Live - Strand Theater 3/12/2012, First Show - Dress Rehearsal Celebration!! Options

[OutToDry]

All pics and reviews here folks......It's a celebration ___________!!!!

[thefunkyredcaboose]

What a rush reading this entire thread late on a thursday afternoon. Fish mate, FANTASTIC photography. You should be Live's official touring photographer. Ask them, you might get a job doing what you love. Seriously. Adam Taylor reads these forums, he's using your stuff. ??? This is not an unrealistic pipe dream. This could and should be your gig.

Funkyrecaboose, you clearly are a professional article writer, no? That write-up deserves publication, man that was inspiring and top shelf. And Good Pain's review; intimate and joyful! Didn't realise your history with this band and community was so involved. It almost makes me embarrassed of the stupid drunken posts and flippancy i so frequently expose everyone to!

Whats going on here is almost like a dream. Im at the point where i wont be embarrassed telling my friends that Live is my favorite band. Who woulda thunk it a few years ago? That a little rock band from smalltown USA could, 25 years on, generate this kind of passion, energy and love of the only fucking thing that matters, the music!

I LOVE the fact that this massive homecoming event can be celebrated yet also honestly criticized by true fans and not degenerate into spiteful negativity. The new singer screwed up some lyrics, was nervous, lost his way in places, yet here on these forums we hold him up on our shoulders like a sporting champion that has just taken home the championship trophy! We WANT him to succeed, we WANT him to lead this Live army into battle and be inspired. The setlist left some to be desired, the closer could have been different, we aknowledge but go on the journey WITH THEM and can talk openly about our feelings without there being an atmosphere of taking sides and being politically correct about the whole affair.

Nick im sorry, but you can clearly see in this thread that we are capable of healthily criticizing our "idols" if you can even call them that. Whereas you cant even bring yourself to say that Ed screws up here and there, its all light and rainbows with you when it comes to him. This chris Shinn dude fucked up at times and thats a beautiful thing. The dude was playing live songs on his guitar as a kid. Now he's in the fucking band!!! I would KILL for that opportunity if i could sing or play a guitar or write a song or get a weird ass haircut!!! How many times ive sung TDAOC in the mirror when shitfaced imagining i was the singer in front of a sea of people, and this motherfucker got to do it and motherfucking owned! I hope he reads this thread and sees the support he actually has and gains a shitload of confidence from that, because at least then it wont be misplaced confidence like the other guy. Shit man, really?

This is a new era. What do we call it before the album drops? I spose it's already unnoficially been recognised as Live 2.0, which isnt a bad thing. I like it. Fucking call the album that. fuck'em

someone come up with a new Live logo design too. just do it!

Wam what has gotten into you? Are you... sober??