Live albums that made them

Mooh said:

J. Geils band, Full House.

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Love that album. I'm still baffled that the same band released "Freeze Frame".

I would add "Live and Dangerous" by Thin Lizzy.

Deep Purple Made in Japan was a big seller, but I think they were already pretty huge at that point.

One of my favorite live album titles was The Nuge's 'Intensities in Ten Cities'. He had a way with words, and still does I suppose, if you can tolerate his extreme leanings.

They didn't call him "the motor city's calmest citizen" for nothin'!

Since this seems to have morphed into a "great live albums" thread, let me further expand the boundaries by mentioning Jackson Browne's "Running On Empty" - not all live, but all recorded on tour - on buses, in hotels, backstage, etc. One of my "Desert Island" albums.

KapnKrunch said:

No, highdeaf. Thier first album was the birth of southern rock. It blew our minds at the time and it was never topped for me. I saw them live in Minneapolis circa 1969/70. It was OK, I guess. I don't remember a note.

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Sales of the ABB first two albums were actually very small when it was first released. The first live album was very much their breakout.

laristotle said:

Blue Oyster Cult 'On Your Feet or On Your Knees'

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That is a great album but did nothing really saleswise. The following album "Agents Of Fortune" was huge for them because of the hit "Don't Fear The Reaper". Big fan too and saw them in 1977 at the long gone London Gardens.

One of my favorite albums (live or not) is "Seconds Out" by Genesis. They already had a good following by then but that album clearly marked Genesis as a force without Gabriel. I was listening to it this morning (I must have spun that record a few thousand times in high school) and it is still a great album.

Rory Gallagher, Live In Europe, Irish Tour, and isn't there another one?

Roy Buchanan, Livestock.

Both were wonderful artists who could deliver the goods live.

Led Zeppelin, How The West Was Won. With this and the BBC sessions, both so much better than that piece of crap The Song Remains The Same, one can forgive them the odd lapse.

How could I forget The Rolling Stones, Get Yer Ya-Tas Out? I listened to it every day throughout high school.

I agree, but The Song Remains the Same was a different time, a different market. It was more about the silly backstories and the mystical stuff that was the flavor of the time. The recently released live stuff is so much better.

The first Rush live album was big for me. I was already a fan but I thought, if he can do that with one guitar and no post production, maybe I can too. Although I never completely got there, it pushed me to get better. I played along to that album for months and months, trying.

Cheap Trick live at Budokan if that hasn't been mentioned yet

@faracaster Thanks for the reminder of 'Go For What You Know'. Pat Travers, Pat Thrall - killer album. We played that LP to death in the early 80s. I have "Boom, Boom, Out Go The Lights" in my head just thinking about it. Excellent ear wormage.