If this really is the end of LIVE, What are your feelings? Options

[SJN1279]

If these weekend shows end up being the end of Live's run as a band, what will your feelings be? I am really excited that Friday will be my 20th show. I also think its cool that it will also be my 5th Atlantic City show and I think it is a great place for the band to go out in the US. However, I also feel the band has more to offer musically and don't think any band could replace them for me(concert or CD wise). If the band does decide to part ways, it will leave a great void musically in my life, one that I don't imagine ever being filled again. I do hope the rumored DVD filming does happen this Friday, because it would be fitting end for the band to be able to share their final public performance with the world.

Now I am not saying for sure that Live is done as a band, but it looks like their long tour and run with Epic has come to an end. Many bands don't come back in the same form after a long hiatus, but hopefully this won't be the case with Live. I just hope people try their best to find their way to a concert this weekend, because if it is the end and you miss it when you could have made it, there will be a lot of regret in Liveland.

This post has been edited by SJN1279: Nov 11 2006, 2:57 pm

[Alex]

Lien: there are a lot of people here who don't like that Live started to make softer and "lighter" music and less complicated sounding lyrics with easier words (but still the same messages in it I think).
SJN1279 is one of the people who doesn't like the softer Live.

These people want Live to take a long break (long hiatus) and them to return with the kind of music they made in the early 90's.
And otherwise they want Live to quit.

I have felt annoyed because of this for a very long time.
But I'm getting over it now.
I think it's better to be tolerant and to respect their opinion, even if it annoys or hurts you.

But deep inside I'm done with this kind of topics too.

GvB.

Why are you still going on about the whole 'softer' thing? I've said so many times that the fact that the music is 'lighter' isn't the reason a lot of people don't like the new music.

Speaking for myself, a lot of my favourite music is a lot lighter than Live. (And some of it is 1000 times heavier) It doesn't matter, as long as intensity and dynamics still remain.

The music on the new Live album, is, no matter how you look at it, cheesy. And thats without bringing those cringe-inducing lyrics in to the equation. The chord progressions are quite simply badly written- some 13 year olds can write better music. All of the songs have been written thousands of times before by other people. I can't bear to think that because certain people hear are obsessed fanatics they're completely blinded to the fact that their favourite bands latest album is, technically, badly written junk. There's so much better music out there.

Feel free to 'connect' with it all you like, but ask yourself... if it wasn't Live, would you still like and defend this album as much as you do?