New Article on Live's 8th Studio Album, Written in Summer of '09 :-) Options

[Soxwsc]

Lightning Strikes Twice

Rarely does an album come together with the perfect recipe of passion, magic, and awe as the 1994 chart-topping Throwing Copper from the band, Live. Fifteen years later, Live has done it again, with their 8th studio album, tentatively scheduled for world-wide release in early August, 2009. The new album, The Dark Sea, is pure magic and encaptures the essence of brilliant melodic rock layered with meat & cheese and spiced with that essential juice. Loyal Live fans will eat this up and grin from ear to ear, while casual listeners will have a new addiction on their hands once they hear this album.

The upcoming album was written and recorded on a small island off of Greece in the spring of ’09, where the 4 band members vacationed together and secluded themselves from friends and family for 3 weeks. Singer, songwriter Ed Kowalczyk relays what the experience was like sitting down on the shores of ‘the dark sea’. “The universe seemed to come together full-circle for us, and I remember sitting there with my guitar just shaking like a leaf, bowing to the gods in humility, asking ‘why me God, why give me this supernatural gift of devine creativity’. All four of us were deeply touched by what transpired on those shores, and we all feel unworthy of these songs; at times it was overwhelming and it just seemed too good to be true. We wrote 10 songs together that felt absolutely perfect, and then we decided to round out the album with 3 of our oldies, that we re-recorded and remastered to sound exactly like the original, with a few minor changes in lyrics to each one”.

The 3 re-recorded songs, “Hold me Up”, Susquehanna”, & “Raising a Man” were added because they fit in seamlessly with the other 10 tracks, Kowalczyk explained. “The 3 songs we chose to add matched the vibe of the album, which has a gritty, rustic, old-time feel to it, sprinkled with a glitter of color, edge and modern art.”

Their first official full-length studio album with Vanguard Records, The Dark Sea is a masterpiece not seen by Live since Throwing Copper. Each track has the potential to be a giant hit on alternative rock or adult contemporary radio, with “Skeptic or Magic”, “Flotation”, and “Killer Scent” being the strongest efforts. Vanguards is expecting great things with this album, and has already been pushing the first single, “Hold me Up”, to radio stations across the globe 1 month in advance of its scheduled release. The entire album is so interesting to listen to, and it rocks harder than most rock albums released these days, that a chart-topper is definitely not out of reach.

After 20 plus years of writing and touring across the world, Live hopes to reach as many people as possible with this latest effort. Job well done, Live!

Edit: This article was only meant for entertainment purposes. It's an imaginary article, meant to be that ideal album review we came across before the next album.

This post has been edited by Soxwsc: Jan 5 2009, 11:52 pm

[Pokey]

oh god now Chad's done it, everyone is going to be adding to their posts with a "by the way chad since you read this, I want Live to do x" ... I'm willing to bet Taylor and possibly the others have seen this board before, its interesting that after all the arguments/discussions and such that THIS is what promts one of the band members to write. You know what would kick ass now is if they went ahead and called the next album Desert Solitaire, that would kick so much ass haha

[LiveRoCkS77]

oh god now Chad's done it, everyone is going to be adding to their posts with a "by the way chad since you read this, I want Live to do x" ... I'm willing to bet Taylor and possibly the others have seen this board before, its interesting that after all the arguments/discussions and such that THIS is what promts one of the band members to write. You know what would kick ass now is if they went ahead and called the next album Desert Solitaire, that would kick so much ass haha

I think they may read for a laugh. But most likely just sake their heads in disgust at the lack of civil, constructive discussion.

Personally, all I want from any artist is for them to give it everything they've got as far as creativity goes.

I'll go on open record any day and say I don't think Live have come close to doing that for years. Their music has become bland and boring and I'm disappointed with it. The soul is gone from the music, not to mention the bass and drumming as well.

The creativity is just gone for some reason. The music has become a bunch of three minute, Chorus-verse chorus structure with nothin in between. Where are the basslinrs ala PLOTR, TBD and Stage? Where's the anthemic structure or anything resembling real guitar work?

I hope whoever reads this realizes that radio doesn't give a fuck about them anymore. Start Jamming some real instrumentation and start letting shit flow. Lets here some flat out bluesy, bass ridden rock that kicks some fucking ass. Sit back, smoke a jay and let the riffs flow into your mind and extend them on the guitar.

I want to hear the creativity in their new music that went into the creation of the Walk The Line cover. Not this three minute pop shit that has no soul, no bassline and no real guitar work. I wouldn't want to remembered as a band that rocked pretty good, to a band that let one guy turn it into pansy garbage that nobody wants to listen to. I'd want to be remembered for my talent and creativity and the fact that even if radio wasn't listening, I made some really good music that took a lot of blood and guts to make.

So there you go Eams, I actually am asking Live to do something!!

This post has been edited by LiveRoCkS77: Jan 12 2009, 7:15 pm