Bring It Back Alive is the first live album by Southern rock group the Outlaws which was recorded in 1977. It’s most famous for the 20 minute guitar-fest on Green Grass and High Tides.
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Live Albums Recorded In 1977
I will always think of 1977 as the year of punk rock. The first singles and albums by the Sex Pistols, The Clash and the The Damned were released and from the USA, Talking Heads and Television appeared to help turn punk into new wave.
Live albums were still thriving thanks to the amazing popularity of Frampton Comes Alive which was the big hit released (not recorded) in the year.
Classic live albums are led by Live & Dangerous by Thin Lizzy and there are plenty of much less well known albums to enjoy.
Live albums recorded in 1977 include:
AC/DC Live From The Atlantic Studios
AC/DC Cleveland Rocks
AC/DC San Francisco ’77
Albion Band Vintage Albion Band On The Road
The Albion Band Live at the Cambridge Folk Festival
Alice Cooper – The Alice Cooper Show
Average White Band Live At Montreux
Barclay James Harvest – Live Tapes
Be Bop Deluxe – Live In The Air Age
Elvin Bishop Raisin’ Hell
Blondie The Old Waldorf San Francisco
Jackson Browne – Running On Empty
Jack Bruce Spirit Live at the BBC
Burning Spear Burning Spear Live
Buzzcocks Live at the Roxy Club April 77
Camel – A Live Record
Alex Chilton Ocean Club 77
Commodores – Commodores Live
Sandy Denny Gold Dust Live At The Royalty
Ian Dury On The Stiff’s Live Stiffs
801 Live At Hull
Elvis Costello – Live At The Nashville Rooms
Dr Feelgood Down at the BBC In Concert
Emerson Lake & Palmer – Works Live
Emerson Lake & Palmer The Original Bootleg Series from the Manticore Vaults vol 2
Foghat – Live
Generation X Radio 1 Sessions
Genesis – Seconds Out
Ian Gillan Band Live At The Budokan
Grateful Dead To Terrapin Hartford ’77
Grateful Dead Winterland June 1977 The Complete Recordings
Hall & Oates Livetime
Harmonium En Tournee
Steve Hillage Live At The Rainbow
Steve Hillage Live Herald
The Jam Fire & Skill The Jam Live
The Kinks At The BBC (Box Set)
Kiss – Kiss Alive 2
Lindisfarne Magic In The Air
Locanda Delle Fate Locanda Delle Fate Live
Nils Lofgren – Night After Night
Nils Lofgren Hanging Tough
Lone Star – BBC Live In Concert
Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush Live
The Marshall Tucker Band – Stompin’ Room Only
The Marshall Tucker Band Carolina Dreams Tour 77
John Martyn BBC Live In Concert
John Miles BBC Radio One Live in Concert
Frankie Miller’s Full House BBC In Concert 3rd May 1977
Muddy Waters Breakin It Up Breakin It Down 1977 with Johnny Winter and James Cotton
Ted Nugent – Double Live Gonzo
Ohio Players – Jam
The Only Ones Darkness And Light The Complete BBC Recordings
Outlaws – Bring It Back Alive
Paice Ashton Lord Paice Ashton Lord Live
Paice Ashton Lord BBC Radio 1 In Concert
Graham Parker BBC Live In Concert
Graham Parker Live On The Test
Graham Parker Official Bootleg Box
Graham Parker Not If It Pleases Me
Parliament – Live P-Funk Earth Tour
Parliament Funkadelic Live 1976-1993
Dolly Parton Live At The Bottom Line
Tom Petty Anything That’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Live At My Fathers Place Roslyn New York City
Tom Petty The New York Shuffle
Planet Gong Floating Anarchy Live
Poco The Last Roundup
Iggy Pop TV Eye
Racing Cars In Concert
Radio Stars Something for the Weekend
Rainbow Live In Munich
The Ramones – It’s Alive
Lou Reed Transmission Impossible
Renaissance The BBC Sessions
Jess Roden – Live At The BBC
The Rolling Stones – Love You Live
Otis Rush Live in Europe
The Saints – Live At The Hope & Anchor
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson – Live At The Bottom Line Aug 20, 1977
Bob Seger Live Boston
The Sex Pistols Never Mind The Bollocks Live
Slade – Alive Volume 2
Spirit Rock and Roll Planet
Stephen Stills Live in Concert
The Stranglers Live at the Hope and Anchor
The Stranglers BBC In Concert 23rd April 1977
Streetwalkers Streetwalkers Live
Talking Heads – The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads
Tangerine Dream Encore
10cc – Live And Let Live
10cc – Live In Concert
Thin Lizzy – Live And Dangerous
Thin Lizzy Still Dangerous
The Tubes What Do You Want From Live
Tom Waits A Small Affair In Ohio
Van Der Graaf Generator After the Flood Van Der Graaf Generator At The BBC
Various Artists Live At The Roxy
Grover Washington Jr – Live At The Bijou
Wire Live At The Roxy London April 1st & 2nd 1977
X-Ray Spex Live At The Roxy
Yes – Yesshows
Frank Zappa Sheik Yerbouti
Frank Zappa Baby Snakes
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UFO The Official Bootleg Box Set 1975 to 1985
The Official Bootleg Box Set is a compilation of seven UFO concerts from 1975 to 1985. It covers both the Michael Schenker and Paul Chapman years.
