[konut]

Conquistador - Procol Harum, can't put my fingers on the album at the moment

 

Live- In Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and the De Camera Singers.
Conquistador is only 4:18. The last track, In Held 'Twas I, is 19:11. Dynamite recording on MFSL.

Frank Zappa and the Mothers- Just Another Band From LA,  Billy the Mountain 24:46

[Mag]

I am quite fond of long play rock songs too if they really rock. 

Dream Theater & Tool are two of my favorites with numerous 8+ minute songs (off hand, didn't look up song lengths). 

I was listening to Tool 10,000 Days last night. All the songs kinda fit the same mood or theme. So I guess it qualifies in that respect.

I just looked it up, two songs off that album, the title track and Rosetta Stoned each clock in over 11 minutes.  I haven't found a 15 minute song yet, at least if you don't count filler in the track.

I consider the ambient stuff in the middle of By-tor & Snow Dog by Rush as filler. That's why I don't consider it a masterpiece even though I love the song. In a masterpiece, every note belongs and it could not have been played better.
Dazed & Confused for example: some might consider that song horrible chicken scratch. But no other rock guitarist could have pulled off all the rock guitar techniques Jimmy employed with just the right note at the right time.

[Gordy]

Live- In Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and the De Camera Singers.
Conquistador is only 4:18. The last track, In Held 'Twas I, is 19:11. Dynamite recording on MFSL.

Thanks, that's what my foggy brain was thinking of    My copy is a standard red book though.

[DeadFan]

                                             
                                              Grateful Dead.................China Cat Sunflower/I Know You Rider-------Version off "Without a Net"
                                              Lynard Skynard...............Free Bird----Any live version
                                              Neil Young.....................Like a Hurricane---Any version
                                              Arlo Guthrie...................The Story of Reuben Clamzo and his Strange Daughter(in the key of A)----From "One Night"
                                              Bob Dylan......................Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands---------From "Blonde on Blonde"
                                              The Band.......................It Makes No Difference------Live version from "The Last Waltz"

Also will Second(or Third or Fourth) Arlo's "Alices Restaurant" and Second Konut's suggestion of Canned Heat's Refried Boogie especially the live version that covers both sides of the vinyl LP "Livin the Blues"

Regards

Graham 

[Demarche]

Can't forget on of the great live albums of all time...
Alchemy: Dire Straits Live
"Once Upon a Time in the West" – 13:01
"Sultans of Swing" – 10:48
"Tunnel of Love" – 14:38
"Telegraph Road" – 13:19

[ecramer]

Highland - Time out of mind - Bob Dylan 16:31

Just a rambling trip

[Wayner]

Yes, Close to the Edge 21 minutes or side A

Yes, Tales from topographic Oceans:
Side one
"The Revealing Science of God (Dance of the Dawn)" – 20:25 (original album) (22:22 on 2003 remaster)
Side two
"The Remembering (High the Memory)" – (Lyrics by Yes) 20:38
Side three
"The Ancient (Giants Under the Sun)" – (Lyrics by Anderson/Howe/Squire) 18:35
Side four
"Ritual (Nous Sommes du Soleil)" – 21:37

Yes, Relayer, The Gates of Delirium" – 21:50

King Crimson, "Lizard" – 23:15

Wayner

[Wally King]

"Dark Star" and "St. Stephen/The Eleven" (15:49), both from  "Live Dead" by the Grateful Dead
"Hendon"  (20:10) by the Hampton Grease Band
"Sister Ray (17:27) by the Velvet Underground
"Brothers of Darkness, Sons of Light" (16:43) by Popol Vuh
"Blood Drawing" (15:28) by the Nels Cline Singers
"A Sailor's Life" (11:14) by Fairport Convention
"Time Has Come Today" (11:07) by the Chambers Brothers

[woodsyi]

Scheherazade - Renaissance - Scheherazade And Other Tales

  

I thought I was the only one listening to her.  What an amazing voice.  I just looked up Annie Haslam and she has a new CD out. http://cdbaby.com/cd/haslam  I just ordered it. 

[ecramer]

Scheherazade - Renaissance - Scheherazade And Other Tales

  

I thought I was the only one listening to her.  What an amazing voice.  I just look up Annie Haslam and she has a CD out.  I ordered it from CD Baby. 

Where does Gordy find these cd's  I tracked it down and ordered a copy i had never heard of them but sounds like something that i should have.

[BobM]

there are some great long plays, but most of them are from back in the day. the only long plays these days are prog related. anyway, here's a few that I enjoyed (many of them live albums/versions):
Yes- many early ones
Genesis - many early ones
Renaissance (already mentioned)
10 Years After - Live (I Can't Keep From Crying Sometimes)
Traffic (already mentioned)
Allman Brothers (many jams)
Lynard Skynard (already mentioned)
Cat Stevens - Foreigner Suite
Grateful Dead - jams
ELP (already mentioned)
Mike Oldfield - everything he's done
Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed (suite)
Nektar - Remember the Future
Traffic (already mentioned)
Utopia - Singring
Zappa - several
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick, Passion Play

Bob

[bpape]

Todd Rundgren and Utopia - Singing and the Glass Guitar (An Electrified Fairytale)  from the album Ra.

