How an Alleged Con Man Tore Apart One of the Nineties’ Biggest Bands
Live had some of the alt-rock era’s hugest hits, but in recent years the former bandmates have been bitterly divided by legal drama and interpersonal conflict
via Rolling Stone: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/live-alt-rock-band-crime-lawsuits-1234677011/
WHEN IT COMES to Nineties alt-rock bands, Live falls somewhere between Matchbox 20 and Creed on the cool meter. Even at the peak of their popularity, when they were packing arenas, critics had virtually no use for them. “Song after song depended on the same groove — soft verse, LOUD CHORUS,” read a typical concert review in a May 1995 issue of Rolling Stone. “But unlike, say, the Pixies’ blare, Live’s volume twiddling felt as predictable as a gag in a Jim Carrey movie.”