Hailing from York, Pennsylvania, the group is comprised of Ed Kowalczyk (lead vocals & guitar), Chad Taylor (lead guitar), Patrick Dahlheimer (bass) and Chad Gracey (drums). Since approximately 1999, Live has toured with Ed’s younger brother, Adam Kowalczyk as a rhythm guitarist, and, previously, British keyboardist Michael “Railo” Railton.
Kowalczyk, Taylor, Dahlheimer, and Gracey first came together for a middle-school talent show in the Pennsylvania blue-collar town of York. The group remained together throughout high school, going through a handful of band names and new-wave covers before settling on the moniker Public Affection and recording a self-released cassette of originals, The Death of a Dictionary, in 1989. Frequent trips into New York to play at CBGB helped net the band a deal with Radioactive Records in 1991. With the new name Live, the band entered the studio with former Talking Heads keyboardist Jerry Harrison that year and began recording the EP Four Songs. The single “Operation spirit (the tyranny of tradition)” went to #9 on the Modern Rock chart, and paved the way for the band’s Harrison-produced, full-length debut, 1991’s Mental Jewelry (#73). The album lyrics, penned by Kowalczyk, were heavily inspired by Indian guru Jiddu Krishnamurti.
Fueled by heavy touring (including billing at Woodstock ‘94 and Peter Gabriel’s WOMAD tour) and a string of hit singles (“I Alone”, “All Over You” and the #1 Modern Rock hits “Selling the drama” and “Lightning crashes”), their next album, Throwing Copper, went to #1 in 1994. It is their best-selling, and often most highly regarded by fans and critics, album to date. The band was even asked to perform on Saturday Night Live where they performed their hits “I Alone” and “Selling the Drama” and to this day, they are the only band to receive a standing ovation at the party after the broadcast.[citation needed]
The momentum continued long enough to help 1997’s Secret Samadhi (coproduced by the band and Jay Healey) debut at #1. Deriving its name from a state of Hindu meditation, the album spawned four Modern Rock hit singles, but failed to match its predecessor’s success, with sales topping off at 2 million. The band performed “lakini’s juice” and “Heropsychodreamer” from this album on NBC’s Saturday Night Live.
Harrison came back on board as coproducer for 1999’s The Distance to Here, which debuted at #4 and featured the minor US hit single “The Dolphin’s Cry.”
In September 2001, the more experimental V (originally scheduled to be titled “Ecstatic Fanatic”) was issued to mixed reviews, preceded by “Simple creed” as the first single. However, with the events of 9/11—which occurred a week before V ‘s release—the melancholic “Overcome” began receiving significant airplay, superseding “Simple Creed” and becoming V’s selling point. Unfortunately, Live’s commercial stock—compounded by their petering radio airplay—had fallen further since The Distance to Here, with V merely reaching #22 at home, failing to reach gold status.
Birds of Pray appeared in May 2003, bolstered by the unexpected success of “Heaven”, Live’s first US Hot 100-placing since “The Dolphin’s Cry.” Reaching #28, Birds of Pray ultimately outsold V, although it too received mixed reviews and failed to reach gold status.
In November 2004, Live released Awake: The Best of Live, a career-spanning compilation that included “We deal in dreams”, a previously unreleased song from the Throwing Copper sessions, and a cover of Johnny Cash’s “I Walk The Line”, as well as Birds of Pray’s “Run Away”, re-imagined with Shelby Lynne on co-lead vocals.
In 2005, Live signed with Sony BMG Music Entertainment’s Epic label, and released a new album entitled Songs From Black Mountain in June 2006, preceded by “The river” as lead single. Thus far, while the album has achieved international success, it has proven Live’s lowest-seller yet domestically, only reaching #52 in the US before quickly disappearing from the charts.
While Live remain only moderately popular in terms of record sales in the United States, much of their current sales come from places in Europe, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. Ed Kowalczyk has said that “Holland is the center of the Live universe” [citation needed].
The group made news in January 2006 as three band members (Chad Taylor, Patrick Dahlheimer and touring rhythm guitar Adam Kowalczyk) and two members of the band’s road crew were on a United Airlines flight when smoke filled the cabin, requiring the pilot to make an emergency landing.
On season 5 of American Idol, finalist Chris Daughtry was accused of performing Live’s rendition of Johnny Cash’s “I Walk the Line” and calling it his own. This angered some Live fans, but one week later Daughtry acknowledged it was not his own rendition, even saying Live was one of his favorite bands. In May 2006, Live appeared on The Howard Stern Show and addressed this issue.
On May 24, 2006, the band and Chris Daughtry performed “Mystery” on the season finale of American Idol, and on June 7, a new version of “Mystery” was released on the Friends of Live website featuring Chris Daughtry on guest vocals.
The members of Live announced in June 2009 that the band would be taking a two-year hiatus as they work on other projects. On November 30, 2009, guitarist Chad Taylor confirmed that the hiatus of the band was most likely a permanent rift. See the Wikipedia page for more. During the first European tour of the new band of Taylor, Gracey and Dahlheimer (The Gracious Few), Taylor commented both on stage and in post-show discussions that he believes Live may still come back together, though he also stated that the chances of Kowalczyk joining them in this effort may be very small. In an exclusive blogpost[1] on website The Comet, Taylor confirmed that the remaining members of the band would be working on new material for Live in Nashville early July 2011.
The band returned from their nearly three-year hiatus on March 12, 2012, with Chris Shinn, formerly of Unified Theory, as their new lead singer. The new line-up performed before an invited audience at the Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center in York. The band performed as a six-piece with The Gracious Few's Sean Hennesy on guitar and Alexander Lefever on keyboards
[1]: http://thecomet.com/posts/exclusive_blog_chad_taylor_talks_the_gracious_few_and_live
There's another band with the same name:
2. Live was a 70s-era Progressive Rock group from Germany. Formed in 1971, the outfit appeared to be a strangely named band indeed.
