Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus
I have never been a huge Feat fan, don’t own any of their studio albums, but holy crap if this isn’t one of the best live albums capturing a band at their peak, then I don’t know what is.
Genesis - Seconds Out
Recorded on the first couple of tours after Peter Gabriel left, and the last couple of tours before Steve Hackett left. Hackett’s guitar work on this album is absolutely phenomenal, especially the solo on “Firth of Fifth”, which still gives me chills every time I listen to it.
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Live from Alabama
I just started listening to Jason Isbell a few years ago after hearing lots of good things about him. Lots of great songs, both solo and from his Drive By Truckers days. The band sounds tight, and the cover of Neil Young’s “Like A Hurricane” to close it out just blows me away.
LIVE ALIVE - Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
I’m so glad I got to see him once. Majestic Theater in San Antonio (3rd row:D). I still have my album, in a climate-controlled storage unit along with a badass stereo system. Makes me wish I had it all here at the house, especially with the current lockdown
The Band - Rock of Ages
I love watching The Last Waltz, but if I really want to listen to The Band live, this is the album.
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Hammersmith Odeon London '75
Springsteen is great live, and both Live/1975-85 and Live in New York City are great albums, but this one just captures a busting out, still fresh and young Springsteen in an amazing way.
Peter Gabriel - Secret World Live
This is the only Peter Gabriel album anyone needs.
I especially recommend the extended version of “Rock Of Ages” that includes the tracks they did with Dylan on these concerts. It was one of the very few concert appearances of Dylan between his 1966 world tour and the reunion tour with the Band in 1974, I think one of only five (the Woody Guthrie tribute with the Band in 1968, Isle of Wight with the Band in 1969, George Harrison’s Bangladesh concert in 1972 and the other one escapes me now)
Springsteen and the E Street Band at the Hammersmith is a killer live album. You can hear how they instantly grab the audience, an audience that hadn’t been familiar with their music, and they take the Hammersmith by storm.
Seconded. And after I have praised live albums by the Ramones and AC/DC, I don’t want to forget Motörhead’s “No Sleep Til Hammersmith”. A blast from start to finish.