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

[Senghe]

Live - gimmick band... not on purpose. But I do believe that people who are happy in their life make largely uninspiring music.

Pokey, I used to REALLY like U2. But it was 1982 and I was 12. And I kept it up until 1984 and I wobbled a bit over The Unforgettable Fire. But then The Joshua Tree made my mind up - that album is the biggest pile of shamelessly pretentious bollocks I've ever heard in this life and if I believed in reincarnation, my previous ones too, all 250 of them. And we've been on a downward slide ever since. In fact, my irrational loathing of U2 and REM (Don't EVEN get me started) would be responsible for me losing so much reincarnation credit, I'd be coming back as an amoeba for forseeable future. but hey, who wants to get to Nirvana - I hate them lot too!

I don't know about them being the lowest common denominator after Emo - see all those whiny little Emo kids who cut themselves and shit. Their parents ALL listen to U2 and that's what's made their offspring so miserable. U2 are 'thinking' music for the terminally brainless who want to appear like they're right on and all that. Bono is just obnoxious and the hot air coming out of his mouth is what's REALLY responsible for global warming. And the best reason to despise the ground that U2 walk on? One word - COLDPLAY.