What Got You Hooked?, A Discussion Of The Begining Options

[Hoodstock]

Simple Question: Which album or album period got you initially hooked on this band? Since this is a fan site I thought it would be interesting to see where or when people found their interest in Live.

My answer for me is simple: Throwing Copper. I saw Live playing Selling the Drama on MTV's broadcast of Woodstock and I've been hooked ever since! I love different things about each of the albums but that's where it started for me.

[Saviour]

Awesome topic! It's interesting to see where people got into Live. I know it would be cool to say I was there from the start but I really got interested with the Throwing Copper album too.

[Tina]

Selling the Drama baby! I was hooked and I've been ever since!!

[Kite_Runner]

I wasn't that into music until I heard Run to the Water. It immediately became my favorite song...and live my favorite band soon after...

[brianblank]

Hoodstock great idea!

I first saw them on the 120 Minutes tour in 1992. I had heard a few songs on the radio, I also like PIL, Big Audio Dynamite and the radio track from Blind Mellon so I decided to get tickets to the concert. That fateful night was my first of many many concerts (~200 total, 30+ of those to see Live). I can't remember if it was Pat or Chad T, but someone was very ill so the full band didn't perform, just Ed and Chad G. Ed on acoustic guitar, Chad on bongos. It was simply amazing!!! All those MJ tracks played acoustic, simply magical. I was a die hard fan ever since that moment.

[tangled]

i was dating this drummer and he says "You've got to hear these guys!" and put Mental Jewelry into the cassette player of the jeep. It was instant love.


He never got that tape back.

[slainte]

throwing copper~i was living in the bay area and remember hearing it on the station from sf and fell in love....little did i know then just how special the band, the music was and who i would meet because of their music. they have changed my life for the better....helped make all my dreams come true.

[SecretInsomnia]

the video of Dolphins Cry took my attention in 1999, and that's were it all begun

ohw and people who think last albums were useless...well they made at least one new fan (BoP)

[Deku]

I think I was around 12/13 when I got TDTH for Christmas. I had only seen Run To The Water on MTV and it was the first real rock album I got. I followed it up with V, BOP, TC, SS, MJ, Awake, and SFBM. I'd say the album that really got me hooked however, was TC when I got it a few years back...probably 10 years after it came out! That's how damn good it is.

[Senghe]

Throwing Copper - I saw the videos for Selling The Drama and I Alone on some late night rock show on TV. I just fell in love with the music instantly. The weird thing is, I bought Throwing Copper and promptly forgot about it for about 2 years. When I finally got aroundto listening to it, I couldn't believe what I'd been missing out on and it's been an all time favourite album ever since. In fact, it's probably the only CD from that era that I regularly still play and enjoy as much now as I did then.

This post has been edited by Senghe: May 2 2007, 6:42 am

[Elise]

Mental Jewelry. I remember seeing the video for Pain Lie on the Riverside on MTV and was instantly hooked. Went out the next day, bought the CD and still have it in my car. Instant love. No other band to this day has ever done that for me.

[Heather]

I Alone hooked me. Bought TC first then MJ and was hooked.

[Wambangalang]

a friend lended me TDTH and it kind of pulled me out of the teenage offspring/punk-rock phase and then i found out live also made the song lightning crashes and i became a big fan.

not so big a fan nowdays

[lynn32701]

Throwing Copper. I was weening away from the hair bands to the grunge bands, back in the day. There was something different about LIVE that totally drew me in, a different sound, a different look, man, it was the Spirit of the song that attracted me! I saw the TC tour twice in 95, with an unused ticket for a third show (must have been on my death bed to miss a show!!). I bought Mental Jewelry when I found out there was a first album, and all other albums thereafter. To this day, 13 years later, I still feel the excitement and Spirit of the song - no matter which album I'm listening to ... and in my opinion, that is truly a sign of a superb, kick ass musical group (and they still kick ass LIVE too)!!

[livebat]

The Distance To Here... My dad used to listen Throwing Copper's Lightning Crashes when i was 9, in 94, but i don't understand why don't like Live at that time... then in 99 in my dad house, in MTV Latin America, the premiere of the video The Dolphin's Cry... mmm sounds interesting... and i fell in love of Live with that video!!!

it was my revelation, the rock now have another significance... i ran to listen my dad's CD of Trowing Copper, and the next day i went to Can Cun and buy all the Live CDs at that time, and i was lucky, i buy Mental Jewerly, Throwing Copper (national, very different version of the USA one), In Conversation, Secret Samadhi, The Dolphin's Cry (single part 1), MTV Buzz Bin (with PLOTRS) and the Woodstock 94 VHS (with Selling The Drama), so, my first look was The Dolphin's Cry Video, buuuuut, in the next day i start to listen all the Live CDs, so I think that i were no hooked by any CD, just for the Band in self!!!!