whipping Post!), and I'm not taking anything away from them, but this one just gets me every time.

Bake