Wikipedia defines prog rock as
“Progressive rock, also known as prog rock or prog, is a rock music subgenre that originated in the United Kingdom with further developments in Germany, Italy, and France, throughout the mid-to-late 1960s and 1970s. It developed from psychedelic rock, and originated, similarly to art rock, as an attempt to give greater artistic weight and credibility to rock music. Bands abandoned the short pop single in favor of instrumentation and compositional techniques more frequently associated with jazz or classical music in an effort to give rock music the same level of musical sophistication and critical respect.”
Three associated genres used on this website are art rock, psychedelic rock and AOR.
Prog Rock Live Albums Recorded In The 1980s
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe An Evening of Yes Music Plus 1989
Barclay James Harvest Berlin A Concert for the People 1980
Camel Pressure Points Live In Concert 1984
Genesis Archive #2 1976-1992
Genesis Three Sides Live 1981
Grobschnitt The Grobschnitt Story Vol 4 Illegal Tour 1981
Greg Lake London ’81
Horslips The Belfast Gigs 1980
IQ Living Proof 1985
King Crimson Absent Lovers Live In Montreal 1984
Marillion Recital of the Script 1983
Marillion Real To Reel 1984
Marillion The Thieving Magpie (La Gazza Ladra) 1984 to 1987
Marillion Live from Loreley 1987
Pink Floyd Is There Anybody Out There? 1980 & 1981
Pink Floyd Delicate Sound Of Thunder 1988
Yes The Word Is Live 1970 to 1988
Yes 9012 Live The Solos 1984
Frank Zappa Make A Jazz Noise Here 1988
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The All Time Best Progress Rock Live Albums
I don’t have a readers poll to find the best prog rock live album for this decade but I do have a poll for the best all time prog rock live albums:
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Because there are so many great progressive rock live albums I have split the poll into two and you may find some of your favourites in the second division. Albums will be promoted when they get enough votes.
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You may also be interested in the poll to find the best art rock live albums.
Live progressive rock albums by decade – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s – 2000s – 2010s
Art Rock Live Albums By Decade – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s – 2000s – 2010s
Absent Lovers is a live album by experimental prog rock group King Crimson. It was recorded at a concert in Montreal in July 1984. The group were promoting the Three Of A Perfect Pair album.
Members of King Crimson at this stage were:
Robert Fripp – guitar
Adrian Belew – guitar, drums, vocals
Tony Levin – bass guitar, Chapman stick, synthesizer, vocals
Bill Bruford – drums, percussion
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Three Sides Live is the third Genesis live album, mainly recorded on the 1981 Abacab tour. This is partway on the move from prog-rock to pop-rock.
It’s a confusing background with different versions of the album released in the UK and the USA.
The American version of the album had three sides live and one side of an LP with studio recordings.The British version had extra live songs from earlier, more progressive concerts.
In 1994 the British version of the album was remastered and released throughout the world.
Some of the songs were recorded at the NEC, Birmingham on 23rd December 1981 and I think I was at that gig. I certainly saw Genesis several times at the NEC in the early eighties.
Continue reading Genesis Three Sides Live 1981Is There Anybody Out There? is the Pink Floyd live recording of The Wall concerts from 1980 and 1981 at Earls Court London.
I wasn’t lucky enough to be at these gigs but I had a flatmate who raved about how good The Wall concerts were.
This album was first issued in 2000 and is really the first prime time Pink Floyd live album when the group had conquered the world. (Ummagumma was too early and Delicate Sound Of Thunder and Pulse were a controversial version of the Floyd without the main songwriter, Roger Waters.)
Whether this album has a role to play in your album collection depends on two things:
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Delicate Sound Of Thunder by Pink Floyd is a live album recorded in 1988 on the A Momentary Lapse of Reason tour without Roger Waters.
Could the Floyd cut it without their former band leader and main song writer?
