Wikipedia defines prog rock as
“Progressive rock, also known as prog rock or prog, is a rock music subgenre that originated in the United Kingdom with further developments in Germany, Italy, and France, throughout the mid-to-late 1960s and 1970s. It developed from psychedelic rock, and originated, similarly to art rock, as an attempt to give greater artistic weight and credibility to rock music. Bands abandoned the short pop single in favor of instrumentation and compositional techniques more frequently associated with jazz or classical music in an effort to give rock music the same level of musical sophistication and critical respect.”
Three associated genres used on this website are art rock, psychedelic rock and AOR.
Prog Rock Live Albums Recorded In The 1970s
Argent BBC Radio 1 In Concert 1972 and 1974
Argent Encore 1974
Badger One Live Badger 1972
Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso Seguendo Le Tracce 1975
Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso Capolinea 1979
Barclay James Harvest BBC In Concert 1972
Barclay James Harvest Live 1974
Barclay James Harvest Live Tapes 1977
Camel On The Road 1972
Camel On The Road 1974
Camel A Live Record 1974 to 1977
Camel Live At The Hammersmith Odeon 1976
Caravan And The New Symphonia 1973
Caravan Live At The Fairfield Halls 1974
Colosseum Live 1971
Curved Air Airwaves Live at the BBC 1970 to 1976
Curved Air Live 1974
801 Live 1976
801 Live At Hull 1977
Eloy Live 1978
Emerson Lake And Palmer Live At The Isle of Wight Festival 1970
Emerson Lake & Palmer A Time And A Place 1970 to 1998
Emerson Lake & Palmer Pictures At An Exhibition 1971
Emerson Lake & Palmer The Original Bootleg Series from the Manticore Vaults vol 1 1971 1972
Emerson Lake & Palmer Welcome Back My Friends 1974
Emerson Lake & Palmer Works Live 1977
The Enid Live At Hammersmith Vol 1 1979
Focus Live At The Rainbow 1973
Genesis Archive 1967–75
Genesis Live 1973
Genesis Live At The Rainbow 1973
Genesis Archive #2 1976-1992
Genesis Seconds Out 1977
Gentle Giant In a Palesport House 1973
Gentle Giant Playing The Fool 1976
Gentle Giant Live At The Bicentennial 1976
Gnidrolog Live 1972
Grobschnitt Solar Music Live
Harmonium En Tournee 1977
Hawkwind Space Ritual Alive 1972
Hawkwind Greasy Truckers Party 1972
Hawkwind At The BBC 1972
Hawkwind BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert 1972
Steve Hillage BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert 1976 1979
Steve Hillage Live At The Rainbow 1977
Steve Hillage Live Herald 1977 1978
Horslips Live 1976
If Europe 72
Jethro Tull Concierto en Vivo 1972
Jethro Tull Paris 1975
Jethro Tull Bursting Out 1978
Kansas Two For The Show 1978
King Crimson Live At The Marquee August 10th 1971
King Crimson Live at Plymouth Guildhall 1971
King Crimson Ladies of the Road 1971 1972
King Crimson Earthbound 1972
King Crimson The Night Watch 1973
King Crimson The Great Deceiver Part 1 vols 1 & 2 1973 1974
King Crimson The Great Deceiver Part 2 vols 3 & 4 1973 1974
King Crimson USA 1974
King Crimson Live in Central Park NYC 1974
King Crimson The Collectable King Crimson Vol 1 Live in Mainz & Live in Asbury Park 1974
King Crimson Live in Toronto 1974
Locanda Delle Fate Live 1977
Magma Live Hhai 1975
Nektar Sunday Night at London Roundhouse 1973
Nektar Live in New York 1974
Nektar Live at Chipping Norton 1974
Mike Oldfield Exposed 1979
PFM Cook 1974
PFM Paper Charms 1975 1976
Pink Floyd Live At Wembley 1974
Planet Gong Floating Anarchy Live 1977
Procol Harum Live In Concert With The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra 1971
Procol Harum BBC Live In Concert 1974
Refugee Live in Concert 1974
Renaissance Live At Carnegie Hall 1975
Renaissance The BBC Sessions 1975-1978
Todd Rundgren’s Utopia Live at Hammersmith Odeon ’75
Todd Rundgren & Utopia Live At The Electric Ballroom 1978
Rush All The World’s A Stage 1976
Rush Different Stages 1978 & 1997
Tangerine Dream Ricochet 1975
Tangerine Dream Encore 1977
Traffic Live At The Fillmore East 1970
Traffic Welcome To The Canteen 1971
Traffic On The Road 1973
UK Night After Night 1979
Van Der Graaf Generator After the Flood Van Der Graaf Generator At The BBC 1968-1977
Van Der Graaf Generator Vital 1978
Rick Wakeman Journey to the Centre of the Earth 1974
Rick Wakeman Live at the BBC 1976
Stomu Yamashta, Steve Winwood etc Go Live From Paris 1976
Yes Something’s Coming The BBC Recordings 1969 to 1970
Yes The Word Is Live 1970 to 1988
Yes Yessongs 1972
Yes Progeny Seven Shows From Seventy-Two
Yes Progeny Highlights From Seventy-Two
Yes Yesshows 1976-78
Frank Zappa Shut Up ‘n Play Yer Guitar 1972 to 1980
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The All Time Best Progress Rock Live Albums
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Because there are so many great progressive rock live albums I have split the poll into two and you may find some of your favourites in the second division. Albums will be promoted when they get enough votes.
