Tag: 1970s Prog

Live Progressive Rock Live Albums Recorded In The 1970s

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

I don’t have a readers poll to find the best prog rock live album for this decade but I do have a poll for the best all time prog 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.

Sorry, there are no polls available at the moment.

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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

Genesis Live At The Rainbow 1973

Live at the Rainbow 1973 is a live album by progressive rock group Genesis that is included in the Genesis Live 1973–2007 box set.

This captures Genesis promoting the fantastic Selling England By The Pound studio album. In my opinion this is one of the greatest progressive rock albums so how well do the songs sound live?

It also has their prog rock anthem, Supper’s Ready with Peter Gabriel. Phil Collins did a great job on Seconds Out but it’s great to have the original.

This Rainbow concert is available as a CD and a DVD in the box-set. Unfortunately the DVD has two extra tracks.

Some of these songs also appear on the Genesis Archive 1967 – 1975 box set which is available for mp3 download so you can pick and choose the songs you want.

Genesis Live At The Rainbow 1973

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Hawkwind Space Ritual Alive 1972

Space Ritual Alive is the first live album released by heavy space rock group Hawkwind. It was recorded in Liverpool and London in December 1972 on the tour to promote the Doremi Fasol Latido album.

Hawkwind had a hit single earlier in the year with Silver Machine. It’s not on this live album but I thought I’d post a video of the group performing it in 1972 to help get you in the mood.

Hawkwind Space Ritual Alive

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King Crimson The Night Watch 1973

The Night Watch is a live album by progressive rock group King Crimson. It was recorded on 23 November 1973 at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Holland while they were promoting the Larks’ Tongues in Aspic studio album.

I think King Crimson could be the most difficult group to buy albums for because of the many different changes in line-up and basic sound.

The group at this stage were:

Robert Fripp – guitar, mellotron
John Wetton – bass guitar, vocals
David Cross – violin, viola, keyboards
Bill Bruford – drums, percussion

Many will argue that this is the classic line-up, even surpassing the version with Greg Lake as all four people appeared on Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, Starless and Bible Black and Red although the involvement of David Cross on Red is very limited.

There is a very strong argument that a group as innovative as King Crimson are best live rather than caught in the studio.

King Crimson The Night Watch

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Camel A Live Record 1974 to 1977

A Live Record is the first live album released by progressive rock group Camel. It is a compilation of recordings from concerts in 1974, 1975, 1976 and 1977.

It includes a complete performance of the band’s breakthrough album, The Snow Goose performed with the London Symphony Orchestra in 1975.

The members of Camel in 1974 and 75 were:

Andrew Latimer: Guitar, Flute, Vocals
Peter Bardens: Keyboards
Doug Ferguson: Bass
Andy Ward: Drums, Percussion

Doug Ferguson had left by 1977 and there were two new members for the 1977 recordings:

Mel Collins: Saxophones, Flute
Richard Sinclair: Bass, Vocals

This is the unfortunate problem with live compilations since the change in members tends to alter their sound.

Camel A Live Record

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Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso Seguendo Le Tracce 1975

Seguendo Le Tracce is a live album recorded by Italian prog rock giants Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso in Salerno, Italy in April 1975.

About ten years ago I went through a phase where my interest in progressive rock went sky high. Powered by the new information that was available to me from the Internet, i discovered great Italian prog rock bands like Banco Del Mutuo Soccorco.

They recorded three of the very best prog rock albums, right of up there with Close To The Edge (Yes) and Foxtrot (Genesis) – Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Darwin! and Io Sono Nato Libero.

Because the lyrics are in Italian, I don’t have a clue what they are singing about but it’s never really concerned me as I’m swept along by the music.

You can find out more about Banco at ProgArchives, a very specialist prog rock website. When I became addicted, the influence of the Italian groups was much higher on this website but I guess more mainstream fans have found it.

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Pink Floyd Live At Wembley 1974

When I was putting together my poll to let readers like you vote to decide what is the best Pink Floyd live album, I came up with the idea of creating Pink Floyd Live At Wembley 1974.

You can get a recording of Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Raving and Drooling and You’ve Gotta Be Crazy from Wembley, London on the Experience and Immersion versions of Wish You Were Here.

All the tracks on Dark Side Of the Moon are available live from the same concert are available from the Experience remaster of the DSOTM album.

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Barclay James Harvest Live Tapes 1977

Live Tapes is the second live album from Barclay James Harvest and was released in 1978. It was recorded on the 1976 and 1977 tours.

I’ve got a soft spot for this live album because I nearly went to see BJH on the Octoberon tour. As a schoolboy, money was tight and it was either these guys or Be Bop Deluxe.

I am treating this stage of Barclay James Harvest on the progressive rock / art rock border.

Barclay James Harvest Live Tapes – Overall Rating – 24/30

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Emerson Lake & Palmer Works Live 1977

Works Live is a live album of an Emerson, Lake & Palmer concert in Montreal, Canada that also featured a 70 piece orchestra that nearly bankrupted the group.

Parts of this album were previously issued as Emerson Lake & Palmer In Concert.

Emerson Lake & Palmer Works Live

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Jethro Tull Bursting Out 1978

Bursting Out is the first live album by progressive folk and blues group Jethro Tull that was recorded on the European leg of the Heavy Horses tour in 1978.

Jethro Tull are a hard band to classify but I’ve found over the years that I’ve acquired quite a few of their studio albums.

Jethro Tull Bursting Out

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Gnidrolog Live 1972

Let’s take a step back to rare early seventies progressive rock with Gnidrolog Live 1972 which was recorded in my home town of Birmingham, UK.

The group is best known for the Lady Lake album which is a missing gem of British progressive rock. Think of them as a cross between Jethro Tull and Van Der Graaf Generator but with humour.

Gnidrolog Live 1972

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