I'd love nothing better than to play as well as Chuck L. he's great. he does get around too... playing with numerous artists over the years... I especially like the things he did with Marshall Tucker,(Where We All Belong) and with Eric Clapton (Unplugged>Running on Faith), and other's I simply don't recall just now. Sea Level, huh? I remember them... Sea Cruise.
Untill recently, I've not been enamored with Live albums, generally speaking. lately though some well recorded ones are awesome and have lead me to further investigations.
I'm not a big fan of Michael bolton, but his 'Till The End of Forever', (live/studio) album comes off very well done in both venues... with some very emotive covers of R&B songs that are simply great no their own, and he does them very well.
"A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver" is a fine enough recording, featuring many other South Western song writers and song stylists doing Billy's songs and some of their own songs Billy inspired them to write.
Paul Thorn's recently released double CD set which duplicates each song, with both live and studio versions... apart from the drunk woman on a couple of the live tracks the whole of the CD set is quite good. It's pretty much a 'Best of' as well and mostly solo acoustic interest.
Pop and/or Rock usually do have the stigma of commonlly recorded, without the quality being foremost, ultimately formulated on content alone. however I'm finding many DVD's of the same events are better sounding versions. Santana, AC DC, Cream (Royal Albert Hall), several of the Unplugged series from MTV, etc.
Untill recently, I've not been enamored with Live albums, generally speaking. lately though some well recorded ones are awesome and have lead me to further investigations.
I'm not a big fan of Michael bolton, but his 'Till The End of Forever', (live/studio) album comes off very well done in both venues... with some very emotive covers of R&B songs that are simply great no their own, and he does them very well.
"A Tribute to Billy Joe Shaver" is a fine enough recording, featuring many other South Western song writers and song stylists doing Billy's songs and some of their own songs Billy inspired them to write.
Paul Thorn's recently released double CD set which duplicates each song, with both live and studio versions... apart from the drunk woman on a couple of the live tracks the whole of the CD set is quite good. It's pretty much a 'Best of' as well and mostly solo acoustic interest.
Pop and/or Rock usually do have the stigma of commonlly recorded, without the quality being foremost, ultimately formulated on content alone. however I'm finding many DVD's of the same events are better sounding versions. Santana, AC DC, Cream (Royal Albert Hall), several of the Unplugged series from MTV, etc.