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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Ziggy Stardust The Motion Picture is a live recording of David Bowie in concert at the Hammersmith Odeon, London on 3 July 1973.
This was the final time that David Bowie performed as Ziggy Stardust and is a legal version of the bootleg recording, His Masters Voice – Bowie and the Spiders From Mars’ Last Stand.
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It’s Too Late To Stop Now is the first live album by Van Morrison.
It was recorded in 1973 and it catches him paying his dues to his influences.
It collects the best of the tracks from concerts at The Troubadour in Los Angeles, the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and at The Rainbow in London between May and July 1973.
It’s difficult to categorise an album like this – is it rock, soul or blues? It even has a jazzy feel to it.
This amalgamation of styles is what makes Van Morrison such a special artist and he had a golden period in the late 1960s and early 1970s when he made some of the greatest music ever recorded. Astral Weeks, Moondance and St Dominic’s Preview are amongst my most favourite studio albums and I believe that each is essential.
Which is the best? Well that keeps on changing depending on my mood but St Dominic’s Preview fits neatly between the others in style.
In 2008, a bonus track was added – a live version of Brown Eyed Girl.
My Rating – 28/30
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The Song Remains The Same was the first Led Zeppelin live album issued from 1973 concerts at the Madison Square Garden, New York which promoted the House Of The Holy studio album.
It was released in 1976 as the soundtrack to the concert film of the same name.
Led Zeppelin are known for their great live performances and they’ve become one of the most heavily bootlegged artists in the world.
It was re-issued in 2007 with a much better sound and with extra songs included. This makes it much more comparable with the other big Zeppelin live album, How The West Was Won.
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Brussels Affair is an official, authorised version of a famous Rolling Stones bootleg from the 1973 Goats Head Soup tour.
It’s brilliant.
Fans of the Stones have wanted this release for years as it catches the mark 2 version of the band with Mick Taylor rather than Brian Jones in their full glory
If you like Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out, you’ll love The Brussels Affair.
Genesis Live is the first live album from Genesis featuring charismatic lead singer Peter Gabriel from the Foxtrot tour in 1973.