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You may also be interested in the poll to find the best art rock live albums.
Live progressive rock albums by decade – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s – 2000s – 2010s
Art Rock Live Albums By Decade – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s – 2000s – 2010s
BBC Radio 1 In Concert is a live album by progressive rock group Argent. It features recordings made at concerts in 1972 when the group were at the peak of their fame and two years later in 1974.
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Live At The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 is a live recording by progressive rock group Emerson Lake & Palmer of their set at this famous festival.
Their debut performance in front of an audience was just 6 days before they appeared at this huge festival with acts like Jimi Hendrix and The Who.
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Encore is a live album by progressive rock group Argent. It was recorded in 1974 as the group toured to promote their studio album Nexus.
Argent did the opposite journey to Genesis.
Argent turned from a high class but not very successful pop rock group to progressive rock while Genesis turned their back on progressive rock and became a highly accomplished pop rock group.
Encore catches Argent very much in their prog rock phase and if you don’t like keyboards and synthesisers you should probably move along.
Argent could well have been forgotten except for the big hit single Hold Your Head Up.
There is also a BBC Radio 1 In Concert live album by Argent at a similar time but it’s difficult to find at a reasonable price.
Argent Encore
Two For The Show is a live album by American progressive rock / AOR group Kansas which was recorded in 1977 and 1978.
It has been released as an extended version to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the album.
Live In Concert With The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra is a live album by Procol Harum recorded in 1971 in Edmonton in Canada.
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Journey To The Centre Of The Earth is a recording of a live performance given by keyboard maestro Rick Wakeman at the Royal Festival Hall in London in January 1974.
Journey was the second solo album by Rick Wakeman and the first after he left Yes and is based on the Jules Verne story.
It must have been a stunning show as Rick Wakeman didn’t hold back on his ambitions.
Performing with him are the London Symphony Orchestra, the English Chamber Choir and a rock band that later became known as The English Rock Ensemble. The story is narrated by the actor David Hemmings.
Confusingly, to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of this album, Rick Wakeman re-recorded it in the studio and added back some extra songs that he’s written at the time. Wakeman then toured with this new version.
The first ever rock concert I went to was by Rick Wakeman on the No Earthy Connection tour in 1976. It was very impressive to see him surrounded by different keyboards and jumping from one to another with his long hair and cape flying. he also told some funny jokes.
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Genesis Archive 1967–75 is a compilation album of live recordings and rare studio songs. It includes a live version of The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway and some of the famous 1973 concert at the Rainbow.
The recording of The Lamb is from one concert at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California on 24 January 1975.
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Solar Music Live is a live album by German progressive rock group Grobschnitt as the group extended the song suite from the Ballerman studio album.
It was recorded at the Otto Pankok Forum in Mühlheim, Germany on April 7th 1978.
If you like space rock with lots of guitar and you’re willing to explore European prog rock, this is for you.
Playing The Fool is the first live album released by progressive rock group Gentle Giant. It was recorded on their European tour in the autumn of 1976.
I always think that Gentle Giant are one of the groups that sorts out the serious prog rock fans from the people who like the best known albums from Genesis, Yes and Pink Floyd.
Pictures At An Exhibition is the first live album released by progressive rock group Emerson Lake & Palmer. It is their interpretation of the Mussorgsky classical composition and was recorded at a concert in Newcastle, England in March 1971.
Have ELP butchered a classic with their pretentious keyboard excesses or have they charmingly updated it?
I bought Pictures At An Exhibition as a teenager and I’ve always had a soft spot for it.
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