Favorite intro song on a live album

What's your favorite song that opens a live album? I decided to start this thread after listening to the Band's "Rock of Ages", with a really rocking cover of "Don't Do It":

 

But my favorite one has to be the Grateful Dead's "Bertha" which opens the live 1971 album, as brilliant opening concert number as there ever was,

 

Stevie Wonder - "Dancing To The Rhythm"

 

3 off the top of my brain...

1.Miles Davis / Prelude...the opening piece on Miles Davis 1975 record Agharta & a high point during MD fusion era & with Pete Cosey on guitar the closest we will ever get to a Miles & Hendrix collaboration

2.Jimi Hendrix Experience / Killing Floor from Monterrey but nothing could prepare us for sexual hard rock blast that Jimi would close with, the unbelievable Wild Thing

3.Elvin Bishop / Raisin' Hell... this stomping funky piece of mid-70s RocknRoll was the perfect opener to the shamelessly overlooked 1977 2LP barn burner record Live-Raisin Hell...

One of rocks finest live records

 

On the Way Home - Neil Young, Massey Hall

New Feeling - Talking Heads, The Name of this Band is Talking Heads

The National Anthem - Radiohead, I might Be Wrong:Live Recordings

 

Great choice!

 

Sweet Jane on Lou's "R'n'R Animal "

 

"The Firebird" on both "Yessongs" and "Yes Shows"

 

Right when I saw the title of the thread I immediately thought of this.

 

First one I thought of.

 

Bob Marley & The Wailers - Trenchtown Rock. It sets the tone of the Live! album perfectly.

 

Hello There off Cheap Trick At Budokan is perfect.

 

Thanks for heads up on Neil. Wonderful.

 

“Song called “Highway Star”. Yeah!”

 

Astronomy Domine from Pink Floyd's UmmaGumma. Right off into the solar system!

 

Kill The King - Rainbow - On Stage
First I Look At The Purse - J.Geils Band - Live Full House
Statesboro Blues - Allman Brothers Band - Live At Fillmore East
Who Do You Love - Doors - Absolutely Live

Off the top of my head just to get the ball rolling

 

The sheer power of the intro song impacts me the most on live hard-rock recordings. My top five (in alphabetical order) are:

• Beck, Bogert & Appice - "Superstition" (on Live in Japan '73)
  
• Deep Purple - "Highway Star" (live albums from 1972) or "Burn" (live in 1974/75)
• Grand Funk Railroad - "Are You Ready" (the best one is on their Live Album '70)
  
• Humble Pie - "Four Day Creep" (like on their Fillmore '71 shows)
• Led Zeppelin - "We're Gonna Grove" (e.g. Royal Albert Hall '70) or "Rock & Roll" (especially the one on The Song Remains the Same '73)

 

in my opinion not the strongest song on the disc but a clear indication of what was to follow from Reed Maher Quine Saunders




"Bad Vibes" on The Nomads Made in Japan

 

"I Guess You Made It" by Poco, from Deliverin'.

If I'm not mistaken, this was the first time this song was heard, as a studio version had not yet been released. The vocals at the first break were breathtaking!

 

"Train Kept A-Rollin'" from "Yardbirds '68"... for better and worse, there's no trace of its jump blues genesis or rockabilly rewrite... it's pure hard rock...

 

Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues off Live at Folsom Prison, recorded at Folsom Prison