A Live experience Options

[Pokey]

Ok so it's 2am on a Friday night, I've had quite a few beers and I'm lying in bed, lights out in pitch black with my headphones on listening to Secret Samadhi full blast. I'm suddenly transported back to a 12yr old when this album was released and my dad took me to my first concert. Even with my eyes open I can't see anything. I just am flooded with amazing memories, literally sitting on the edge of my seat as the first chords of rattlesnake are struck in Rod Laver Arena as my musical heros took the stage. The guys that until then were just sound coming through speakers, there they were, real people in the flesh! And I was lucky enough to see what is still one of the most amazing shows I've seen. Most 12yr olds didn't have a clue who Live were, Coolio and I dunno, Chumbawamba were probably the things most of my friends were listening to then. But I am just listening to Unsheathed right now and am utterly taken to another place and time and I'm absolutely love it.

What are some of your experiences when youve listend to Live and just had a "moment" when the absolutely nothing but Live mattered right then, whether it be powerful memories, life epiphanies, whatever. Times like right now for me that are utterly special because of Live somehow.


And as a side, fuck I hate iPhone spell correcting, even when drunk I know I don't want to spell "correcting" as "copes to" and so on. Quit making me take 5 times as long to type something as normal!

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I have dozens of stories. But as I am only bac from my vacation and still have loads to read and get into the news (YUP I'M BAAAAAAAAAACK FUCKERS! How have yall been doing?) I will keep it short.

16 y.o.

Catching TDC vid on Russian MTv and sitting with my mouth open for a good 20 minutes after. Not that much spirituality in the music I got used to. I was spinning loads of pun and grunge but never heard about Live before that.

In a week I get a pirate tape with TDTH (after asking numerous assistants in millions of shops about that band that had water in the vid and singing about fishes and the bald singer tearing it apart when suddenly one said HEY!That's LIVE!) and I still cherish it. I rushed home that night, put it on and it has only been once to me. Sleepless night, 8 times in a row non stop of 1 album. I have not cried that much in my entire life I think. Since then TDTH is the No1 album to me.

Then. I remember getting V, when everything else cherished and in the whole world there were only the five of us: the band and me. I did not quite LOVE it from the start but you know... Ionly had TDTH for 2 years and no other sign of Live in my life, so smth new was good anyway. I remember drowning in Deep Enough. Still ny fave from the album.

I remember when I got drunk on whiskey after a quarell with my first wife and I sat in the kitchen spnning Awake and song after song the music was getting inside my head

Even in 2008 I spun Forever as crazy, once again, as my first family was falling apart and the lines "The darker the night - the brighter the dawn" were the anthem to my dull days.

And yes. When i fell in love after the divorce, my new gf said she could not get her head together after spinning WFG and that was merely it

Dozens of stories more, but have tobrowse the board, so later....

Ah yes. In 2007 I touched the walls of Paradiso. That is also quite a Live memory to me