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Jim

To kick off

Cannonball Adderley - Live at the It Club
Bob Dylan - Budokan
Christy Moore - At The Point Live

Gromit

Dave Weckl Band - Live, and Very Unplugged.
Genesis - Seconds Out
Al Jarreau - Live in London
Pat Metheny - Travels

Jamiel

Official live albums.

I'm with you Gron on Genesis 'Seconds Out', brilliant album.

Thin Lizzy 'Live and Dangerous', debate as to how live it is, even
between band members, to be reissued next moth with a couple of extra
tracks and a DVD.

Yes - Yesshows

Led Zeppelin - DVD, BBC Sessions

Tangerine Dream - Encore, Logos, Poland, Bootleg Box Volume 1

Redshift - Faultline

Arc - Arcturus

King Crimson - The Great Deceiver.

David Bowie - Nassau 76 (in the Station to Station box)

Miles Davis - Complete Cellar Door sessions

Mark Kozelek - Lost Verses Live

Kraftwerk - Minimum, Maximum

Van Der Graaf Generator - Real Time

Dead Can Dance - The Show 2005 official live releases, Forum London for me.

Underworld - LiveHereNow official releases 2007-9, all of them.

Nine Inch Nails - All That Could Have Been

Free System Projekt - British Aisles

Bootlegs

Led Zeppelin 'Blasphemy' Earls Court 24/25th may 1975

David Bowie - 50th Birthday session (mostly acoustic) for the BBC 1997

Joni Mitchell - Hissing of Summer Lawns Demos - much more acoustic versions (like 'For the Roses')

Underworld - Bootleg Babies - compilation of live recordings done by the RTSR Underworld Yahoo group.

Tangerine Dream - Brussels February 1976 - or 'Tonight Matthew I'm going to be Dave Gilmour'

Yes - Wembley 1978, BBC broadcast of a great Tormato show, Awaken, the big medley, and an awful lot of energy.

Jean Michel Jarre - Amsterdam 2008, very probably the best ever audience
recording. Great tour, and a keyboard solo that is so bad that it is
wonderful.

Genesis - Hammersmith Odeon 1976, a complete soundboard of Genesis with Bruford on drums.

Radiohead - Glastonbury 1997, complete soundboard from the BBC of a gig
voted by Q magazine as the bet live show ever, good, but not that good
to be honest.

Orbital - MTV Session 1994, 1 hour studio session of their Snivilisation live set.

Nine Inch Nails & David Bowie - Live Hate 1995, David Bowie and
Trent Reznor duetting on NIN and Bowie tracks, before a full set by
Bowie's excellent 90's band.

Steve Hackett - Reading 1981, BBC master disc.

R.E.M. Hamburg 1998 (CD & DVD), Rockpalast WDR Germany TV broadcast of a fan club concert from the 'Up' tour.

Stevie Wonder - The Rainbow 1974, was to be an official live album but
was shelved, thankfully the tapes eventually found the light of day.

Van Der Graaf Generator - Levekusnen 2005, Rockpalast WDR Germany TV
broadcast of a complete show, plus interview with Hammill. This might
yet get an official release.

Many of these bands do have several shows that are well worth hearing too.

EDIT.
All the above bands are on the Dimeadozen allowed bands, ie. not on their list of bands who have asked, or their management have asked that their music not be distributed by bit-torrent. Some bands on that list allow

person to person trading, but not bit torrent, but it gets too complex to go into that.

Bands who do not allow sharing of live recordings, Metallica, King Crimson, Steely Dan, Porcupine Tree, ELP, Beach Boys, Van Morrison, Alanis Morisette, etc.

A few recordings that were once bootlegs have been officially released.

Pearl Jam - MTV Unplugged 1993, released in the 'Ten' anniversary box.
Also with the official bootlegs the tour of the last ten years are well
covered.

David Bowie - Nassau 1976, 'Thin White Duke' bootleg, released with 'Station to Station' box 2010

King Crimson - 'The Great Deceiver' and club recordings.

Queen - Hammersmith 1975 has been released on video, and probably other sources too.

Kraftwerk - Minimum Maximum pretty much covers their recent live shows, although the Tribal Gathering has some good versions.

Mark Kozelek - has quite a few official releases that are better than the available bootlegs.

There are so many live jazz releases that the bootlegs do not offer something that can not be found in abundance officially.

A few bands are quite disappointing on the bootleg front, Rush do not
really offer anything live that isn't there in the studio, or on their
official live albums, the same for a lot of Pink Floyd, a pit there are
no good recordings of the 75 and 77 tours. Jethro Tull also come in this
category for me. Although there are some fairly good Tool live
recordings, the quality of the studio recordings gives the 'umph' that
their music deserves.

One of these days I will try and give a one line reply, I promise.

uglymusic

Miles Davis - Live at the Plugged Nickel

Miles Davis - Agharta

Miles Davis - Pangaea

Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert

Keith Jarrett - Testament: Paris/London

Jim

Great post Jamie :)

At the risk of showing my age I'll admit to being at the 24th May 1975 Earls Court Zeppelin gig. I may have also been at the Yes gig in 78 but I'm not sure. I went to a load of rock gigs in the 70s.

uglymusic

Well, I think I was at the 75 and 77 Floyd gigs. I certainly saw them twice during that period, and I have my great claim to fame. I saw the (in)famous Rick Wakeman on ice gig!

Jim

Never saw Floyd from that period, wish I had.

I saw Wakeman 3 times with Yes, but never on ice

:-)) :-))

uglymusic

No, I never saw Yes. :-S

Jamiel

Jim, quite jealous, I never saw Led Zeppelin, my first gig was Thin Lizzy in 1980.

I've seen Yes a few times, but never at their very best, although 2009 with Bentoit David and Oliver Wakeman was surprisingly good. Going to see that lineup later in the year.

I have soundboard recordings of both the Led Zeppelin 24th and 25th May gigs at Earls Court. There are DVDs too, but ones I have have been superseded, but I have yet to get hold of the new sources.

I will sort out some discs to send on over the next couple of weeks, when I get a break between nappy changes, and hopefully after some sleep.

Jim

I was also at their last UK gig, Knebworth '79. That was a cracking gig. I thought their recent 02 gig was a bit good as well - I didn't even bother trying for tickets. I've got a b/l of that somewhere.

Mervyn

How's about

Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour '74
Van Morrison - It's too late to stop now
John Martyn - Leeds Live (b/l ?)
Art Pepper - Complete Village Vanguard Sessions ( with thanks to Uglymusic !!)

uglymusic

^:)^

scottyhammer

Richard Thompson - Semi detached mock tudor

Wishbone Ash - Live dates 2

James Mcmurtry - Live in aught three

Pink Floyd - Pulse

alfamatt

How about John Mayer's village sessions?

Joe Jackson's Body & Soul, which was kinda a live recording, although the audience were asked not to clap etc.

Thomas Dolby's The sole inhabitant.

I realise that these are not the average live album, with extended solo's & rapturous applause from the audience. Weird, but this type of recording has never floated my boat. Not sure why.

Maybe I like listening to music at home to be studio recorded & Live music I prefer to hear live, if that makes sense.

Classical music being the exception to that rule.

As an ex semi-pro muso, I never enjoyed viewing/listening back to performances I was involved in. OK, maybe I was crap & couldn't stand the sound of my own playing!

Matt.

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