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Classic Rock Live Albums Recorded In 1977

Live albums include:

Eric Clapton Crossroads 2 Live In The Seventies
Alice Cooper The Alice Cooper Show
Ian Gillan Band Live At The Budokan
Little Feat Waiting For Columbus
Nils Lofgren Night After Night 1977
Nils Lofgren Hanging Tough
Lone Star BBC Live In Concert
John Miles BBC Radio One Live in Concert
Frankie Miller’s Full House BBC In Concert 3rd May 1977
Paice Ashton Lord BBC Radio 1 In Concert
Paice Ashton Lord Live 1977
Tom Petty The New York Shuffle 1977
Tom Petty Anything That’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Live At My Fathers Place Roslyn New York City
Lou Reed Transmission Impossible
The Rolling Stones Love You Live
Bob Seger Live Boston
10cc Live And Let Live
10cc Live In Concert 1977
Thin Lizzy Live And Dangerous

What are the best classic rock live albums?

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Because there are so many excellent classic 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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Paice Ashton Lord BBC Radio 1 In Concert 1977

BBC Radio 1 In Concert is a live album by Paice Ashton Lord.

It was recorded live at the Golders Green Hippodrome, London on 10 March 1977.

If you’ve ever wondered what Jon Lord and Ian Paice did after Deep Purple split up in 1976, then here’s your answer.

They joined forces with Tony Ashton to form Paice Ashton Lord or PAL.

If the name sounds familiar, you may be aware of Tony Ashton from the UK #3 hit single “Resurrection Shuffle” by Ashton, Gardner and Dyke.

Paice Ashton Lord recorded a studio album called Malice In Wonderland which they promoted with live concerts.

This album has been reissued as Live 1977 with an extra song. There is also a DVD of the concert called Paice Ashton Lord Live.

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Ian Gillan Band Live At The Budokan 1977

Live At Budokan is a live album by the Ian Gillan Band.

It was recorded at the Budokan in Tokyo, Japan on 22 September 1977. It was released a few months later.

While Ian Gillan paid tribute to his time with Deep Purple with three classics, this is a much more sophisticated sound that some people have described as jazz rock fusion.

It’s better, more listenable than you might expect but this is not a hard rock sequel to Made In Japan.

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Eric Clapton Crossroads 2 Live In The Seventies

Crossroads 2 Live In The Seventies is a live album boxset by Eric Clapton.

While there are a few studio tracks, the majority of this 4 CD set consists of previously unreleased recordings of Eric Clapton and his band performing live from 1974 to 1978.

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The Rolling Stones Love You Live 1977

Love You Live was the third live album released by the Rolling Stones and brings together live recordings from 1975 to 1977.

This catches the early years of Ronnie Wood as the replacement for Mick Taylor on the tours to promote the Black and Blue studio album.

The Rolling Stones Love You Live

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10cc Live In Concert 1977

10cc Live In Concert is a live album by 10cc that I found when I was looking through my iPod and I realised I hadn’t mentioned it on here..

This was issued by Pickwick Records originally in 1977.

I think it is a shortened version of the Live and Let Live album recorded in 1977.

While the album cover has the four original members of 10cc on it, this is 10cc with Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman but without Kevin Godley and Lol Creme.

10cc Live In Concert

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Lone Star BBC Live In Concert

BBC Live In Concert is a live album by the heavy progressive Welsh rock group Lone Star and pulls together short sets from 1976 and 1977.

Between these two concerts, Lone Star changed their lead singer from Kenny Driscoll to John Sloman. After Lone Star broke up, Sloman went on to sing with Uriah Heep.

I saw them at the Reading festival in August 1977, just after their second album Firing On All Six was released.

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Little Feat Waiting For Columbus 1977

Waiting For Columbus is the first live album released by Little Feat and is considered to be one of the best live albums ever. Plenty more have followed.

It was recorded at the Rainbow Theatre in London and Lisner Auditorium in Washington DC in early August 1977 on the Time Loves A Hero tour.

Before punk came along, Little Feat were a critics favourite with their unique brand of fusion rock pulling on the blues, country, boogie and funk. Personally I didn’t see what was so special as the studio albums lacked impact.

My problem was I hadn’t seen or heard them play live. This is a great album for someone who thinks they don’t like Little Feat to hear.

Little Feat Waiting For Columbus

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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.

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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

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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

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