Essential live albums

LOVE live albums!!!!!

MSG - One Night at Budokan
UFO - Strangers In The Night
Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes
Raven - Live At The Inferno
Humble Pie - Performance: Rockin' The Fillmore
Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive (without this album I would have never discovered Humble Pie......... they are mentioned in the write-up)
AC/DC - If You Want Blood
Yes - Yessongs
Genesis - Seconds Out
Rush - All The Worlds A Stage (They sound raw and heavy on this!!!)
Camel - A Live Record
Y&T - Open Fire

Jammed YESSONGS on my way to work this morning. Classic live album.

Accept - Kaizoku Ban

Pat travers..go for what you know
thin lizzy..life live
scorpions..world wide live
Ozzy..speak of the devil
heaven & hell..live at radio city
black sabbath..live evil
y&t...live at the mystic
frank marino..live
april wine..greatest hits live
black n blue..one night in detroit

Thin Lizzy - Live Life

Rush - All The Worlds a Stage
Rush - Different Stages for that 3rd disc which is a 1978 aborted radio broadcast done on the Farewell to Kings tour....

Not gonna rehash all the other great discs that everyone else has listed.... there are just so many... I've always enjoyed live albums because it was a way to hear a band 'live'... especially since when I was 14 in 1981 there was no way I was gonna see any of my favorites live.... My parents thought it was just horrible....

Tygers of Pan Tang: Live at Nottingham Rock City 1981. It's even heavier than their studio albums!

Genesis: Live In London 05-07-1980 The Lyceum Tapes (30th Anniversary Remastered Edition). This is a free bootleg that is readily available online. I think it was available for those only in the fan club for a while.

Not metal but



Something got lost on some of the Elvis studio records but this is awesome!!

Most of what I deem essential has been said.
Though I'd throw in Ted Nugent's" Intensities in 10 Cities" LP myself, but maybe that is more a fan fave, than essential ?

listening to Michael Schenker Group - Rock Will Never Die (1984) right now.

Ever since I heard of  "live" albums, like one of my faves which also was on vhs/dvd-
THE KINKS-One For The Road (dbl-lp),
at the same time got started being interested in "bootleg" tapes/Lp's
and now with the internet, it is better than ever.

Plus with YouTube there are those sharing concerts I can never afford to attend.

I have almost all of the Led Zeppelin 1970s boots that have been shared online, which is great as I was only aware of The Monkess and Bay City Rollers and The Partridge Family back then in my childhood.

PS. Glad an ULTIMATUM dvd  was finally released!
My pet peeve of this new generation is they do not record/film/share concerts, especially if they are not upfront and headbanging.
I try to record everything and let a band or promoter know in case they have requests to get a copy.