Should Live Call It Quits?, Is it time? Options

[Hoodstock]

I am a huge Live fan. I have enjoyed every CD (except V, which I can't even listen to except for Simple Creed) but I'm finding that the band has lost originality. I tried making a CD of my favorite songs recently and had trouble placing songs in order since every song is about love or includes water in it in some way. I miss the fun songs like Waitress and Shit Towne, they are lacking from newer live CD's. Instead we get songs that include earth elements, are about love over and over again, and sorry attempts to protest the war in some way. I would appreciate a new live CD that did not include songs about love, and had nothing to do with water (streams, rivers, ect.) or the sun, and did not mention the war (those songs especially never even seem to be very good at all) (p.s. I am not stating this as any type of comment on the war). Unless Ed can come up with lyrics on original topics that are radio worthy in the U.S., or that make me want to turn up Live and rock my speakers again , maybe live should hang up their hat and do greatest hits tours ever so often.

The newer Live seems stale and old before I even replay the CD.

[GvB]

Mrmcpheezy, Hoodstock, Sherocker and everybody else,

I'm gonna use Mrmcpheezy's pizza-theory from the other day (elsewhere in this thread).

I care about it that there are people here who just like pizza's (metaphore for albums) if it contains enough chili peppers and unions for them and has a pizzabottom that's hard to bite in (for example).
I have eaten something like this kind of pizza's before (I used to listen to that kind of songs you currently like, not by Live, but some grunge-things like Nirvana. But Secret Samadhi has now the same effect on me if I listen to it carefully). I ate them until they started to hurt my stomach (metaphore for soul) so bad that it reminded me of all the times that there where happening things to me that hurt my stomach (my soul), I found out how come and that made that I'm done with this kind of pizza's.
But I'm happy that Ed had the strength to make them and tried that kind of pizza's first although it has obviously hurt his stomach too, keep in mind that he did that as well for himself as for us.

But ones I have experienced this all, I wanted just one thing: get rid of this fucking pain (Ed could not warn me at the time, because at that time I did not listen to Live yet and at that time he was working on TC and had not even written SS and so not even written everything after).

Ed started to come up with something very clever and good (in my opinion): he started to learn to make another kind of pizza's!
One with brocolli, aspersion, tomatoes, cheese and sweet pepper and a little unions (in the end he is still Ed, but he uses a sweeter kind of sharpness now).
And Chad, Chad and Patrick did not mind to make a new kind of pizzabottoms that fit with the new ingredients (a little softer).
I love that one!

I feel frustrated when people don't see the vegetables in this new kind of pizza's or say that they don't like the cheese before thay have ever tasted it.
But instead of that I should feed myself with it, like Ed does and tells me and grow from it.
Maybe I can manage to help someone else to grow too someday, but I'm not yet eating Live's newest pizza.
I eat the one that he made for the first time about 5 and a half years ago.
But his pizza looks tasty to me, but the one who is ready for it is entitled to try and enjoy and grow from it first.

What am I gonna do now?
I'm gonna enjoy my favorite pizza and let it feed me with the wisdom Live gives me, with the newer kind of pizzabottom that Chad, Chad an Patrick have made and the brocolli, aspersion, tomatoes, sweet pepper and cheese and the few unions that Ed puts in it!
I wasted enough time with letting you try it, you refuse to see what's in there or you just don't see it yet.
My pizza is cold now.
Thank God I have a microwave to warm it up.
Maybe tomorrow I try the next one but I see if it happens.

What do I think that you can do now?
Well, enjoy the pizza's which feed you with something you like or maybe need at this moment of your life.
But stop blaming for example Diane, Beau99, Rocknerd and me for loving the newer ones.
And all above: stop blaming Live and especially Ed for making pizza's you don't like or in which you just refuse to see the ingredients and so refuse to eat.
They do their best, but you don't see it (yet).
Learn to eat them when you are ready for it.
And I promise you that I will try to keep my patience each time you refuse or spit out the pizza's Live tries to feed you with.
Because that is something I have to learn.

Meanwhile I'm gonna rush to my microwave and warm up one of my favorite pizza's.

GvB.

This post has been edited by GvB: Oct 17 2006, 1:04 pm