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Live Albums Recorded In 1971

1971 saw the release of several critics favourite live albums with the Allman Brothers Live At Fillmore East and The Band’s Rock Of Ages.

Live albums recorded in 1971 included:

The Allman Brothers Band – Live At Fillmore East
The Allman Brothers Band Eat A Peach
The Allman Brothers Band S.U.N.Y. at Stonybrook NY 9/19/71
The Allman Brothers Band Boston Common 8/17/71
Ashton Gardner and Dyke Let It Roll Live On Stage
The Band – Rock Of Ages
The Band Live At The Academy Of Music
David Bowie Bowie At The Beeb
David Bowie Bowie At The Beeb 3 CD version
James Brown – Love Peace Power
Jack Bruce Spirit Live at the BBC
Jack Bruce BBC Live In Concert
The Byrds Live At Royal Albert Hall
Chicago At Carnegie Hall
Colosseum Colosseum Live
Creedence Clearwater Revival Live In Europe
Curved Air Airwaves Live at the BBC
Deep Purple Long Beach
Donovan Rising / Atlantis / The Classics Live / 25 Years In Concert
Emerson Lake & Palmer Pictures At An Exhibition
Emerson Lake & Palmer The Original Bootleg Series from the Manticore Vaults vol 1
Family Live
The Flamin’ Groovies In Person
The Flying Burrito Brothers Last Of The Red Hot Burritos
Aretha Franklin – Live At Fillmore West
Grand Funk Railroad Live The 1971 Tour
Grateful Dead Skull & Roses
Grateful Dead Ladies And Gentlemen The Grateful Dead
The Groundhogs Live At Leeds ’71
Groundhogs Hoggin’ The Stage Plus
George Harrison Concert for Bangladesh
Donny Hathaway – Live
The Holy Modal Rounders Bird Song Live
Hot Tuna Live at the Fillmore West 3rd July 1971
Humble Pie – Performance Rockin The Fillmore
Humble Pie Live In New York
James Gang Live In Concert
Albert King Live In The 70’s
BB King Live In Japan
Carole King The Carnegie Hall Concert
King Crimson Live at Plymouth Guildhall
King Crimson Live At The Marquee August 10th 1971
King Crimson Ladies of the Road
King Curtis Live At Fillmore West
Kool & The Gang Live at P.J.s
Fela Kuti Live With Ginger Baker
Led Zeppelin – BBC Sessions
Lindisfarne – Lindisfarne Live
Lindisfarne City Song BBC Sessions
Magna Carta In Concert
Magna Carta Live At The Royal Albert Hall
John Martyn BBC Live In Concert
John Mayall Jazz Blues Fusion
Curtis Mayfield – Curtis Live
Don McLean Live In New York
The Mothers Fillmore East June 1971
Mott The Hoople Original Mixed Up Kids
Muddy Waters Live At Mister Kellys
Laura Nyro Spread Your Wings and Fly
Poco Live from Columbia Studios Hollywood 9/30/1971
Lou Reed Transmission Impossible
The Rolling Stones Get Your Leeds Lungs Out on Sticky Fingers Super Deluxe
The Stooges You Don’t Want My Name You Want My Action
Taj Mahal The Real Thing
Traffic – Welcome To The Canteen
Ike And Tina Turner What You Hear Is What You Get
UFO – UFO Live
Van Der Graaf Generator After the Flood Van Der Graaf Generator At The BBC
Sarah Vaughan Live At The 1971 Monterey Jazz Festival
The Who – Young Vic Theatre London
Neil Young Live At Massey Hall
Frank Zappa Carnegie Hall
Frank Zappa Just Another Band From L.A.

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1970 – 1971 – 1972

Emerson Lake & Palmer Pictures At An Exhibition 1971

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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Neil Young Live At Massey Hall 1971

Live At Massey Hall 1971 is a live album by Neil Young that thirty six years to appear. It catches Young in January 1971 previewing many songs that would appear on later studio albums.

It includes two songs – Love in Mind and Journey Through the Past that appear on Time Fades Away.

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The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East 1971

At Fillmore East by The Allman Brothers Band is one of the most famous live albums ever released. It was recorded in March 1971 during concerts at the Fillmore in New York.

There is also an extended version called The Fillmore Concerts with the live songs from Eat A Peach or the At Fillmore East Deluxe Edition which has another song added.

Tragedy wasn’t very far away from The Allman Brothers Band. Guitarist Duane Allman was killed in a motorcycle accident on October 29, 1971 in Macon, Georgia. On November 11, 1972, Bass player Berry Oakley died in another motorcycle accident only three blocks from where Duane Allman had his accident.

Live At Fillmore East has historical significance and whilst The Allman Brothers Band continued to record and tour, things could never be the same.

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Aretha Franklin Aretha Live At Fillmore West 1971

Aretha Live At Fillmore West is a live album by soul singer Aretha Franklin in concert in San Francisco over three nights in March 1971.

These concerts caught Aretha singing pop songs rather than her great soul classics from albums like I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You and Lady Soul.

It has also been released in various versions.

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James Brown Love Peace Power 1971

Love Peace Power is a James Brown live album recorded in Paris (France) in March 1971.

This is a very different James Brown than was featured on the famous Live At The Apollo 1962. The high energy soul and r&B tunes are out and in their place is hard driving funk.

If you’re a late comer for James Brown, this is probably much more how you expect him to sound when he was in his prime (he was coming up to his 38th birthday).

James Brown Love Peace Power – Overall Rating 28/30

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Funkadelic Live Meadowbrook 1971

The full title of the only live Funkadelic album is Funkadelic Live: Meadowbrook, Rochester, Michigan 12th September 1971.

I always think that is a shame. There are other P-Funk live albums but I’ve always much preferred Funkadelic to Parliament because of the rock based guitar of Eddie Hazel and other members of the gang.

Funkadelic Live Meadowbrook – Overall rating 24/30

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Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions 1969 & 1971

Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions includes an in concert performance of the band from April 1971 as well as live in the studio recordings and songs from gigs in 1969.

It’s often overlooked as a Led Zeppelin live album with much more attention given to:

How The West Was Won – 1972

The Song Remains The Same – 1973

The 2012 release of the reunion concert, Celebration Day has also drawn attention away from the BBC Sessions album. After all how many live Led Zeppelin albums do most fans need?

I think that’s a shame.

What we get on this album are:

  1. John Peel’s Top Gear – recorded from the Playhouse Theatre, London on 3 March 1969 (CD1 tracks 1,2,4)
  2. Chris Grant’s Tasty Pop Sundae – recorded at Aeolian Hall studio 2 on 16 June 1969 (CD1 tracks 3,5,10)
  3. John Peel’s Top Gear – recorded at Maida Vale studio 4 on 24 June 1969 (CD1 tracks 6 to 9)
  4. On Night Stand – recorded from the Playhouse Theatre on 27 June 1969 (CD1 tracks 11 – 14)
  5. In Concert – recorded from the Playhouse Theatre, London on 1 April 1971 (all CD2)

Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions Overall Review Rating – 23/30

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The Band Rock Of Ages 1971

Rock Of Ages is the first live album recorded by The Band from shows at the Academy of Music in New York City December 28 to 31, 1971.

I think this is a much better album than the more famous live album The Last Waltz which captured an all-star cast at The Band’s last gig.

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The Who Young Vic Theatre London 1971

The Who concert at the Young Vic Theatre on the 26th April 1971 was recorded and released as a bonus on the deluxe edition of Who’s Next.

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