Ed was spewing his true feelings about quasi-rural Pennsylvania! I too came from a shit town, live on the beach now, this song plays in my mind quite often, an epitaph to my past and an homage to some of the most fun times I ever had in college back in the day.
I love this song but I always thought that at the end of the original album version they should have stretched it out a bit longer because the guitar at the end is killer underrated but so brief, and his singing in the end is so damn great.
I never liked this band until I got to meet them. Singer's Dad was my one of my 8th grade teachers and when their first album came out and started to get play on MTV - Ed came to our class to give away CD's, talk and sign autographs. I think within the next 3 years I saw them live about 5 times without even trying.
I love Live and always have...But if they honestly think that by replacing Ed, they even have a remote chance of hitting big again...They're out of their minds!! ED K IS LIVE!!! This would be akin to Van Halen saying "meeeh, let's get the guitarist from Overkill in here and boot Eddie out!" Ed K's VERY underrated as a musician! His voice is one of a kind!
Hell yahh what are they thinking of having LIVE without ed K. Theyre high. He IS live. Hes the voice and wrote the songs. Ive listened to ed k interview the band pretty much screwed him over
They never set out to get rid of Ed; he did that to himself. Google it, he had outrageous demands for the rest of the band and it wasn't fair. Ed is amazing, but no one is ever that good. Ask Axel Rose and DLR.
Be cool if he experimented with lots of other bands out of curiosity. Ed with the chilly peppers lol. Or collective soul. Serj Tankian.Though Live is still the shit
I always played this song when I had to live in a place called Linares Chile for a couple of years as a teen (having grown up in Sydney) . This song was very therapeutic for me.
Jeff, Harley has a huge plant in York and a massive bike week every year. In York you're either in a factory or doing work that supports a factory. It's a hell hole.
I'm not going to defend York and says it's amazing; it has it's shitty parts. But are you really going to complain about having a factory job instead of not having a job at all? I'd rather work picking at some shitty factory than working in McDonalds. And while York City isn't the best, it's still better than the really bad cities (Camden comes to mind). And a lot of the crime that happens here seems to stay with the crime, in other words, if you're not part of the that world, you won't be involved. Try saying that about Detroit. And the fact that there are plenty of unskilled worker jobs, along with low cost of living, is the reason the crime hasn't too out of control. If York was such a shit town, you wouldn't have people from NY/NJ flocking over here. Other than that, great song!
Wow so amazing to see Sir Elton John join them on this performance..I had read in Rolling Stone that he liked their music but never realized he was so inspired that he actually did a gig with them..kudos
Yup, this is the song that made me want to hear more Live. It could have been "Lightning Crashes" or "Iris," the two radio singles played most in Boston, but no...it was this one, which my brother only played ONCE on his shitty car speakers.
I am STEAMED that this band broke up right after they preformed in my area... Of course work I couldn't attend due to work obligations... This song is totally my Mom and Dad's ringtone on my phone. I moved out of that "Shit Towne" (aka Weld, ME) when I was 18. The song fits perfectly... Love Live. Whether they are apart or still a group.
The band is so good. the drum, rhythm guitar ect. Without Kowalzcyk Live still wrote great albums, without the band Kowalzcyk could only write mediocre albums full of cheezy all-murican pop rock songs. Band is underappreciated.
My favorite band ever! Alot of memories from my teenage with this song and the entire album. So sad that Ed couldn't tame his ego. But for me LIVE still alive. With CT, PD, CC & CC.
One of the best bands of the late 90's....brilliant writing, pure crystalline rock. But it's always the same story, brilliance doesn't equate to longevity..... unless, of course, you are the almighty, RUSH.
I'm moved to Los Angeles from Cuyahoga Falls in the 1980s and never set foot back in that state man... The whole state is Shit Towne - never going back...
The irony is that is that the refrain sounds very country, very rural with a heavy sound, it means he kept something from that "shit towne" a soul, a spirit, I don't know....
I'm from York myself (West York, to be specific), but I must say this fits the bill for the inner city, especially right around where my fiance lives on the corner of S. Duke and Maple. Been around there too much, seen too many people get hurt and killed for drugs, so I must say I agree with them. West York isn't so bad though.
Kinda funny because where I live there actually are Weavers up the road, aswell as down the road are crackheads. My towns not exactly a shit town but nothing close to great either. Love this song
