Live: The Distance to Here: Authentic Guitar TAB Review

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(More customer reviews)I agree with EddieK; this is the best LIVE album; and so this set of guitar tabs is a further gem to me.A lot of people (read: critics) slam the band for,(A) having an 'inconsistent recording history', or (B) being from the grunge era.

My rebuttal to (A) is: Too many folk in the music business can't seem to get past the biggest selling album disease; they compare all later efforts to the one that broke the charts.I personally wouldn't have remained a LIVE fan of this degree throughout the years if all they had done was release a 'Throwing Copper' clone every couple of years.I happen to LIKE the fact that LIVE gives the money-driven industry the finger and goes on growing and evolving--and letting their music evolve WITH their lives and ideas--without regard to trying to duplicate the public success of their best known effort.This rather punk ethos (for a solid rock band anyway) is called 'not pandering to the moneymen' and 'artistic integrity over public consumption'.The subsequent albums have sold well, though they haven't had the lucky timing that 'Throwing Copper' had to fit so well into what was happening in popular music at the time. Only jaded critics who care only about numbers would call these modest successes 'failures' only because they weren't 'Throwing Copper's with different covers.Far too many bands and artists have been murdered by their labels forcing or pressuring them to recycle, rerecord, and play the same stuff that won them accolades in their breakthrough efforts, regardless of whether they had since grown or changed; in the process losing that edge of anger or wonder or whatever it was that first captured the public imagination.LIVE has chosen to be comfortable with the fans that 'get' them rather than allowing someone to force them into an artistically stultifying mould for the sake of sales alone; this is called 'not selling out', and for that I applaud them.

As for (B):Though they happened to have emerged into the public eye in the same era as Nirvana and Pearl Jam, et al, LIVE never really fit the grunge model with anything but a tendency to ignore the interview and paparazzi angle of business (ie they refused to [...]themselves out to the media, instead preferring to concentrate on the MUSIC, shocking though that may be!), and a wonderful sort of ambivalent anger at the socio-religious status quo.This anger was the reason many folk loved 'Throwing Copper', and dislike later albums, in which the anger has faded to a message of Hope and Unconditonal Love.If consistent anger without growth is what these folk are looking for, then obviously a band that grows and changes is not for them.And for those who call lead singer Ed Kowalczyk a Kurt Cobain wannabe; they have obviously never listened for a moment to the lyrics and melodic spirit of his songs anyway.

Which brings me to another main criticism of LIVE.Some folk are turned off by the overt spirituality of Ed's lyrics, calling it 'preachy'.Critics also slam LIVE for their lyrics, saying "if we wanted preaching, we'd go to church".But EddieK is not preaching; he neverdoes.What he is doing is sharing the most intimate moments of his life: the moments when the Spirit touched him and made him whole; and in knowing how that feels, how uplifting it is in a moment of confusion, I find these lyrics inspiring.

As a long-term Live fan, I find them life-altering; and in fact, this fourth album, 'Distance to Here', quite literally saved my life.Many I've spoken to feel the same way; for though Live as a band name is hard to 'google', the FriendsofLive are out there and being uplifted daily by the work the band, and EddieK with his lyrics in particular, do.They make the world better just by being in it...and by being willing to SHARE!If communication and understanding can save the world, then Live are right on the avant guarde, with U2, the Indigo Girls, and a few others.

So all I can say for those critical minds who find Live's lyrics 'pretentious and sentimental' and 'drippy softcore preachery'... for them I can feel only pity, for as far as I am concerned, the message of Love is one for everyone, if we can but let it in.If the lyrics don't speak to these people, fine; but they do speak to some of us; so deeply that they bring tears to our eyes.So the fact that these critics are arrogant enough tell everyone they meet not to bother listening long enough to make their own decision/connection (or not) with the music, to me, is a sin.Just because they got nothing out of it, doesn't mean we are all alike...thank God!Yes, we are all different...but Love is Love.
Thank you EddieK and Live, for lifting me up.

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Product Description:
An album-matching folio from this multi-platinum act. The Distance to Here is a collection of memorable rock songs that are easily accessible and artful with poetic lyrics of spiritual and universal appeal. Titles are: The Dolphin's Cry
* The Distance
* Sparkle
* Run to the Water
* Sun
* Voodoo Lady
* Where Fishes Go
* Face and Ghost
* Feel the Quiet River Rage
* Meltdown
* They Stood Up for Love
* We Walk in the Dream
* Dance with You.

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