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Live's Attitude Changing With Time
08/23/2001 1:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Grant Alden
(8/23/01, 1 p.m. ET) - With the release of Live's forthcoming album, V, the band finds itself in a scene very different from when they emerged in the earnest, grungy rock scene of the early '90s. As evidenced by the last run of shows and its Atlanta Music Midtown performance with special guest Dennis Rodman a few months back, the band has a new attitude when it comes to live performance.
Ed Kowalczyk told LAUNCH the attitudes of newer bands like Limp Bizkit have rubbed off on them. " When we came up, people say this kind of grunge movement--whatever that means--was an era when it wasn't cool to embrace the sort of rock-star stance, the sort of pied-piper-of-love party stance. But nowadays, bands like Limp Bizkit...go for it on stage. They just give it hell every night. And I felt like, 'Live can do this.' In fact, there's part of our band that hasn't been fully expressed."
Kowalczyk added, "We're maturing, we're evolving and we have a new definition of happiness."
Live's V is set for release September 18, and its first single, "Simple Creed," has an upward arrow on the Billboard Modern Rock chart.
--Darren Davis, New York Got news tips, comments, or questions? Send them to newstips@launch.com.
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