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number 10 on my list is the Grateful

Dead live dead from 1969. there are a

couple of reasons why this record came

out firstly they owed their record label

another album after the oximoxo record

and secondly they felt their Studio

albums didn't in any way represent the

true sound and represent who they were

who they are live dead is a much more

faithful representation the very

identity of this band The oxymoron live

dead is all part of a package designed

by Bob Thomas who

interestingly uh made sure that the word

dead on the rear of the sleeve if half

covered up actually spells out the word

acid how revealing is that this double

live album is the Pinnacle of this

band's initial phase one defined by this

freaky experimentation and strange blend

of uh Jug Band acid drenched blues and

it's at this juncture that the band's

performances would often mutate into

um in the words of one critic into a

sinewy effortlessness incarnate Darkstar

is a true star of course taking up one

whole side of fine or this quiet Cosmic

Meandering not so much Meandering more

in Urban Flow slow pulse of trippiness

and the lyrics for darks are perfectly

sued Jerry Garcia's Voice without

yearning mewing inflections of his

perfectly complimented by Bill cruzman's

drums who were picked up which were

picked up beautifully by the ambient my

king the unbeat miking was set up by

Betty and Bob Matthews after this album

of course the band shift into more

country and Bluegrass territory and

produced a couple of fine fine albums

but there's a sort of a trailing off

after that in the words of one critic

into a kind of Pope array of Easy

Feeling Good Time fake old-timey tunes

that made them sound a bit like a punch

drunk Allman Brothers live dead is not

just a fine live album It's a necessary

historical document number nine is the

Allman Brothers live at the film or

1971.

