Your Favorite Līve Moments Ever Options

[Voodoo Lady]

Rank Your Top 5 Līve Moments Ever.

Mine are...

1) Anticipating and watching the Secret Samadhi performance on SNL. College days for me! Tuned in on my little dorm room TV amongst friends. Lakini’s Juice and Heropsychodreamer were done with balls to the 14th power, and they made me proud.

2) Purchasing and listening to Secret Samadhi CD. It is like a moment frozen in time. I remember where I was, the weather, peeling of the plastic, in awe of its darkness, the smell of the liner notes, etc. I don’t think I’ve ever been more excited for anyone’s album release. Ever.

3) First seeing them on MTV, Operation Spirit video. It’s what got me into the band.

4) The MTV Unplugged performance. -By far, the best Unplugged.

5) Seeing them in concert for the first time & Chad T. acknowledging my Mental Jewelry T-shirt. -Fangirl moment, I guess.

Yours?

[san_sao]

Rank Your Top 5 Līve Moments Ever.

1. Listening to The Distance to Here for about a year straight while my head melted around the music, being utterly blown away by the record, trying to process all the Vajrayana imagery in the album art and finding all the layers in the music.

2. Trading my crappy acoustic guitar to a friend for Secret Samadhi and some other stuff and not regretting it in the least. I listened to Insomnia, Graze, Century, and Gas Hed so many times that night, lol.

3. Pilgrimage to the Southern Stars (I really think they should just issue this with mvdb's photoshop job as an official bootleg).

4. Seeing Ed pop up in that stupid radio interview right at the beginning of the reunion and feeling almost, for a a split second, like the real Ed and Chad were there and good music might be possible again.

5. Getting my 2000 FOL holiday gift in the mail, listening to Imagine and watching the Ghost video for the first time.

[Voodoo Lady]

4. Seeing Ed pop up in that stupid radio interview right at the beginning of the reunion and feeling almost, for a a split second, like the real Ed and Chad were there and good music might be possible again.

Great list, man!

Wait, is this the interview/video with Zoe what’s-her-face, when Ed got up and danced and blinked the lights on and off for strobe effect? Yes, though not my top 5, that would definitely be in my top 10 moments. It was like, “BOOM! Told y’all they were reuniting!! IN YOUR FACE!!” That brought me such joy.

[Bremang]

Great list, man!

Wait, is this the interview/video with Zoe what's-her-face, when Ed got up and danced and blinked the lights on and off for strobe effect? Yes, though not my top 5, that would definitely be in my top 10 moments. It was like, "BOOM! Told y'all they were reuniting!! IN YOUR FACE!!" That brought me such joy.

zoe labelle

what ever happened to that for years EP

her music is nowhere to be found

This post has been edited by Bremang: Mar 5 2020, 2:59 am

[LiveForNow]

1. When Chad and Ed were on the radio and I called in to ask them what the news was. I'll combine this with the formal reunion announcement.

2. Hearing All Over You on the radio a bunch in 2008 when Live was going to headline a local radio station, and thinking "Who is this new band?" I had never heard of them before and the rest is history.

3. Seeing the original lineup for the first time in 2017.

4. Seeing Ed's revved up solo acoustic show at the Hotel Cafe in LA in 2011. Was my first time seeing any performance by a Live member, the venue was small and intimate and Ed shattered my expectations.

5. Seeing Live open for Counting Crows. Longest set I had seen to date and was on a date with a really great lady that night.

Honorable mention is seeing Live with Chris on Summerland in 2013. First time seeing "Live." I had seen Ed full band by that point and could definitely tell what was missing.

[Merica]

I wasn't really present for anything during the band's peak, sadly. Can only imagine how great it was to watch MTV Unplugged or see them on SNL etc.

In modern times, I don't think the triumph of The Turn should be underestimated. For those of us who believed (or even just hoped) that with CCP unleashed the true spirit of Live could soar again, it was genuinely so fucking great to listen to that album and hear it materialise. It meant a hell of a lot.

[MightyHet]

1. First Live show was at a small venue in Phoenix in 1994. There was a mosh pit during Beauty of Gray. Unreal.

2. Seeing them in a sold out large venue in Phoenix in 1995. Ed would go into the crowd for White Discussion during this tour and it was fucking amazing. Does anyone have video of this tour? They popped into one of the biggest bands in the world in that year timeframe after Lightning Crashes took off and then the other TC hits that followed.

3. Meeting the band for the first time in 2005. All of them were cool and spent quite a bit of time hanging out in the hotel bar after the show.

4. Jamming to Mental Jewelry, TC, and Secret Samadhi back to back to back and then repeat again on road trips with my best friend.

5. Hearing V and even though I love a few of the songs on that album, starting to think that they were beginning to run out of ideas and the magic might be fading. This was confirmed with the subsequent album releases and break-up.

[Krotona]

Rank Your Top 5 Līve Moments Ever.

Mine are...

1) Anticipating and watching the Secret Samadhi performance on SNL. College days for me! Tuned in on my little dorm room TV amongst friends. Lakini’s Juice and Heropsychodreamer were done with balls to the 14th power, and they made me proud.

2) Purchasing and listening to Secret Samadhi CD. It is like a moment frozen in time. I remember where I was, the weather, peeling of the plastic, in awe of its darkness, the smell of the liner notes, etc. I don’t think I’ve ever been more excited for anyone’s album release. Ever.

3) First seeing them on MTV, Operation Spirit video. It’s what got me into the band.

4) The MTV Unplugged performance. -By far, the best Unplugged.

5) Seeing them in concert for the first time & Chad T. acknowledging my Mental Jewelry T-shirt. -Fangirl moment, I guess.

Yours?

The first time I heard SS I had hired these two girls to help me paint the inside of an old Victorian style home that was turned into my Brother-in-law's office. One of the gals had just bought SS so we decided to jam to the new CD while painting the home. I started laughing at all of the silly rhymes on "Rattlesnake" and the disjointed lyrics on most of the other songs. Oddly the only song that stuck out to me was Gashead goes West. I laughed the album off and never gave it another thought until last fall when I gave in another listen. It's now my all time favorite album of theirs. Odd how that kind of stuff happens, I guess I should have given it another listen considering I did end up liking Turn my Head when I would hear it on the radio at the time. Oh well...

This post has been edited by Krotona: Mar 10 2020, 2:47 pm