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 2000s
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso No Palco 2002
Colosseum Live 05
Dream Theater Live Scenes From New York 2000
The Flower Kings Meet The Flower Kings A Live Recording 2003
Genesis Live Over Europe 2007
David Gilmour Live In Gdansk 2006
Gov’t Mule Dark Side Of The Mule 2008
Horslips Live At The O2 2009
King Crimson Heavy ConstruKction 2000
Le Orme Live In Pennsylvania 2005
Jon Lord Jon Lord Live 2009
Magenta Live At Real World 2009
Marillion Anorak In The UK Live 2001
Nektar Live at the Patriots Theater 2002
Nektar Fortyfied 2008
Porcupine Tree Warszawa 2001
Porcupine Tree XM 2002
Porcupine Tree Arriving Somewhere 2006
Procol Harum In Concert With Danish National Concert Orchestra 2006
Procol Harum The Spirit of Nokken 2009
Van Der Graaf Generator Real Time 2005
Van Der Graaf Generator Live At The Paradiso 2007
Roger Waters In The Flesh Live 2000
Yes Symphonic Live 2001
Yes Live at Montreux 2003
Yes In The Present Live from Lyon 2009
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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
Live In Gdansk is a live album and DVD by Pink Floyd’s star guitarist, David Gilmour.
It was recorded in the Gdańsk Shipyard with the Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra in Gdańsk on August 26, 2006.
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Warszawa is a live album by prog rock group Porcupine Tree.
It was recorded at the Agnieszka Osiecka Studio in Warszawa, Poland on 6 April 2001 and released in February 2004.
Live At The O2 is the third live album by Irish folk/prog band Horslips.
It was recorded at the O2 in Dublin in November 2009. It was released in 2010.
Jon Lord Live is a live album by former Deep Purple Keyboard player Jon Lord.
It was recorded in Bucharest in 2009 with The Rousse Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Nayden Tadorov.
This is an interesting reworking of some of the Deep Purple songs together with more classical compositions.
There is also a DVD of this concert which is sold separately.
In Concert With Danish National Concert Orchestra is a live album and video by Procol Harum.
It was recorded in Ledreborg Castle in Denmark on 20 August 2006.
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Live at the Patriots Theater is a live album by progressive rock group Nektar.
It looks as if this is a 2014 re-release of the Greatest Hits Live album which was recorded at the NEARfest festival held at the Patriots Theater in the Trenton War Memorial in Trenton, New Jersey on 29 June 2002.
Dark Side Of The Mule is a live album by blues rock group Gov’t Mule.
It was recorded in concert in Boston in 2008 when Gov’t Mule played about three hours worth of Pink Floyd songs, which of course were given the Gov’t Mule treatment.
It is released on December 8th, 2014 in two forms:
In The Flesh Live is a live album and DVD by Roger Waters who was previously the main songwriter for Pink Floyd.
It was recorded at concerts in Phoenix, Arizona, Las Vegas, Nevada, Irvine, California and Portland, Oregon in June 2000. It was released in December 2000.
Live Scenes From New York is a live album by Dream Theater.
It was at the Roseland Ballroom in New York City on August 30, 2000 and released in September 2001.
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Live at Montreux 2003 is a live album by Yes. It was recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival on 14 July 2003 and is also available as a DVD.
With a line up full of stars from the seventies, you can guess where the main focus of the set is based.
Jon Anderson – lead vocals, MIDI guitar, harp, acoustic guitar
Steve Howe – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, pedal steel, mandolin, backup vocals
Rick Wakeman – keyboards, Minimoog synthesiser
Chris Squire – bass guitar, harmonica, backup vocals
Alan White – drums, percussion
