“Check out The Who Live at Leeds, 1970. A really great album. And I’m not a huge Who fan but that one is awesome, double album”
Actually LAL was a single disc, Tommy was the double LP. Of course 30 years later when the remastered full length CD of the concert was release it became evident that Decca had their heads up their rear to not have released at least a double LP in 1970
OK I wikipedia’d and learned that the reissue added more tracks. I never owned a hard copy only a digital download. With the added tracks and for reasons I will explain, I assumed it was a double album. But I am still fairly confident it came as a 2-record release at some point since a buddy of mine bought an LP a few years ago, used and beaten up, but it only came with the second album which had tracks from Tommy on it. The reason this sticks in my mind is because when I played him the first “side” (the side with Heaven & Hell as the opener) he was blown away, having not heard it. So I’ll take your word for it, since I don’t know for sure and its possible he bought a re-issue version on LP. I’ll try to dig into it deeper.
Live at Leeds was reissued as a double LP. The second disc had a lot of live Tommy material. Highly worthwhile.
I consider LAL the seminal Punk Rock album.
Live at Leeds was packaged as if it were a bootleg.