I was in the front row at the recording of the Drive By Truckers Live at Austin City Limits DVD/CD (sample)
I was in the audience at MIT for the Moxy Fruvous recording of Lowest Highest Point that appears on Live Noise.
I was in the audience for Van Der Graaf Generator’s reunion gig at the Royal Festival Hall, London in 2005 (released in full in 2007 titled Real Time).
I was also at the Union Chapel gig in 1997 which was officially Guy Evans & Peter Hammill but Hugh Banton & Dave Jackson both had solo spots and then all 4 played 3 songs together, effectively the first VdGG gig since their split in 1978.
As I recall, at least one track on Hammil’s K Group live album The Margin was recorded at the Edinburgh gig on that tour (1985, iirc), and I’ve been at other Hammill gigs where odd tracks have popped up later on live releases…
I’m fairly sure I’ve been at other gigs which resulted in live albums but the only one that comes to mind right now was the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh in 2004 for a gig consisting of crime writer Ian Rankin and the late Jackie Leven reading/performing an Inspector Rebus story called Jackie Leven Said. Sadly, I don’t actually own a copy. The support group was The Willard Grant Conspiracy who I had never heard at the time but who were excellent…
I was at the Jackson Browne show at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD on 8/27/1977. Running On Empty, The Loadout, and Stay were recorded that night and appeared on the Running On Empty album.
Years after the fact, someone claimed to be the “Paint ot Black, you devils!” girl on Ya Yas!, but apparently her claim is suspect.
I attended one of the shows Pink Floyd recorded for “Delicate Sound of Thunder” at the Nassau Coliseum. Unfortunately it was the day with the least representation (only 1 track).
I attended the Genesis concert at Nassau Coliseum that is a major source of Three Sides Live.
Al DiMeola released an Anthology on Columbia that included live tracks recorded at the Calderone Concert Hall in Hempstead, NY. The liner notes have the wrong date; the date they list is the air date as it was recorded for radio, the concert was in July 1978.
I was at the U2 Paradise Club show in Boston that they took an early B side from and more recently issued the whole set on CD.
Cool! I love that album.
My own claim to nonexistent glory is that I attended the U2 concert at the old McNichols Arena in Denver on November 8, 1987, and three songs from that performance wound up on the album Rattle & Hum.
Honestly though, I’m not positive my presence really added much to the final recording.
The first concert I ever attended was the Simon and Garfunkel reunion in Central Park (1981), which became an album (and a documentary film). As Rough Draft said, I doubt I added much to the album!
BTW, at that same age (eleven), I invented an imaginary rock band I called “Rough Draft.” Just today, I finally got around to adding it to the “Invented Band Names A-Z” thread game! (Almost the only time I’ve ever participated in that forum).
How coincidental that, an hour later, I encounter a relatively new poster named Rough Draft, in a thread about rock music…
I was going through the CDs at one of the Boston area Newbury Comics stores (which actually sell more DVDs and CDs and character-emblazoned merchandise than comics) when I stumbled across a recording of Rick Wakeman’s Journey to the Center of the Earth recorded live at the Boston Music Hall (Later the Wang Center) – one of the very few rock concerts that I had attended. I had no idea this set of discs ever existed – I never saw it when browsing online. Naturally, I had to buy it.
JKellyMap (if that’s even your real name):
I regret to inform you that my team of attorneys will be contacting you regarding my upcoming trademark and intellectual property infringement lawsuit.
Because that’s the name of MY new band, dammit!
Me too! I absolutely love this album with its special on-the-road theme and atmosphere. I would’ve killed to have been part of the audience for this, but I was only 9 then and on the other side of the pond ;).
I was there when Kiss Alive! was recorded, in part, at Detroit’s Cobo Hall in 1975.
The back cover photo of the album was taken at the Cobo show.
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Kiss Alive!–all right! A great live album, even with the overdubs(not that there’s anything wrong with that :D) . I caught them on the next tour, 12th row center in Oakland. One of the best concerts I’ve ever seen.
Was this when they were trying to record “Live Bootleg”?
Do videos count? I was at the show where the live footage was shot. It’s “Tilted” by Sugar.
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Was this when they were trying to record “Live Bootleg”?
Do videos count? I was at the show where the live footage was shot. It’s “Tilted” by Sugar.
[/QUOTE]Of course that counts, and having been in a Sugar video is a cool thing! 
Does it count with limited live release, by the band (not sure if a label was involved), sold straight after the concert? If so, I was attending a concert with Einstürzende Neubauten in Oslo in… 2008? 9? Alles wieder offen tour, I think. It was crazy too, two extra shows, one semi-improvised by method of each of them pulling individual themes out of a hat.
It looks like, from being in there last month, that they sell more merch than music.
It’s funny because I remember when they opened. They sold buttons and records and comics. So I went in to see if I could trade some 50s comics for new wave and punk. They weren’t interested. The comics were just a lure!
Danm… you were a jerk back then too??
Just kidding; We are aloud to kid here aren’t we?
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I was present and credited on the album “Ken Carlisle and the Cadillac Cowboys” self titled first album.
as Key Grip and photographer. In reality I was an amateur Photog that lived next to the drummer, Rich from Minnesota , or as I knew him, “Minnesota Slim”.
Anybody in Central/Western/Southern Illinois ever see or hear of them?
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