Remember the old days, when the best way to share music with your friends was the mix tape? Forget playlists, compilation albums and algorithms picking music – this has the Jim touch!
Rudi really loves the 70s. He really loves 70s hard rock bands, and he loves them the most when they’re playing live!
“So I’ve decided for the motto of my next mixtape. The title is “Great live tracks of the 70s” – as everybody knows the world famous live albums of the 70s of bands like Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep, Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull and and and … I decided to pick songs of bands which also everybody knows but some of the songs are not so well known … but I love them all.
I hope it’s not to much work putting it all together, but I’m pretty sure, you will love the result …
1. ZZ Top – Thunderbird – everybody knows the ZZ Top of the MTV era starting with the Eliminator Album in 1983. I personally love the “old” ZZ Top, which played great blues rock on their first albums, some of the songs pretty hard. Don’t wonder about the intro, it takes almost a minute ’til the song itself starts, but you get the real live feeling, because you hear the audience and then they are announced … I like that ….. just like in the good old days
2. Golden Earring Mad Love’s Coming – from the album Golden Earring Live. I like the hypnotic melody line
3. Humble Pie – I Believe To My Soul – from the album Humble Pie Live in Concert. It should be exactly this version because I love the introduction of the background singers and in some versions it’s cut off … And then Steve Mariott’s guitar … and singing … I’m looking forward to your face!
4. Ted Nugent – The Great White Buffalo – from the album Double Live Gonzo… what can I say – listen and enjoy
5. Thin Lizzy – Emerald – from the album Live and Dangerous, you might know this song, I love the double lead guitar
6. UFO – Lights Out – from the album Strangers in the Night – which I think I’ve seen in your collection. I first thought to pick Doctor, Doctor, but I’m pretty sure you know it … if you’ve been to an Iron Maiden concert in the last 15 years… and Lights Out has a great guitar playing
7. Judas Priest – Tyrant – from the album Unleashed in the East, my very first Judas Priest LP, what a Live Lp full of power, full of double lead guitars and this fantastic track at the end
8. Scorpions – Kojo No Tsuki – from the album Tokyo Tapes Live… a little surprise in the end … once more … I’ll watch you”
Thank you so much Rudi, this was really fun!
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I would be interested to know if you've listened to 'Cheap Thrills' by Janis Joplin and Big Brother And Holding Company. I think it's one of the greatest albums of the 60s.
One of the best live albums IMO from the 70’s is Allman Bros Band Live At Filmore East.
Oh and just sticking with Humble Pie for a second, Peter Frampton’s live album was played to death back then.
Humble Pie'Rockin The Fillmore' is a superb live album. Steve Marriott top shelf singer and a damn fine guitar player also. Can't go wrong with some Pie.
Saw ZZ Top for the 1st time last September with Jeff Beck + Ann Wilson (Heart). What a show. RIP Jeff.
Golden Earring has been in my radar for ever. Retire in peace George Kooymans (guitar, diagnosed with ALS). What a great band, with Focus, the biggest Dutch bands to cross the pond.
Humble Pie was one of the bands I saw at my very 1st concerts in 1972. Peter Frampton had recently gone solo and their biggest album (Smokin) was hot on the charts. Steve Marriot was a monster!
Nugent was a monster in the 70s too, originally with the Amboy Dukes. Stranglehold was such an amazing song. Such a controversial personality that never did drugs. The only banger who could figure out how to play a hollow-body guitar without monster feedback.
Live and Dangerous is well known (along with the UFO and Allman Bros Live at the Fillmore) as "THE BEST LIVE ROCK ALBUMS OF ALL TIME". Twin lead guitars were thunderous, came out before Gary Moore joined.
Although a good band, I've never been able to get into Judas Priest, Saxon or Iron Maiden. The second wave of British Heavy Metal didn't do it for me.
Scorpions were favored by me during Uli and Shenker years.
However, great live tape you have there Jim!
Toyko Tapes is the final album with Uli Jon Roth 😮 Jim on another note would mercyful fate be to much the channel? They’re very significant part of heavy metal history but perhaps a bit much for some, so I thought it best to ask first.
Hey Jim! Crack open a cold one, spark up a fatty, turn it up and let the air guitar commence!🍺🍺🚬🚬🔈🔉🔊🎸🎸🎸😎
lizzy live and dangerous probably the best live album ever and i was fortunate to see them on that tour.
UFO sounds good…🗽
Thank you for your reaction Jim. Your pleasure is my pleasure .. seeing you enjoy my selection and your judgement, that you liked 9 out of 9 is really great.
Can you imagine the "pain", if you want select 8 tracks from more than 30 great live albums only of the 70s ? Actually I like to put my mixes together, just some thinking, some listening and then decide. Talking of pain, at one point I thought, your cheeks might hurt afterwards after all this smiling because of the music 😄
I had to laugh, when "little Jim" showed up next to you … I guess that's new …
I would really like to know, if any of your subscribers knew all the songs 🤔
My teenage years when I found out what music I liked and what not (disco).
Only know the newer ZZ Top and I quite like them. This fast blues song is good more or less.
Golden Earring, Dutch most famous rock band. This is not the song I would have chosen. I would have chosen: Another 45miles. She flies on strange wings. Buddy Joe. Kill me (ce soir).
Humble Pie. Never bothered to listen to them back then. I know a few songs from the Dutch top 1000. It remembers me of Janis Joplin. Sounds nice.
Yeah, know Ted Nugent. My favorite song: Stranglehold.
Know Thin Lizzy too but not live. They had some great songs. Whiskey in the jar, still my favorite.
UFO. Another band I never bothered to listen too. Not my type of music.
Can’t listen to Judas Priest. I have problems with the singing. Nothing wrong with the metal though.
Scorpions. I’ve been a fan for decades.
Steve Marriott was the front man for the small faces. He tragically died in a house fire.
Ooh…have you bought Moontan by the Earring? 🤓
It’s Brian Robertson and Scott Gorham on the Lizzy track, not Gary Moore 👍
That Gold Earring is now on my wishlist.
Great mix tape Rudy! Only song I knew was "Lights Out."
Great job Rudy. Loved your mixtape. I only knew the ZZ Top song. 👍
I wondered how long it would take you to figure out that Humble Pie didn't hail from Lynchburg, Mississippi but you had to cheat and Wikipedia it! On the other hand, amazingly, Ted Nugent attended Greyfriars – an English public school – with Billy Bunter. No, hang on. That was Frank Nugent. Probably his brother. 🙂 Excellent tape – truly some of the great live tracks of the 70s.
Grateful Dead live 5/8/77 at Cornell University in Ithica New York is considered by many a Deadhead as their finest live performance. The entire concert is enshrined in the national recording registry of the Library of Congress as a significant piece of American culture. I’d recommend the Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the Mountain jam from that concert, or Morning Dew. Cheers from the other side of the pond ❤
My favorite version of Victim of changes is on Unleashed from the east