Live Plus Five collects the Dead Daisies in their natural setting, a run of road-tested performances from the UK, Europe, and Los Angeles that keep the focus on volume, groove, and momentum.
The Dead Daisies' Live Plus Five captures the band where they’ve always made the strongest case for themselves: onstage, loud, locked in, and moving fast. Pulled from their set at the UK’s Stonedead Festival and bolstered by five additional tracks recorded across Europe and the U.S., the release leans into the group’s reputation as a touring machine.
The bulk of the album comes from Stonedead, where the band ran through a set that pulls from across their catalog, including material from Lookin’ For Trouble. The added tracks extend that momentum, with stops at La Rayonne in Lyon, the Picturedrome and Rock City in the UK, and a hometown-feeling return to the Whisky A Go Go in Los Angeles. It plays like a road diary without the filler, each track dialed in to the same purpose: keep it tight, keep it loud, don’t overthink it.
Guitarist Doug Aldrich puts it this way: “We had such a fantastic run during the last tour in the UK! Stonedead Festival was one of the highlights featuring the latest setlist and songs from the history of the band including our last album Lookin' For Trouble. Now, we've gone next level and added 5 extra tracks from epic shows in the UK, France and LA!"
That approach goes back to how the band was built. Formed in 2012 by David Lowy, the Dead Daisies were conceived less as a fixed lineup and more as a rotating collective anchored in classic hard rock. Over the years, the roster has included players with ties to bands like Whitesnake, Thin Lizzy, and Mötley Crüe, giving the project a built-in sense of history without turning it into a nostalgia act. The throughline has always been the live show. Their albums set the table, but the stage is where it lands.
Live Plus Five sticks to that blueprint. The performances don’t wander, and they don’t try to reinvent anything. They document a band that knows exactly what it’s there to do and does it without hesitation. For longtime followers, it’s a reminder of why the band has lasted through lineup shifts and industry changes. For anyone coming in fresh, it’s a clean entry point: this is what the Dead Daisies sound like when it counts.