sitting here working on a "yes" comp this morning got me thinking......which band has released the most live material...officially, not boots or off-label stuff, but true live album or songs on a major label.

i am also discounting those whole series of "legal" boots that pearl jam and the dead have done, i think phish does it too.

i know "yes" is up there pretty high.

the allman brothers/

the beach boys?

The Rolling Stones?

Frank Zappa? Even some of his "studio" albums are mostly live!

Grateful Dead

Their official live albums (before Jerry Garcia died), multiple box sets, and 3 vault series..........Dick's picks (36 volumes), Road Trips (forgot total), and Dave's Picks (Volume 23 and ongoing)

absolutely.....but, the dead and pearl jam and phish are in a totally different category than what i am thinking of, no one even comes close to those 3.

Gov't Mule

It has to be Zappa

Uncle Meat (portions)
Burnt Weeny Sandwich (most)
Weasels Ripped My Flesh (most)
Fillmore East June 1971
Just Another Band From LA
Roxy & Elsewhere
Bongo Fury (most)
In New York
Shut Up N Play Yer Guitar
Shut Up N Play Yer Guitar Some More
The Return of the Son of Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar
Tinsel Town Rebellion (mostly - lots of overdubs too)
Baby Snakes Soundtrack
Does Humor Belong In Music
Them or Us (mostly - lots of overdubs too)
You Can't Do that On Stage Anymore Vol 1 - 6
Guitar
Broadway the Hardway
The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life
Make A Jazz Noise Here
The Yellow Shark
Playground Psychotics
Ahead of Their Time
FZ Plays the Music of Frank Zappa
FZ OZ
Halloween
Imaginary Diseases
Trance-Fusion
Buffalo
Zappa Wazoo
One Shot Deal
Joe's Menage
Philly 76
Hammersmith Odeon
Carnegie Hall
Road Tapes Venue 1
Road Tapes Venue 2
A Token of His Extreme
Roxy by Proxy
Roxy Soundtrack
Road Tapes Venue 3
Little Dots
Chicago 78

48 total

There are lots of studio ones that have snatches of live material or pieces of live tunes or even just the guitar part.

Still not nearly enough

Anyone who wants to go over to Zappateers - there are over 800 complete or partial live shows.

If the Instant live cdr's count - maybe the Allman Bros who put mostly every concert from this century on cdr for sale.

The Who have a lot, but not in the company of Frank Zappa.

King Crimson has to be in the running, thanks to dozens of vault releases.

Question though - Pearl Jam and Phish - are their releases more along the Instant Live (sic) versus the Dead, where they may be limited, but they are a different model.Many active tour band would dwarf the number of releases discussed considering how they release every show of a given tour. There's a good chance their are more post Dead shows from the various off shoots than GD shows based on that.

Saga

1982 In Transit
1998 Detours - Live
2005 The Chapters Live
2007 Worlds Apart Revisited
2009 Contact - Live in Munich
2011 Heads or Tales - Live
2013 Spin It Again! Live in Munich
2016 Live in Hamburg

Grateful Dead
King Crimson
Zappa

Probably in that order.

Pearl Jam

Would I be correct in presuming the Springsteen live releases through live.brucespringsteen.net would not qualify for this thread?

They are up their with the 3 I listed!

While they're nowhere in the top 5, several artists are doing a ton of live downloads on Nugs.net: Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Counting Crows, Widespread Panic, "The Dead" & more.

Nugs has 374 shows from Pearl Jam, 333 from Chris Robinson (Black Crowes), 229 from Counting Crows, 1001 from Gvt Mule, 84 from the full Grateful Dead (that surprised me), 117 from John Fogerty, 719 from Moe, 251 from RHCP, 552 from The String Cheese Incident, 902 from Widespread Panic, 381 from Black Crowes, & 131 from Springsteen for sale! Umphrey's McGee seems to be the Nugs winner at 1309.

+ large quantities from a few bands I've never heard of.