Your Top 5 1970's double live albums?

Also this one...

 

KISS - Alive!
UFO - Strangers in the Night
Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous
Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes

 

Oops, Raunch n'Roll isn't a double album, my bad....

 

i think you are correct

 

OK, here's my favourites:

Queen - Live Killers
Kiss - Alive II
Bee Gees - Here At Last...Live
Bette Midler - Live At Last!
Wings - Over America [ok, I know its a triple, but I think its still in the spirit of the thread! ]

Theres also three great live albums recorded in the 70s that didnt make it out till 1980 that I would happily have included. Eagles Live, Fleetwood Mac Live and Supertramp's Paris.

 

Why Stop at 5?
Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East
David Bowie - David Live
Deep Purple - Made In Japan
ELP - Welcome Back My Friends....
Humble Pie - Performance: Rockin' The Fillmore
Jethro Tull - Bursting Out
Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same
Little Feat - Waiting For Columbus
Modern Jazz Quartet - The Complete Last Concert
Van Morrison - It's Too Late To Stop Now
Santana - Lotus
Ten Years After - Recorded Live
Velvet Underground - 1969 Live
Yes - Yessongs

 

KISS - Alive!
Van Morrison - It's Too Late Too Stop Now
UFO - Strangers in the Night
Cheap Trick - At Budokan - it's a single LP but needs to be on here
Wings - Wings Over America ( a triple but..)

 

I'm new to the forum. I just finished listening to Side 1 of "Made in Japan". I thought to myself, "Surely there is a 'Top Live Albums' thread on this forum." There was. So I'm bumping it back to the top. I've seen lots of votes for ABB at the Fillmore. Great pick. I just recently picked up Grand Funk Live. I can't believe that I didn't have that one back in the day. I was never a huge GFRR fan. But that album smokes. I haven't gone through this entire thread. So, in all likelihood, someone has mentioned "Twin Peaks" by Mountain. One of my personal favorites. I mean, what's better than a half hour of Nantucket Sleigh Ride?

More good fun with a "Top (fill-in the blank)" thread. And more good material for me to add to my collection.

 

I can't do just 5, because there are so many. And I can't do just doubles, so there are a triple albums in here:

The Allman Brothers Band at Fillmore East
The Beach Boys In Concert
Grateful Dead Europe '72
Yessongs
Wings Over America
Genesis Seconds Out
The Concert For Bangla Desh

 

Keep in mind that I still need to go through this thread and read all of the posts. But here's one that I would bet that no one has mentioned:

Jethro Tull - Bursting Out

It bogs down a bit in some of the acoustic stuff. But the live version of Thick as a Brick is, IMO, bad***. Martin Barre at his best. Same for Hunting Girl, A New Day Yesterday, and The Dambusters' March. Which reminds me that I need to find a copy of this on vinyl (to replace one discarded 25 years ago).

 

Allman Brothers - Fillmore East
Kansas - Two for the Show
ELP - Welcome Back (actually a triple LP)
CSNY - One Way Street
Genesis - Seconds Out

 

I recently picked up a copy of ELP WBMFTTSTNE on vinyl. I've had it on CD for years and discarded my old vinyl copy 25 years ago. I have a hard time deciding which versions of ELP I like best. Sometimes I'm in the mood for studio Tarkus (on MFSL) and sometimes nothing will do but the live version (Aquatarkus is phenomenal).

 

Kiss
Deep Purple
Wings
Grand Funk
Humble Pie

 

I'm surprised the Doors Absolutely Live isn't getting any/many mentions.

Here's my list-

CSNY - 4 Way Street
George Harrison & Friends - The Concert for Bangladesh
Doors - Absolutely Live
Humble Pie - Rockin the Fillmore

SPECIAL MENTION. [This doesn't technically qualify, since it wasn't released until 2004, but it IS of a 1970s concert, and it's wonderful--

Laura Nyro ‎– Spread Your Wings And Fly: Live At The Fillmore East May 30, 1971

 

UFO - Strangers in the Night*
Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous
Neil Young - Live Rust
David Bowie - Live at Santa Monica/Stage/Live/Ziggy Live, etc
The Band, etc - The Last Waltz

*The first double live I heard. I think I have let fond memories of it grow unchecked over the years and am now a little scared of playing it in case it isn't as good as I remember it. Some of it would make a perfect football chant:
Only you can rock me Reading
Come on back now do it again
Only you can rock me, Reading
Kicking out just like a hurricane
We can't wait from day to day
'Cause we've got Jimmy Kebe

 

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I remember dozens of great live albums from the seventies, but mostly only on one disc and not over 50 minutes.

