Is Live a gimmick band? Options

[Pokey]

I was thinking about this before .. I don't really count pre TDTH Live and post TDTH Live as the same band .. so I'm talking about the year 2000 onwards .. has Live become a bit of a gimmick bands?
"Here comes Lordi, they wear monster suits!" "Here come Live, they sing about Love and Water!"

To me it sort of seems like they've settled into a groove now where they have taken on the role of "well the world isn't a very nice place so lets just sing about happy things and try to inject a little bit of happiness into it!"
Some people would say that is fair enough as well ... but to me it doesn't seem like a group of guys who are singing about their lives and their ups and their downs .. it feels like they're in the groove now that they make music about love because .. it's just what they do.

Just a thought I had today .. maybe I'm way off because it's really hot today

This heat is making me crazy

[zmanpga]

WTF is a gimmick band????

like KISS???..are they a gimmick band???

+LIVE+ a gimmick band????

+LIVE+ is +LIVE+..they wil always be "themselves"...any band that stays the same musically..would be

"stagnant"...I think its cool to watch our favorite band..grow and mature...and if you TRULY like +LIVE+...you always will!..thru good and bad...

Bottom line...they KICK ASS in concert and thats enough energy to make my life!!!

[Pokey]

WTF is a gimmick band????

like KISS???..are they a gimmick band???

+LIVE+ a gimmick band????

+LIVE+ is +LIVE+..they wil always be "themselves"...any band that stays the same musically..would be

"stagnant"...I think its cool to watch our favorite band..grow and mature...and if you TRULY like +LIVE+...you always will!..thru good and bad...

Bottom line...they KICK ASS in concert and thats enough energy to make my life!!!

I don't mean they have to wear make up like Kiss, but usually when you think of Live now people don't seem to think of Lightning Crashes, they think of a band that wants to save the world, a lot like U2.
Of course we all know U2 absolutely sucks and have never done anything good, but Live has.

But in interviews now it's all "gotta spread the love" and pretty much every song written since TDTH onwards has been about love
And like I said you can talk about them just being themselves and that is who they are now and maybe it just is .. but it seems as though they've just assumed this role now in the music industry as "the band that sings about love"

[edstipe]

Of course we all know U2 absolutely sucks and have never done anything good, but Live has.

Is U2 overrated? Certainly.

But it's a bit ignorant to ignore the beauty and brilliance of "Where the Streets Have No Name," "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," "With or Without You," "Bad," and "Sunday Bloody Sunday," especially in a blanket statement such as "we all know U2...have never done anything good."

Just my 2 cents.

[Pokey]

Is U2 overrated? Certainly.

But it's a bit ignorant to ignore the beauty and brilliance of "Where the Streets Have No Name," "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For," "With or Without You," "Bad," and "Sunday Bloody Sunday," especially in a blanket statement such as "we all know U2...have never done anything good."

Just my 2 cents.

But.. they suck.

[sandkind]

But.. they suck.

couldn't have said it better