Which was Live's best year? Options

[dangum]

Which year in Live's history would you consider to be their best (or your favourite)? You can base it on the music produced that year, the publicity received, awards given, albums sold, online interactivity, touring locations etc. or any other metric you like.

[Voodoo Lady]

It’s actually hard to narrow it down & choose a year from 1992-1997. What an exciting 6 year span. However, I think I’ll go with 1997. I was a junior in college and remember going to the mall with friends on a Sunday in February to get the Secret Samadhi CD. It was cloudy & cold and that added to the darkness of it all… seeing the album cover & listening to those songs for the first time. Dark, mysterious, & heavy. Sitting at my dorm room desk, and taking the plastic wrap off the CD, looking at those pictures for the first time & reading & analyzing the lyrics is one of my most vivid memories. I strongly remember even the smell of those liner notes. The SNL performance is also one of my favorite moments. They were dark, gritty and blew the roof off the joint. Ed in all black (‘cept the white socks) with that strange symbol on the back of his shirt… Pat in his leopard print pants… CT with his slicked back hair and that beautiful sea foam green guitar… So damn cool they were!! Gave me goosebumps. 1997 was their pinnacle of coolness. I still love that album so much.