I'll take Yesshows over Yessongs, just for Ritual and Gates Of Delirium. Also, I always thought Wondrous Stories made the perfect ending for the album, following that amazing version of Ritual. I never knew they never actually played Wondrous Stories as a encore until years later, when I started collecting bootlegs and got a couple from the GFTO tour, where it's always played in the middle of the set.
Another mark against Yessongs is, I gather that boxset they put out last year, the one with however many shows it was from the Close To The Edge tour, apparently including the one that Yours Is No Disgrace on Yessongs came from. And apparently, it's revealed they cut a couple big chunks out of it to squeeze it onto Yessongs.
Since someone else has mentioned Space Ritual, I throw in a vote for Space Ritual Vol. 2. Yeah, it's only half of the show, the songs are in the wrong order, and the first couple words are missing from Sonic Attack, but the unedited versions of Time We Left and Brainstorm/Wind Of Change/7x7 are amazing.
And while I'm on Hawkwind, I always liked This Is Hawkwind Do Not Panic a lot too (though it's mostly been rendered redundant by the most recent reissue of Levitation, which includes the entire concert that's side one and side two came from). Maybe not very "prog" or even "psych", but it's still a sweet album. LOVE Huw Lloyd Langton's guitar work on this one.
I'm also gonna mention King Crimson's Earthbound. Yeah, awful "We recorded it on a cassette deck" sound, a little too much "funk" during the instrumental tracks (which I think we eventually found were all drawn from different versions of Groon), but that version of Schizoid Man and Fripp's death rattle solo at the end of side two are both awesome.
Spice Doubt by Ozric Tentacles is another awesome live release. Great, great show.
Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends is another favorite. Great disc, though I wish they'd do a remix. Pictures At An Exhibition is nice, too, though I don't seem to play it too often these days. Love the fuzz/wah wah bass on The Gnome.
There's been a number of live albums recorded at the various NEARfests I attended. Off the top of my head, there's a Strawbs one, an FM one (you can hear my voice!), a Glass Hammer one, a Djam Karet one (you can hear my voice on this one too!), and a DFA one.
Gong's Live Etc is quite nice, too. I think that was the first Gong album I ever owned (either that or You).
Steve Hillage's Live/Herald is another favorite, too.
Magma's Live/Hhaï was the first actual Magma album I ever owned (though I had Köhntarkösz part on a mix tape I recorded off a college radio show for a couple years before that). Have to have it, just for the inclusion of Lïhns.
Rush Exit...Stage Left I have to mention just for side three, as well as La Villa Strangiato and Jacob's Ladder.
Here's one of my alltime favorites:
HuGo"Very, very nice," said a man in the crowd,
When the golden voice appeared.
She was gold alright, but then so is rust.
"Such a shame about the beard."
These:
Originally Posted by NogbadTheBad
and
IQ, Forever Live
Marillion, Early Stages
Hammill, Pno, Gtr, Vox Box
Does it matter that this waste of time is what makes a life for you?
Magma - Theatre du Taur 21975
Zappa - Helsinki
Tipographica - The Man Who Does Not Nod
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso - Seguendo le Tracce
Thinking Plague - Both Your Houses
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
VDGG - Vital
That's a great selection.
Magma- Retrospektiw I-II (this disk was the one that made me a fan of the band)
Cardiacs- Garage Concerts
Zappa- Road Tapes Venue 2
Pretty much anything off of the Starless Box set
A vie, a mort, et apres...
Soft Machine - 'Noisette' could certainly be included (January 4, 1970 in Croydon, UK, Cuneifom)
I originally chose BBC 67-71, but from a true live standpoint this might be my favorite SM (maybe along with Paradiso '69, Henie Onstad, and Grides almost neck-n-neck)....we're talking very fine margins here.
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I'm disqualifying albums that are known to have been significantly cleaned up/overdubbed, as they weren't really live albums. This does kill off a number of "classic" '70s live albums.
King Crimson - Absent Lovers
King Crimson - The Night Watch (Starless and Bible Black cannot be considered a live album; this is the show)
Soft Machine - Grides
Magma - Hai/Live
Gentle Giant - King Biscuit
Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Any More: Vol. II
Henry Cow - Concerts
Miles Davis - Cellar Door
Too many contenders to be able to choose only one. From the recent decade or so I would single out Hallvarður Ásgeirsson's Lífsblómið.
http://www.hallvardurasgeirsson.com/...ngs/lifsblomid
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Yes. Stellar
For me, always:
I'm not lazy. I just work so fast I'm always done.
Tie -- all the worlds a stage/seconds out
Steely Dan Two Against Nature
Fleetwood Mac The Dance
It hasn't been recorded yet.
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF STUPID PEOPLE IN LARGE GROUPS!
I love Two Against Nature, but that was Steely Dan's comeback studio album...
Do you mean the standard edition or the SW remix?
That one would be on my list as well, but I choose:
Hoelderlin - Live Traumstadt
Funny, a favorite live album is one where I actually prefer the live version to the studio, so any of the Yes live isnt on my list. My favorite live album is James Gang live at Carnegie Hall. I just love the live versions of those songs far better than the wimpy studio versions.
The live album has significant Jams, so I dont know if some would consider it prog. But I do.
I also love Rare Earth live - both for the jams and for the cool backpack packaging.
I am typically not a live album fan, but I absolutely LOVE live movies (DVD's)
I got nothin' :
...avoiding any implication that I have ever entertained a cognizant thought.
live samples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwbCFGbAtFc
https://youtu.be/AEE5OZXJioE
https://soundcloud.com/yodelgoat/yod...om-a-live-show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUe3YhCjy6g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VOCJokzL_s
King Crimson - USA (altho, The Great Deceiver is the definitive document of mid-70s KC3 live)
or
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness and Eternity
“From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away.” – Philip Marlowe
Oh yeah, that's a really great one.
My favorite has always been Genesis Live from 1973. Most people prefer Seconds Out but I don't mind skipping "Suppers Ready." The five songs included are perfection.
And that album cover....
The Prog Corner
^It's truly bizarre why no CD of Live has ever included the 'Supper's Ready' from the De Montfort Hall. I love what is on the Live album, but that's always been a big deal to me, unfortunately. How strange that they instead chose to include totally unrelated extracts from The Lamb... on the last re-release in that box.
I was thinking of the DVD and forgot that the CD was in studio. Thanks for catching that.
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