Best Live Albums
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@crucial said in Best Live Albums:
No mention of Frampton comes Alive yet.
Very aptly named album. He came alive with that record and then died again.
There weren’t many record collections in the seventies without it though.
Not my thing but you’re right. It was THE album for a while.
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Alice in chains MTV unplugged.
That's peak grunge
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@muddyriver said in Best Live Albums:
Alice in chains MTV unplugged.
That's peak grunge
There are very few bigger AIC fans than me … but I can’t upvote this. It’s a nice album, but none of the songs sound better than the originals.
Which surely must be a key concept.
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@majorrage for me, knowing the back story, it really sounds like a man who knows he is killing himself but knows he is powerless to stop himself and has given up. Beautiful but terrible.
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@dogmeat said in Best Live Albums:
@mn5 be astonished
I'm sure plenty know him and his younger brother Edgar (also an albino)
Here they are together
Massive, MASSIVE fan of him, less so Edgar.
Perhaps his looks prevented him from being a the star he shoulda been ? I mean he could sing and play as well as anyone. Awesome gravelly blues voice and his slide work was off the charts.
I always get a blank look when I bring him up to people as no one knows who he is. I need better mates.
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A different feel from most live albums - very small and intimate. Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner.
I just looked this album up on Wikipedia for the first time, and learned this
"I got Michael Melvoin on piano, and he was one of the greatest jazz arrangers ever; I had Jim Hughart on bass, Bill Goodwin on drums and Pete Christlieb on sax. It was a totally jazz rhythm section. Herb gave out tickets to all his friends, we set up a bar, put potato chips on the tables and we had a sell-out, two nights, two shows a night, July 30 and 31, 1975. I remember that the opening act was a stripper. Her name was Dewana and her husband was a taxi driver. So for her the band played bump-and-grind music – and there's no jazz player who has never played a strip joint, so they knew exactly what to do. But it put the room in exactly the right mood. Then Waits came out and sang "Emotional Weather Report." Then he turned around to face the band and read the classified section of the paper while they played. It was like Allen Ginsberg with a really, really good band." -
Queen were a phenomenal live band until Freddie couldn't tour any more (they are still excellent with Adam Lambert IMO, but it's not the same). Live Killers is mentioned above, but there's also Live at Wembley, Live at Montreal, the Freddie Mercury Memorial Concert (some excellent guest vocalists in Freddie's absence), and for what is technically a non-Queen concert, Queen's set at Live Aid is possibly the greatest show-stealing performance ever.
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@godder to start off with their biggest song was a masterstroke. Gave the audience no chance but to get into it and had them eating out of Freddie's hand for the rest of the set.
Great live band and showmanship but fuck they had some trite songs.
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@crucial said in Best Live Albums:
@godder to start off with their biggest song was a masterstroke. Gave the audience no chance but to get into it and had them eating out of Freddie's hand for the rest of the set.
Great live band and showmanship but fuck they had some trite songs.
I agree and it's not surprising, Freddie was the most prolific of them and his theory on songs was that they were essentially disposable - to be listened to and enjoyed a few times and then basically discarded. Some songs like Bohemian Rhapsody got an enormous amount of work and time spent on them, others nothing like as much.
