Best Live Rock Recordings?

[gunug]

Neil Diamond is one of my guilty secrets; he's like the Perry Como of "Rock n Roll" god love him!  I still have an audio cassette of that "Hot August Night" concert that I have to get off that and onto a CD one of these days (or maybe just buy one).  Is it one of the top 10 or whatever of that period of time?  Don't know!  I don't know that Pink Floyd was really a live band to reckon with at least in the early days; I've got some mp3's of early stuff that is very, very rough!  But their studio work was fantastic!

[bil207]

A few more of my favorites:

Pictures at an Exhibition - Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Kick Out the Jams - MC5

Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads

[Paddy]

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I used to be a HUGE ELP fan. I even travelled to see them. Saw them with the full orchestra in Rochester when I was 19 (? - would have to look back at my ticket stub collection to be sure...somewhere in upstate NY, at any rate) They never made it to Toronto on that tour before they had to drop the orchestra because it was bankrupting them. That was an experience! I called CHUM FM when I got back and was thrilled to find myself being quoted on the air about the show. Of course nobody in my family was home at the time to hear it.

Hey - EARLY Neil Diamond is great! I'm a Believer, Kentucky Woman, Solitary Man, Red Red Wine... I own Classics - the Early Years, and I may get 12 Songs, his 2005 effort with Rick Rubin (who did the wonderful albums with Johnny Cash on American). I've heard bits of it here - and you can play the entire first disc of the two album set. I'd actually forgotten about that album - it was on my wish list a while back. Can't say as I'm much of a fan of the sequins era, though!

[sandbox]

I wrote ELO in the above list but meant to write ELP, though ELO have performed well enough, I was a Moog fan!

Good story bil, I might have joined you but i happened to be on a Norton Commando and traffic wasn't a problem, though the mud was a problem after the party was over.

[bil207]

QUOTE(sandbox @ Aug 15 2007, 02:40 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I wrote ELO in the above list but meant to write ELP, though ELO have performed well enough, I was a Moog fan!

Good story bil, I might have joined you but i happened to be on a Norton Commando and traffic wasn't a problem, though the mud was a problem after the party was over.

Sandbox,

   I had a nice shiny red 2 mo. old BSA Lightning that summer but my girlfriend 's cousin was with us so we took her VW bug. I was really ticked off that we were a trio but considering the torrential rain in upstate NY that weekend and my being a novice biker (went down twice in the rain on the BEESA) she did me a favor.
 

[Highmac]

Thanks for the mention of Neil Diamond. One of our BBC TV channels trawls the archives every so often and reruns TV concerts made decades ago. One I've got on the Mac was Diamond in 1973, in which he performs, with an orchestra in the studio (to a very polite British audience), Sweet Caroline, Solitary Man, Cracklin Rosie, He Ain't Heavy, Holly Holy, I Am I Said, and Brother Love; 30 very pleasant minutes.

Didn't he have BIG hair in those days

Last "live" (can you have dead ones?) concert I can recall going to was the Everly Brothers in Oxford c.1983 on their reunion tour.

However, Caroline's son-in-law went to Glastonbury this year.... described by one observer on radio as the world's largest collection of wellies

[Gregg]

QUOTE(Paddy @ Aug 14 2007, 11:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hey - EARLY Neil Diamond is great! I'm a Believer, Kentucky Woman, Solitary Man, Red Red Wine... I own Classics - the Early Years, and I may get 12 Songs, his 2005 effort with Rick Rubin (who did the wonderful albums with Johnny Cash on American). I've heard bits of it

You're right. His early efforts are great - and right on up to the 1990s

But, I have "12 Songs" and I'm not very impressed with it. I've always been a huge fan of his, but he misses the mark on this one. He set the bar pretty high, and doesn't reach it except for on the "Delirious Love" track. (There's a second version of it with Brian Wilson too.) The other songs just don't flow very well. I'd advise anyone to listen to it backwards. The first few songs are the worst on the CD, and they taint your impression of the ones that follow.

[beacher]

Hmmmmm. . . Since we're talking about recordings. . . Does anyone know of a web site that has reviews of either Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab or SACD recordings?  I'd sure appreciate a tip!