Have you ever been to a concert that was recorded and issued on an album?
The only one I’m on that I know of, is the album of The Guess Who reunion shows at the Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, the first time the four original members had reformed.
If bootlegs count, I’m in the crowd on three Paul McCartney shows that I now have on CD.
I just wonder if anybody here is on Frampton Comes Alive or The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl or Kiss Alive, or…you name it!
The first rock concert I ever went to, in 1969, resulted in Iron Butterfly Live.
I’m also in the audience on Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe: An Evening of Yes Music Plus (also on video; I’m not visible), Fairport Convention’s 25th Anniversary Concert (with Robert Plant), ProjeKct Four’s Live in San Francisco 1998 and possibly a couple of other Fripp-related releases.
I’ve always been frustrated that Frank Zappa released some performances from San Diego 12/12/81, but only from the late show, while I was at the early show.
I may have been in the audience for Last of the Red Hot Burritos by the Flying Burrito Brothers. The entire tour was recorded and used for the album, but I don’t know which bits, if any, were used for the album. I do remember they did a song a second time for the album because the audience was clapping out of time with the music in the first take.
I was in the Audience for the ‘Paradise City’ video recorded at Giant’s Stadium in '88. My girlfriend at the time can be seen sitting on my shoulders (blond hair, red t-shirt).
Woodstock, which included a fair number of groups. (I am probably on the album cover, but as no more than a pixel or two.) Also George Harrison’s Concert for Bangladesh.
I was at a Barenaked Ladies concert a few years ago that was broadcast live as a pay-per-view show. Only concert I’ve ever been to that started on time.
Also, I got into a small concert that the Presidents of the United States of America did to shoot footage for a video (Lump, I think it was), but I saw the video once and nothing from there got used.
Guy Evans & Peter Hammill - The Union Chapel Concert (London)
This included VDGG all playing together on stage for the first time in years, which led ultimately, several years later to
Van der Graaf Generator - Real Time (Royal Festival Hall - London)
The re-union concert. I saw them later on the tour as well, when they had loosened up a little…
Probably a couple of other Peter Hammill/VDGG live albums, but often the tracks were pulled from several different concert tapes so I’d have to check which tracks were from the gigs I was at.
Not me, but my brother is on Waiting for Columbus (Little Feat, partially recorded at the Lisner Auditorium) and Running on Empty (Jackson Browne, partially recorded at Merriwether Post Pavilion), and On State (Loggins and Messina, partially recorded at Carnegie Hall).
Back in the early 80s, Genesis filmed their concert at the Nassau Coliseum in Hempstead, NY. The concert was released on VHS. If you look real close, you can see the back of my head, as I was in the 6th or 7th row. Good luck picking out which head is mine - I couldn’t.
I was in Atlanta for Gov’t Mule’s New Year’s Eve show in '98. It was released as LIVE…With a Little Help From Our Friends. I stood in the very front in front of Woody for most of the night, so if there had been any good crowd shots I’d have been in them. But there weren’t and I’m not.
Parts of Frampton Comes Alive were recorded at a concert in Plattsburgh, NY in 1975. I was at that concert, but I have no idea which of the Plattsburgh parts are on the album.
Many years later, I took my wife to see The Moody Blues in, I think, Springfield MA. They recorded concert footage there for the Your Wildest Dreams music video, and we’re in the audience in that video.
I was in the audience when the Derek Trucks Band did its HDTV broadcast/DVD “Songlines Live.” I stood in front of the bar, so I’m not visible on the DVD.