Of course it was live... how else do you explain the crowd cheering? It was recorded @ Winterland in San Fransisco and Long Island Arena in 1975.
It's a well-known fact in the industry that it was recorded in a studio with cheering audio clips added in. I go to school for recording and sound design and one of teachers who told me was involved in the production.
sounds kinda like that live Kiss album. recorded live, then completely redone in the studio...well almost completely...
Thats exactly what it is. Paul Stanley from kiss just touched up the vocals and had his voice added to the back up vocals. And they fixed any wrong notes. Other than that it was live. Except they made the crow louder and cheer at diferent parts too.
Of course it was mixed in the studio... almost every live album is! But I'm near positive that all the tracking was done @ live shows.
"Comes alive" was totally done in the studio. Kiss Alive's only live parts are the drums. Zappa's live albums were completely live.
the live Jane's Addiction album was completely overdubbed in the studio(except for the bass) and the audience sounds were from a bullfighting match and a Los Lobos concert.
Yes, this happens. Phil Ochs has a live album as well that was recorded in the studio and includes admittedly well-montaged clapping and cheering audience at all the right moments, and even some brilliant bits of stage banter. I wonder if this was also montaged or was he just bantering to an empty studio? :/ Great album though! Don't know Frampton so I can't judge... but yeah. Not improbable.
Thats why i like Phish. they bring it live better than they could in the studio. they actually like the live world, as most artist try to hide from it by re-recording everything in the studio...i know NIN has done this for their DVDs....its rediculous if you ask me...lets actually hear the show...not what you wanted it it to sound like....
