The philosophy of Live Options

[FishOutaWater]

This thread is so inspiring. I love the philosophy of Live. It's like the feeling you have after a messy break up with your ex swim suit model girlfriend, and then 2 years later you find the box of nude pictures she let you take of her. But by the time you found the pictures, she gained 50 pounds and she is not capable of taking those photos anymore. But man she was good when she did.

Now if you could combine some more of the stuff we've quoted here, with those guys in the "Heating Up" thread who are teaching a clinic on how to rock, and we would have unstoppable, world-dominating rock n' roll.

[Pokey]

Philosophy of Live also transcends the words ... that thundering bass on Heropsychodreamer, that relentless drumming on Iris and that crunching guitar on Lakini's Juice, that is also as much Live.

[FishOutaWater]

Philosophy of Live also transcends the words ... that thundering bass on Heropsychodreamer, that relentless drumming on Iris and that crunching guitar on Lakini's Juice, that is also as much Live.

Yup, I totally get that. My swimsuit model analogy was just a reference to Ed's lyrics. The thought popped into my head and I thought it was funny so I wrote it.

But my second paragraph was a hopefull foreshadowing of what Live 2.0 will be. More lyrics and philosophy like this, paired with CCP, will be mind blowing - for me at least.

[Pokey]

Yup, I totally get that. My swimsuit model analogy was just a reference to Ed's lyrics. The thought popped into my head and I thought it was funny so I wrote it.

But my second paragraph was a hopefull foreshadowing of what Live 2.0 will be. More lyrics and philosophy like this, paired with CCP, will be mind blowing - for me at least.

Oh that wasn't directed at you, or anyone really, just that it's been all lyrics to this point which encompass a lot of what Live is, but there's so much more, I know most of us know that!

[themaestro]

Philosophy of Live also transcends the words ... that thundering bass on Heropsychodreamer, that relentless drumming on Iris and that crunching guitar on Lakini's Juice, that is also as much Live.

I can feel it in those clips The Thrill posted.

[OutToDry]

Patrick D's bass, is the foundation rock of the band, glued together by CAG's beats.....frenzied by CT's fervent chords!!! Ed's once transcendental lyrics.....is what LIVE was!!! No name, only their art!! No ego, only together for the music......Just Like Pokey said.....see I didn't read his last post....I felt the same thing!!! That's LIVE

This post has been edited by OutToDry: Mar 5 2012, 3:40 pm

[Hoodstock]

It's like halloween around here. Givin out rep like it's bite sized snicker's.

If you guys are giving out Rep Points hit me up! Nothing like the inflation of an irrelevant number to help boost the ego!

[Hoodstock]

Philosophy of Live also transcends the words ... that thundering bass on Heropsychodreamer, that relentless drumming on Iris and that crunching guitar on Lakini's Juice, that is also as much Live.

The philosophy of Live was to make great music! That got lost somewhere around V. Hopefully it makes a triumphant return.

[PillarOfDavidson]

The philosophy of Live was to make great music! That got lost somewhere around V. Hopefully it makes a triumphant return.

V was incredibly disjointed. Probably due to the way it was recorded. There were moments on the album that were really good, but there were moments that weren't so good. For whatever reason I see that album as the watershed from when Live went from what they were to what they became.

[OutToDry]

it was supposed to be a concert / fol giveaway, one of those u2 'pop' departure records.....you know a concept, but we ended up getting it, and in a changed state......truly a record I could have done w/o from a actual realease standpoint. it was a bunch of Ed's ideas and shit he was into at the time.....rock rap....too much synthesizer rock.....smelled of drug induced garbage really.

[PillarOfDavidson]

it was supposed to be a concert / fol giveaway, one of those u2 'pop' departure records.....you know a concept, but we ended up getting it, and in a changed state......truly a record I could have done w/o from a actual realease standpoint. it was a bunch of Ed's ideas and shit he was into at the time.....rock rap....too much synthesizer rock.....smelled of drug induced garbage really.

Yeah, Fred Durst-lite right? haha I forgot that it was supposed to be a giveaway. That explains a lot about it.

I liked a few songs from it, though. Nobody Knows, Like A Soldier, Hero Of Love, and Simple Creed were all pretty decent songs.

One thing that bugged the shit out of me about the album was how treble-y the overall sound of it was. Like fingernails down a chalkboard. Too much hiss and not enough rumble.

This post has been edited by MrSheptical: Mar 5 2012, 4:17 pm

[Aitkens]

take out the stupid lyrics and the horrible singing, and I've always liked the music of the following from V...

Simple Creed
Deep Enough
Transmit Your Love
Flow
Ok


As well as the original full band version of Overcome. Not the lying 9/11 tribute that EK did on his own without the band.

[Wambangalang]

I don't need no one to tell me about heaven

Ed has always been spiritual in some form or another and this line from heaven, a song which i really like, maintains the open understanding of spirituality and a higher consciousness that he is best admired for. No one (spiritual leaders, books, dogmas, christians, budhists, scientists) can lead you to truth, that can only come from the perception of "what is", of that which can not be described, because the description is not the described.

It is actually quite a philosophical song, one which i really fell for because it gave me guidance from the dogmatic catholicism i was raised on in a time when i was questioning EVERYTHING. I thought i was an athiest because i realised that those silly bronze-aged anecdotes in the bible couldnt possibly be true, then the lyric to this song kind of made me explore the idea that there maybe is a god or higher power, one which isnt a man made jealous hateful mean-spirited psychopath with a white beard in the clouds, and that the religions of the world have just taken the idea of a creator and organised it into what we now have. (i heard this song before i heard mental jewelry i shit you not). And that line of thought leads to possibly give you a sense of hope that there can be something beautiful and powerful and meaningful without all the ugly scary shit that my saturday school religion teacher tried to convince me of. Why did those illiterate peasants in the middle east get the rights to tell the future of humanity what this life is all about? Why can't each of us see it for ourselves if we've never picked up a stupid bible?

Anyway i know all that is somewhat paradoxical considering the christian garbage ed is peddling now.

edit: and thats all before you get to the part about the daughters, of which i have none so doesnt really matter to me, but i can see how it might relate to many others especially women.

This post has been edited by Wambangalang: Mar 6 2012, 9:21 am

[jayda]

I don't need no one to tell me about heaven



edit: and thats all before you get to the part about the daughters, of which i have none so doesnt really matter to me, but i can see how it might relate to many others especially women.

So are you saying Ed is a woman?

[Wambangalang]

sure why not