10 Best Live Rock Albums

When the Who stumbled into the 1970's, they had only recently reached the level of untouchable rock gods. While they had blown the Mod scene wide open with their single "My Generation," the band had just released what would be their defining rock opera Tommy. As the band embarked on a small tour after the Tommy tour cycle, the band stopped at the University of Leeds to make rock history.

The band's setlist at the concert only featured a few cuts from their revered rock opera, but the songs in place signaled rock's harsher sound looming on the horizon. Pete Townshend's guitar absolutely screams as he fires up hits like "Substitute" and the visceral "Young Man Blues" while drummer Keith Moon delivers one of the greatest drum performances in rock history. With vocalist Roger Daltrey laying down his soul across these tracks, the band send "Magic Bus" and the 50's rocker "Summertime Blues" up into the stratosphere with some of the biggest sonic peaks captured on a rock record at the time.

As rock was about to enter its 3rd decade, the Who brought a heaviness to their sound that helped jumpstart the hard rock movement of the 1970's.