Live al***s with good performance and good sound

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Joshua Redman has just been released on vinyl as well.

Lontano: Thanks for the heads up on Redman's Live at the Village Vanguard on Vinyl. Time to max out the credit card!

Lontano: I've just checked out both online stores (UK and US) named after a river in South America, but no sign of that live album on vinyl. Which website is it available at?

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Originally posted by irwan shah:
Lontano: I've just checked out both online stores (UK and US) named after a river in South America, but no sign of that live album on vinyl. Which website is it available at?

Sorry me being dumb and not concentrating - apologies. The equally good Moodswing has just been released on vinyl


Amazon UK
Amazon US

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Originally posted by oldneil:
This is a great recording and music too!

I agree with that. First Circle live from this album is one of my favourite tracks ever and I always use when testing a new system. It sold me my Neats!

Scotty mentioned Hell Freezes Over and Stop Making Sense ....both of which are pretty much state of the art ....but are they TOO good?

Hell Freezes Over on DVD (video) sounds like a showroom demo ...would the Eagles really sound as good as that live?

In other words are they a/ excellent sounding but b/ totally unrealistic? (mebbes remixed later to within an inch of their lives?)

..... or c/ does it matter?!

Lontano:

Noticed Redman's 'Moodswing' on vinyl for sale too. Tasty. But I already have the CD. Do I really need a bonus copy of that same CD? If only they sold the vinyl on its own!


'The Road to You' was one of the albums that I carried with me on cassette when I first left for the UK in the early 90s. I only played it on my walkman and never fully appreciated the sound quality. Now that I own it on CD, I have to agree that it is simply amazing. However, I still prefer the studio recording of 'First Circle'.

I must make a plug for the best live album EVER - Live at the Counter Eurovision 79, by Misty in Roots.

Nigel

I'm not a fan, as such, of live albums. Too much audience usually.

However I did, when young, used to love 'Live Killers', on vinyl then of course. Since I hadn't heard it in more than twenty years I recently got a cd copy and god it's awful. Sound all over the place. If anyone knows of a good sounding cd version...?

Btw, i expect to get it in the neck for this 'liking a Queen album' admission.

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Originally posted by mongo:
I'm not a fan, as such, of live albums. Too much audience usually.

However I did, when young, used to love 'Live Killers', on vinyl then of course. Since I hadn't heard it in more than twenty years I recently got a cd copy and god it's awful. Sound all over the place. If anyone knows of a good sounding cd version...?

Btw, i expect to get it in the neck for this 'liking a Queen album' admission.

alison krauss live lucinda williams at the filmore

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Btw, i expect to get it in the neck for this 'liking a Queen album' admission.

Oh, go on then. Queen were absolutely appalling.

Nigel

This is a great live album from the boys in black, but is it really live?







Dean...

Crosby,Stills Nash and Young - 4 Way Street
Free - Live
Scorpions - Tokyo tapes
Traffic - Welcome to the Canteen
Paul Kossoff (Back Street Crawler) - Live at Croydon Fairfield Hall 1975

All excellent live albums

Not a conventional live recording, but a live audience was present during recording & told to keep quiet! Superb...

This was a jam session, so I suppose it is a 'live' album. Absolutely thrilling. The interplay between the musicians is telepathic. The improvisations are so gorgeous.



Pat Metheny, Roy Haynes and Dave Holland's 'Question and Answer'.

Only had this a week and probably played it half a dozen times already

As someone who has spent a fair part of the past 35 years listening to bootlegs, I stopped worrying about sound quality long ago. With live albums, performance is all, surely?

One of my very favourite live albums is Listen To This Eddie, a Zep boot from the ill-fated '77 tour. The quality of the recording is somewhat ropey (even in the cleaned-up version from the second-gen tape), but the performance is stunning (one of the few from that tour).

Wilco - Kicking TV
Lucinda Williams - Live at the Fillmore
Eels - Live at the Town Hall
Neil Young - Live Rust (the perfect Neil Young album)
Michel Petrucciani - Power of Three
Almost everything available by Miles Davis

In no particular order:

The Hoax - Live Forever



The Red Devils - King King



The Radio Kings - Live at B.B. King's



Regards,
Michel

Almost forgot this one:

First you have to get Mad

Lou Reed -- Rock and Roll Animal
Joni Mitchell -- Miles of Aisles

Second Little Feat -- Waiting for Columbus

Thanks Denis for the reminder of Semi-Detached Mock Tudor, this one some how slipped through.
Superb as usual for RT.

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Originally posted by BigH47:
Thanks Denis for the reminder of Semi-Detached Mock Tudor, this one some how slipped through.
Superb as usual for RT.

Howard, glad to have assisted with your RT collection. Without doubt, 'Hard on Me' is one of the most breathtaking guitar performances played by ANYONE!

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Without doubt, 'Hard on Me' is one of the most breathtaking guitar performances played by ANYONE!

Absofuckinglutely!! As our US cousins might say. Listening ATM.

Spell checker suggests "Buckinghamshire" as a correction for the first word.

Dire Straits 'Live at the BBC' is a good recoding of them early on.