Live al***s with good performance and good sound
Posted by: zeke zebra on 07 February 2010
Hi All,
Can anyone recommend some live albums that have both a good performance and good sound quality?
Can anyone recommend some live albums that have both a good performance and good sound quality?
As close to perfection as it's ever likely to get...
I've always liked this.
I've just trawled through this thread from the start and there are indeed some good recommendations, like 'Travels' by Pat Metheny, 'TSRTS' by Led Zeppelin, 'Live at Blues Alley' by Eva Cassidy, even Todd Rundgren's 'Back to the Bars' which I bought the week after seeing him live at Knebworth, just for the track 'The Meaning of the Verb to Love' (spectacular song in every way).
But I didn't see any mention of 'Live at Leeds' and despite a couple of mentions for the McLaughlin Trio at the RFH, nobody has yet listed this gem:
I have to stop and listen hard everytime I hear the excellent 'Mediterannean Sundance'.
Regards, CB
But I didn't see any mention of 'Live at Leeds' and despite a couple of mentions for the McLaughlin Trio at the RFH, nobody has yet listed this gem:
I have to stop and listen hard everytime I hear the excellent 'Mediterannean Sundance'.
Regards, CB
I've been listening for 35 years and I've yet to hear any live album with good sound that was especially inspiring. Live recordings with good sound tend to involve a certain amount of overdubs or a certain amount of dullness or both. Indeed there were at the last count around half a dozen examples on this thread of albums containing no live element at all. Bearing that in mind surely the great live recordings are never about great sound but are always about capturing the essence.
A thread about live albums that fails to mention at least one James Brown Live At The Apollo would appear to have left the purpose of music listening behind IMHO
Having said that I am equally surprised that there's nary a whisper for Sam Cooke Live At The Harlem Squsre Club 1963. If ever you wanted proof that a great recording has nothing to do with sound quality then that's your proof. In the same vein whilst I'm happy to endorse both the Misty and the Slade albums I wonder if anyone here has heard the wire recordings of Woody Guthrie? Astonishing stuff. The only known live recordngs.
A thread about live albums that fails to mention at least one James Brown Live At The Apollo would appear to have left the purpose of music listening behind IMHO
Having said that I am equally surprised that there's nary a whisper for Sam Cooke Live At The Harlem Squsre Club 1963. If ever you wanted proof that a great recording has nothing to do with sound quality then that's your proof. In the same vein whilst I'm happy to endorse both the Misty and the Slade albums I wonder if anyone here has heard the wire recordings of Woody Guthrie? Astonishing stuff. The only known live recordngs.
Listened to this again yesterday;
I have this on vinyl. Excellent quality.
Perhaps not quite in the same league technically, but still excellent live records.
As they say on telly: Contains some strong language from the outset!
A bit 'polished' being a reunion gig performance, but well recorded.
Perhaps not quite in the same league technically, but still excellent live records.
As they say on telly: Contains some strong language from the outset!
A bit 'polished' being a reunion gig performance, but well recorded.
I'm a little surprised that this one hasn't been mentioned yet in this thread:
I went to Jill's last concert in London at the Shepherd's Bush Empire. Fantastic! Truly a Diva, without any of the negative connotations this may carry.
I went to Jill's last concert in London at the Shepherd's Bush Empire. Fantastic! Truly a Diva, without any of the negative connotations this may carry.
Arguably the greatest live performance of jazz ever ... one of my all time favourite live box sets:
4 CDs of sheer heaven.
4 CDs of sheer heaven.
Two albums with live music i recently purchased impressed me greatly, one on vinyl, and one on CD...
The Buena Vista Social Club ~ At Carnegie Hall [VINYL] [Live]
and...
1970 found Fairport Convention reduced to a quartet after the departure of their singer Sandy Denny. They decided not to replace her and recorded FULL HOUSE, a ferocious blend of high intensity rock dynamics with traditional British Isle fiddle-filled forms. With accolades accumulating for both FULL HOUSE and its predecessor, the beloved LEIGE AND LEIF, another tour of America was mounted in the late summer.
HOUSE FULL was recorded in Los Angeles at the Troubador. A fine companion piece to its alternately-ordered namesake, these eight songs are a revamped set of the live album released only in the UK. The line-up of the band is extremely impressive, but it was not to last. Richard Thompson left the following year before another studio album was made.
House Full : Live At The LA Troubadour [Live] [Original recording remastered]
...and this CD is still available from HMV at only £2.99 : )
Debs
The Buena Vista Social Club ~ At Carnegie Hall [VINYL] [Live]
and...
1970 found Fairport Convention reduced to a quartet after the departure of their singer Sandy Denny. They decided not to replace her and recorded FULL HOUSE, a ferocious blend of high intensity rock dynamics with traditional British Isle fiddle-filled forms. With accolades accumulating for both FULL HOUSE and its predecessor, the beloved LEIGE AND LEIF, another tour of America was mounted in the late summer.
HOUSE FULL was recorded in Los Angeles at the Troubador. A fine companion piece to its alternately-ordered namesake, these eight songs are a revamped set of the live album released only in the UK. The line-up of the band is extremely impressive, but it was not to last. Richard Thompson left the following year before another studio album was made.
House Full : Live At The LA Troubadour [Live] [Original recording remastered]
...and this CD is still available from HMV at only £2.99 : )
Debs