Your Favorite Live Album (One Choice!)

[Manic Monkey]

Tough one. So many great live albums. But in the end I have to go with Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes. It's an experience.

Honorable mention to Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys.

 

[LOU/REALM]

Great choice Manic Monkey ! That album ROCKS !!! it would have been my 2nd choice !

 

[Mr. T]

I think I like this even better than the original studio version!

 

[gcczep]

Led-Zeppelin - "How The West Was Won"

Great document of the band's 1972 U.S. Tour with selections off gigs recorded at The Forum and Long Beach Arena. It had the usual staples plus the acoustic set along with the mammoth rock and roll medley in Whole Lotta Love. Page was in fine, fluent form, Plant was still hitting the high keys augmented by the usual solid rhytmn tandem of Jones and Bonham.

If it were non-Zeppelin? It would be:

Aerosmith - "Live Bootleg"

The band had many of their gigs on FM broadcast. Instead of professionally recording them off the mixing board, they instructed their road crew taped them off cassette decks thus the really unadulterated feel. Tyler liked that they went for the unpolished, somewhat rough sound as opposed to the "cleaner" yet sterile polish.

 

[TheWhalerfan]

RUSH - Exit Stage Left..... the drum solo at the end of YYZ is craaaaaaazy wicked!

Yup, what he said. Great album from a great band makes for a great experience.

 

[Mr. Shadow]

 

[Tommy Walker]

Favorite:



Honorable Mention:



Many of you have probably heard Live at Leeds. Santa Monica '72, on the other hand, is pretty rare. It was only available on bootleg for many years before it was officially released. Well worth the time and money though.

 

[Tommy Walker]

Yup, what he said. Great album from a great band makes for a great experience.

Seriously considering ordering Exit...Stage Left. Not familiar with Rush beyond 2112, Moving Pictures, and the rest of their radio hits though. Worth it?

 

[TheWhalerfan]

Are you after CD or DVD?

If CD, then "Exit" is their best. After that there is "A Show of Hands" but this was during their most synth driven phase so depending on your taste this may or may not appeal to you. There are also "Different Stages", "Rock in Rio", and "Snakes & Arrows Live"..plenty to choose from. I have Stages and it is very good, but I like all Rush stuff. The DVD quality of Snakes and Arrows is incredible, so I would expect the CD version to be excellent and has a mix of songs from throughout their career. Some songs such as "Force Ten" are better live than the studio version.

If you like to watch live DVDs The Snakes & Arrows is worth the $$, as is Replay X3. Replay gives you live performances of Exit, Grace Under Pressure, and A Show of Hands. Also included is the CD of the Grace concert, which sounds great considering how old it is.

Frick after all the typing I haven't really offered an opinion at all have I? Since you are a 70's Rush fan I would get Exit and/or Snakes, and also grab Replay just because you get 3 concerts plus a CD.

 

[rokkdogg]

The Business!