Great live recordings

[nobtwiddler]

If you like Jazz, and want to hear one of the most realistic recordings ever....
Go to MapleshadeRecords.com and check out their CD of
The Clifford Jordon Quartet "Live at Ethels"

This was recorded live with Mapleshades owner, Pierre Spreys' customized tube
1/2 Ampex recorder using his 2 custom PZM mics mounted on a plexiglass triangle set right infront of the stage.
The mics were plugged directly into the recorded, no console, no eq, no compression, nuthin!
Just beautiful music that sounds as if they are in your living room!

[edwinhurwitz]

Originally Posted by mrufino1

Hi, I was just wondering what recordings people here consider the "great standards" in live recordings, any genre. I recorded a funk/ jazz/ r&b band the other night and have been listening to a few recordings to reference as I mix, such as Bernie Worrel and the Woo Warriors Live (some of these guys were on that recording so I wanted to refrence it again), James Brown Say it Live and Loud, Dallas 1968, James Brown Peace Power Love (think that's the title), L'Olympia Paris 1971, and Donny Hathaway live. As I was listening this morning this popped in my head. Some of the other recordings I love are:

Miles Davis-We want Miles

Interesting. I always found this recording to be a little annoying (at least on vinyl. I got it when it came out and I saw Miles during that time.). It sounds kind of harsh to me and there is noise and other weird stuff that I find distracting. I think the music is great, but I am not a fan of the recording. I don't know what they were working with, but it seems to me that it could have been given a warmer smoother deeper sound. Maybe it's because the shows I saw sounded so great in comparison, I was disappointed by the attempt to put it into little grooves.

Just my 02c.
Edwin

[squeegybug]

Acoustic folk/pop:

Jackson Browne -- Running on Empty
David Bromberg -- My Own House
Leo Kottke -- My Feet Are Smiling
Doc Watson -- Essential



Don't forget, Sundance Channel will be starting their "Live from Abbey Road" Series on June 21.

Steve

[hsten]

Deep Purple - Made in Japan

[bcaplan]

Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison

[zarquon]

Originally Posted by nobtwiddler

If you like Jazz, and want to hear one of the most realistic recordings ever....
Go to MapleshadeRecords.com and check out their CD of
The Clifford Jordon Quartet "Live at Ethels"

This was recorded live with Mapleshades owner, Pierre Spreys' customized tube
1/2 Ampex recorder using his 2 custom PZM mics mounted on a plexiglass triangle set right infront of the stage.
The mics were plugged directly into the recorded, no console, no eq, no compression, nuthin!
Just beautiful music that sounds as if they are in your living room!

Great thread, here's a couple more:

for pop/folk/rock stuff direct to 2 track, Trinity Sessions from Cowbiy Junkies is a must listen too. One Calrec Ambiosonic Microphone to DAT.

Another that I expected to see already on the list is Lyle Lovett's Live in Texas.

Z.

[bobodegreat]

Kenny Loggins "Outside from the redwoods"
YellowJackets "Live Wires"

[James Guitar]

Originally Posted by Stizz

"Were you surprised when Waiting for Columbus, your live album, actually became a hit? Payne: Yeah, definitely. That album is certainly an icon of live recording, but it's also a live recording that had a lot of overdubs on it. We never hid that.

well, there you go! there's my "in print back-up!". thanks... thumbsup
-J

[PhatStax Drums]

Lots of great ones mentioned already. Yeah, Hendrix Band of Gypsies.

Most all of James Brown live.

Don't think anyone's mentioned a sort of obvious one (to me) just for the energy and general quality:

Rolling Stones Live at Madison Square Garden, Midnight Rambler

Just wanted to throw that one in, sort of obvious / very well-known (to me anyway)


Also, lot of live Elvis (from the beginning of his fat period, when he wasn't fat yet, like around 1970, but also 1973 and there's probably also good stuff later). There are some really smoking versions of See See Rider with the best Nashville guys pulling out all the stops, stuff like that.



I'm also fascinated by the live recordings in the film Jazz on a Summer's Day, a beautiful film (available easily on DVD on Amazon, I highly recommend it, you'll watch it time and time again). Filmed with converted WWII wind-up newsreel 35mm cameras fitted with Zeiss Ikon 35mm still camera lenses, really beautiful color stock filmed in 1958 at the Newport Jazz Festival.

Like many of those live recordings from that era, you don't see many mics, most of it's being picked up by a really nice overhead, in this case Neumanns as I recall, just one over the stage, then somehow they mixed in the vocal mic etc. Now, I'm just judging this by listening on my fairly low-tech TV, so I could be missing a lot of downside to the sound, but, I always love those live recordings of that era when they just used the really good stuff from the fifties, a few mics in the right place, and usually a nice sound stage, and it just sounds wonderful.

To the extent this is a "live" recording (but it's not), but I mention it because it's probably close to a two-mic plus vocal mic recording, Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley, recorded in that theater in NYC, you can hear the room and the drums just jump out at you because they were not close-miked. But I'm getting off topic, but it does have a live sound to it.

I guess did anyone mention that Coltrane that just came out about a year ago where the drums are way up there.

ALSO Benny Goodman Live at Carnegie Hall, 1938 (again because Krupa's drums are picked up so beautifully).

All the early sixties blues stuff like Howlin' Wolf, those blues reviews from Germany (the American Folk Blues series or whatever it was), again where they had some really nice German equipment, just a few overhead mics, and a good sound stage. Beautiful.

If you look up Howlin' Wolf on YouTube you'll find some of that.

All the old Hullaballoo and other early sixties live stuff, no matter how crappy the sound, because of the go-go dancers and the energy (TAMI Show and the like). But, that's stretching it sound-wise (a LOT), but just the good energy is nice.

[Remoteness]

Nice post PhatStax Drums...

We got a pretty cool thread going on here!

[PhatStax Drums]

Thanks very much, Mr. Remote!!


(the below has nothing to do with anything but I just decided to try and get creative with the emoticons, sorry for the small diversion)

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