Best Live Album

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness and Eternity, very fine solid album with loads of creativity made by real musicians!

I'll cheat here, because none of my favourites are included in the list (from the given options I chose Genesis: Live). Also I'll mention some live DVDs. Here's my top 10 of live concerts by prog bands:

1 Roger Waters: In the Flesh (the set list is excellent, although otherwise I prefer Floyd, for Gilmour's and Wright's contibution)
2 Marillion: The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra) 2CD (for complete perfomance of Misplaced Childhood plus some other favourites of mine: Fugazi, A Script, Jigsaw, Chelsea Monday)
3 Pink Floyd: Pulse 2CD/DVD (mainly for including Dark Side in its entirety)
4 Genesis: Seconds Out 2CD (even Collins couldn't spoil this one, includes Firth of Fifth, Cinema Show, Supper's Ready and some of the best tracks from Trick...)
5 Genesis: Live - The Way We Walk: Volume Two - The Longs (proves that even the most commercial 3 albums, Genesis, Invisible and Dance, had some good prog songs on them)
6 Marillion: Marbles on the Road, 2DVD version from Racket Records (a good selection of Marbles' songs and some other Hogarth-era favourites)
7 Jethro Tull: A Little Light Music CD (the acoustic side of Tull, but probably I'll like Anderson's upcoming live CD/DVD even more)
8 Pink Floyd: Is There Anybody Out There? - The Wall Live 2CD (slightly improved from the studio version, not my favourite PF album either, but, like Gilmour says it, "when it's good, it's very, very good")
9 Rush: Different Stages 3CD (a better choice than Exit... Stage Left, because most of the songs from that are here as well, plus the song 2112 in its entirety and so many other old and new Rush favourites)
10 Yes: Keys to Ascension DVD (2½ hours of the 70's classics, slightly spoiled by the silly animations, though; however, I might prefer Symphonic, if only I had heard/seen it)

of those listed I'll go with Hendrix even if it's just for Machine gun

Other great live albums:

Hawkwind: "Space Ritual", "Live 79", "Live Chronicles", "The Business Trip", "Lost in Space"
Gong: "Live Etc.", "Gong Est Mort - Vive Gong", "Live In Sheffield", "Live au Bataclan"
Kraan: "Live" and "Live 88"
Guru Guru: "Live" and "30 Jahre Live"
Atlantis (the German band of this name): "Live"
Frumpy: "Live"
Wishbone Ash: "Live"
Deep Purple: "Made In Japan"
Curved Air: "Live"
Hoelderlin: "Traumstadt - Live"
Frank Zappa: "Roxy and Elsewhere", "Live at Fillmore East", "Live in New York"
Grobschnitt: "Solar Music Live"
Embryo : "Live", "Live with the Karnataka College of Percussion"
Planet Gong: "Live Floating Anarchy"
801: "Live"
Grateful Dead: "Live Dead", "Live in Europe"

To name a few. I definitely love live albums.

Agitation free: Last (1974)
                          Fragments (1974)
                           At the cliffs… (1974)

Sweet smoke/Live ‘74
Mahavisnu/From nothinghness...

And if you extend to us psyche:

Allman brothers: Filmore east and Eat a peach (half live)
Quicksilver/Happy trails
Joplin/In concert
Grateful dead/Live from the vaults (1968)

Yessongs.Genesis Live 1973 is a great live album too,most of those songs sounded better live than the studio version,especially Return of the Giant Hogweed.

Rush's All the World's a Stage and Exit Stage Left are also pretty good.

Dream Theater's live albums and Pain of Salvation's 12:5 are worth a mention too.

Some key live albums were left out, like Genesis' "Seconds Out", Gentle Giant's "Playing the Fool", and Rainbow's "On Stage".  So the poll is kind of worthless.

Really now, the Allman Brothers? The Band?  The lame Jackson Browne?!?  You've got to be kidding me?!!?!

 

 

 

I feel silly today and since we included non -prog I voted for the Moms of Invention and the Mud Shark, Here comes my Bullet and assorted other idiocies , weird , lewd fun.