This is actually from the Filmore East in NYC. They played 4 shows on New Years Eve and New Years Day. "Power of Soul" and "Machine Gun" are excellent versions.
In general I'm not a big fan of live albums. It's hard to beat a well produced studio album. However, the ones that most stand out to me as being as good or better than studio takes are. 1st and foremost _ Lou Reed 'Rock n Roll Animal and the subsequent Lou Reed 'live' which what was left off RnR Animal. The first Genesis live album with Peter Gabriel is AWESOME! Mott the Hoople 'Live' and the 30th Anniversary release of 'Live' with the missing tracks from the original. The Smiths - Rank
If anyone can score the soundboards from the Texas International Pop Festival on Labor Day weekend, 1969, I've heard that they are fantastic, especially Led Zep. That would be a live LP worth having.
you'll have to take me off ignore to see this, but trust me, it's worth it. i have 3 recommendations, can't even call them albums, since two of them are unofficial releases, albeit sanctioned by the artist: the first, an early David Gray show, from Hamburg in 2000, pre-white ladder. really shows his connection to van morrison, in spectacular sound, off the soundboard, in lossless audio (depending on how you download) at archive.org. i really can't recommend this one highly enough- it's not just one of my favorite live albums, but one of my favs period. http://www.archive.org/details/dgray2000-11-08 the next is a supplement to Waiting for Columbus, Little Feat captured "live in studio" at WLIR on long island in a midnight show after a concert. the recording was made by the station engineers, and again, is studio quality. and the performances are epic: http://www.archive.org/details/lf1974-09-19.shnf last, and a reference back to the OP, Live 75-85 isn't even springsteen's best live album- this is: http://www.amazon.com/Hammersmith-O...=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1326847946&sr=1-1 young, hungry, on fire. buy it.
i love that album. really transitioning between the classic folksy Joni (apogee of which is Court & Spark) and the jazzier stuff to come, commencing with Don Juan...
apropos aforementioned Springsteen, this is how it starts: <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/RRvnsj8G7QM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Deckard where was that festival held? A tad before my concert going time and I don't recall mention of it before. What are some of the other bands that played? Any Texas bands?
basso, I read all your posts that I see outside of D&D. No worries, man. Thanks for the heads-up. I think some of you will enjoy this. It's from the soundboard of the Texas International Pop Festival, AKA the Dallas Pop Festival (what we called it, anyway - of course, it was actually in Lewisville). This is nearly 4 years to the day before Led Zep's Madison Square Garden concerts, which are famous, and rightly so, but here you get old school, pre-total superstar, we're ROCK GODS Led Zeppelin. Raw and incredible, and very typical of their concerts back then, which could last for hours. This is a 15 minute version of Dazed and Confused. There is video out there of this concert, but here the sound is excellent. They played this concert 8 months after releasing their first LP. Enjoy! <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/pbXX5jbfGj4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
So many good ones to choose from, but this one literally shaped my youth musically. Neil's YYZ solo literally changed my life. No hyperbole.
since Ima beat me to that one, I will follow through with another... Spoiler <a href="http://photobucket.com/images/suck%20on%20this%20primus" target="_blank"><img src="http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d181/prnesse/Primus_-_Suck_On_This-front.jpg" border="0" alt="suck on this primus photo: pr Primus_-_Suck_On_This-front.jpg"/></a> spoilered for size, but didn't wanna search out a smaller one and get beat to the punch again.
