Live versions that are substantially better than the original

[AboutAGirl]

Hope we haven't done this before. What live versions do you think far outshine their studio counterparts?

Here are some of mine.

The vocal performance here is so much stronger than in the studio:



The Weld version is actually my favorite although the studio version is really good too:

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Almost everything on this album could count but Immigrant Song is particularly fierce. Check out that beastly solo:



Another one I love everything from but I love the new version they did of this, big and bad almost like a James Brown kind of thing:

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I'd also like to post Neil Young's ridiculous version of Last Trip to Tulsa from Cantebury House but there's not a lot of Neil stuff on youtube.

 

[METALPRIEST]

 

[LG]

I have always preferred this version off Ted's Double Live Gonzo to the studio version.

Great White Buffalo

 

[Wanted Dead Or Alive]

Many, many blues and blues rock songs with guitar solos are much better live...

 

[runtfan]

I much prefer the versions of No Quarter, Dazed and Confused, Whole Lotta Love, and Moby Dick from The Song Remains The Same. Also most anything off of Kiss Alive! and Frampton Comes Alive is better than its studio counterpart.

 

[rtbuck]

Deuce from Kiss Alive & She from Kiss Alive

Honey Hush by Foghat

Star Star by the Stones

Some people will probably disagree w/ me on this one because I'm Going Against the Original band but I actually prefer "I'm 18" from the Alice Cooper Show. I'm a freak over the original band & I love the original version. Cooper's voice is much better on the original version but on the live version Dick Wagner & Steve Hunter's guitar work is amazing & it was that live version (which was the first time I heard the song) that turned me into a Cooper freak

 

[CREAM'd]

 

[b.o.b.]

 

[Groovy Man]

I wouldn't necessarily say ''substantially better than the original''...

but, here ya go....

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
Album: One More from the Road

Deep Purple - Highway Star
Album: Made In Japan

Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band - Katmandu
Album: Live Bullet

Cream - Deserted Cities of the Heart
Album: Live Cream Vol. 2

Janis Joplin/Big Brother & the Holding Company - Combination of the Two
Album: Live at Winterland '68

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Keep on Chooglin'
Album:The Concert

The Band - It Makes No Difference
Album: The Last Waltz

George Harrison - Wah-Wah
Album: Concert For Bangladesh

Free - Be My Friend
Album: Free Live

Chicago - South California Purples
Album: At Carnegie Hall

Bob Dylan - Shelter from the Storm
Album: Hard Rain

Paul McCartney & Wings - Beware My Love
Album: Wings Over America

Foghat - I Just Want to Make Love to You
Album: Foghat Live

Kinks - Celluloid Heroes
Album: One for the Road

Scorpions - Fly To The Rainbow
Album: Tokyo Tapes

Jethro Tull - Sweet Dream
Album: Bursting Out

The Eagles - Saturday Night
Album: Eagles Live ('79/80)

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Tonight's the Night
Album: Live Rust

 

[LG]

^^Nothing like the Shotgun approach eh Groovy Man?...

Here's a rarity for me an album that I like every song better live than the studio cuts, and I love this band.(Double Live Gonzo is the only other album I have similar feelings about.)