08-13-2016, 12:34 PM
andrew sharpe Wrote:Live Between Us is my favourite official live album, with honourable mention to Pearl Jam's Live on Two Legs, E-Street Band 1975-1985, Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison, and Bob Marley and the Wailers Live. Yes, I honestly feel LBU is that good.
For me what makes LBU so amazing is that it's pretty much uncut. Most live albums are edited, if not spliced together from many shows, if not mixed with studio performances like stupid Kiss. LBU is ONE show.
However I will say I have listened to hundreds of Hip bootlegs from all eras and I would say that show, although a standout, is not atypical in terms of performance. The truth is that the band are just killers live, and always have been.
As a follow up to this, I'm listening to Live from the Vault 6 today (Cleveland 1996) and it's a great companion piece to LBU. Pretty similar setlists but different enough that it's worth a listen. Kind of like a bizarro LBU. About half of Phantom Power is previewed in the 100th jam, not to mention a fair bit of Coke Machine Glow material.
I'd probably buy a bunch more shows from the mid to late 90s tours if they were available.

