1973 could be the greatest year ever for live albums. There are some stunners here that taken together are very hard to beat.
Live albums recorded in 1973 include:
Aerosmith Up In Smoke
Badfinger – BBC Live In Concert
The Beach Boys In Concert
Beck Bogert & Appice Live 1973
Black Sabbath – Live At Last
Black Sabbath – Past Lives
David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust The Motion Picture
The Edgar Broughton Band Live in Hamburg The Fabrik Concert
Jackson Browne & David Lindley Live At The Main Point 15th August 1973
Paul Butterfield and Better Days Live at Winterland Ballroom
Caravan And The New Symphonia
Eric Clapton Eric Clapton’s Rainbow Concert
Climax Blues Band – FM Live
Commander Cody Sleazy Roadside Stories
Commander Cody Live from Armadillo World HQ 1973 & Capitol Theatre 1975
Commander Cody Live from Deep in the Heart of Texas
Jim Croce Live The Final Tour
Focus Live At The Rainbow
Fairport Convention Fairport Live Convention
Focus Live At The Rainbow
Genesis – Genesis Live
Genesis Live At The Rainbow
Gentle Giant In a Palesport House
Gentle Giant Out of the Fire The BBC Concerts
Grateful Dead Winterland 1973 The Complete Recordings
Isaac Hayes Live At The Sahara Tahoe
Howlin’ Wolf Evil Live at Joe’s Place
Humble Pie In Concert aka Live On The King Biscuit Flower Hour
Iggy And The Stooges Metallic KO / Metallic 2X KO
Albert King Blues At Sunrise
King Crimson – The Night Watch
King Crimson The Great Deceiver Part 1 vols 1 & 2
King Crimson The Great Deceiver Part 2 vols 3 & 4
Led Zeppelin – The Song Remains The Same
Little Feat American Cutie
Little Feat Late Night Truck Stop
Little Feat Live At Ultrasonic Studios, Long Island, April 1973
Loggins & Messina On Stage
The Marshall Tucker Band Way Out West! Live From San Francisco
Curtis Mayfield Curtis In Chicago Recorded Live
Steve Miller Shake Your Tree
Steve Miller King Biscuit Hour Presents The Steve Miller Band In Concert
Steve Miller Live 1973 – 1976
Van Morrison – It’s Too Late To Stop Now
Mott The Hoople Live
Nektar Sunday Night at London Roundhouse
New York Dolls Live In Paris
New York Dolls Seven Day Weekend
The O’Jays Live In London
Old & In The Way Live At The Boarding House
Gram Parsons Live 1973
Wilson Pickett Live In Japan
Elvis Presley Aloha From Hawaii via Satellite
Billy Preston Live European Tour
The Pretty Things Live At The BBC
Dory Previn Live At Carnegie Hall
Bonnie Raitt Under The Falling Sky
Lou Reed Rock N Roll Animal
Lou Reed Live Extended Versions
The Rolling Stones – The Brussels Affair
Linda Ronstadt Sausalito 73
Santana Lotus
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band Live At The BBC
Paul Simon In Concert Live Rhymin’
Rod Stewart & The Faces – Coast To Coast
Ten Years After Recorded Live
Traffic On The Road
Robin Trower At The BBC
Uriah Heep – Uriah Heep Live
Townes Van Zandt Live At The Old Quarter
West, Bruce and Laing – Live ‘n’ Kickin’
Wishbone Ash – Live Dates
Neil Young – Time Fades Away
Frank Zappa & The Mothers Roxy & Elsewhere
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Between Nothingness & Eternity is a live album by the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
It was recorded at the Schaefer Music Festival in Central Park, New York on August 18, 1973.
Playing on the album are:
John McLaughlin – guitar,
Jan Hammer – piano, synthesizer,
Jerry Goodman – violin,
Rick Laird – bass,
Billy Cobham – drums.
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Live at The Whiskey A Go-Go is a live album by Iggy And The Stooges.
It was recorded in Los Angeles on September 16, 1973.
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The Lost Broadcast At The Ultrasonic Studios is a live recording by Dr John.
It was recorded in New York on 6/11/73 and was broadcast on WLIR radio.
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BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert is a live album by Nazareth.
It was recorded at the Paris Theatre in London on 8 June 1972 and 17 May 1973.
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Blues At Sunset: Live At Wattstax And Montreux is a live album by Albert King.
It was recorded
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Home, Home On The Road is a live album by New Riders Of The Purple Sage.
Jerry Garcia searched through nine months of recordings to pick the best live versions of the band.
It is most often for sale as part of a two-for-one offer with Brujo.
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Deep Freeze is a live recording by Albert Collins.
It combines performances at the Fillmore West in San Francisco in 1969, and at the El Mocambo Club in Toronto, Canada in 1973
Double Trouble Live Cambridge 1973 is a live album by Otis Rush.
It was recorded at Joe’s Place in Cambridge, Massachusetts on May 4, 1973.
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Killing Floor Live collects together two live recordings by Howlin’ Wolf.
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It’s Too Late To Stop Now Volumes 2, 3 & 4 is a live album by Van Morrison.
This brings us more concert recordings from his 1973 tour that was the source for the original It’s Too Late To Stop Now. The original album picked tracks from:
Volumes 2, 3 and 4 provides previously missing tracks from these venues on the following nights:
There is also the option to buy a version with a DVD of the highlights from the London show at The Rainbow on July 24, 1973.
I’ve been a Van Morrison fan for 40 years and I’ve long recognised that It’s Too Late To Stop Now is a terrific live album but could be criticised for:
Volumes 2, 3 and 4 puts an end to those complaints.
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