interesting time for Dwayne Allman who

had been jamming with Clapton who

actually invited him to join his band

but Dwayne Allman wanted to stay within

the on brothers that out of those

sessions of course there arose to one of

the finest double albums ever and that

is Layla and other assorted love songs

but this live album is a testimony to

what a fantastic outfit The Allman

Brothers were it was recorded over three

nights and I think it was By Invitation

Only The Allman Brothers for these

historic shows are on the bill of Edgar

Winter and the Beach Boys now the Beach

Boys tried to muscle in and get top

billing but uh Bill Graham the promoter

that stuck to his guns and his sister

has agreed that the OM brothers would

headline

but this collection of songs display the

band at the most uh potent intricate

nuances the extended jams uh versions of

whipping posts you don't love being in

memory of Elizabeth Reed the dueling of

the guitars are just simply mesmerizing

it's like a weaving with sound and this

actually does feel like a live album

probably because it essentially is very

very few of any overdubs at all I think

there's a harmonica section that was

removed but that's about it what you

hear is kind of what you got on the

night the Allman Brothers recognize that

what they did they did better live

yeah I think Dwayne Allman had described

their making their Studio albums as just

simply frustrating the 1969 debut album

felt subdued and their second album

either wild South worked to Showcase a

softer and more commercially viable side

to them but this whole folk rock reverie

just didn't work for this band a band

there was at its very best when it was

loud and spontaneous but live in fact

number eight is live and Dangerous by

Thin Lizzy from 1978. this album may not

be the best live album but my God it's

the best in Lizzie album in my opinion a

glorious way of celebrating the Spence

Glory Days

like a lot of live albums at the time

it's not strictly live being somewhat

colored and over dubbed and enhanced in

the studio shall we say producer Tony

visconte felt the need to sprinkle some

fairy dust over the recordings

and in the context of Thin Lizzy I use

the term fairy dust advisedly let's just

say that some corrective steering was

required there's no doubt that sound

contains more power and energy than the

original LPs when this album is released

it had two top 10 albums and two top ten

singles I believe one critic said

greatness hung about them but never

quite enveloped them

but live and dangerous changed all that

so I believe it's a double platinum

album certainly in the UK anyway it was

a testament to the power and presence of

this band thankfully it lacks all those

manifold tropes that seem to Mar a lot

of live albums in the 70s

like extended solos and things like that

or kind of subpar cover versions this is

just full-on no-nonsense a heavy rocket

it's very very best it just bristles and

crackles of energy from the get-go

number seven is the Rolling Stones get

your Yaya's out

this is uh for many is is considered

their first live album as many like to

disown the live album that came before

it got live if you wanted released four

years prior to this one it was disowned

by the band as well but I think that

album was one of those uh fulfilling of

a contractual obligation type records

but it just came across as a bit of a

mess due to its ramshackle editing all

making it sound rather amateurish get

your Yaya's out as a blind boy Fuller

number dating from a 1936. in fact I

think Yaya's is actually pronounced more

yes yes and there's

um I think it's slang for ass or if you

come from the home counties here in the

UK ass but nevertheless it's an album

described by Lester bangs as an

unfettered Delight the stones have

certainly grown into their bad boy

personas and suddenly after releasing

Beggars Banquet and some top-notch

singles let's not forget Let It Bleed

was on the horizon as well I think let

it play came out around about this

November December time of this year yeah

and the stone has played their first

date in Colorado on November the 7th

they were establishing themselves the

best live band on the circuit but let's

not forget the dark storm clouds were

gathering over the altmont speedway in

California this is a glimpse of Rock and

Roll History unfold and with Mick Taylor

sounding fantastic and Jack are

perfectly cultivating that priapic strut

of his one that would uh prompt Truman

Capote uh to describe him on these 1972

American tourists having all the sex

appeal of a pissing toad but the band

sounded great rough and Jagged we

wouldn't want it any other way the

guitars stab a machete their way through

the set and a solid Rhythm Section

they're provided by uh the one for Bill

Wyman and Douglas Charlie Watts and Jack

has had his uh full-on arrogant lipiness

on this record we get a bludgeoning

version of Jumping Jack Flash and

Meandering rendition of Sympathy for the

Devil as well it's about the best

version of Midnight Rambler ever

committed to vinyl This Record possesses

a menace and Majesty that should uh

easily shoehorn it into anybody's top

10. number six is Humble Pie rocking the

Fillmore from 1971

an incredibly powerful performance from

this super group a super comprising of

uh Steve Marriott from the small faces

Peter Frampton from the herd uh Greg

Ridley from spooky two for the course

and Jerry Shirley from the Lesser known

Apostolic intervention this album came

out just before the band split and was

hugely successful for them because it's

the sound of a band really on fire from

the opening notes to the fade out this

is heavy Blues driven music very

aggressive very much in the vein of

bands that just seem to be turning up

