Best live album you've ever heard?

You hit all of the right notes with your choices but my best goes to Ten Years After, "Undead". Peaky mikes, buzzing amps, sweat so hot that it has a sound, sloppy playing, banal raps and all in a very small club with Alvin Lee's guitar screaming in submission. Hardly purist, but the closest I have ever heard to the actual experience of seeing an electric blues band in a small club. When Lee says, at the beginning of Comin'Home, "You may all consider yourselves recording artists tonight." the hair on the back of my neck stands on end.

I think Bonnie Raitt's "Road Tested" is excellent, especially the DTS 5.1 version. On "Love Me Like a Man" her guitar and vocals are right there!!

Jerry Lee Lewis at the Star Club

Sinatra in Paris (London's even better)

Honorable mentions; Ellington at Newport Complete
Sinatra at the Sands
Wynton Marsalis Village Vanguard Box
Kurt Elling in Chicago

Massacre, Meltdown sounds clearer and has more velocity and concussion than 90% of the discs in any collection. Frith, Laswell and Hayward do some of their best work on this one.

Harriet Tubman, Prototype, also sonically light years beyond most live rock recordings. Most gigs don't sound as good even when you're right in front of the mixing board.

Kraan live 74, Amazingly skilled and inventive jazz rockers refined and developed their great studio stuff by playing 200 plus live dates per year. Wolbrandt was like an early George Benson on mescaline and steroids. The electric sax, bass and percussion are also superlative.(not the best fidelity tho').

The Who, Live at Leeds, CRAPPY!! recording, but in this case, it doesn't matter. In terms of raw euphonious explosive power, no live record of this era that I've listened to comes close. You gotta look at Hendrix and then skip ahead to the Mahavishnu Orch. before even attempting to make a comparison.

I tend to find live albums just don't transmit.
Thin Lizzy's Live and Dangerous was and is viewed as the high point of their career.
If You Want Blood by AC/DC is highly regarded too....
Likewise Bob Marley Live and James Brown's Live At The Apollo often are touted as the greatest live album ever...
As I say I really tend to avoid live stuff,I'm just starting to work through a lot of Miles Davis live stuff,certainly 50's/60's Jazz works better live than rock music to my ears.
I'm actually on two live albums-The Waterboys-Live Adventures and Exit Stage Left by Rush-neither of which really capture what it was like to be there which is where I came in..........................