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[LiveForNow]

Posted in the Freaks4LIVE FB group. I think the hint here is that there's going to be some kind of announcement about the future of Live. They know there's only one really important question on everyone's mind, and if they say they'll answer then there you go.

Anyone planning on going? I would if I lived near York. I'd be PISSED though if Ed is going to be there and they're going to play a surprise, short set and they didn't announce it in advance. I'd fly from across the country for that.



This post has been edited by LiveForNow: Dec 2 2016, 4:10 pm

[FishOutaWater]

While I understand the desire to restrict the never-ending arguments about 90's Ed verses 2000's Ed and Ed verses Shinn to a single thread so that it doesn't pervade every discussion on this board, objectively speaking, I think it really is relevant to this thread and will probably be relevant to many reviews of Live's performances. This was Live's first performance with Ed after 7 years, and after having Chris Shinn as the lead singer and putting out The Turn which is more rocking than anything Live has done with Ed since Secret Samadhi. Live is telling us they are getting it all back together again like it used to be in the 90's. I think it is fair game to evaluate this performance, and evaluate Ed, as arm-chair fan critics, by weighing in on whether Ed still has the same vocal qualities and stage performance as he did int he 90's (the era they are trying to re-claim). That was a direct question from the interviewer on the MMR interview this morning. I have also seen comments in this thread regarding Chad Taylor and Chad Gracey in the same vein. And the reality is that Ed replaced Chris Shinn as the lead singer of Live. Live had 90's Ed, then 2000's Ed, then Chris Shinn, then 2000's Ed 2.0. We've all lived through all of that. Like it or not, that is going to come with comparisons and evaluations and, regrettably, arguments. Particularly because many Live fans (including the casual fans) will only decide to go along for the ride if Live with Ed brings to the stage and to the recordings the kind of mojo that they had in the 90's. So it's fair to evaluate how they are doing with that. This is a message board. Isn't the entire medium built for opinions, debate and arguments? Perhaps, at a minimum, we could try to limit the opinions, debate and arguments to new points and novel observations instead of rehashing the same things over and over again into their second decade.

By the way. I see Live as being at a critical juncture right now. They get one chance to get this right. Since TDTH, they have been on one long slide down the ranks of obscurity. Apart from the single Heaven, they dropped in quality and relevance with each step of the way, from V to BoP, to SFBM, to The Turn with a different lead singer. Now they have an opportunity with this renion after 7 years to turn it around. They can pump this up with a lot of PR, but at the end of the day, they need to make their stage performances in front of audiences and their new music return to the quality of 1995. If they can do that, they will be a band again for a long time, and they will have an ample active fan base to sustain them. If not, then they will be left with about 5 people on this message board and a passive list of followers on Facebook, and that Live logo might as well be a grave marker.

This post has been edited by FishOutaWater: Jan 3 2017, 10:51 am