Live Albums Recorded At The Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco
The Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, California is one of the most famous music venues in the late 1960s and 1970s and one of the most popular sources for live albums. It was owned by Bill Graham and he routinely used to record the acts who performed at the venue. These have been part of the source for the Wolfgang Vaults recordings.
Live albums recorded at the Winterland include:
The Band The Last Waltz 1976
Paul Butterfield and Better Days Live at Winterland Ballroom 1973
Cream Wheels Of Fire 1968
Cream Live Cream 1968
Grateful Dead Steal Your Face 1974
Grateful Dead Closing of Winterland: December 31 1978
Jimi Hendrix Live At Winterland 1968
Humble Pie In Concert aka Live On The King Biscuit Flower Hour 1973
Jefferson Airplane Thirty Seconds Over Winterland 1972
Janis Joplin Live at Winterland ’68
Lynyrd Skynyrd Authorized Bootleg Live – Winterland 1976
Bruce Springsteen Winterland Night 1978
Examples of recordings from Wolfgang Vaults recorded at the Winterland include:
Live At Winterland Valentine’s Day 1976
Van Morrison at the Winterland Feb 2, 1974
Live At Winterland is a live album by Jimi Hendrix recorded over three nights in October 1968 at Winterland, San Francisco.
The first time Live At Winterland was issued, there were eleven tracks plus a prologue and epilogue. In the 1992 edition, three more songs were added.
In 2011 a much larger Winterland box set was issued which will be reviewed separately.
Live At Winterland Valentine’s Day 1976 is a live recording of a concert given by Little Feat in February 1976.
It is listed by Wikipedia as a live album and it’s been sold on eBay but I don’t think it’s an official live album. It may be one of these “legal in some parts of the world” recordings.
There isn’t a shortage of live albums by Little Feat but apart from Waiting For Columbus, there is a serious lack of alternatives featuring main man, Lowell George which makes this special.
It is a live recording that is available from Wolfgang’s Vault and on the basis that’s been around for a long time and hasn’t been shut down, I assume that is legal.
Set List: Continue reading Little Feat Live At Winterland Valentine’s Day 1976
Wheels of Fire is a double album by Cream with one LP recorded in the studio and the other capturing the live Cream experience in March 1968 in California.
Cream were a very different band live compared to the studio as it gave the great instrumentalists – Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker – a chance to stretch out and show off their talents.
The Last Waltz is the live recording of the last concert by The Band before they broke up on Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976.
The main concert was recorded at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco.
The Last Waltz Suite was recorded at the MGM Soundstage.
The album is also the soundtrack to a film of the concert of the same name.
Personally I find it a strange album and prefer Rock Of Ages for a more authentic experience of The Band as a live group. The problem is that so many rock superstars were keen to pay tribute to The Band, the group rather got lost in the mix.
The Last Waltz finishes up as some kind of rock variety show. Interesting but not The Band at its finest.
Live Cream is live compilation album from blues rock group Cream that includes one short studio track.
Like Wheels Of Fire, it features songs from the Fillmore West and Winterland in San Francisco in March 1968.
