Live ’72 is an early live album by Museo Rosenbach, an Italian progressive rock band.
This album catches the band in concert before their classic studio album, Zarathustra was released but it previews some of the songs.
Classic studio albums include Close To The Edge by Yes, Foxtrot by Genesis and A Thick As A Brick by Jethro Tull. We also saw the emergence of prog rock in Italy with early albums by PFM and Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso.
The live albums recorded by progressive rock bands in 1972 include:
Argent BBC Radio 1 In Concert 1972 and 1974
Badger One Live Badger 1972
Barclay James Harvest BBC In Concert 1972
Camel On The Road 1972
Emerson Lake & Palmer The Original Bootleg Series from the Manticore Vaults vol 1 1971 1972
Emerson Lake & Palmer The Original Bootleg Series from the Manticore Vaults vol 2
Emerson Lake & Palmer Live at the Mar Y Sol Festival ’72
Gnidrolog Live 1972
Hawkwind Space Ritual Alive 1972
Hawkwind Greasy Truckers Party 1972
Hawkwind At The BBC 1972
Hawkwind BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert 1972
If Europe 72
If Fibonacci’s Number More Live If
Jethro Tull Concierto en Vivo 1972
King Crimson Ladies of the Road 1971 1972
King Crimson Earthbound 1972
Yes Yessongs 1972
Yes Progeny Seven Shows From Seventy-Two
Yes Progeny Highlights From Seventy-Two
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Live ’72 is an early live album by Museo Rosenbach, an Italian progressive rock band.
This album catches the band in concert before their classic studio album, Zarathustra was released but it previews some of the songs.
Imaginary Diseases is a live album by Frank Zappa.
It was recorded between October and December 1972. After the 12 concert Grand Wazoo tour (captured on the Wazoo album) with a big band of 20 personnel, Zappa cut back to a smaller band for the rest of 1972 on what is known as the Petit Wazoo tour.
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Fibonacci’s Number More Live If is a live album by jazzy prog rock band If.
It comes from the same tour as Europe 72.
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Live at the Mar Y Sol Festival ’72 is a live album by Emerson Lake & Palmer
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The Original Bootleg Series from the Manticore Vaults vol 2 is an 8 CD set of live concert recordings by Emerson Lake & Palmer.
These are:
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Europe 72 is a live album by progressive jazz rock group If.
It was recorded live in concert and in front of a small audience in a studio in 1972.
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On The Road 1972 is a live album by English prog rock band Camel.
It was recorded at an unknown venue but it dates back to before the group released their self-titled debut studio album.
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Concierto en Vivo collects together live recordings by Jethro Tull from the early 1970s.
As you can see, the front cover says this is from the Essen 1972 and Chicago 1971 concerts but the download information on Amazon gives the dates as:
It’s made available by the 2015 Imex Media label.
I’ve wanted to hear early 1970s live recordings of Jethro Tull for many years and I’ve been disappointed with the 40th anniversary re-releases of the classic albums and the lack of live concert recordings. Minstrel In The Gallery from 1975 was a start to putting that right.
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BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert is a live album by Hawkwind.
It was recorded at the Paris Theatre in London on 28 September 1972.
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Hawkwind At The BBC 1972 is a collection of recordings of space rock group Hawkwind made by the BBC from 1972.
There are two in studio recordings plus an in concert recording.
The double CD set has a mono, full version of the concert broadcast plus an edited stereo version.
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