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...plan for the U.S. financial system, the catalyst for Wall Street's plunge. Japan's Nikkei Index fell 4.1% on Sept. 30; after declining in early trading, stocks in China and Hong Kong eked out small gains. "The reaction was not as bad as I had feared," says Dariusz Kowalcyzk, chief investment strategist of CFC Seymour, a boutique investment bank in Hong Kong...
...Kowalcyzk is matter of fact about the band's early success. "I don't know--I don't feel 20. And I mean, this is very simple thing. We just show up and play... [Performing] is the culmination of a lot of things, a lot of living. On stage, the energy is a culmination of everything. The way you perform really depends on the way you live your life. It's not two separate things." The band's focus is on connecting with the audience rather than imparting any ideological message. "Music in its clearest and simplest form...
Live's songs resonate in this crowd. In "Brothers Unaware," Kowalcyzk sings "You got ten fingers, two legs, one nose/ Like me/ Just like me/ It's as simple as that/ You see/ And it I don't know who to love/ I love them all/ And if I don't know who to trust/ I trust them all." He pours his voice into the mike and what comes out of the amps is a kind of desperate inclusiveness over driving guitar riffs and hard, raw drumming...
Basically, Live is four fresh-faced guys up there on stage, blasting music wholeheartedly to their peers. They leap before they look, with a combination of intensity and vulnerabity that sends your mind reeling back to the high drama of teen angst. When Kowalcyzk sings, "Talk to me, talk to me now/Hey man you're all that I have," it's an indescribably seductive appeal to the crowd. In the middle of Live's hit single, "Operation Spirit," Kowalcyzk exhorts the audience to join in, "C'mon, you're all young. You don't have that many opinions yet! Feel...
...they do. People lift each other up, are buoyed up onto the surface of the crowd, then sink back. Kowalcyzk steps off the stage and lolls around on the human pool, seeming to float weightlessly on his back. He grins at the teenagers who carpet his way back to the stage as he crawls over them...