Countdown on Freaks4Live.com / TheBandLive.com Options

[Voodoo Lady]

There is now a countdown on LIVE's website. Four days until... Something!

[FishOutaWater]

Here's what I would have done. I think this would have really made a difference and might have caught the attention of news sources in the music industry.

The countdown should have ended (when it was supposed to end) with a livestream performance from their studio in York. Chad, Chad and Pat appear on the video and play a music intro. Then Ed appears on camera and they rip into a live performance of Hold Me Up. At the end ofthe song, the camera shuts off and the website goes to a recorded video message. Friends, family and fans have been hurt by the things that transpired over the last number of years, but at the end of it all, their true friendship, the emphasis on the music and the spirit of LIve endures. And the amazing creative synergy that they have together has been realized again. Ed acknowledges that since around 2000, Ed wanted to go in other creative directions take more solo creative control. During the process of writing Birds of Pray and Songs From Black Mountain, this urge to express himself in a more solo format resulted in him taking over more of the process within Live. As a result, those albums lost some off the traditional LIve sound. In retrospect, he realizes that maybe those should have been solo albums instead of Live albums. For the last half dozen years, he's had the opportunity to work on solo projects and express his non-Live body of work. CCP also took the opportunity to do the same, with Kevin Martin and with Chris Shinn. Time, forgiveness and lifelong friendship eventually brought them back together and they all realize what they mean to each other, and just how very special the synergy and the creative process is that they have together. The inner spark is till there and they all want to get back to making music together, as a collaborative process, the way they did when they created Mental Jewelry, Throwing Copper and Secret Samadhi. That is when they have always been at their best. And when they perform together, they all feel something magical that can't be replicated. They've travelled the world together. They grew up together, on stage, supporting and complimenting each other. They've already begun practicing together and making new music and it sounds amazing. They can't wait to share it with their fans around the world.

The End.