Re: And guess what? I was there!

Fab's comment on the Devo thread made me wonder: Can anyone else name a live album recorded at a show they attended?

"Instant Live" has made this fairly commonplace ... although they never seem to be around at the particularly cool shows I manage to attend. (Personally, I'd love to find a set from the Bauhaus gig at the Paramount Theatre in Denver in 2005. Instant Live taped several shows from that tour, but skipped taping that one.) But how about mass-release live albums?

Off the top of my head, Jay Farrar - Stone, Steel & Bright Lights and The Choir - Live at Cornerstone. Seems like there are one or two more, but I'm drawing a blank right now.

And how 'bout videos? I'm in the Red Hot Chili Peppers "Fight Like A Brave" and the Beastie Boys "Shadrach." But you can't see me - just part of a mob in the RHCP, and the Beasties colorized their video like a cartoon.

I have a buddy whose yells of delight are clearly audible in the Houston-record songs on Dash Rip Rock's Boiled Alive.

I was in the crowd for The Soundtrack of Our Lives set from which the version of "Sister Surround" on this DVD, but I'm not on camera (thank the gods).

I was also present for the Rolling Stones show in Austin that was being recorded by video cameras, but I have no idea if that footage was ever used in anything.

There have also been a few DVD episodes of Austin City Limits when I was in the audience.

Allman Brothers - An Evening with the Allman Brothers Band (1992)
Recorded at the Orpheum in Boston. I used to be a jam band guy as a teenager.

I WISH I was captured on the Dash RIp Rock live album. I freakin love them.

I was in the audience for hundreds of shows that people recorded with their cell phones and posted on Youtube (with shaky hands and godawful quality). Otherwise, I got nothin'.

I was at this:

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I've also tracked down bootlegs of a number of shows I attended, and some of them sound pretty good.

I purchased an "Instant Live" double disc set from the Crowded House show I saw on their 2007 tour (The Tabernacle, Atlanta)...I'm really glad to have it, because there was a very strange vibe that night. It was the final show of the US tour, and Atlanta's where the late Paul Hester quit on the band while on tour 12 years earlier. It felt sort of like a wake. There's a stretch in the middle of the show–"Pour Le Monde", an abbreviated version of "Never be the Same" ("Don't stand around, like friends at a funeral, eyes to the ground, it could've been you..."), "Hole in the River", "Better Be Home Soon", "Italian Plastic" (which was Hester's signature tune) and an extremely intense "Silent House" that's incredibly moving and sad...but then they move on to "Walked Her Way Down", a brief cover of Cat Stevens' "Wild World", "Distant Sun" and a rave-up take on "Mean to Me" (Finn: "What do you know?"; audience: "What do you know!?!; Finn: "Just a little bit more than I used to, on a good day, still not very much, but what I know I can't use, and what I don't know I'll turn it loose..."), and it's as if everyone in the place is flying. And then the two encores. It still gives me goosebumps.

Replacements -- When The Shit Hit The Fans. I used to be close friends with the guy they took the tape from.



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How about one I missed? Part of Peter Frampton's gajillion-selling live album was recorded at my college. I knew he was playing that night, but I wasn't too impressed when I'd seen him with Frampton's Camel a couple of years before, and went to the bar instead.

I was at the Judas Priest concert where "Heavy Metal Parking Lot" was filmed - DC's Cap Center.

Bootlegs shouldn't count ... unless perhaps you were not the one doing the recording.

I saw The Church at the Ritz back in '88 and my girlfriend's dad recorded the radio broadcast of the show while we were in NYC.

I know it totally lame, but that's the closest thing I got.

It's a decent tape of a totally killer show. Steve Kilbey got hit with a Milky Way bar.

"Some hilarious devil with a waggish sense of humour's thrown a Milky way bar at me!"

WOuld have been cooler if someone threw a reptile.

The closest I can think of is a Tom Petty show from Gainesville, FL back in 2003 or so that was broadcast live over radio in the region. Can't think of anything else off the top of my head.

I attended both nights of the Dec '87 U2 shows at Sun Devil Stadium, which were used in the color segment of Rattle and Hum. The remainder of the film, of course, was devoted to U2 revisiting their Mississippli Delta roots, long before that fateful day when Bono died in a juke joint by drinking poison hootch.

I have at least three friends who were at shows on Rattle and Hum (the Sun Devil Stadium and the McNichols Arena shows), and one friend who's pointed himself out in the crowd at the Under a Blood Red Sky show at Red Rocks. I didn't attend any of the above, though.

Rundgren's Todd album
and I slow clapped a violin solo to death on Premiata Forneria Marconi live in Central Park show...
i think that's it for me

I was at a Crack the Sky concert at the Tower Theater where they recorded a live album. Not sure if I clapped. I was there to see the headliner Robert Palmer. This was probably in the early '80s.

I definitely clapped at the Live, Alone in America album that Graham Parker recorded at the TLA in Philadelphia, in the late '80s, I think.

Jay

Echo and the Bunnymen at the Manly Vale Hotel in 1981. It wasn't a live album but was aired on radio JJJ later in the week.

I was at one of the Berkeley Square shows where Primus recorded their "Suck On This' debut (wasn't exactly a fan, then or now, but I got a free ticket, so....). And, er, that's it, so far as I know of...

as mentioned before

i was screaming at b side of patty smith/john cale clevo agora show of my generation