Bryan

[Gordy]

Ed, ya need to follow the convoluted family tree that sprang from The Yardbirds...

[rpf]

Second the first half of Quicksilver's Happy Trails: my favorite.

"Child In Time" - Deep Purple from Made In Japan.

"Eight Miles High" - The Byrds from Untitled.

"Two Trains Running" - The Blues Project

[ArthurDent]

some classic Fleetwood Mac maybe:  "Oh Well" - Then Play On
                                                  "The Green Manalishi". (15+) - Roots, The Original FM Live in Concert

Poco: "Nobody's Fool/El Tontor Nada" - the 'Orange' album

Bloomfield, Kooper, & Stills: "Season of the Witch" - Super Session

[Scott F.]

Where does Gordy find these cd's  I tracked it down and ordered a copy i had never heard of them but sounds like something that i should have.

If you are ordering Renaissance, you should grab a copy of their live album, Live at Carnegie Hall. Woodsyi is right, Annie Haslam has a marvelous voice. That album also has Ashes are Burning and Mother Russia that are long ones.

Continuing the epic song themes;


I'm amazed nobody hasn't mentioned Frank Zappa's Apostrophe', side 1 with Yellow Snow. Granted its four or five songs but they all run together.
Same goes for side 2 of Abbey Road

Lucifers Friend - [Banquet] Spanish Galleon
Lucifers Friend - [Banquet] Sorrow
Todd Rundgren's Utopia - Utopia Theme
Todd Rundgren's Utopia - The Ikon (the Ikon is 30:25)
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down (all four sides are one continuous story)
Genesis - [Selling England by the Pound #05] The Battle of Epping Forest
Genesis - [Selling England by the Pound #07] The Cinema Show
Genesis - [Foxtrot Remaster #06] Supper's Ready: Lover's Leap/The Guaranteed Eternal Sanctuary Man/...
Genesis - [Nursery Cryme Remaster #01] The Musical Box
Kansas - [Masque #08] The Pinnacle
Little Feat - [Feats Don't Fail Me Now #08] Cold Cold Cold,Tripe Face Boogie
Loggins & Messina - [On Stage (Disc1) #09] Angry Eyes
Loggins & Messina - [On Stage (Disc2) #01] Vahevala
Neil Young - [Decade (disc 2) #15] Like A Hurricane
Rush - [2112] '2112' (Overture, The Temples Of Syrinx, Discovery, Presentation, Oracle - The Dream, Soliloquy, Grand Finale)
Rush - [Moving Pictures] Moving Pictures - Remastered - 05 - The Camera Eye
The Doors - [The Best Of The Doors (1 of 2) #11] When the Music's Over
The Doors - [The Best Of The Doors (Disc 2) #08] The End
Traffic - [When The Eagle Flies #02] Dream Gerrard
UFO - [Strangers In The Night #09] Rock Bottom
Wishbone Ash - [Argus -Remastered & Revisited #01] Time Was
Wishbone Ash - [Argus -Remastered & Revisited #09] The Pilgrim (Live from Memphis 21-08-1972)
Wishbone Ash - [Argus -Remastered & Revisited #10] Phoenix (Live from Memphis 21-08-1972)
Wishbone Ash - [There's the Rub #06] F.U.B.B.
Savoy Brown - Hellbound Train



Wayner, glad to see th :rock:ere is another obscure Yes fan in these parts  Gates of Delerium and Sound Chaser ROCK

[Len_Dreyer]

Arabia - Jerry Garcia & David Grisman
Hand Picked - Dicky Betts
24 Hours At A Time - Marshall Tucker Band
Good Thoughts/Bad Thoughts - Funkadelic
Nighthawk Postcards - Tom Waits
A Sailor's Life - Fairport Convention

[Wayner]

Some of these albums are actually ROCK OPERAs made to be played from beginning to end. Scott mention Genesis, Selling England by the Pound. This is an extrodinary album, so is the double album by Genesis, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Then to consider rock operas, you must include:

The Who: Tommy
Kansas: Leftoverture
Klaatu: Calling Ocupants of Interplanetary Craft
Tears for Fears: Seeds of Love
Roxy Music: Avalon
almost any Moody Blues album because they are all connected together with no breaks.
All Pink FLoyd are connected.

That's my take anyway.

Wayner

[stlblue]

Triumvirat - Illusions On A Double Dimple (23:22)

[MGDeWulf]

Illusions on a Double Dimple... Triumvirat's best ever.  An excellent album that I first purchased in 1976 in Macomb, Ill.  Still sounds great and has withstood the test of time.  And I thought I was the only person ever to own that...

marty