Most Influential Live Band
 

Who's the most influential live rock band? Personally, I think the Who kinda made the show interesting first. Before that, live music wasn't quite as entertaining. Yeah, you had Chuck Berry and the like, but really the Who gave rock the rock image in a live context. At least in my opinion. What about you?

Definitely not the Beatles, oh deary

Well since they were mostly a studio band... :P

The Stooges, I believe, primarily Iggy Pop, and the Doors, ditto Jim Morrison

if not for them, we really wouldn't have outrageous behaviour on stage

The Who probably. They're one of the first to make rock n' roll a truly destructive art form.

I agree with everyone concerning The Who and The Doors. I believe The Who were like Sun Ra stated, maybe one of the first bands to ever resonate Punk on stage.

Mick Jagger is one of the most influential frontmen of rock, so I'll go with The Rolling Stones as well.

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A lot of people will get confused if you just refer to me as 'Sun Ra'.

I can see that actually becoming a problem for some people:laughing:.

I'm sorry, its..Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra.

Pretty much go with all the bands and front men mentioned so far but of course one of the most obvious focal points will always be Led Zeppelin.

Without doubt the 1970s was the era of the live album and nearly every great live band worth its weight put out at least one great live album, I`ll probably make a must listen to list later for essential stuff from the period.

Its popular opinion that 1975s Kiss-Alive! Is considered their breakthrough, as well as a landmark for live albums.

I'll mention Little Feat-Waiting On Columbus as well.

As said the 1970s were the era of the live album and here is a top 20 of essential live albums of that period that belong in any serious rock collection imo (some from the 1960s as well)

So Neckie....put your Kiss and Steely Dan albums away and listen to these live muthers :p:

In no particular order:

MC5-Kick Out the Jams
Grateful Dead-Live Dead
Doors-Absolutely Alive
Who-Live at Leeds
Allman Brothers Band-At Fillmore East
Humble Pie-Rockin the Fillmore
Neil Young-Live at Massey Hall
Deep Purple-Made in Japan
J.Geils Band-Live Full House
Yes-Yessongs
Uriah Heep-Uriah Heep
Blue Oyster Cult-On Your Feet or On Your Knees
Lynyrd Skynyrd-One More For the Road
Pete Frampton-Frampton Comes Alive
AC/DC-If You Want Blood You`ve Got It
Thin Lizzy-Live and Dangerous
Tubes-What Do You Want From Live?
Cheap Trick-Live at the Budokan
UFO-Strangers in the Night
Little Feat-Waiting For Columbus

The Allman Brothers band. Live at Fillmore East has been called the greatest live album ever by some critics.

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A lot of people will get confused if you just refer to me as 'Neckie'. :D

And I don't listen to Kiss anymore..

Its always been regarded as one the best and most essential of all live albums, especially with its free flowing jams.

I'll have to go back and say that the rock n roll of the '50s may have been the most influential, as far as the live performance.

While The Who and other such bands definitely brought about the more "rock and roll" aspects, this ultimately wouldn't have occurred without the mainstream success of acts of the 1950s who did those, at the time, inappropriate dances and such on the stage.

GG Allin, easily. The whole statutory rape on stage has just become expected, ya know?

i do, and i love 'em

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The Count Basie Jazz Orchestra.

The Mahavishnu Orchestra

Screamin' Jay Hawkins... the original shock rocker.

I would have to say the Grateful Dead.

My thoughts exactly! :beer:

def the stooges