Question: Who had been a rock band longer Rivermaya or Lit?

Context articles: Live and Acoustic (Rivermaya album)
Lit (band)
Nathan Azarcon
Free (Rivermaya album)
Rivermaya
Perfecto de Castro
Rivermaya (album)
Closest Thing to Heaven (album)
Isang Ugat, Isang Dugo
Buhay (album)

Live and Acoustic is the ninth album of the Filipino rock band, Rivermaya featuring Slapshock.
 This is a 2-disc album and has 22 tracks (13 audio tracks from Disc 1 and 9 music videos from Disc 2).
 The album has been released under Viva Records in 2002.
 This is the band's first live album filmed and recorded on May 18, 2002 from the "Double Trouble: Akoustik Rampage" concert at the Music Museum, Greenhills, San Juan.
Lit is an American rock band, formed in 1995 in Fullerton, California.
 They are best known for their hit song "My Own Worst Enemy".
Nathan Peter H. Azarcon is an award-winning Filipino musician, nationalist, songwriter, and producer.
 He is currently the bassist and one of the founding members of Filipino rock band Rivermaya.
 He was also a member of Filipino rock bands Pinikpikan, Kapatid and a founding member of Bamboo and Hijo (where he is the lead vocalist).
Free, is the fifth album from the Filipino rock band, Rivermaya.
 It has 10 tracks and was released independently on the internet, literally given away for free which is another first for any Filipino artist.
 “Free” was also named Album of the Year in the NU Rock Awards 2000 & is the last album with Nathan Azarcon.
Rivermaya is a Filipino rock band.
 Formed in 1994, it is one of several bands who spearheaded the 1990s Philippine alternative rock explosion.
 Rivermaya is currently composed of original members Mark Escueta and Nathan Azarcon, together with Mike Elgar and Ryan Peralta.
 Former original members include Rico Blanco, who had been the original songwriter of the band and vocalist Bamboo Mañalac, who later formed the band Bamboo and later went on his solo career.
 Rivermaya is listed as the twentieth biggest-selling artists/act in the Philippines as of present.
Perfecto "Perf" de Castro (born August 14) is a multi-awarded Filipino musician, currently focusing on Classical and Flamenco music played on the Ten-string guitar, and now widely regarded being the best guitarist in the country.
 but perhaps best known for having been a celebrated fixture in the Philippine alternative rock scene during the 1990s.
 During the course of that decade, he was one of the original members of the alternative rock band Rivermaya, founded the band Triaxis, and also collaborated with the seminal Filipino rapper Francis Magalona and Filipino hard rock band Wolfgang.
RiverMaya is the debut self-titled album of the Filipino rock band, Rivermaya.
 Containing 11 tracks, it was released in 1994 on BMG Records (Pilipinas) Inc. (now Sony Music Philippines, Inc.).
 It is the only full album to feature original guitarist Perf de Castro.
Closest Thing To Heaven is the 10th studio album of the Filipino rock band, Rivermaya.
 It contains 10 tracks and was released under Warner Music Philippines in 2009.
 This is the final album of Jayson Fernandez and Japs Sergio who left the band respectively in 2011 and 2012.
 The band has released three singles from this album, ""Dangal"", ""Ambotsa"", and ""Remenis"".
Isang Ugat, Isang Dugo (Filipino, "One Vein, One Blood") is the 8th studio album of the Filipino rock band, Rivermaya.
 It contains 13 tracks and was released under Viva Records in 2006.
 Except for "Isang Bandila", which is being used as the theme song of "Bandila", a news and current affairs program on ABS-CBN, the album contains covers of songs by some of the most influential Filipino alternative rock bands that commercially peaked in the 1980s.
 This album is the last of Rivermaya with Rico Blanco as the vocalist.
Buhay (Filipino, "Life") is the ninth studio album of the Filipino rock band, Rivermaya.
 It contains 16 tracks and was released under Warner Music Philippines in February 28, 2008.
 This album is the first of Rivermaya without Rico Blanco as the band's vocalist.
 He is replaced by then 18-year-old Jayson Fernandez, who won the search for a new vocalist in a series of reality TV auditions.
 The band members took turns on vocals with the arrangement that whoever wrote the song, will be the one to sing it.
 The band has released four singles from this album, ""Sugal ng Kapalaran"", ""Maskara"", ""Sleep"" and ""Ligawan Stage (Nerbyoso Part 2)"".