the volume at this time bands like the

wonderful Grand Funk Railroad another

fudge in the UK about the who the purple

of course all bands that certainly

deserve a line in the narrative that is

heavy metal every song every note played

on this album achieves a new high and

Steve Marriott's command of the audience

is uh absolutely exemplary brilliant and

entertaining

punishing drums and bass and beautifully

interwoven guitar lines on this I love

the fact that it's got a bit of an edge

and a ramshackle quality to it

performance rocking the film or follows

four studio albums none of which

uh capture the majesty and magnificence

of this band with its sheer unbridled

ferocity running through these Blues

favorites of course we get Steve

Marriott and that voice once steeped in

Soul and the crashing power and presence

of this music there's wonderful chords

that introduce creep

and I'm ready which if I'm not mistaken

is actually a reworking of a Willie

Dixon number but the nightly tour de

force was the I walk on gilded splinters

which is a Dr John number from his 1968

debut number five is Strangers in the

Night by UFO from 1979. there's an album

that's quite rightly lauded amongst the

some of the greatest live heavy rock

albums of all time this is the band it's

very Peak with Michael Schenker on

guitar in fact so good is this album I

think even Slash of Guns and Roses has

hailed this as his favorite live album

this album was recorded in 1978 it's

near damn it perfect there were

accusations of overdubs of course which

seem to be very much the the Vogue Dean

thing for a lot of those live albums in

the 70s although Michael Schenker said

that the guitars couldn't be overdubbed

because they came through the drum mics

therefore what you hear is kind of what

you get it was said that Michael schenko

actually refused to record over dubs

which uh

Phil miruku apparently could be quite

violent

schenka was also battling addiction

problems as well at this time but

there's no doubt in my mind that his

departure from this band

UFO never really recovered from it

interestingly the song mother Mary my

favorite UFO song by the way and the

kids was recorded live in the studio

with audience noise added and it was

just added into the live set on this

live recording why they did that I don't

know maybe some UFO aficionados and they

could explain it to me wasn't something

to do with running time did they not

have enough material listen to those

other live concerts in that Deluxe Set

um makes you realize how those songs

feel a little bit out of place now

nevertheless they're great songs but I

don't understand why they felt they need

to record them in the studio then add

them doctor doctor is absolutely

phenomenal on this album uh concise

riffs Mammoth drumming brilliant rapport

with the audience tracks like lights out

rock bottom too hot to handle all wall

accident stuff this album no doubt is a

time capsule that represents this band

it is most magnificent number four is

Kiss Alive from 1975. my word this is a

well-timed release by this band

especially as the albums that precede

this as Studio albums sound rather limp

and insipid in comparison they felt that

in order to communicate the power of

this band that had to be a

representation of the band Live

ironically live here is a bit of a

misnomer as there are so many problems

with the recording that

um overdubs and quite a bit of Studio

skull duggery was called for due to the

very energetic uh performance of this

band a lot of the notes were missed

certainly a lot of vocal cues and lines

that weren't picked up or weren't sung

properly

so a lot of cleaning up was necessary so

this album was notoriously tempered with

lots of overdubs and re-recorded parts

and even the sound of the audience was

Amplified to color the recording

nevertheless despite all this study

chicanery it's still considered one of

the finest live albums with the

representation of these songs

far superior to the studio versions of

course I must admit I've always hoped

they'd go back to the studio and remix

those early albums give them a bit more

punch

in terms of Kiss Alive I'd love to see a

deluxe edition box set which would

include the original recording without

the overdubs that would be fantastic

this album was recorded on four stops on

the Dress To Kill Tour that included May

16th at the Kobo arena in Detroit

Michigan June 21st at Cleveland Music

Hall in Cleveland Ohio July 20th RKO

Orpheum Theater in Davenport Iowa

and July 23rd at Wildwoods Convention

Center in Wildwood New Jersey the title

is a homage to the Slade album live

um the slave were a huge influence on

kiss in fact

um rock and roll all night was actually

influenced by Slade's Mama we're all

crazy now number three is Jerry Lee

Lewis live at the star Club Hamburg from

1964. live at the star Club has been

described as the purest hardest rock and

roll ever committed to record he opens

with mean woman blues at a temper that's

much faster than his bander as she

prepared for he strode into that German

nightclub in 1964 with everything to

play for and proceeded to machine gun

the audience into rock and roll

submission roaring howling and purring

his way through the set mercilessly

pounding the keys and whipping the

audience up into a frenzy Jerry Lee's

performance is Primal and unrelenting

the breaks between songs feel like a a

welcomed pause for breath

I I think this is original rock and roll

it is most unrestrained in the early 60s

rock and roll was in crisis you had uh

Elvis was in the Army Little Richard had

found God Chuck Berry was doing time and

Jerry Lee Lewis was doing his cousin

this led to him being blacklisted in the

USA and uh giving the cold shoulder

across Europe 1964 had been six years

