Band live

[svetlana14]

Dear all,

Can you please explain to me whether "live" refers to "bands" so that the phrase can be read as to "band live" (to perform live) or might be I have missed something?
Is this the meaning that bands perform live and perform funk (while performing live)?

"Television jingles loop funky tracks like “Atomic Dog” (for the NBC sitcom Frasier) and “For the Love of Money” (for a popular credit card), while bands for late-night shows like Leno’s and Letterman’s live by the funk jam as they go to commercial breaks. Branford Marsalis, until recently the heir to The Tonight Show band’s staple of jazz and pop standards, was dragged kicking and screaming into the funk age, performing James Brown’s “Funky Drummer” and Kool & the Gang’s “Jungle Boogie” nearly every night." - the book Funk: the Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One by Rickey Vincen.

Thank you.

 

[probus]

American late-night TV talk shows typically feature live bands. But that doesn't justify inverting the word order. "Band live" is unnatural.

TV viewers typically hear only short snippets of the band's music as the shows break for commercials, but one of the bands' main purposes is to entertain the live studio audience during the commercial breaks.

Whether they play funk I cannot say because we TV viewers hear only those brief intervals before the commercials begin.

 

[5jj]

while bands for late-night shows like Leno’s and Letterman’s live by the funk jam as they go to commercial breaks

Live is a verb in that clause. It mean make their living.

 

[svetlana14]

Thank you. Does it mean "earning money" or living on funk performance during breaks for ads? Thank you.

 

[GoesStation]

Thank you. Does it mean "earning money" or living on funk performance during breaks for ads?

In this case it just means they habitually perform funk jams.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Thank you. Does it mean "earning money" or living on funk performance during breaks for ads? Thank you.

No. The expression "live by" there means:

- are dedicated to
- make a habit of using
- cannot do without

Similar:

- Live by the sword, die by the sword.
- Live by faith, not by sight.
- This is the code we live by.