1970 was the year of one of the most famous rock concerts of all time. In 1969, it was Woodstock in the USA. In 1970 it is the Isle of Wight Festival in England and recordings of sets by Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Jethro Tull and Taste (Rory Gallagher) are included .
1970 is also the year of one of the most highly rated live albums of all time, The Who Live At Leeds.
Live albums recorded in 1970 include:
The Allman Brothers Band Live At Ludlow Garage
The Allman Brothers Band Live At The Atlanta International Pop Festival
The Allman Brothers Band Fillmore East, February 1970
The Allman Brothers Band American University 12/13/70
Ashton Garner & Dyke Live In Montreux
Black Sabbath – Past Lives
David Bowie Bowie At The Beeb
David Bowie Bowie At The Beeb 3 CD version
The Byrds Untitled
Canned Heat – 70 Concert Live In Europe
Joe Cocker Mad Dogs & Englishmen Live
Joe Cocker Space Captain
Leonard Cohen Live Songs
Creedeence Clearwater Revival – The Concert
Crosby Stills Nash & Young – 4 Way Street
Curved Air Airwaves Live at the BBC
Miles Davis Live-Evil
Miles Davis Live At The Fillmore East
Miles Davis Bitches Brew Live
Deep Purple – Live In Stockholm
Deep Purple Scandinavian Nights Live in Stockholm
Derek And The Dominos – Live At The Fillmore
The Doors – Absolutely Live
The Doors Live In Boston
The Doors Live In Detroit
The Doors Live In Pittsburgh
The Doors Backdoor Man Seattle
Emerson Lake And Palmer – Live At The Isle of Wight Festival
Fairport Convention House Full Live At The LA Troubadour
Fleetwood Mac Live In Boston Vol 1
Fleetwood Mac Live In Boston Vol 2
Fleetwood Mac Live In Boston Vol 3
Fleetwood Mac Boston
Flying Burrito Brothers – Authorized Bootleg Fillmore East Ny Ny Late Show
Free – Free Live
Free – Songs Of Yesterday
Grand Funk Railroad Live Album
Grateful Dead History of the Grateful Dead Volume One (Bear’s Choice)
Grateful Dead Dick’s Picks Volume 4
Grateful Dead Dick’s Picks Volume 8 Harpur College Binghamton NY May 2, 1970
Jimi Hendrix – Blue Wild Angel Live at the Isle of Wight
Jimi Hendrix – Band of Gypsys
Jimi Hendrix Freedom Atlanta Pop Festival
Jimi Hendrix In The West
Jimi Hendrix Live at Berkeley
Jackson 5 Live At The Forum
Janis Joplin – In Concert
Jethro Tull – Nothing Is Easy: Live At The isle Of Wight
Elton John 17-11-70
BB King – Live in Cook County Jail
Kool & The Gang Live At The Sex Machine
Love Studio/Live
Mott The Hoople Original Mixed Up Kids
Mott The Hoople Fairfield Hall Live
Randy Newman – Live
Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes – Survival Of The Fittest Live
Buck Owens Live in Scandinavia
Dolly Parton A Real Live Dolly
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Live
The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Live At A&R Studios
Poco Deliverin’
Elvis Presley That’s The Way It Is (Legacy Edition)
Diana Ross And The Supremes Captured Live On Stage Live At Las Vegas
Diana Ross And The Supremes Farewell
Santana Live At Tanglewood
Otis Spann Last Call Live at The Boston Tea Party
Steppenwolf Steppenwolf Live
Strawbs Just A Collection Of Antiques And Curios
Taste – Live Taste
Taste – Taste Live At The Isle Of Wight
Ten Years After – Live At The Fillmore East
Traffic Live At The Fillmore East
Van Der Graaf Generator After the Flood At The BBC
Velvet Underground – Live at Max’s Kansas City
The Who – The Who Live At Hull
The Who – The Who Live At Leeds
The Who – The Who Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival
Johnny Winter – Live Johnny Winter And
Johnny Winter Live at the Fillmore East
Stevie Wonder Live At The Talk Of The Town
Stevie Wonder Stevie Wonder Live
Yes Something’s Coming The BBC Recordings 1969 to 1970
Neil Young – Live At The Fillmore East
Neil Young Live At The Cellar Door
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The Byrds Untitled is a part live album and part studio album by The Byrds.
