{"id":23581,"date":"2022-08-25T05:30:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T09:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=23581"},"modified":"2022-08-21T14:39:39","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T18:39:39","slug":"five-live-albums-released-in-spring-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/25\/five-live-albums-released-in-spring-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Live Albums Released in Spring &#8217;72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Another quick take from my &#8220;Take 5&#8221; series&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The era of the live album truly got underway with the blockbuster success of <i>Frampton Comes Alive<\/i> in 1976; in its wake, most every major rock act released a live set. But five landmark live albums hit the shelves four years earlier.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>Live Cream Volume II<\/b><\/i> \u2013 Cream broke up in 1968, with Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker all going on to other high-profile projects. This posthumous document captured their thrilling onstage dynamics.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XPv9W_55zdE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>The Mothers \u2013 <\/b><i><b>Just Another Band from L.A.<\/b><\/i> \u2013 Frank Zappa\u2019s band had been through wholesale lineup changes by this point, but this uproarious set captured the peak of the \u201cFlo and Eddie\u2019 (ex-Turtles Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman) era band in all its mischievous glory.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uxr9VJ_qKPI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i><b>Slade Alive!<\/b><\/i> \u2013 A massive hit in the band\u2019s native U.K. this live release from the workmanlike hard rock quartet was their first release to make the charts in the U.S., laying the groundwork for a succession of American tours, sharing bills with Aerosmith, Black Sabbath and ZZ Top.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gz4JlMQamnc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i><b>Mountain Live<\/b><\/i> \u2013 Released only five months after <i>Flowers of Evil<\/i> (half of which was recorded live) this Long Island hard rock outfit\u2019s double live LP featured a 17-plus minute reading of their popular \u201cNantucket Sleighride.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Oa7pDgF8rrY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><i><b>Procol Harum Live: In Concert with The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra<\/b><\/i> \u2013 Rock band and orchestra collaborations onstage are commonplace today, but in 1972 this was an edgy, groundbreaking (and very successful) experiment.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fOb9NWHo7J4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another quick take from my &#8220;Take 5&#8221; series&#8230; The era of the live album truly got underway with the blockbuster success of Frampton Comes Alive in 1976; in its wake, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,62],"tags":[4847,861,1529,1733,4909],"class_list":["post-23581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-essay","category-rawk","tag-cream","tag-frank-zappa","tag-mountain","tag-procol-harum","tag-slade","cat-27-id","cat-62-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23582,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23581\/revisions\/23582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}