since it had a hit single and he was

starting over again with a new label

trying to win over the hearts and minds

of America who had pledged themselves to

those four Young upstarts from Liverpool

after their wonderful performance on The

Ed Sullivan Show so we find the killer

live at the star Club in Hamburg backed

by the Nashville teens believe it or not

he pounds the piano sings himself horse

and parades his band for not keeping up

with him I think the best adjective to

describe this performances unhinged

number two is Deep Purple made in Japan

from 1972. this is the finest of Deep

Purple albums in fact it's one of the

finest albums it was recorded over three

nights in August 1972 and brought this

band to headliner status throughout the

world now if I'm not mistaken I believe

this record was recorded I I could be

wrong here but I'm sure it was meant for

release Japan only but since then it's

very much become The Benchmark of what a

live album should be once this band

stopped uh trying to be Vanilla Fudge

and embrace a kind of hard rock

British pop sensibility in a way with a

wonderful in rock album as well as the

the single black knight with filch riff

they began to build their sound around

Richie Blackmon John Lord supported by a

fabsic fantastic Rhythm Section uh not

to mention Ian gillen's glass worrying

shrieks and with deep purple that

emerges new identity and identity that

gave us in rock Fireball Machine Head

and of course this remarkable live album

made in Japan of course is made up of

selections from those albums tracks that

are often extended as well and I'm not a

big fan of uh drum solos but I love the

version of the mule on this album as

well as the uh the vocal guitar

interplay between uh Richard Blackmore's

fretwork pyrotechnics and gillen's

ballooning falsetto as well as the

remarkable playing of John Lord I mean

this band's Ambitions were symphonic and

Interstellar in terms volume and Power

Smoke on the Water is particularly

memorable on this one I love the

moodiness of child in time as well as

the versatile fretwork of Blackmore this

song takes us very much into the eye of

the storm quite literally as it was used

in the film twister quite a few years

later my favorite track on this album

actually is space Trucking their version

of that on here is uh just gives me

chills all music said that deep purple

pushed its music into a kind of

deliberate excess

uh absolutely true and this album

there's no doubt about it is a an

important milestone in the the identity

of the burgeoning heavy metal scene

interestingly this album actually

celebrates its 50th Anniversary very

very soon I think the original album

came out in November or December

uh some hoping I'm hoping for the for an

announcement of a 50th Anniversary box

set

fingers crossed eh number one is The Who

Live at Leeds from 1970. Townsend said

in 68 that ours's music were built in

hatred and that certainly comes across

amid the Flash and outrage of this

incendiary album with its faux bootleg

sleeve and macheting drum shrapnel as

well as the The Vicious steps of

Townsend's guitar all continuously

smudging the boundary between music and

noise it is the most powerful testimony

there is of any live band all music said

that the who are vicious on this album

as heavy as Zeppelin and twice as

volatile as a sail perilously close to

just total chaos but it captures the

band at the the Pinnacle of their career

as far as I'm concerned as we start

getting into the 1970s uh what George

and melee would call the emerging of uh

Revolt into style the early numbers on

this sound fantastic substitute of

course with its pilford musical refrain

a refrain that was actually lifted from

where is my girl by Rob Storm and The

Whispers

the happy jack to I'm a boy all amped up

to thoroughly indecent levels Rolling

Stone described this sound as a

definitive Hard Rock Holocaust and

they're absolutely spot on so now I'm

loved by fans but not loved by Roger

Daltrey who criticizes it in his

autobiography in fact he goes on to say

that

the The Who live at Hull is a much

better better album the original album

was a trim six tracks and many argue

that that's when this album was at its

best because it was concise and

Incredibly powerful and volatile however

I must admit I'd rather favor the deluxe

edition I just can't get enough of this

stuff Felix the deluxe edition of course

includes a tattoo and um a quick one

while he's away that wonderful wonderful

mini Opera as well as a complete

um and thoroughly mind-blowing

performance of Tommy this is the gold

standard in terms of live albums and

possessed a ferocity

that was never ever achieved on their

Studio albums

well there you are that's the 10

greatest live albums in my opinion I

realized 10 greatest live albums is

probably grammatically a bit iffy should

be 10 great live albums but greatest

live albums sounds better at the

beginning of this video there'd be a few

honorable mentions I have to mention of

course Jethro Tull's bursting out a huge

tall fan

but uh for some reason uh this live

album as much as I enjoy it I'd much

rather listen to their their Studio

records Grand Funk Live a testimony to a

band they're incredibly powerful

incredibly loud this was a band that

blue Led Zeppelin off the stage by the

way the 1970 uh Peter Grant had Grand

Funk unplugged and marched off the stage

when they because they were just too

damn good

If You Want Blood is another fantastic

live album in fact I think I'll do

another video 10 greatest live Hard Rock

metal albums and of course uh one of the

greatest live rock albums ever in my

opinion is status quo Live recorded at

the Glasgow Apollo I mean that's uh

fantastic album

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