Best double live vinyl?


 

Growing up in the 60's and 70's was the height of double live vinyl and the double feature at the movie theater. I'm listening to before the flood - Mr. Zimmerman and the Band. After listening to side one it flips to four, that's just not right.

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@officerat - I live in San Francisco and was able to see the original Journey with Greg Rollie on vocals several times. I went off 'em after Steve Perry joined; his voice is real fingernails-down-the-blackboard stuff for me.

@kb673 - I figured Little Feat were still touring, and I know they've been doing annual gigs in Jamaica for at least 10 years; I was at the first one of those. But I saw them several times with Lowell also...

@larsman 

I've been a fan since hearing their early albums with Lowell and the original lineup in the mid-70s ... didn't see them live until the mid-90s, after the reorganized group began touring.  

It’s not the best but it was the double live that changed my music interests for years to come. 1970 Grand Funk Railroad Live Album

Can't remember when I last heard this album, maybe sometime in the mid seventies but James Brown's 'Live At The Apollo' has always been considered one of the best live records of all time. MOFI reissued it around 1993.

Another vote for Joe Cocker’s "Mad Dogs and Englishmen", same as for Miles Davis’ " Live at the Blackhawks" sets. The first "Live Dead" double album with ’Turn on Your Love Light’ and ’Dark Star’, The Who’s "Tommy", Stevie Wonder’s "Songs in the Key of Life", "The Name of This Band Is the Talking Heads", The Clashes’ "London Calling" Derek and the Dominos "Layla and other Assorted Love Songs", Muddy Waters’ "Fathers and Sons" with Mike Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, Donald "Duck" Dunn, and others, Fleetwood Mac in Chicago (with Peter Green at his best, an outstanding blues double album), Aretha did a nice gospel double album at her Dad’s church if I remember correctly too, to name a few. Almost forgot Cream’s "Wheels of Fire", first album I ever purchased with my own money.

Miles Davis "Bitches Brew" and the Beatles double "White " albums get honorable mentions, although not my favorite albums by either of these artists..