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 Edโs younger brother, Adam Kowalczyk as a rhythm guitarist, and, previously, British keyboardist Michael โRailoโ 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 โOperation spirit (the tyranny of tradition)โ went to #9 on the Modern Rock chart, and paved the way for the bandโs Harrison-produced, full-length debut, 1991โs 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 โ94 and Peter Gabrielโs WOMAD tour) and a string of hit singles (โI Aloneโ, โAll Over Youโ and the #1 Modern Rock hits โSelling the dramaโ and โLightning crashesโ), 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 โI Aloneโ and โSelling the Dramaโ 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 1997โs 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 predecessorโs success, with sales topping off at 2 million. The band performed โlakiniโs juiceโ and โHeropsychodreamerโ from this album on NBCโs Saturday Night Live.
Harrison came back on board as coproducer for 1999โs The Distance to Here, which debuted at #4 and featured the minor US hit single โThe Dolphinโs Cry.โ
In September 2001, the more experimental V (originally scheduled to be titled โEcstatic Fanaticโ) was issued to mixed reviews, preceded by โSimple creedโ as the first single. However, with the events of 9/11โwhich occurred a week before V โs releaseโthe melancholic โOvercomeโ began receiving significant airplay, superseding โSimple Creedโ and becoming Vโs selling point. Unfortunately, Liveโs commercial stockโcompounded by their petering radio airplayโhad 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 โHeavenโ, Liveโs first US Hot 100-placing since โThe Dolphinโs Cry.โ 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 โWe deal in dreamsโ, a previously unreleased song from the Throwing Copper sessions, and a cover of Johnny Cashโs โI Walk The Lineโ, as well as Birds of Prayโs โRun Awayโ, re-imagined with Shelby Lynne on co-lead vocals.
In 2005, Live signed with Sony BMG Music Entertainmentโs Epic label, and released a new album entitled Songs From Black Mountain in June 2006, preceded by โThe riverโ as lead single. Thus far, while the album has achieved international success, it has proven Liveโs 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 โHolland is the center of the Live universeโ [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 bandโs 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 Liveโs rendition of Johnny Cashโs โI Walk the Lineโ 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 โMysteryโ on the season finale of American Idol, and on June 7, a new version of โMysteryโ 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!
Siren
Live Lyrics
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I calculate the grim? and eerie song
Sirens calling
I count the ways you turn me on
Crack of your whip
Taking the hit
I'm caught in your grip
I count the days since we went wrong
I contemplate where we went wrong
Sirens calling
The anchor of innocent it speaks by reflection
Crack of the whip
Taking the hit
I'm caught in your grip
And now your thoughts consume me
I can hear the sirens calling
Take my hand, I can't my darlin'
The reflection of your eyes
Disappears and it is mine
I'm tied to the mast as I pass in the black
I think this is pretty close
The lyrics to Live's song "Siren's Call" paint a dark and eerie picture of a relationship that has gone wrong. The singer describes how they are consumed by someone who they are still deeply attracted to, despite things going awry. The lyrics are full of contrasts, with images of pleasure and pain intertwined, such as "I count the ways you turn me on... Taking the hit, I'm caught in your grip." The themes of desperation and submission come through clearly, as the singer is "tied to the mast" and cannot resist the call of their lover any longer.
The repeated references to "sirens calling" add to the ominous tone of the song, as these mythical creatures of the sea were known to lure sailors to their deaths. The anchor that "speaks by reflection" could be interpreted as a metaphor for the singer's inner struggle as they try to resist the allure of their significant other. The final line of the song, "Take my hand, I can't my darlin'," shows that despite everything that has gone wrong, the singer is still unable to resist the call of their lover.
Line by Line Meaning
I count the ways you turn me on
I continually think about how attracted I am to you
I calculate the grim and eerie song
I analyze and understand the unpleasant and spooky situation
Sirens calling
There are warning signs that I can't ignore
I count the ways you turn me on
I continually think about how attracted I am to you
Crack of your whip
Your control over me is forceful and painful
Taking the hit
I experience the negative consequences of being under your power
I'm caught in your grip
I'm trapped by your influence
And now your thoughts consume me
I can't escape the impact of your ideas on me
I count the days since we went wrong
I keep track of the time that's passed since things went downhill between us
I contemplate where we went wrong
I try to figure out what caused our relationship to deteriorate
Sirens calling
There are warning signs that I can't ignore
The anchor of innocent it speaks by reflection
My conscience reminds me of the harm caused by my actions
Crack of the whip
Your control over me is forceful and painful
Taking the hit
I experience the negative consequences of being under your power
I'm caught in your grip
I'm trapped by your influence
And now your thoughts consume me
I can't escape the impact of your ideas on me
I can hear the sirens calling
I'm unable to ignore the warnings
Take my hand, I can't my darlin'
I need your help to escape this situation
The reflection of your eyes
Your perspective on things
Disappears and it is mine
Becomes my own
I'm tied to the mast as I pass in the black
I'm unable to free myself and am helpless in the darkness
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Siren choreo is really hard!! But Riize sings live .They are amazing.๐
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The best part about this group is everyone are so unique and shine in their own way not overshadowing others ๐ i can already see them rising to new heights..Riize Fighting๐ฅฐ