The other day the band Live came up on the Drive-by Truckers mailing list. I was 18 when Live broke into the Tampa radio scene with “Operation Spirit” of their Four Songs EP. Now, I’m willing to admit it, at the age of 18 I was pretty easy…talk bad about god and I’ll probably like it, and “Operation Spirit” played right into that. Nowadays I’m a little more discerning, but I still like the song- a lot. So, either it’s a good song or it really plays on my nostalgic memories of a simpler age. I am gonna stick with it being a good song.
I was disappointed with the full-length album that contained “Operation Spirit”, Mental Jewelry, but still bought Throwing Copper the day it came out. It opened with the last Live track I would ever like, “The Dam at Otter Creek”. They went on to write numerous Top 40 hits and have enough Platinum albums to get a set of custom Grillz out of ‘em, but, IMO, they are still just an earlier, grittier Creed of Mud or something…but those 2 songs. Damn.
I hadn’t heard either of them in a decade or so so I decided to pull ‘em both of my favorite p2p network, and then I decided to share them with you. Turns out, these guys still tour…who knew.
One Response to “Remembering: Live (or, THE ONLY 2 GOOD SONGS LIVE EVER PRODUCED)”
On March 26th, 2008 at 7:38 pm Swan Said:
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