Favorite song from live Rock albums?
Talking lead singers got me to thinking about some of my favorite songs from live albums,
Live Bullet-I always crank up Heavy Music and of course Nutbush City Limits.
J.Geils-From live Full House Hard Drivin Man and Whammer Jammer
J.Geils-Blow Your Face Out,I musta got lost
Journey-Lovin touchin squeezin “I’m talking to you Deetroit
August 12th, 2022 at 2:35 PM ^
Pretty much everything from Yessongs by Yes, but especially Roundabout
August 12th, 2022 at 7:13 PM ^
I'm gonna take cuts here:
Led Zeppelin, Song Remains the Same
No Quarter and Stairway to Heaven...the whole album really but especially those 2 songs.
Saw Yes at Pine Knob in 1984, probably the best rock concert I've ever been to, they were phenomenal!!!
August 12th, 2022 at 10:15 PM ^
I can’t upvote this enough - this is a fantastic live album (as is Yesshows) and Chris Squire’s live version of “The Fish” is just sublime.
August 12th, 2022 at 2:38 PM ^
Dream Theater's Live from New York, the whole album
August 12th, 2022 at 2:41 PM ^
Fridays in August, amirite?
August 12th, 2022 at 3:20 PM ^
There's seems to be a need to get in all the OT threads before OT ends. Maybe I should start an OT thread asking what people want to see as OT threads:
- Olivia Newton-John just died. Who was your teenage celebrity crush?
- No politics, but who are you voting for this fall?
- What's the best car and why?
- Justin Feagin
- What caused you to hate Staee so much?
- Jinxes: How valid are they?
- Which celeb would you rather see Chris Evans date, Kim Kardashian or Brittney Spears and why?
- Which games on this season's schedule should be night games?
- What's your favorite Keith Jackson moment and what game this season do you predict will provide the next one?
- What's your favorite vegetable? Raw or cooked?
- Cake or pie?
That should be enough to get us started.
August 12th, 2022 at 3:50 PM ^
Quitcherbitchin. Might as well hang out with our fanbase talking stupid stuff while we wait for kickoff. Do you have a better suggestion in the middle of flippin' boring August?
August 12th, 2022 at 4:07 PM ^
Olivia Newton-John just died. Who was your teenage celebrity crush?
All right. I'll bite:
Either:
Jacqueline Bisset...or
Katherine Ross.
August 12th, 2022 at 4:20 PM ^
+100 on Jackie Bisset.
August 12th, 2022 at 7:25 PM ^
Linda. Still my crush, 55 years later... don't tell my wife..oh hell, she knows.
August 12th, 2022 at 4:19 PM ^
August 12th, 2022 at 5:04 PM ^
Kathy Ireland
August 12th, 2022 at 7:28 PM ^
Teenage celebrity crush: Kelly Kapowski
August 12th, 2022 at 10:40 PM ^
Vlad, I would've bet dollars to donuts you would've said Anna Kournikova,
August 13th, 2022 at 10:29 AM ^
Anna Kournikova (AK). Just like the AK in poker: Looks good; never wins.
August 13th, 2022 at 1:26 AM ^
There was absolutely no other reason to watch save by the bell.
August 12th, 2022 at 2:41 PM ^
Everything from Alice in Chains - Unplugged
August 12th, 2022 at 4:07 PM ^
I know Nirvana's unplugged gets all the attention, but Alice in Chains really highlighted the fact that half their music has an acoustic component to it.
August 12th, 2022 at 5:35 PM ^
Pearl Jam's is pretty incredible too but I don't think it was ever released as an album ( I think there was a recent special release on vinyl). The unplugged version of "State and Love and Trust" is awesome.
And I agree: Alice in Chains' unplugged is great.
August 12th, 2022 at 6:37 PM ^
It was actually finally released within the last 3 years.
Of course, that was right after Ten, so the setlist was limited.
August 13th, 2022 at 12:19 AM ^
For acoustic genius check out
Di Meola McLaughlin De Lucia Friday Night In San Francisco
Mediterranean Sundance
August 13th, 2022 at 2:39 PM ^
Love this album, play it on those perfect days on the water single handed sailing
August 12th, 2022 at 2:41 PM ^
I always loved the Live on St. Patrick's Day from the Dropkick Murphys. Recorded in Boston (of course) and you could just hear the energy of the crowd through it.
August 12th, 2022 at 3:02 PM ^
Love their rendition of Amazing Grace.
August 12th, 2022 at 2:48 PM ^
ac/dc live at donington
Queen also at live aid
August 12th, 2022 at 3:05 PM ^
"Queen also at live aid" Yep.
August 12th, 2022 at 8:48 PM ^
But that was the old Wembley Stadium. I learned that on “Ted Lasso”
August 12th, 2022 at 2:58 PM ^
I have always been a big fan of The Who's Live at Leeds album from 1970. The raw power of their live performance is incredible. In the last few years they released the entire performance and the additional songs are great too.
Favorite song? Either My Generation or Magic Bus.
August 12th, 2022 at 3:16 PM ^
Summertime Blues is my favorite. Great album.
August 12th, 2022 at 3:24 PM ^
I'm a huge fan of John Entwistle on bass. On the song Substitute, he provided a great deal of what you hear, as Pete Townshend's guitar is a relatively simple pattern. When live, Entwistle would often take the lead role while Townshend bashed out rhythm.
