Great live albums (1 Viewer)

[dudley]

 

[Pantone247]

she makes Eleanor Rigby sould all funky and soul-ish. Amazing.

 

[Alan Latchley]

It just doesn't get much better than this...

 

[Kermit McDermott]

Can't believe this wasn't mentioned yet

I love live & dangerous aswell but wasn't there questions over the actual live-ness of the album. Lots of parts re-recorded after the fact.

From Wikipedia

Live and dangerous was originally meant to be a studio album. Together with Tony Visconti they had a huge success with they previous album Bad Reputation, and the group wanted to work with him again. But since Visconti had a very tight schedule Phil Lynott came up with the idea that they spend two weeks together compiling a live album instead. After they had decided which track they were going to use Lynott asked if they could re-record some vocals due to technical issues. After spending some time overdubbing various bits noticing the impact on the result they enden up re-recording all the vocals, guitars and bass. So the only real live elements of Live and Dangerous is the drums and the audience. Visconti justified this by stating that every track was performed before a live audience. The exception being Southbound which was taken from a sound check onstage in Philadelphia [1]
Other sources state that although the finished album contains overdubbing, it is claimed that it is "75% live".

It's alive by the Ramones is great aswell. I love the way there's no gaps between some the songs.

 

[Goodbye]

 

[Lili Marlene]

Listening to this again right now:

One Night Alone - Live

'mazin

such a creepy picture on the cover though

anyway

one of the few decent albums by him

me likey

 

[dudley]

on the sleeve notes for the live and dangerous dvd, it pretty much implies most of it was recorded in the studio.
story went, philo re-recorded his vocals first, and the rest were like, 'balls to that, if he's getting to that, so are we!"

dunno what visconti means by each instrument being performed before a live audience unless he means him in in the studio with some cardboard cut outs constitutes a live audience

 

[Pantone247]

on the sleeve notes for the live and dangerous dvd, it pretty much implies most of it was recorded in the studio.

have you ever watched The Last Waltz and tried to keep an eye on Robbie Danko's hands in relation to what you're hearing...

 

[jcdonaggio]

i never "got" damien dempsey until I heard his live album

 

[Kermit McDermott]

i never "got" damien dempsey until I heard his live album

It's really impressive the way the audience basically sing the lead vocal.

But I still don't like his stuff. There's no hooks in the music, the melodies are bad and the lyrics are bone headed.

Still...fair play to him.

 

[Lili Marlene]

It's really impressive the way the audience basically sing the lead vocal.

But I still don't like his stuff. There's no hooks in the music, the melodies are bad and the lyrics are bone headed.

Still...fair play to him.

fair play

 

[Jim Daniels]

 

[killy kill]

deadly. still remember the auld ones taking me to an o Riada retrospective yoke when i was 10, mindblowing stuff

 

[nlgbbbblth]

what about live albums that arent just a good concert recording but are actually a brand new album of new songs? nobody mention any jazz albums. i know neil young had a few - time fades away etc but i cant think of many other examples. i think van der graaf generators recent one might have been better had they used live versions instead of slightly flat sounding studio ones

YouTube - Van Der Graaf Generator - Interference Patterns - 29/3/2008

Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead (1971)

aka Skullfuck

is an example of what you refer to.

ace.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

rockin'

also the LP simply entitled O Riada.

 

[nlgbbbblth]

first live album I owned
do I still play it?

yes

 

[Wobbler]

Jeff mills live at the liquid room

Correct

 

[Jim Daniels]

deadly. still remember the auld ones taking me to an o Riada retrospective yoke when i was 10, mindblowing stuff

Wow, I'd say that was deadly! I was only taken to roller-discos!

 

[Jim Daniels]

rockin'

also the LP simply entitled O Riada.

Yeah it has such a great "live" feel to it. I love the way the audience react to Sean O Se's amazing singing on "The "Melodious Fairy Mound of Bruff"!

Its his only album I own, apart from Mise Eire, which isn't bad to go to sleep to.

Must check out O Riada.

 

[MrT]

Yeah was just about to mention JB at the apollo....shame on you people.

Deadly.

Surprised noones mentioned this!