The live songs were recorded at:
In 2000, it was reissued as Untitled and Unissued with extra studio and live songs.
Bitches Brew Live is a live album by Miles Davis.
It includes:
3 PREVIOUSLY UNISSUSED TRACKS recorded July 5, 1969 at NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL including the first ever professionally recorded live version of “Miles Runs The Voodoo Down” and the first known recording of the revamped electric version of “Sanctuary”
The band for the Newport performance was:
Miles Davis – trumpet
Chick Corea – electric piano
Dave Holland – bass
Jack DeJohnette – drums
Wayne Shorter missed this performance because of traffic problems.
Playing at the Isle Of Wight were:
Miles Davis – trumpet
Gary Bartz – alto and soprano sax
Chick Corea – electric piano
Keith Jarrett – organ
Dave Holland – bass
Jack DeJohnette – drums
Airto Moreira – percussion
1. Miles Runs The Voodoo Down
2. Sanctuary
3. It s About That Time/The Theme
4. Directions
5. Bitches Brew
6. It s About That Time
7. Sanctuary
8. Spanish Key
9. The Theme
There are a lot of live recordings of Miles Davis in this electric period in the late 1960s but the Newport tracks are very unusual with Davis backed only by the rhythm section.
This isn’t my era of jazz but I can understand that this is an important phase.
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Fillmore East, February 1970 is an early live album by The Allman Brothers Band.
Don’t confuse it with the recognised classic live recording The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East from 1971.
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Fairfield Hall, Live 1970 is a live album by Mott The Hoople.
It was recorded in Croyden in the UK on 13 September 1970.
This is recorded well before David Bowie rescued them with the hit single All The Young Dudes.
One track from the concert, Keep a Knockin’ was previosly included on the Wildlife studio album released in March 1971. Their producer, Guy Stevens didn’t think the rest of the concert was good enough and their plans to release a live album were postponed.
In retrospect, it looks like Guy Stevens was wrong as the album has its own charms. It finds them rocking hard but without the brutal attack of the 1973/74 Mott the Hoople Live.
I’ve seen The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Live album offered for sale as a single digital download or two individual CDs called Live and Live volume 2.
It was recorded live at The Troubadour in Los Angeles on March 21–22, 1970 and was released later the same year.
The original Live in itself was a double album when it was originally issued on vinyl.
I should warn you that by this time Mike Bloomfield had left the group and Butterfield had designed to change his sound to a more horn based approach.
Wikipedia describes it as a “blues-jazz-rock-R&B hybrid sound” and I agree. It is NOT dominated by surging guitar solos in the way that many, more traditional, blues rock live albums are. I recommend that you hear the mp3 samples at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. Continue reading The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Live 1970
Live At Tanglewood is a live recording by Santana in 1970.
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Official Bootleg Recording: Live In Montreux is a live album by Ashton, Dyke & Gardner.
It was recorded in 1970.
Space Captain: Live In Concert is a live compilation album by Joe Cocker.
It selects highlights from his 1970 Mad Dogs And Englishmen tour and the 1972 tour with The Chris Stainton Band.
History of the Grateful Dead, Volume One (Bear’s Choice) is a live album by the Grateful Dead.
It pulls its songs from concerts recorded at the Fillmore East in New York on February 13 and 14, 1970. These are also featured in Dick’s Picks Volume 4.
Compiler Owsley Stanley (Bear) wanted to pay tribute to Pigpen when it was being produced.
In 2001 four more tracks from February 1970 were added to the album including a second version of Smokestack Lightnin‘.
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