New Live track being finished, ...from CT Options

[OutToDry]

Chad T from FB

Chad Taylor Pulled an all-night session. Track is sounding fabulous. So exciting to hear new LIVE music. Don't want to over promise but I'm happy with it.

[OutToDry]

I'd say Lighthouse, Like I Do, God Don't Ever Change, Walk the Line...not too many to choose from

[FishOutaWater]

If anybody affiliated with the band is reading this thread - I implore them to do 2 things, which are not exactly congruent with one another, but I think they must be done.

1. I implore them to strike quickly. Act fast. Get out there with something. They need to move forward on whatever little momentum they have after the Chris Shinn announcement and the website launch. But let's be honest. Live announced Chris Shinn as their new lead singer. It was not reported in Billboard or Rolling Stone. Heck, the break-up wasn't reported either. Yesterday, Rolling Stone reported that Sinead O'Connor cancelled tour dates because she "wasn't feeling well". Yesterday, the Huffington Post reported on the front page that Chris Ethridge, bassist for the country act "Flying Burritto Brothers" died at the age of 65. I am serious. I am not making this sh*t up! But the Live break-up and new lead singer have never been mentioned by anyone! They announced Chris Shinn as the new lead singer and as of today, he had 696 followers on Twitter and he is following 1,960 people! And he supposedly had a career before being the new lead singer of Live. I can shout out my office window and reach more than 696 people. These are not commercially impressive statistics people. And before Nick gets all lathered up and excited, let me say that Ed isn't exactly the most relevant figure in the world either, or some news media outlet somewhere on the planet would have given a sh*t that he broke ties with Live.

So that leads me to my second point...

2. Live needs to do something big and novel and make social media explode to get this Live train back on the rails. They need to cash in every favor and rely on every contact they have to get TV, news, magazines, promoters, friends in the industry and every media outlet to metion what they are doing. Rolling Stone needs to report on it. Billboard needs to report on it. Huffington Post. AOL. They need to go on Howard Stern. They need to get in on some big festivals. They need to get Adam Levine to mention them. Apparently everything he touches turns to gold now. They need to go viral. They need to make a splash. What I suggest is that they open up to the public. Photos and videos of rehearsals. Ustream. Youtube. And it needs to be well orchestrated and planned out. They need to capitalize on the history of Live and its global fan base. Right now I don't see it happening. I love Adam and the Freaks4Live site looks great. But it has been static and the message board is already dead and has few members. That was not a big splash. Jordis Unga who went out of the Voice in the quarter finals just launched a better website and has more followers. Immediately following ther Dress Rehearsal Show and the Secret Show, the website should have been ready to launch the special audio visual content. The names of the people who will be having dinner with their moms and dads should have been announced. I think that they should have connected directly to this message board and leveraged the tremendous traffic, membership and archives of historical discussions here. Sure, this place is not closely controlled like corporate America, like the SOY board was. But they want it to be Freaks 4 Live - that means wild, freaky fans where anything goes - this is rock n' roll. And about the Freaks4Live monicker. I don't like it. I actually like "TheBandLive" as the proper home for Live. Freaks 4 Live is a name that doesn't refer to the band - it refers to the fans of the band. I have tried to hash tag the band and it seems wierd to reference the band as a noun in a Tweet and say @Freaks4Live when referring to the actual band Live. When people search for the band Live, they search for "the band Live" because the band has a name that is such a commonly used word in the field of music. Who would name their band Live anyway, if they knew that the way people would find you after the dawn of the internet is by searching the word "Live" on You Tube, Google, iTunes, Amazon, etc. You get every live concert album by every musician in the world. It is ridiculous. Assuming people will know to search for you on the internet with the word "freaks" in your search ain't gonna do it.

I am rooting for these guys and this band. I want this to happen. This needs to go big or go home. The music is great. It just needs to get noticed.

OK. now let me catch my breath.

P.S. Another thought. Ellen Degeneres is a big LIve fan. She is bigger now than when they performed Run Away on there a few years ago. Call Ellen's people and get booked on there playing an old song and a new song and let her conduct an interesting interview about what it was like to be huge in 1995 and what you are doing now and talk about what Ed did and what he is up to.

This post has been edited by FishOutaWater: Apr 25 2012, 11:07 am

[Badman]

And about the Freaks4Live monicker. I don't like it. I actually like "TheBandLive" as the proper home for Live. Freaks 4 Live is a name that doesn't refer to the band - it refers to the fans of the band. I have tried to hash tag the band and it seems wierd to reference the band as a noun in a Tweet and say @Freaks4Live when referring to the actual band Live. When people search for the band Live, they search for "the band Live" because the band has a name that is such a commonly used word in the field of music. Who would name their band Live anyway, if they knew that the way people would find you after the dawn of the internet is by searching the word "Live" on You Tube, Google, iTunes, Amazon, etc. You get every live concert album by every musician in the world. It is ridiculous. Assuming people will know to search for you on the internet with the word "freaks" in your search ain't gonna do it.

Exactly my thoughts when I made that thread the other day about better names for the band than live. I swear they would be bigger if not for that name. No one knows this band. I was playing king's cup the other day and I put out the category "songs by the band live" and not one person knew any besides my wife who could probably name 2.

My main rant though is on that website name.... I hate the freaks moniker. Thebandlive is much better for all the reasons you listed.

I do have something productive to throw in though... if you google "live the band" f4L pops up first. That's at least one good thing.