Introduce Yourself, Let's get to know our fellow Live fans Options

[SJN1279]

I know I stole this topic from SOY, but I think it would be good for us to get to know each other a bit. Maybe then we won't be so nasty to each other when we disagree on nonsense. (I'm guilty of this as well).

I'll start: My name is Nick Sacco and I've been a Live since 1995. My first concert was 2000 show in Hershey and I've seen them 20 times in total(21 will be in Orlando if the weather and planes cooperate).

I'm a health, phys ed teacher, and football coach for a high school in NJ. I usually like my job but just like anything else there are many days where I'd rather stay in bed. I've lived with my girlfriend for the past 3 years and she's nice enough to tolerate my Live obsession. She's been to 15 Live concerts herself and never really gives me crap for spending money on something that I enjoy. (She has a Train obsession, so I always am willing to go when they came around or we can afford to travel).

My other interests are wrestling, movies, Disney, amusement parks, and a big TV/computer freak. Hope I didn't write too much.

Anyone else want to go?

[i_live_life]

Hello everybody!

Well, actually I started posting here about 6 years ago, when I was only 14 years old, I think. I had been a lurker for some time just to get some news about my favorite band, but what made me make my first post was this ridiculous discussion about which band was better: Live or Tool...

In my eyes no band could ever be better than Live so i made one very emotional post in favour of Live (with some very bad arguments and baaad English writing) and didn't really get why people made fun of me afterwards. I think I made a couple more posts after that, but didn't always understand all the discussions and after some time I decided that I would go back to lurking and just use the forum for news and Live-gossip.

Since then a lot of things have happened: Ed went crazy, I studied one year in Germany, Live split, I learned to play bass and became a hobby musician, we got The Gracious Few, a new lead singer, and I developed a slightly different taste in music. Don't get me wrong I still absolutely love Live, and they are one of the only 90's rock bands I still really like listening to with Ed's aura, raw voice and great, spiritual lyrics (that weren't yet mediocre, simplified parodies of his own songs) which still speak to me in so many ways, and the band's way of backing him up, creating tension and then rocking as hard as any fucking rock band ever has, especially in songs like "White, Discussion", "Pillar Of Davidson", "Ghost"...

All that I still really appreciate, and with all the exciting new projects (such as Live 2.0 and TGF) I thought that maybe it was time make a re-entry into the Live community and try to contribute to this board. Not only benefit from all the great posts you make. Live has been a part of my whole youth and their concert in Copenhagen in 2006 remains one of my fondest memories to date, so hopefully you'll soon start seeing some more posts from a long-time lurker and fan.

And by the way: In terms of musical skills Tool is a far better band that Live. On the other hand which band is the better one is just a silly discussion because they are so different and they both fucking rock

- Frederik