If Strangers In the Night isn’t enough live UFO for you, then this is a great place to turn.
Early versions of the box set went from 1975 to 1982 but it has been extended.
UFO The Official Bootleg Box Set
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Nils Lofgren Night After Night 1977
Night After Night is a live album by Nils Lofgren promoting his I Came To Dance album, recorded in London, Glasgow and Los Angeles.
The radio broadcast Hanging Tough also comes from this tour but features fewer songs.
Nils Lofgren Night After Night
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Elvis Costello Live At The Nashville Rooms 1977 (With My Aim Is True Deluxe)
Live at The Nashville Rooms is a recording of a live concert by Elvis Costello from August 7, 1977.
This is sold as a bonus on the Deluxe Edition of Elvis Costello’s first album My Aim Is True.
Elvis Costello Live At The Nashville Rooms
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Yes Yesshows 1976-78
Yesshows is the second live album from Yes and captures the group live between 1976 and 1978. This is when Yes and the other dinosaur bands were being challenged by punk.
During the period Yes changed keyboard players with Patrick Moraz leaving and Rick Wakeman returning. Moraz plays on the two very long tracks, The Gates of Delirium and Ritual – Nous Sommes du Soleil with Wakeman on the others.
Yes Yesshows
10cc Live And Let Live 1977
Live And Let Live is a live album by 10cc in 1977 after Kevin Godley, and Lol Creme had left the group. It was recorded in London and Manchester in the UK on the Deceptive Bends tour.
10cc Live And Let Live
Alice Cooper The Alice Cooper Show 1977
The Alice Cooper Show is a live album by Alice Cooper recorded at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas in August 1977.
This is quite late in his career for his first live album and much of his success was in the early seventies.
Alice Cooper is a showman and any live album is going to fail to capture the full experience of his live shows because the “shock-rock” visual antics were such an important part of the entertainment.
The emphasis on death and dying is not to my tastes but he does have some great tunes.
The Alice Cooper Show
Kiss Alive 2 1977
Kiss Alive 2 is the second live album by Kiss, recorded in 1977 with songs from Destroyer, Rock and Roll Over and Love Gun.
The performances came from The Forum, Los Angeles, Capital Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey and Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan.
I remember reading the reviews in the Sounds music paper by Geoff Barton where he raved about it and said that it was even better than Kiss Alive! and he loved that first album.
Kiss Alive 2
Talking Heads The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads 1977 to 1981
The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads is a live compilation album from Talking Heads spanning the years from 1977 to 1981.
This represents the time when Talking Heads were at their most innovative, coming out of the punk movement at the CBGBs club but sounding nothing like punk. In my classification system I’m treating talking Heads as both a new wave band and an art rock band.
This album represents Talking Heads at their brilliant, quirky best and in my opinion is even more exciting than Stop Making Sense.
If you’re wondering about the title, the group were often incorrectly called The Talking Heads. David Byrne would often introduce songs with the phrase “The name of this song …”
The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads
My Rating – 29 out of 30 – an outstanding live album
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Ted Nugent Double Live Gonzo 1976 & 1977
Double Live Gonzo is the first live album by Ted Nugent recorded in 1976 and 1977 and released in 1978.
Ted Nugent had been lead guitarist for the The Amboy Dukes before becoming the star attraction in that group and then going solo.
His first studio albums – Ted Nugent, Free For All and Cat Scratch Fever – were popular with heavy metal fans.
