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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Survival Of The Fittest Live is a live album by Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes. It was recorded in Detroit over two nights, July 31 and August 1, 1970.
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Absolutely Live was the first live album released by The Doors, recorded between July 1969 and May 1970.
This album has since been included as part of The Doors In Concert aka American Nights.
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The Womack Live is the first live album by soul singer Bobby Womack.
He is another of my “should have been huge” artists and if you like classic soul, you should listen to Bobby Womack. he nearly made it big with his early eighties albums The Poet and The Poet II.
The Womack Live catches him much earlier (it was released in 1970 but I’m not sure when it was recorded).
By then he’d written the #1 hit for The Rolling Stones, It’s All Over Now which Rod Stewart covers on the live album Coast To Coast. He’d also written songs for Wilson Pickett including I’m a Midnight Mover.
Bobby Womack The Womack Live
Live At Hull by The Who is a sister album to Live At Leeds.
I haven’t heard it and at the moment I don’t want to hear it.
In fact I am objecting to the commercial exploitation of loyal and dedicated fans of The Who who paid a lot of money to buy a new copy of the Live At Leeds box set to get the live recording of the Hull concert, only for it to be released as a separate CD. Continue reading The Who Live At Hull 1970
Thank goodness for mp3 downloads because it gives you the chance to access the live in concert tracks on the box set Songs Of Yesterday by blues rock group Free.
I said that I wanted more when I wrote my Free Live review.
The tracks on Songs Of Yesterday weren’t considered to be good enough for public release because of various minor recording problems. Technology now means that they can be cleaned up and we can experience the genius that is Free live.
Nothing Is Easy: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 is a live album by Jethro Tull. I think you can work out that this is another live recording from the famous live festival – a British version of Woodstock if you like.
Free Live is a live album by the British blues rock group Free with Paul Rodgers as the singer and Paul Kossoff on guitar from concerts in 1970.
It was originally released with eight tracks and it has since been reissued with 15 including alternative versions of All Right Now, Mr Big and Get Where I Belong.
Past Lives by Black Sabbath is acompilation of recordings of Black Sabbath live in concert during the early 1970s to make up for no prime time release.
At least this is the original Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Bill Ward and Geezer Butler.
The first disc has been previously released as Black Sabbath Live At Last from 1973 concerts.
The second disc is from 1970 and 1975.
If you want the proper Ozzy Osborne Black Sabbath, you may be better turning your attention to Black Sabbath Reunion from 1997.
Live Taste is the first live album from Rory Gallagher and Taste. It was recorded at the Montreux Casino in Switzerland in 1970 before it was burnt down and immortalised in the Deep Purple song, Smoke On The Water.
There is considerable crossover between the set lists on Live Taste and Taste Live At The Isle Of Wight also recorded in 1970.
Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970 is The Who recorded on on 29 August 1970, six months after the classic Live At Leeds album and Live At Hull were made.
It was released in 1996, shortly after Live At Leeds had been extended the first time. At that stage Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival was the only legal way to get a prime time recording of The Who performing Tommy.
Since Live At Leeds was further extended by adding in Tommy, this album has become redundant for anyone except The Who completests or people with a particular affection for the 1970 Isle Of Wight Festival.
Unless you want to see the 1970 version of The Who perform live since this has the option of a DVD.
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