1975 was the year when two of the most successful, career changing live albums were recorded – Frampton Comes Alive and Kiss Alive – although they were not released on the unsuspecting public until 1976. The history of rock music was changed and the live album floodgates opened even more.
It also includes two live albums that I highly recommend, Bruce Springsteen at Hammersmith Odeon and the J Geils Band who wanted to Blow Your Face Out.
The live albums recorded in 1975 include:
Average White Band Person To Person
The Baker Gurvitz Army Live In Derby 75
Baker Gurvitz Army Live In London 75
Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso – Seguendo Le Tracce
Black Sabbath – Past Lives
Blood Sweat & Tears Live And Improvised
Jackson Browne Live At The Main Point September 7th 1975
Jack Bruce Spirit Live at the BBC
Jack Bruce Live At Manchester Free Trade Hall
Camel A Live Record
Chicago XXXIV Live in 75
City Boy BBC In Concert
Commander Cody Live from Armadillo World HQ 1973 & Capitol Theatre 1975
Miles Davis Agharta
Deep Purple – Made In Europe
Deep Purple – Live In Paris
Deep Purple – This Time Around
Dr Feelgood – Stupidity
Dr Feelgood Live At The BBC
Bob Dylan Live 1975 The Rolling Thunder Revue
Earth Wind & Fire – Alive In 75
Earth Wind & Fire Gratitude
Peter Frampton – Frampton Comes Alive
Fripp & Eno Live in Paris
Genesis Archive 1967–75
Grand Funk Railroad Caught In The Act
Grateful Dead One From The Vault
J Geils Band – Blow Your Face Out
Emmylou Harris Cowboy Angels
Keith Jarrett The Koln Concert
Waylon Jennings Turn Back the Years Live in Dallas 75
Jethro Tull Paris 1975 Minstrel In The Gallery 40th Anniversary
Albert King Blues From The Road
Kiss – Kiss Alive
Paul Kossoff Live At Croydon Fairfield Halls 15/6/75
Nils Lofgren – Back It Up
Nils Lofgren Live Sausalito
Lynyrd Skynyrd Live Cardiff 1975
Magma Live Hhai
Bob Marley – Bob Marley & the Wailers Live
John Martyn Live At Leeds & More
John Martyn Live At Leeds Deluxe
John Martyn On Air
Melanie On Air BBC Live in Concert
The Meters Uptown Rulers! Live on the Queen Mary
New York Dolls Red Patent Leather Live In NYC
Graham Parker The Bootleg Box
PFM Paper Charms
The Pretty Things Live At The BBC
Professor Longhair Live on the Queen Mary
Queen Live At The Hammersmith Odeon 1975 (video)
Queen A Night At The Odeon
Renaissance Live At Carnegie Hall
The Rolling Stones – LA Friday 75
The Rolling Stones From The Vault LA Forum
Todd Rundgren’s Utopia Live at Hammersmith Odeon ’75
Otis Rush So Many Roads Live in Concert
Doug Sahm Live from Austin TX
Santana Live At The Rynearson Stadium
Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie Together In Concert
Patti Smith Dreaming Of The Prophet
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band Live
The Sons Of Champlin Live San Rafael
Bruce Springsteen – Live At The Main Point
Bruce Springsteen – Hammersmith Odeon London 75
Bruce Springsteen Tower Theater Pennsylvania
Rod Stewart – Live In London
Supertramp Is Everybody Listening?
Supertramp Live At Hammersmith Odeon 1975 (with Crime Of The Century Deluxe Edition)
Tangerine Dream Ricochet
Thin Lizzy – UK Tour 75
Irma Thomas Live 1975 aka Hip Shakin’ Mama
Richard & Linda Thompson – In Concert November 1975
Big Mama Thornton Jail
Trapeze Live At The Boat Club
Robin Trower At The BBC
UFO The Official Bootleg Box Set
UFO On Air At The BBC
Van Der Graaf Generator After the Flood Van Der Graaf Generator At The BBC
Tom Waits Nighthawks At The Diner
Joe Walsh You Can’t Argue With A Sick Mind
Edgar & Johnny Winter Together
Johnny Winter Captured Live!
Frank Zappa & Captain Beefheart Bongo Fury
ZZ Top Fandango
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This Time Around: Live in Tokyo is a live album by Deep Purple Mark 4 (with Tommy Bolin) recorded in December 1975.
The concert has previously been released as Last Concert In Japan but this is to be avoided. There were rumours that Tommy Bolin was unable to play his guitar properly that night but things sound much better in this version.
An even more dynamic concert from Mark 4 is available as On The Wings Of A Russian Foxbat.
10cc In Concert is the UK version of the King Biscuit Flower Hour recording of all the original members of 10cc performing live from the Original Soundtrack tour in November 1975 in Santa Monica.
Strangely, the performance didn’t include any of the tracks from thealbum they were recording.
At least this is the proper 10cc, unlike Live and Let Live and 10cc Live.
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Back It Up!! – Nils Lofgren Live – An Authorized Bootleg was recorded on October 31st 1975 and followed the example set by The Who Live At Leeds in imitating a bootleg recording.
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Blow Your Face Out is the second live album recorded by the J Geils Band and catches the group in concert at Boston Garden, Boston on November 15, 1975 and at Cobo Hall, Detroit on November 19, 1975.
As their 1972 live album, Full House showed, the J Geils Band were best experienced live.
Live In Paris recorded on the 7th April 1975 is the last Mark III performance by Deep Purple because Ritchie Blackmore left the band and had already recorded Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow with Ronnie James Dio.
Live is a live album by Bob Marley & The Wailers recorded at the Lyceum Theatre in London on 18 July and 19 July 1975.
There have been rumours that this classic live album will receive a big make-over with the complete concerts issued. That sounds good because Live is too short!
It is one of the albums that helped him crossover from being a specialised reggae artist to a worldwide star with a much broader rock & pop audience.
Frampton Comes Alive, a live album by Peter Frampton recorded in 1975 and released the following year to become the best selling album of 1976.
I have to confess to being mystified by its success.
I didn’t get it when some of the other kids at school were raving about it in 1976 and I still didn’t get it when I finally bought it a couple of years ago when I realised I was going to base my album collection on live recordings.
It’s one of those albums that so many people like that makes me think I must be wrong.
Kiss Alive is one of the most famous and successful live albums ever. It was recorded and released in 1975 and captured the rawness of Kiss live in concert.
Kiss were a notorious live act with the theatrics and the costumes adding to the atmosphere created by their powerful, driving, forceful music.
Unfortunately this sound wasn’t properly captured on the first three studio albums – Kiss, Hotter Than Hell and Dressed to Kill.
It was on Kiss Alive!
Continue reading Kiss Alive 1975Hammersmith Odeon 75 captures the first visit by Bruce Springsteen to the UK in 1975 after Born To Run was released.
The retrospective Live 1975 – 85 is a very comprehensive collection of Springsteen live but fans were critical because it was a live performance compilation.
Hammersmith Odeon is how long-standing fans really want to hear Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band play live – a complete concert that captures the excitement and passion of a Springsteen gig.
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Made In Europe is a souvenir of the 1975 tour Deep Purple made with Ritchie Blackmore to promote their Stormbringer album.
Shortly afterwards Blackmore left the group and Tommy Bolin joined.
Although there are only two personnel changes (vocalist Ian Glover and Roger Glover out, David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes in), this is a very different band than the one that recorded Made In Japan.