Talking strictly about Double LPs with an extended running time over one hour, I would indeed call only five releases in total from that decade truly classic and really outstanding:

- Colosseum Live
- Allman Brothers Band at Fillmore East
- Doors - Absolutely Live
- Zappa & Mothers - Roxy & Elsewhere
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Live Rust







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Allman Brothers - LIVE AT FILLMORE EAST

James Brown - LOVE POWER PEACE

James Brown - REVOLUTION OF THE MIND

Miles Davis - AGHARTA/PANGAEA

Van Morrison - IT'S TOO LATE TO STOP NOW

 

~"Welcome To The Club"- The Ian Hunter Band Featuring Mick Ronson
~1969: The Velvet Underground Live"- The Velvet Underground
~"Live Rust"- Neil Young & Crazy Horse
~"Rock Of Ages"- The Band
~"4 Way Street"- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
~"It's Too Late To Stop Now"- Van Morrison
~"Back To The Bars"- Todd Rundgren
~"Miles Of Ailes"- Joni Mitchell
~"Live At Fillmore East"- The Allman Brothers
~"Live Europe '72"- The Grateful Dead
~"The Concert For Bangladesh"- George Harrison & Bob Dylan & Various Artists
~"Wings Over America"- Paul McCartney & Wings
~"The Last Waltz"- The Band & Various Artists
~"Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses)"- The Grateful Dead
~"Live"- Bob Marley & The Wailers
~"Babylon By Bus"- Bob Marley & The Wailers
"In Concert"- Derek & The Dominoes

Honorable Mention:
"The Song Remains The Same"- Led Zeppelin
"Stage"- David Bowie
"Live"- David Bowie
"Before The Flood"- Bob Dylan & The Band
"One For The Road"- The Kinks
"Curtis/Live"- Curtis Mayfield
"Shadows & Light"- Joni Mitchell
"Waiting For Columbus"- Little Feat
"Love You Live"- The Rolling Stones

 

1.ABB - AFE
2.Dead - Grateful Dead
3.Humble Pie - Rockin The Fillmore
4.Wishbone Ash - Live Dates
5.Ten Years After - Recorded Live
6.Alvin Lee & Co. - In Flight
7.Elvin Bishop - Raisin Hell
8.Lynyrd Skynyrd - OMFTR
9.UFO - Strangers In The Night
10.Deep Purple - MIJ
11.VU - 1969
12.Willie Nelson & Family - Live
13.Band - Rock Of Ages
14.Curtis Mayfield - Curtis Live
15.Van Morrison - ITLTSN

There are others but these are pretty much as good as the 70s got

 

Bangla-Desh was 3LP box & Europe 72 was a 3 LP set & Ian Hunter was in 80 not the 1970s & I never was a fan of solo McCartney but if I recall WOA was a 3 LP set as well

 

That was a single LP not a double

 

Live albums are some of my favorites of all time.

KISS - Alive!
Led Zeppelin- The Song Remains The Same
Humble Pie -Fillmore
Chicago - Live at Carnegie Hall
Rush - All the World’s A Stage

 

Frampton Comes Alive
Joni Mitchell - Shadows and Light
Led Zeppelin - Song Remains the Same
Lynyrd Skynrd - One More from the Road
van Morrison - Too Late to Stop Now

 

I know. You missed "The Last Waltz", that was also a triple. I saw a few other folks listing triples & figured I'd toss them in here. At least I ignored numerous great single live albums! My list was already way overboard, but noting my parameter busting- it means my list of 17 involved only 12 real pure classic double lives from the 70's! Not quite so far overboard...

I saw someone else noted the Ian Hunter-Mick Ronson Band album was released in 80', but it's so brilliant that I just couldn't resist & now it gets talked about more- Yay & thanks! And, for the record, the original release was also only 3 sides live with side 4 consisting of 3 new studio tracks & one last live cut- but the CD reissue happily adds a few more live cuts, bringing it to classic live double length...

I was tempted to toss in Eric Clapton's "Just One Night" (recorded with thw great Albert Lee on guitar) which, like "Welcome To The Club", was recorded at the tale end of the year (Nov for Ian-Mick & Dec for Eric) & also released in '80 & "Live Dead" (by The Grateful Dead), a late '69 release, but I resisted. Here they are now though!

Also The Velvet Underground album was from '74, but the shows are all '69 (surprised I was, I think, the first to mention it here)... and, one of my honorable mentions, "One For The Road" is from 1980 & recorded that year too... at least I didn't go all the way to "The Concert In The Park" by Simon & Garfunkel (late '81 show, released in '82) which someone also loved enough to mention & add to their list.

 

Stuck closer to the guidelines (no triple albums) & got it down to a Top 11! In no particular order...

~"1969: The Velvet Underground Live"- The Velvet Underground
~"Live Rust"- Neil Young & Crazy Horse
~"Rock Of Ages"- The Band
~"4 Way Street"- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
~"It's Too Late To Stop Now"- Van Morrison
~"Back To The Bars"- Todd Rundgren
~"Miles Of Ailes"- Joni Mitchell
~"Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses)"- The Grateful Dead
~"Live At Fillmore East"- The Allman Brothers
~"Babylon By Bus"- Bob Marley & The Wailers
~"In Concert"- Derek & The Dominoes