Here's a video by a guy doing a cover of Entwistle's bass on Live at Leeds. It's a really good cover. Watch and listen to what he's doing to propel the song.
I attended a Who concert in the Pontiac Silverdome back in 1982. I had binoculars, and I watched Entwistle's hands. They were a blur, both of them.
August 12th, 2022 at 3:29 PM ^
Nobody else ever did it quite like The Ox
August 12th, 2022 at 9:50 PM ^
always loved his bass on Real Me
August 12th, 2022 at 4:59 PM ^
I love The Who and Entwistle was incredible. That clip was a cool way to show the type of complex work that you don't often see from a bassist.
August 12th, 2022 at 8:20 PM ^
I was privileged to see The Who at The Oxford Theatre in Spring 1974. Tickets were offered two days before the show for an unnamed act...word got out quickly that it was The Who, a dress rehearsal for their upcoming tour. We snatched up dozens of tickets for our housemates and classmates. Stunning show...a stadium sized concert in a bandbox hall, and Keith was still alive. Unforgettable.
August 13th, 2022 at 6:19 AM ^
If I had a time machine, I'd go back in time to see a Who concert such as this. I've seen video of their Isle of Wight concert, and it's pure energy, almost non-stop.
August 12th, 2022 at 9:58 PM ^
I know jack about bass, but was a huge Who fan in college, and I still get chills listening to his bass part in "Won't Get Fooled Again" - it just sounded like water, if that makes any sense.
August 12th, 2022 at 10:24 PM ^
Entwistle is on my six-person Mt. Rushmore of electric bassists, along with Vic Wooten, Jaco Pastorius, Bootsy Collins, James Jamerson and Larry Graham.
August 13th, 2022 at 6:16 AM ^
The one from your list that should be most prominent is James Jamerson. I'd bet every one of the others on the list would cite Jamerson as being an influence, including Entwistle.
For those not familiar, Jamerson was the bassist for the studio musicians on the Motown songs of the 1960s and early 1970s. The documentary Standing in the Shadows of Motown had people recalling those days, and saying that Jamerson was a genius. He brought, from his jazz background, a fluid, melodic approach to bass to rock music, which others heard and emulated. Paul McCartney, in particular, picked up Jamerson's style, and you can hear it on most of the Beatles songs.
August 12th, 2022 at 3:40 PM ^
Have always like that performance of Young Man (Blues), savagery from all four
August 12th, 2022 at 3:01 PM ^
I have one Spotify playlist called "In Concert" with 47+ hours of live music, sorted alphabetically by the artist. Depending what I'm in the mood for, I scroll down and listen to a dozen songs from that band. Dave Mathews has gotten a lot of attention lately.
I have another playlist called "Five Nights" that has the top song or couple of songs from individual bands. It's roughly sorted into five 2 hour segments for British bands, Southern Rock, etc.
My top live songs really depend on what kind of day I had and what's in the glass.
August 12th, 2022 at 3:05 PM ^
In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel and Youssou N'Dour - Live in Dakar
Home by the Sea - Genesis - Live in Dusseldorf
Idea of You - Dave Matthews - Live at Blossom Music Center
Green Grass and High Tides - Outlaws - Live (somewhere in Florida, where else!)
August 12th, 2022 at 3:28 PM ^
"Green Grass and High Tides - Outlaws - Live"
The Outlaws! Great live act.
Also, in response to the OP...J. Geils Lookin' for a Love from the Full House album. Recorded at the Cinderella Ballroom in Detroit in April 1972. Had a friend who wanted me to go with him but I had "other things to do." That decision has been a regret ever since. Whoever the girl was who was the other thing to do...well...she was not memorable at all.
August 12th, 2022 at 3:30 PM ^
I was super happy that Genesis played Home by the Sea and Second Home by the Sea this past November in Detroit.
August 13th, 2022 at 7:15 AM ^
just getting to this. as the old saying goes, 'i think we're best friends' now, particularly with your pick of the outlaws. loved those guys back in the day.
August 12th, 2022 at 3:03 PM ^
Janes Addiction, Live and Profane. That version of Then She Did is insane.
August 12th, 2022 at 3:20 PM ^
Grateful Dead--kind of cheating here as The Dead are almost always better live.
St. Stephen > Not Fade Away > St. Stephen > Morning Dew from 5/8/77 (Widely bootlegged but released as official live 5 lp set as Cornell 5/8/77,
Also Jack Straw from Europe 72.
Hüsker Dü
Don't wanna know if you are lonely and The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill from The Living End.
U2
40 from Under a Blood Red Sky
(also +1 for the above Musta Got Lost from J.Geils Band.)
August 13th, 2022 at 9:19 AM ^
I’ll bite on the Dead, for obvious reasons. As Bill Graham said, on any given night they were the best in the world.
- Fallout from the Phil Zone: Too Hot To Handle
- From the Skullfuck album: The Other One
August 13th, 2022 at 7:21 PM ^
Thank you. Europe '72 was an astonishing album. Every cut a classic. My faves: Brown Eyed Women, He's Gone, Rambling Rose, and Tennessee Jed. But I could keep going.
I grew up with the Dead. Saw both their concerts at Hill in '72, with the New Riders opening for them. Went to more than a dozen Dead shows in the '70s. I miss Jerry so much.
August 12th, 2022 at 3:04 PM ^
Queen at the 1985 Live Aid concert. We can end this discussion now.