In October 1972 their guitarist Martin Knaden went to Curly Curve. Throughout their history only one member has remained, the multi-talented keyboards and flute player Norbert Aufmhof. Although in existence for a decade Live never got to record a proper studio album, or gain a contract, which surely they should have. Maybe the band name was a bit of a jinx?!
Their earlier history was originally just documented by a single. Only more recently did an LP surface collecting 1974 recordings. Quite obviously a collection of rehearsal session tapes, the LP reveals a band with promise albeit rather grottily recorded with often barely understandable muffled lyrics in English. Musically, there are nods to early Satin Whale and Jane, but with lots of classical touches, notably Grieg and Bach, and a penchant to meander rather nicely during the instrumentals.
Based on the ROCK OFFERS track "Sea Fever", they had blossomed and changed focus somewhat, as a much more sophisticated symphonic progressive of the Pancake and Jane type, typical of the mid/late-1970's.
In all, during their history, three different versions of Live existed, but eventually the band split in 1976. A full history of the band is included in the GEVELSBERG CD, which documents other oddments, sessions, and a live recording!
Nobody Knows
Live Lyrics
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With a common name
I prayed for love
Yeah i even begged
I had a vision of you
That carried me through
Now it's just magic worlds
I fear no man
I fear no pain
I had a vision of you
That carried me through
And nobody really knows what i would do for you
Nobody really knows how much I love you
Nobody really knows,
Nobody knows, nobody knows, nobody knows.
I cleared my mind
And i turned around
Grateful to the one who had laid me down
I was silent in love
Pouring down from above
Like so much rain it fell
And pierced my brains
The trees all-alive with their colors
Like the dreams of man
I had a vision of you
That carried me through
And nobody really knows what i would do for you now,
Nobody really knows how much I love you baby
Nobody really knows,
Nobody knows, nobody knows, nobody knows
Nobody knows yeah!
I was on a street yeah!
With a common name
I prayed for love oh!
Baby i even begged
I had a vision of you
That carried me through (Carried me through)
And nobody really knows what i would do for you,
Nobody really knows how much I love you babe
Nobody really knows,
Nobody knows, nobody knows, nobody knows
"Nobody Knows" is a song by the alternative rock band Live, and it appears on their fifth studio album, "V." The song has a dreamy, mystical quality to it and seems to depict the transformative power of love.
The opening verse talks about being on a common street and searching for love. The singer is so desperate for love that they pray and beg for it. Then they have a vision of the person they love, which gives them hope and helps them through their struggles. The second verse talks about the singer's newfound sense of fearlessness and their deep love for their partner. The chorus repeats the phrase "nobody knows" three times, emphasizing the idea that their love is something no one else fully understands or appreciates.
The third verse has an almost spiritual tone to it, as the singer describes clearing their mind and feeling grateful for the person who "laid them down." The rain falling from above seems to represent the overwhelming nature of their love. The final chorus repeats the phrase "nobody knows" several times, with the addition of the word "yeah" at the end for emphasis.
Overall, "Nobody Knows" seems to be about the transformative power of love and the way it can change a person for the better. The lyrics also suggest that love is something deeply personal and difficult for others to fully comprehend.
Line by Line Meaning
I was on a street,
I was wandering on a common street.
With a common name
The street was ordinary and unremarkable, nothing special about it.
I prayed for love
I longed for love and hoped it would come my way.
Yeah i even begged
I even pleaded for love, that's how much I wanted it.
I had a vision of you
I saw you in my mind's eye, even though we hadn't met yet.
That carried me through
The thought of you gave me strength to keep going.
Now it's just magic worlds
My dreams of you are like a mystical world, full of wonder and mystery.
In a shaman's dream
It's like a vision that only a powerful shaman could have.
I fear no man
I am not afraid of anyone or anything.
I fear no pain
Even if there is pain, I am not afraid of it.
And nobody really knows what i would do for you
No one really understands the depth of my love for you.
Nobody really knows how much I love you
No one has any idea how strong my love for you truly is.
I cleared my mind
I emptied my thoughts and focused solely on my love for you.
And i turned around
I changed my perspective and started thinking about us as a couple.
Grateful to the one who had laid me down
I was thankful to the person who had led me to you.
I was silent in love
I didn't say anything, but my love for you was very strong.
Pouring down from above
My feelings for you were overflowing and pouring down from a higher power.
Like so much rain it fell
My love for you was like a constant rain, always present.
And pierced my brains
My thoughts of you consumed me, they were always on my mind.
The trees all-alive with their colors
The world around me was vibrant and colorful, just like my love for you.
Like the dreams of man
My love for you was as powerful as any dream a person could have.
Nobody knows yeah!
No one truly understands the depth of my love for you, it's a secret between us.
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
Written by: Y, DAVID HAYLE, DUFFTON TAYLOR
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
@jessicamcphee8366
Love Live so much..... such a beautiful song. When I'm feeling lost...this is one of my special ones to listen to
@GeorgeDenbrough
¡Qué canción tan hermosa por la cresta!
@DavidTpitCabrera
woooh hace años que no escuchaba esta canción :)
@g.m.c.6606
For Brandon Anthony Boehmer. 2009-Eternity. 💙
@eduardoposeidon
fidelidade na letra e tempo podem melhorar eese makevideo hein?
@CombraStudios
Do you like this song?
@rayla1780
I do. But, I've heard a better/different mix. Maybe, it's the current laptop limitations. Hmmm.