REDUX: Best 70s Live Album That Did Not Come Out In the 70s

voting love peace power...

in a poll of albums filled with some amazing guitar playing, Love Peace Power, might just have the best solo ... MAYBE.

• Big Star - Live

man, that Funkadelic live record is incredible though.

listening to the Funkadelic record now -- the "Maggot Brain" here is stunning. Jimi Who? Next up is Love Power Peace ... If anything, this is giving me a good excuse to pull all of this stuff out.

ooh this is tough

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Fillmore East 1970
James Brown - Love Power Peace Olympia 1971
Led Zeppelin - How the West Was Won
Funkadelic Live - 1971
Live At The El Mocambo - Elvis Costello 1978

These are all pretty stunning (I'd put EC at the bottom tho). The Zeppelin is some of my favorite stuff ever. The Funkadelic one is amazing but has some weird/off-kilter moments thanks to breaking in the new drummer that sorta disqualify it (dude NEVER hits the groove on I Got a Thing, for example)

here are the ones i've never heard
Live At The Roxy - Bob Marley 1976
Live 1977 - The Fall
Honeyman - Tim Buckley 1973
Bruce Springsteen & E-Street Band - Hammersmith Odeon 1975
Joy Division - Les Bains Douches 18 December 1979

yeah, know what you mean about some of the drumming on the Funkadelic disc, but the highs are incredible -- "Goodies" in particular! So intense.

No Sabbath Past Lives?

Tyrone's a great drummer and ended up contributing a lot to P-Funk but it was the dude's first night with the band, totally understandable that he wouldn't nail everything... but by contrast a lot of these other ones involve combos at the peak of their powers.

might have to make a mix of the guitar epics that are on these discs ... "eight miles high", "johnny jewel", "cowgirl in the sand", "calvary cross", "maggot brain" ... think i could listen to that stuff forever.

argh sorry about "past lives" -- thought I had got everything from the previous thread ...

I've never heard the Richard & Linda Thompson live album. It sounds like it should be awesome.

yeah it's great -- part of me kinda wishes the accordion wasn't there, but sometimes it works surprisingly well ...

I'd like to vote Crim, but compared to the Great Deceiver (Disc 3, if memory serves, being the best) it's hard to go for Night Watch--the performance always seemed a bit stiff.

ok, just put on Love Power Peace -- so good. Is this the best James Brown live record? It probably is. Sorry Apollos ...

CAN: LIVE MUSIC 1971-1977 would have been a good addition to this poll as well.

jesus i have heard only one of these albums, rolling thunder revue

went with television in SF on the last poll, though tyler's right, some of the boots are better. went with love peace power on this; would also recommend 'say it live and loud', though that's from '68, released in the late 90s i believe, and has such a very killer 'cold sweat'

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might have to make a mix of the guitar epics that are on these discs ... "eight miles high", "johnny jewel", "cowgirl in the sand", "calvary cross", "maggot brain" ... think i could listen to that stuff forever.

I've been working on a double disc edition. Don't think I'll have it finished by the closing date however.

yeah, with a lot of those songs stretching past the 12-minute mark, a double disc might be necessary.

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Funkadelic was criminally underrepresented.

has there been a poll of 70s live albums that DID come out in the 70s? always wanted to do one of those.

This is my kind of "70's retro." What about the studio equivalent, the Best 70s Studio Album That Did Not Come Out In The 70s? I know these, but there's plenty more that I'm blanking on.

Chris Bell - I Am The Cosmos
Marvin Gaye - Vulnerable
David Ruffin - David
Badfinger - Head First
Jimmy Cliff - Goodbye Yesterday

Zeppelin, eh? Remind me who those guys were again? Oh, right. I guess they were pretty good. But srsly, there are probably about 8 or 9 of these records that I could've easily voted for. Ended up repping for the Neil Young Fillmore disc, since I love that thing to death. But I also love that Funkadelic thing to death. And the Television ... and the Rolling Thunder ... and the Modern Lovers ... I mean, it's sort of interesting -- are these records somehow *better* for not having been released at the time? Less taken for granted?

Good question! I think releases like this can do a lot to retrofit an artist's legacy.

I voted Modern Lovers, btw.

Yay!

cool, i do love that Modern Lovers show (or shows) ... the Santana diss, "Foggy Notion", "Plea For Tenderness"!!!! But yeah, like if How The West Was Won had been released in 1974, would people be like "best live album of the 70s" or would it just be another live 70s double (or triple) album -- awesome obviously, but maybe not totally celebrated? People love that Rolling Thunder Bootleg Series, but Hard Rain (recorded six months later) is more of a Dylan die-hard item.

also started thinking about 80s live albums that did not come out in the 80s -- though that's more of a wish list, than actual releases. Would be great if there was a really good Replacements live disc, or a Husker Du, or a Feelies, etc.

just give it another ten years!

There is a great Replacements live in the 80s - The Shit Hits The Fans. But, being released then disqualifies it.

LAME. One thing I'd like to see that probably won't happen is a good live overview of Tom Verlaine in the 80s. There's a live bonus disc from 1982 on some greatest hits thing of his ("hits", rather), but I think that a well-chosen overview of that era would rescue his solo career from oblivion. At least to some extent.

xpost, yeah the Shit Hits the Fan thing is great, but I sort of feel like a slightly less wasted show (but still sort of wasted) might be a good idea. and they've never gotten around to putting that tape out on CD, have they?

No, it never got released on anything but cassette. There are tons of quality boots The 'Mats could release - heck, I'd be happy with a nice version of the show posted in video form on the Twintone website!

never saw this poll, but i would have voted for 'love, power, peace' without a doubt (even though i love 'how the west was won' and 'the night watch' too)

never heard The Night Watch -- haven't heard a lot of Crimson, tbh. So it's awesome?

I listened to the Night Watch again for this poll. If you've heard The Great Deceiver, this set won't come as much of a surprise--it's an extension of that set. It's a very good single show, with all of the pluses and minuses of that band. Great Deceiver is still superior, however.

guess i missed a bunch of those Soft Machine live shows that have been coming out this decade -- the one I've heard is pretty sweet.

Oh man, we missed that German live Wire from 79 - On The Box - would've voted for that quick.

A lot of King Crimson Collectors' Club discs documenting the '72-'74 lineup are fantastic. I do think Past Lives was a major oversight when setting up this poll, and my vote would definitely have gone to Love Power Peace. The opening "Brother Rapp/Ain't It Funky Now" is literally breathtaking.

Past Lives definitely a major oversight.

Don't worry these guys haunted my dreams last night
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/BlackSabbath005.jpg

I wouldnt sweat it, none of them can do you any harm now, unless Ozzy sues you. I've always thought that picture was awesome.

i need to get more into early Sabbath, there is no doubt about it

Ive probably made my thoughts on that subject nauseatingly well known, but my recommendation is an unqualified "yes, you do".