I was thinking about the great full-album performances at ProgPower this year, and the 3 (maybe 4?) that are on tap for 2015, and I started thinking about other what full albums I've seen performed live. Here's what I could come up with off the top of my head, but I may be missing a few. As you can see, about half of these were at ProgPower... Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising Anthrax - Among The Living Arsis - A Celebration Of Guilt Ashes Of Ares - Ashes Of Ares Dio - Magica Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory Evergrey - In Search Of Truth Iron Maiden - A Matter Of Life And Death Need - Orvam: A Song For Home Pagan's Mind - Celestial Entrance Pain Of Salvation - Remedy Lane Queensrÿche - Rage For Order Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime (4 times) Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime II Savage Circus - Dreamland Manor Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King Savatage - Streets: A Rock Opera Savatage - The Wake Of Magellan Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls Stratovarius - Visions The Winery Dogs - The Winery Dogs These are some others that I recall hearing or reading about, but never saw: Dio - Holy Diver - This was only done in Europe Judas Priest - British Steel - This tour didn't come anywhere near me, and I probably didn't even know about it at the time. Megadeth - Rust In Peace - I saw the second leg of this tour in 2012... they only played the full album on the first leg Metallica - Master Of Puppets - They played the full album in 2006 for the 20th anniversary, but only at a few festivals in Europe Metallica - Metallica - They did a Europe-only tour playing this entire album in 2012
Not including ProgPower shows, just Op:mc (twice) and Op:mc II. I'd fallen out of love with QR by the time II came out, but the original Op:mc shows were almost a holy experience. ETA: DT - SFAM.
Outside of the ones performed at PPUSA, I remembers these: Jolly - The Audio Guide to Happiness pt 1 Opeth - Blackwater Park I'm sure there are more that I can't think of...
Outside of ProgPower USA Queesnryche- Operation: Mindcrime Judas Priest- British Steel Nazareth- Hair of the Dog
Mindcrime, Rust In Piece, and if TSO counts, then their first album. Obviously this is non-PPUSA shows.
Ashbury -Endless Skies Extreme - Pornograffitti Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime (in 1991) I honestly can't think of any others. In the time since it became a popular thing to do I haven't been able to see as many shows as I'd like to.
This is a good question. Let's see: Ashes of Ares--"Ashes of Ares" Circle II Circle--"The Wake of Magellan" Deep Purple--"Machine Head" Dio--"Magica" Dream Theater--"Scenes from a Memory," "Master of Puppets" Fates Warning--"A Pleasant Shade of Gray" Peter Gabriel--"So" Iron Maiden--"A Matter of Life and Death" Tony MacAlpine--"Maximum Security" (Minus Etude #4, Opus #10; it was still billed as the entire album) Marillion--"Marbles" Jon Oliva's Pain--"Streets" Pagan's Mind--"Celestial Entrance" Pain of Salvation--"Remedy Lane" Savage Circus--"Dreamland Manor" Seventh Wonder--"Mercy Falls" Stratovarius--"Visions" Trans-Siberian Orchestra--"Christmas Eve and Other Stories" and "Beethoven's Last Night" Transatlantic--The Whirlwind The Winery Dogs--"The Winery Dogs" Zappa Plays Zappa--"Apostrophe" and "Roxy & Elsewhere" This is just what's off the top of my head. If I think of any other performances, I'll be sure to edit this post. Stay metal. Never rust. Albert
I have seen SO many over the years. But by far my most memorable was Jethro Tull's 'A Passion Play' tour. A couple of friends and I took almost the entire month of May 1973 and followed Tull from city to city, We saw them in... Knoxville, Tn Louisville, Ky Memphis, Tn Hampton, Va Richmond, Va Greensboro, NC Atlanta, Ga Nashville, Tn Indianapolis, In St Louis, Mo Still have all the ticket stubs and show 'librettos' that were distributed at the doors. Amazing shows, every single one. On several nights, we were treated to 'A Passion Play' followed by 'Thick As A Brick' in it's entirety. Some insanely good performances. It got to where after the fourth or fifth show, that Ian Anderson recognized us and would banter with us from the stage. A truly funny guy...
Heh... I have to edit my post based on your list... you mentioned 3 albums I've seen live that I completely forgot about!
Besides ProgPower: Judas Priest - British Steel Energy (Bridge 9 records) - Invasions of the Mind Morbid Angel - Covenant Protean Collective (local) - The Red and the Grey Krieg - Black House Wargasm - Why Play Around
Only one, Fates Warning's A Pleasant Shade of Grey. Fitting as it's a top ten all-time album for me. I was off to the side of the stage and elevated, great vantage point and didn't have the amps blowing my head off. I'm pretty sure they had the drummer from No Exit as their crew chief, can't remember his name.
Not too many come to mind, tho I probably have seen more than I think. Rush- Moving Pictures Echolyn - Mei Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade Of Grey
Dream Theater - SFAM Dream Theater - Images and Words (on the I&W tour - not played in order, but the entire album was played) Rush - Moving Pictures (twice) Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death Anthrax - Among the Living (one of Scott's missed shows) Queensryche - O:M (twice)
Iron Maiden - A Matter of Life and Death Rush - Moving Pictures Slayer - Reign in Blood King Diamond - Them Novembers Doom - Aphotic Manowar - Kings of Metal Judas Priest - British Steel
Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness And probably some others, but that's the only one that matters, because the extremely-limited number of times it was ever done in its entirety gives me the best bragging rights! (oh yeah, that, and it was one of the most awesome 60-minute experiences of my life.)
Outside of the ones at ProgPower: Ghost - Opus Eponymous Megadeth - Rust in Peace Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction Morbid Angel - Covenant Nocturnus - The Key Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising
DT has done a number of one off live cover shows: Master of Puppets, The Number of the Beast, The Dark Side of the Moon and Made in Japan. They were released on ytsejam records. But not sure of that status, after portnoy's departure.
Jon Oliva's Pain - Streets Pagan's Mind - Celestial Entrance Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane Seventh Wonder - Mercy Falls Stratovarius - Visions Need - Orvam Amon Amarth - Surtur Rising Slayer - Reign In Blood Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss Megadeth - Rust in Peace Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction Judas Priest - British Steel Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime I & II Evergrey - In Search Of Truth