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 01/17/2006 02:15:29 PM · #26
Wow, I didn't know we had that many Rush fans in DPC. That's great! Agreed, they do put on one hell of a show. I smoked my first cigarette (and my last) at a Rush show.
 01/17/2006 02:22:05 PM · #27
Cheap Trick - Live from the Buddakhan - "I Want You To Want Me."
 06/29/2006 11:05:26 AM · #28
up

(perhaps you still have a few suggestions...)

Message edited by author 2006-06-29 11:05:37.
 06/29/2006 11:07:47 AM · #29
Originally posted by Nobody:
Cheap Trick - Live from the Buddakhan - "I Want You To Want Me."


Exactly what I was thinking!!
 06/29/2006 11:19:20 AM · #30
Originally posted by pidge:
Bare Naked Ladies have a live album where they get the crowd singing lines from their songs. Don't know the name of it


It's Rock Spectacle.

"Brian Wilson" is a good choice, as well as "If I Had a Million Dollars."

06/29/2006 11:22:55 AM · #31
There is a rare live version of Another Brick in the Wall part 2 which you can hear the crowd singing very loud. I might have an MP3 of it on one of my old hard drives I will have a look for it.
 06/29/2006 11:35:13 AM · #32
John Prine Illegal Smile...
 06/29/2006 11:55:53 AM · #33
*Note: I'm not a big country bunkin'

That said, if you want a slow song, "Unanswered Prayers" by Garth Brooks on his live double-cd has quite a bit of audience singing where he sits back and lets them take over. I was part of that audience, so if you listen very carefully you can hear me.
 06/29/2006 12:05:36 PM · #34
Originally posted by jahoward:
A good one for crowd participation is.... Ants Marching by the Dave Matthews Band, Live at Red Rocks.

Good luck.

Cheers,
-Jeremy


Hah, I was going to recommend that myself. Also, if you can track down any of the Concert on the Rocks from last year, those are excellent. I was lucky enough to attend the 9/10 show.
06/29/2006 12:08:43 PM · #35
I found singing "Hey Jude" along with Paul McCartney and the thousands of people in Foxboro stadium some years back to be quite the experience.

Message edited by author 2006-06-29 12:08:56.
 06/29/2006 12:16:11 PM · #36
I grew up in the 70's, so when I think about good LIVE recordings, I think about big arena bands - RUSH and AC/DC definitely fall into that category! Here are some others (pick a song, the whole albums are good IMO):

UFO: Strangers in the Night
Led Zeppelin: BBC Recordings
Deep Purple: Made in Japan
Peter Frampton: Frampton Comes Alive
Cheap Trick: Live at Budokan
U2: Live at Red Rock
 06/29/2006 12:24:35 PM · #37
springsteen - born to run - with the full e st band

best live song the audience can't sing along?
r.e.m. - end of the world
 06/29/2006 01:38:46 PM · #38
Originally posted by timfythetoo:
I found singing "Hey Jude" along with Paul McCartney and the thousands of people in Foxboro stadium some years back to be quite the experience.

You remind me of the scene near the end of HELP! where the "stadium crowd" all joins in Beethoven's "Ode To Joy" -- I don't know about inspiring, but it was pretty funny.
 06/29/2006 02:10:42 PM · #39
Ohh... Barenaked Ladies. Especially "Brian Wilson".
06/29/2006 02:17:49 PM · #40
Find the live version of 'Celebration of the Lizard King' by The Doors
 06/29/2006 02:22:43 PM · #41
Betterman or Black by Pearl Jam are good ones.

So is Garth Brooks 'friends in low places'

Message edited by author 2006-06-29 14:23:31.
 06/29/2006 02:24:26 PM · #42
There is a version of "Taking it to the Streets" by the Doobie Brothers on No Nukes (from the late 70's / early 80's) that is fantastic.

Little Feat's "Oh Atlanta" and "Dixie Chicken" from their live album are pretty hard to beat.

Springsteen's "Rosalita" is a showstopper.

06/29/2006 02:27:43 PM · #43
Janes Addiction
"Jane Says"
 06/29/2006 02:32:50 PM · #44
Originally posted by Riponlady:
Queen Live at Wembly - crowd singing with Freddie!


Good call....either I Want To Break Free or Love Of My Life from that concert!
 06/29/2006 03:41:42 PM · #45
I've always liked the Grateful Dead's "St. Stephen/The Eleven" from the Live Dead album.

For all-around fun it's hard to beat Country Joe & the Fish doing the "'Fish' Cheer/I Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die Rag" at Woodstock.

The Elements or almost anything else on the live album An Evening (Wasted) With Tom Lehrer, from 1959 -- and alarmingly relevant today.
 06/29/2006 05:39:54 PM · #46
Originally posted by GeneralE:
... I'm trying to remember if the crowd sang "We Shall Overcome" when Dr. King gave his speech on the Mall (not shopping!) in Washington. If so, there were about a half-million people singing there, even by official estimates.

I heard that song sung more than once on that day, but not while Dr. King was speaking. A live recording will tell you that there was a lot of crowd noise going on, but not singing. He had not used the key phrases before and the people were not as tuned in to his words as history has been. Still one of the most memorable experiences of a lifetime, for the size of the crowd as well as the significance of his speech.

A very, very large crowd that really got into the music was when The Beach Boys played at the Mall on the Fourth of July in `81, and again in `82 when I took two nephews. An estimated 650,000 had gathered for a full day of music capped by a super fireworks show. Songs like "Good Vibrations" and "BarbaraAnn" had the crowd standing, clapping, dancing, and singing (shouting) along thru extended versions. The crowd was too large and too rowdy for Reagan's Interior Secretary James Watt who replaced The Beach Boys with Wayne "Fig" Newton in `83. The music at the Mall on the 4th has never gotten back to being as much fun but the fireworks are still top notch.

As for audience participation with give & take between the performer and individuals in the crowd, Dylan's appearance at Royal Albert Hall has to be near the top of any list.

But the all-time champ for audience participation has to be the music festival at Woodstock in August of `69 where many acts had the masses totally enthralled, with perhaps Richie Havens doing "Freedom" as the high point of sing-along.

I know, I know, I'm showing my age. But they just don't have the really big music events like they used to.
06/29/2006 06:04:26 PM · #47
I've always heard that KISS ALIVE was the live album that started the "live album roll". Do you know of any live album recorded before 1975 that would be considerd a "classic live album"?

KS
 06/29/2006 06:06:25 PM · #48
Originally posted by coolhar:
I know, I know, I'm showing my age. But they just don't have the really big music events like they used to.


And may never again after the a$$hole$ at the last Woodstock decided to start torchin' stuff...
 06/29/2006 06:16:17 PM · #49
Originally posted by kenskid:
I've always heard that KISS ALIVE was the live album that started the "live album roll". Do you know of any live album recorded before 1975 that would be considerd a "classic live album"?

KS


Little trivia for ya - the audience sounds on that album were dubbed in later in the studio. That is one of the LEAST "Live" albums there is (but it's still a good one).
 06/29/2006 06:29:36 PM · #50
bruce springsteen thunder road. not sure what album tho.
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