The Biggest Challenge For Live's Future Success Is... Options

[FishOutaWater]

In my opinion, the biggest challenge to Live's future success is the fact that sadly, for some reason that I don't understand, Rock seems to be almost dead. A rock band cannot get any traction anymore, unless it has a 30 year following like Van Halen, Springstein, U2, Metallica, etc. Apart from the Foo Fighters, Rock n' Roll has been gradually relegated to a specialty genre like jazz and blues. R & B and auto-tune vocalists who are not artists have completely taken over the charts and the record industry is a complete disaster. To me it is really sad because modern music has no heart and soul anymore. And to me, this is the biggest challenge to Live becoming successful again. I would like to see Live be a part of a movement to make rock relevant again.

[Pokey]

The thing is that this is all relevant by what you define success to be and more importantly what they define success to be now days. The current scene of rock in the mainstream is pretty dire I admit, but walk into a bar in your local city and you'll see a good rock band plying their trade. it's still there bubbling beneath the surface and we know the quality of Live's music will be there but they dont have to force their way into a world that doesn't work for them anymore. Their task surely is to find what will work for them, and maybe that's really low key. Throwing up names like U2, Foo Fighters etc are not really in Live's stratosphere. I just bought tickets to see Band of Skulls soon, they're a great new rock band, not on the same level of popularity and prestige as Foo Fighters, but if Live got half of what Band of Skulls is getting at the moment I'd call it a success.