The spirit of +LIVE+, Just posted by CT minutes ago Options

[PillarOfDavidson]

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Many years ago, +LIVE+ transitioned from four individuals into a collective community that includes without limitation, all human beings. Our music, first and foremost, is intended to celebrate the wide range of dynamics experienced by our human condition. +LIVE+ is your band and the music reflects the beauty and spirit so many of you have shared with us throughout our career. The spirit of +LIVE+ is one of contemplation, generous listening and inclusion. All thoughts and opinions will be welcome.

For over twenty-five years the music of +LIVE+ has ebbed and flowed. We've seen many changes in those years but without question, our love for you, our most loyal fans, has never wavered. I know many of you are excited to hear new music. The hiatus is over & we've returned with a renewed energy to create. It will be our communal duty to hold +LIVE+ and its fan base to the highest possible standard. "You Are The World" and only you can bring about the full potential of this community. Let's be about something bigger than ourselves.

Your humble guitarist, Chad Taylor

[Benjamin Bachmann]

2006 Live concert review by a very well respected music blogger

READ HERE

cite "I found Ed to be a distraction from the music, ESPECIALLY at the end when he actually removed his fitted tank top and performed the last song and both encores shirtless, often while thrusting his crotch in my general direction.

Yeah, that’s what I’m talkin’ about. My sister made the observation that his nipples were tiny, and looked like they were drawn on with a felt tip marker. So then I just couldn’t stop looking at them and it was just all bad. Bad, bad, I tell you.

But the music itself was stellar. "

[FishOutaWater]

My wife is a Live outsider. She knows I am obsessed, but she's not that into it. Her comment, when I said that they are going on without Ed, was "It's not Live without Ed.". I sort of agree with that. It will be the sprit of Live. It will be the music of Live. It will be the nucleus of Live. But it won't be "Live".

Live isn't Apple computer. Steve Jobs resigned as CEO of Apple and Tim Cook succeeded him, and Apple will go on with a successor CEO. But Live, from Mental Jewelry to The Distance To Here, was a creative masterpiece. It was what it was. And you can't pretend that a new invention of it, with a new lead singer, will be what it was. The Mona Lisa is a masterpiece because it all just magically works together. She isn't particularly attractive. That smile is not the happiest smile. But there is something uniquely distinctive and beautiful about the painting that makes it a masterpiece and if you remove any material element from it, it won't be the Mona Lisa anymore. That goes for Ed and Chad and Chad and Patrick. This, by the way, is what Nick doesn't get about classic Live. It wasn't all Ed. Every nuance. Every note. Every influence. It all comes together to make a perfect masterpiece and it requires all the contributions to achieve that result. If classic Live was the Mona Lisa, then new Live will be a new painting. Will it be a masterpiece? Let's see. But with 15 years of growth and experience seperating CCP from the early works of Live, and a new singer, and a new songwriting process, it won't be a clone of classic Live.

What you call it is just semantics. Labels. You can call two different things by the same name - "Live" - but that doesn't make them the same thing. I think everybody gets that, although some of us who resist new Live perhaps are having a hard time getting their heads around the idea.

Anyone who argues that classic Live was what it was not only because of Ed, but also because of CCP, cannot also argue that new Live with a new lead singer will be the same "Live" we saw in the 90's. And I don't think that they are arguing that or will argue that. Yes, it is legally called Live becaause CCP can go on with the name. But they won't be going on like Apple is going on. Because this is music. Art. They will be going on with the name, but it will be a different band under the same name.

Speaking for myself, I am really, really excited to see what new Live can do. It sounds like we are going to hear some deeper cuts from the old albums. More rocking material. And a renewed energy and participation from CCP. I am totally excited about that. It doesn't erase what Live was in the 90's and it doesn't replace it. That will always stand as a monument to the achievement that those four great individuals created. Now let's see what kind of monumental achievement 3 of those 4 original band members make under the banner "Live" in 2011.

[SJN1279]

My wife is a Live outsider. She knows I am obsessed, but she's not that into it. Her comment, when I said that they are going on without Ed, was "It's not Live without Ed.".

You married a smart lady.