Best Live Albums of All Time

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Originally Posted by gr8sho92

PFM released 5 other official "live" recordings besides Cook (a.k.a. Live in USA). The 3 most recent releases in 1998 (www.pfmpfm.it (il Best)
), 2002 (Live in Japan) and 2004 (Piazza del Campo) are incredible for any PFM fan. The band's energy always comes across to me in their recordings. If you are a Mauro Pagani fan, the Piazza del Campo recording is incredible.

Cheers,
Carl

Grazzie Amico , all are in my collection + a 4 cd box with live performances from their debut as PFM to the 'jet lag' line up with greg bloch on violin. They are HUGE

[gr8sho92]

Originally Posted by mailotron

Grazzie Amico , all are in my collection + a 4 cd box with live performances from their debut as PFM to the 'jet lag' line up with greg bloch on violin. They are HUGE

Yes, you are referring to "10 Anni Live". That's a fun set to listen to. For those that don't know, PFM were heavily influenced by King Crimson and Jethro Tull, and the first disc contains several covers which I think are every bit as good as the originals.

A minor point. On the 4th disc, there are 4 tracks post-Greg Bloch, one from the underrated Passpartout album, and the latter from their early 80s italian rock albums and introduced their 3rd and final violinist Lucio Fabbi. They didn't really need a lot from the last 2 records because "Performance" deals with those well enough, Performance being the 5th of the 5 live albums.

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They didn't really need a lot from the last 2 records because "Performance" deals with those well enough, Performance being the 5th of the 5 live albums.[/quote]

i never dared to buy Performance

[gr8sho92]

Originally Posted by mailotron

They didn't really need a lot from the last 2 records because "Performance" deals with those well enough, Performance being the 5th of the 5 live albums.

i never dared to buy Performance

I was going to further comment on that 4th disc in that the title translates to "Contamination, on towards the new rock music" which is a good summary of how I saw what happened to the first incarnation of progressive rock.

In this regard what PFM did in the early 80s was really much in the same vein as what Genesis, and Yes/ELP if you count Asia did, in that they transformed themselves into a more mainstream rock band for the italian market. So Performance captures that era mostly. There is a modified version of Il Banchetto which is decent. I personally enjoy this album. In the end, the core of the band with DiCioccio, Divas, Mussida and Premoli is still there, so it's good stuff to me.

Carl