Live Albums

^ Tangerine Dream's Ricochet and Encore (1977) are both loved from me, as well as some later lives.

moshkito wrote: Logan wrote: ^ Tangerine Dream's Ricochet and Encore (1977) are both loved from me, as well as some later lives. Hi, To my knowledge "Encore" is the same as "Live in America"

I had assumed you were talking about the same.

Yes: Yessongs
ELP: Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends
Genesis: Seconds Out
Rush: Exit....Stage Left
Mahavisnu Orchestra: Between Nothingness and Eternity

Lot of miles on each of these albums. Many of the live versions of the songs from each of these albums is superior to the studio version. The Mahavisnu Orchestra live album contained tracks recorded during the Trident sessions later released 26 years later on The Lost Trident Sessions album.

As good as Dream, Sister Andrea and Trilogy are on the studio release, they do not have the fire that was realized on the live album. Between Nothingness and Eternity showed the Mahavisnu Orchestra at their peak abilities, even as they were fraying apart. Few bands could match them live.

Each one of these live albums showed these bands at their best, firing on all 12 cylinders. Production mars some of the quality of these albums, especially ELP and Yes's releases, but the performances are absolutely first rate.

moshkito wrote: If, the Live album in America was complete, and I'm positive that the TD folks have the tapes for it, they taped everything just like Frank Zappa did!, it would show how valuable and important it was ... and how difficult it was for Christopher Franke to get his equipment to come up and be ready for it to work properly, which took over 20 minutes. It was well known, then, how difficult a lot of the early synth stuff was and how it behaved differently on the open air stages, where the equipment, eventually had to warm up ... not that it was an issue in Southern California, but one nonetheless. It made for a lot of bootlegs in those early days ... because the equipment could not exactly duplicate things, for at least 3 or 4 more years, when things got better, but it almost took Christopher Franke leaving to make it happen, which was a suggestion (for a time) that Christopher was a slight problem, even if Edgar would not state that in the book. Edgar made it look like he was specially patient with Christopher for a long time, but before the end of the decade, it was over and things changed, and TD started using more efficient equipment, instead of the behemoth old stuff.

Encore is an essential entry in Tangerine Dream's discography, no doubt about it ("Monolight" is worth the price of admission), but portions of it aren't actually taken from the tour. This is most evident in "Desert Dream," which uses music sourced from their Oedipus Tyrannus score from 1973 (which was included in the amazing box set, In Search of Hades).

A legitimate, unadulterated concert from the 1977 North American tour, remastered, is found in the third volume of The Official Bootleg Series, a 2xCD. As we all know, the Detroit stop was long one of their most popular and oft-circulated American shows. Tracklist:

CD1

1. Cherokee Lane (12:39)
2. Monolight (21:54)
3. The Emerald Beyond (18:21)

CD2
1. Patterns in the Ivy (14:04)
2. Face of the Earth (13:32)
3. Conjuration (6:30)
4. Signals from Above (11:01)

Okay, five classic live albums. This could change in as soon as fifteen minutes.

ELP – WBMFTTSTNE
Kansas – Two for the Show
King Crimson – USA
Rush – Grace Under Pressure: 1984 Tour
Tangerine Dream – Poland–The Warsaw Concert

Edited by verslibre - March 05 2025 at 11:43

Top Five prog:

Henry Cow - Concerts
Hawkwind - Space Ritual
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet
Magma - Hhai
Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
King Crimson - Great Deceiver

verslibre wrote: Valdez wrote: Humble Pie at the Filmore King Crimson USA Blue oyster Cult on your feet or on your knees Procol Harum Live Edmonton Song remains the same (zeppelin) Now I feel like revising my list to include Extraterrestrial Live.

Yea I was surprised nobody mentioned BOC. I was lucky enough to have seen them twice and they put on a great show. Also surprised to see no Humble Pie Mentioned, my favorite live album!

richardh wrote:   Pink Floyd seemingly don't have a great live album other than Live in Pompei which like the above was a visual experience and not just a live album.

Rush~All the World's A Stage