Kosmik Radiation Radio - August 7, 2009 Playlist

August 7, 2009 Playlist

Live Albums of the 1970's

The 1970's was the golden age of rock festivals and the live albums that documented them -- in particular the "double live album" which peaked in popularity around 1975 with mega-sellers Frampton Comes Alive, KISS Alive and The Song Remains The Same, but became a dinosaur rock cliche by the end of the decade. One of the very first (and most overblown) double live albums was Grand Funk Railroad's generically titled Grand Funk Live Album, which is meant to duplicate the GFR concert experience (the liner notes specify that one should listen to all eighty minutes in order in one sitting.) Grand Funk was extremely popular in the USA during the first half of the 1970's (not so much overseas), and pioneered the whole downer rock / heavy metal thing along with bands like Black Sabbath and Alice Cooper -- though in many ways their style could be described as a severely dumbed-down power trio version of fellow Michiganders The MC5's shtick from the late 1960's.
GFR added a fourth member to play keyboards around 1972 (LAME!), but their cool early hit singles as a trio include "Closer To Home (I'm Your Captain)" (which borrows the opening riff from a Monkees song!) and the Animals cover "Inside Looking Out". Here's the later quartet lineup performing their concert staple "T.N.U.C." (if you can't figure out what that title means -- um, spell it backwards!)

Artist	Song	Album	Year	Country
Grand Funk Railroad	Are You Ready?	Grand Funk Live Album CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1970	USA
Grand Funk Railroad	Paranoid	Grand Funk Live Album CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1970	USA
Grand Funk Railroad	In Need	Grand Funk Live Album CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1970	USA

Led Zeppelin	No Quarter	The Song Remains The Same	rec. 1973, rel. 1976	UK
Black Sabbath	Wicked World (Jam) (including Into The Void & Supernaut)	Live At Last	rec. 1973, rel. 1980	UK

KISS	Deuce	Alive!	1975	USA
KISS	Strutter	Alive!	1975	USA
KISS	Shock Me	Alive II	1977	USA
Ted Nugent	Stranglehold	Double Live Gonzo	1978	USA
Black Oak Arkansas	Mutants of the Monster	Raunch 'n' Roll Live	1973	USA
Black Oak Arkansas	Hot and Nasty	Raunch 'n' Roll Live	1973	USA
Frank Zappa & The Mothers	Penguin In Bondage	Roxy & Elsewhere	1974	USA

Emerson Lake & Palmer	Tarkus (parts I - VI)	Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends -- Ladies and Gentlemen: Emerson Lake & Palmer	1974	UK
Emerson Lake & Palmer	Tarkus (Conclusion) (part VII)	Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends -- Ladies and Gentlemen: Emerson Lake & Palmer	1974	UK

Neil Young (CSNY)	Cowgirl In The Sand	4 Way Street	1971	Canada
Neil Young (CSNY)	Don't Let It Bring You Down	4 Way Street	1971	Canada
Joni Mitchell	You Turn Me On I'm A Radio	Miles of Aisles	1974	Canada
Joni Mitchell	Big Yellow Taxi	Miles of Aisles	1974	Canada
The Guess Who	Runnin' Back To Saskatoon	Live At The Paramount	1972	Canada
The Band	Endless Highway	Before The Flood	1974	Canada/USA

Blues Creation	Tobacco Road	Blues Creation Live	1971	Japan