Best live album ever recorded.

changingman said:
For me it's hard to beat the "Albert Hall" 1966 Dylan bootleg. The contrast between the two "halves" is incredible (albeit apparently chemically fuelled).

The intensity of the electric side is unparalleled in my opinion - Dylan at his antagonistic best and the band absolutely on fire.
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Good call on that changingman! I love Dylan and The Band! Our Bob certainly didn’t like it when my old folkie friend Keith ‘Judas’ Butler called him out at this historic 1966 event at the Manchester Freedom Hall.

While originally from Tadcaster, I believe Keith RIP was working at the Lackenby Steelworks at that time. He subsequently emigrated to Canada where I worked with him for several years. He was called back to the UK late 90's when BBC/ITV did a couple of specials recalling the infamous incident which you can find referenced today at Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame sites in Cleveland, Seattle and NYC.
 

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Ravs, that's impressive - didn't realise the context to that particular piece of rock folklore!

That version of Rolling Stone gets me every time. I particularly like Bob's off-mic instruction to the band to "play it f**cking loud".

Were you at that gig?
 
changingman said:
Ravs, that's impressive - didn't realise the context to that particular piece of rock folklore!

That version of Rolling Stone gets me every time. I particularly like Bob's off-mic instruction to the band to "play it f**cking loud".

Were you at that gig?
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No, changingman, I was 18 at the time, growing up in Canada. My family emigrated from Boro in 1957.

I knew of the ‘66 Dylan “goes electric“ tour as I had closely followed the evolution of The Band but didn’t know about this particular incident until Keith had told me about it in late ‘90s after the BBC had searched him out via newspaper requests and identified him. Folkie that he was, Keith was somewhat surprised by all the hoopla as he had more less deemed it not that significant and had practically forgotten about it.
 
Depeche Mode 101. Also a fantastic dvd acompanies it of fans making the road trip to Pasadena in 88. Always been a masive DM fan and still love them, but think they have lost a bit since both Dave and Martin addressed their demons!

Also another shout for Under a Blood Red Sky, not particularly a U2 fan since the mid 80s, but this shows how good they were!
 
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Ravs said:
No, changingman, I was 18 at the time, growing up in Canada. My family emigrated from Boro in 1957.

I knew of the ‘66 Dylan “goes electric“ tour as I had closely followed the evolution of The Band but didn’t know about this particular incident until Keith had told me about it in late ‘90s after the BBC had searched him out via newspaper requests and identified him. Folkie that he was, Keith was somewhat surprised by all the hoopla as he had more less deemed it not that significant and had practically forgotten about it.
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Ha, that's class.

While we're on the subject we should probably add "The Last Waltz" to this list.
 
changingman said:
Ha, that's class.

While we're on the subject we should probably add "The Last Waltz" to this list.
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Yes, my all-time favourite music video (the blu-ray). What a lineup that was!!

The 40th Anniversary Edition (2016) cd has excellent sound. As with the rest of The Band catalogue, Robbie Robertson has done a stellar job at remastering.
 
What’s your favourite live album?[/QUOTE]

Love after death - iron maiden
Pulse - pink Floyd
My favorite tho is Unplugged - Alice in chains. Shocking to see how frail Layne Stayley was and how much emotion he put into every note.
 
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