# Are you in the audience on anyone's live album? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 10, 2007, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-the-audience-on-anyones-live-album/411202 "2007-07-10T14:45:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-the-audience-on-anyones-live-album/411202/1 "2007-07-10T14:45:19Z")
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! ETA: Sorry, wrong forum! Please move me! ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-the-audience-on-anyones-live-album/411202/2 "2007-07-10T14:54:57Z")
No worries. Moved. ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-the-audience-on-anyones-live-album/411202/3 "2007-07-10T15:08:05Z")
I’m actually in the audience for the “White Album”. So it was actually Lewis Black’s album not the Beatles, but it’s still kinda cool right? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-the-audience-on-anyones-live-album/411202/4 "2007-07-10T15:13:38Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-the-audience-on-anyones-live-album/411202/5 "2007-07-10T15:14:38Z")
I’m on several Springsteen live albums. Any cut taken from an LA show is likely to have me on it. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-the-audience-on-anyones-live-album/411202/6 "2007-07-10T15:26:34Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-the-audience-on-anyones-live-album/411202/7 "2007-07-10T15:44:59Z")
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). ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-the-audience-on-anyones-live-album/411202/8 "2007-07-10T15:52:09Z")
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._ ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-the-audience-on-anyones-live-album/411202/9 "2007-07-10T15:54:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![jacquilynne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@jacquilynne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacquilynne)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-the-audience-on-anyones-live-album/411202/10 "2007-07-10T16:05:59Z")
The Sadies and Neko Case for sure. Possibly others. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-the-audience-on-anyones-live-album/411202/11 "2007-07-10T16:13:56Z")
\*\*Faust \*\* - _Live in Edinburgh_ **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. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-the-audience-on-anyones-live-album/411202/12 "2007-07-10T16:46:31Z")
**Emmet Swimming** - _Earplugs: 50 cents_. I’m definitely on that. **Cowboy Mouth** - _All You Need is Live_. I was at two of the shows that was recorded at but I don’t know what was used. There’s a decent chance I’m in there somewhere on Rush’s _A Show of Hands_ album. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-the-audience-on-anyones-live-album/411202/13 "2007-07-10T17:11:10Z")
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). Not a bad representation. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-the-audience-on-anyones-live-album/411202/14 "2007-07-10T17:33:08Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-the-audience-on-anyones-live-album/411202/15 "2007-07-10T17:36:00Z")
I’m in the audience for the Arcade Fire peformance that’s on the Coachella DVD. I also enjoy collecting bootlegs of concerts I’ve been to. I’d guess that I’ve got about 10 of those. ---
**Author:** ![DfrntBreign](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-the-audience-on-anyones-live-album/411202/16 "2007-07-10T19:26:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-the-audience-on-anyones-live-album/411202/17 "2007-07-10T19:28:31Z")
I was at \*\*Demetri Martin’s \*\* comedy CD recording . ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-the-audience-on-anyones-live-album/411202/18 "2007-07-10T19:43:11Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-the-audience-on-anyones-live-album/411202/19 "2007-07-10T19:50:45Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-the-audience-on-anyones-live-album/411202/20 "2007-07-10T20:04:59Z")
You know the guy who calls Dylan Judas on the Royal Albert Hall Concert CD? That’s me. Ok its not, but I wish it was. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-in-the-audience-on-anyones-live-album/411202.md?page=2)