Quarantine Stream Options

[Voodoo Lady]

Quarantine sucks without Līve.

My hope with this thread, is to bounce around some ideas Līve could do for a “Quarantine Stream,” as many artists are currently doing right now. What could they do to break the monotony, and give fans something to look forward to? Be specific, the possibilities are endless and are not just tied to tiny desk concerts. Maybe they will see it, and grant a wish. (Yes, you might notice I’m being a little facetious here, but I’m a little bored).

I’ll start... for a quarantine stream, I’d like to see Ed perform an acoustic 10,000 Years. I’d also like to see PAT (when is the last time any of us heard him talk?!) show us his vinyl collection (I just know he has to have one!).

Your turn...

[alexou]

If Chris and CCP had started a band not named Live and put out the same exact album they put out under the name of Live, would you have been more fine with it then? Because The Turn was a very solid rock album, far better than the Local 717 and SFBM ep/album that it was sandwiched between. It was also better than V and just as strong musically, for the most part, as BOP.

Singers that have out-sized egos is something that is rarely kept in house. What is usually kept in house are the shittiest songs and shittiest albums, at least during a band's creative peak. When the singer's ego starts to take center stage over everything else is usually when things spiral out of control and the band breaks up. But that's because the other guys in the band have egos as big as the singer's. Other bands with turmoil going on won't usually allow it to get to the point where their name is attached to an album like SFBM that is so far removed from the band's original "mission statement". They'll just quit out of pride and spite. Live seriously should've just made a country album after Birds of Pray. At least that album would've had a fucking personality. In fact, I don't even consider it a Live album. It was Ed Kowalcyzk and The Alive Guys. The Turn (at least in spirit) was the album they were supposed to make after BOP, not SFBM.

In hindsight; The Turn was obviously supposed to hit and revitalize the band's brand. Outside the pride of things I doubt it even mattered so much whether the music was actually better or worse than the last original album that carried the name of Live. But it didn't hit and I think it completely knocked the wind out of their sails, especially CT's. If The Turn had generated any success, and tbh the band has SUCKED TOTAL ASS for a very long time at promoting themselves (...makes me wonder just how many people at old Radioactive Records they owe their careers to), then we might not be talking about all this crap right now and an Ed reunion probably never takes place.

/2cents

The Turn could have helped their brand...poor management killed it all. They did a huge tour in 2013... ok, it was only a 7 songs set, but still, if they added Siren's call or Rodgerton to their set with the album for sale at the time, who knows? Those are 2 great songs. Instead they waited more than a full year before releasing it, and they almost didn't tour for it. So it's almost like they wanted to fail.