Atlantic City, NJ (House of Blues), October 5, 2013 - Entirety of Throwing Copper performed Options

[PurdueSteve]

Yeah just a bunch of 40 somethings performing songs that they didnt write...no cheese there!

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So CCP can't perform them now, haven't they, umm, performed them for 20 years now?

I really love the bass line to POD and TBD, that's some of Ed's best bass guitar composure.

[mattyeagles]

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So CCP can't perform them now, haven't they, umm, performed them for 20 years now?

I really love the bass line to POD and TBD, that's some of Ed's best bass guitar composure.

Think its cheesy to be doing an anniversary show without the person who wrote and performed the lyrics. I think Ed doing the anniversary show without CCP is cheesy as well.

This post has been edited by mattyeagles: Oct 3 2013, 4:15 pm

[SJN1279]

Who won the contest for the tickets?

[dangum]

Live performs classic album with new singer at HOB in A.C.
posted: Wednesday, October 2, 2013 11:27 am

By ROBERT DiGIACOMO, At The Shore

Live has something unique planned for the band’s Atlantic City show, which also will mark its final scheduled performance for 2013.

The alternative rock band for the first time will dedicate an entire setlist to one album, its 1994 breakthrough release “Throwing Copper” (Radioactive Records).

“Next year is the 20th anniversary of the album,” says lead guitarist Chad Taylor, who performs with the band 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, at the House of Blues. “We were talking about acknowledging it. Since this is a one-off destination, (we thought) it was the best time to do ‘Throwing Copper.’”

The choice is timely in that Live is in the process of launching its second act, following the departure of original lead singer Ed Kowalczyk. The band last year hired Chris Shinn of Unified Theory as its new lead singer, and recently complete their first major tour together, a nine-week outing across North America.

“It was a pretty amazing tour,” Taylor says. “We didn’t know what to expect — we didn’t know how fans would react. It felt like a bit of an experiment — now it feels like we’re really on solid ground.”

Live is now back in its home base of York, Pa., working on its first new album since 2006’s “Songs from Black Mountain.” Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads fame and the producer of “Throwing Copper” and two other of the group’s records is also helming this release, which is set to come out next year.

The goal is to incorporate Shinn into the proceedings while hewing to Live’s signature sound.

“Everyone is cognizant that we’re making a Live album,” Taylor says. “We haven’t put any intentional limitations on it. You can put on an AC/DC record and know that it’s that in 10 seconds. We want the same thing with the Live record.”

With 14 songs in the can and the gig to play “Throwing Copper,” Taylor is simultaneously looking forward and back.

“It’s interesting to pull away from this and go back to learning old material,” he says. “That’s the great thing about a band that’s been together for this long — you have the best of both worlds.”

But Live’s future was far from certain when the band went on “hiatus” in 2009. Kowalczyk made a solo album, and Taylor, with Live bassist Patrick Dahlheimer and drummer Chad Gracey, launched a new band called The Gracious Few with Candlebox’s Kevin Martin and Sean Hennesy.

With Kowalczyk’s subsequent decision to make the split permanent, Live got enmeshed in legal issues, which since have been resolved. According to Taylor, Kowalczyk at one point wanted the two of them to continue as Live.

“He said, ‘We’re the Mick (Jagger) and Keith (Richards) of Live,’” Taylor recalls. “I said, ‘You’re missing the point. I’m a Charlie Watts fan — I’m a Bill Wyman fan. I love how those guys play together with Mick and Keith.’ It’s about a sonic signature. That’s why I love Led Zeppelin and AC/DC. I’m turned on by bands. Ed was turned on by solo projects. At the end of the day, that was not going to work out.”

Although he and his childhood friend are no longer speaking to each other, Taylor remains circumspect about the break-up.

“It doesn’t mean that anybody is right or wrong,” he says. “I respect his opinion about how he wants to make music as much as mine.”

In Shinn, Live has found another showman who takes a “very theatrical” approach to performing.

“It was less a strategy to rebuild the band and more of what it was to get in a room and see what it would be like to play Live songs,” Taylor says of bringing in Shinn. “We sang one or two songs, and it didn’t take long before we said this feels awesome.”

At the same time, the band didn’t want to carry on, just for the sake of doing so.

“If Chris didn’t bring new qualities and dimensions, and didn’t have respect for the heritage and lineage, I probably wouldn’t have done it,” Taylor says. “I tell people, I’m the biggest fan of Live — I’m the last person who wants to screw it up.”

Live’s ‘Throwing Copper’ was commercial, critical breakthrough for Pa.-based band

As Live looks to its next chapter with new lead singer Chris Shinn, the band will be celebrating in its entirety one of its most popular albums, “Throwing Copper.” The 1994 release, which was produced by Talking Heads guitarist and keyboardist Jerry Harrison, proved the band’s commercial breakthrough.

The album was Live’s first release to top the charts and remains its biggest seller. “Throwing Copper” also yielded a pair of No. 1 hits on the Alternative Charts, “I Alone” and “Lightning Crashes.”

According to Amazon.com critic Aidin Vaziri, the record showcased then-lead singer Ed Kowalczyk’s “unparalleled intensity” and revealed Live to be a “group of rare passion.”

For Chad Taylor, Live’s guitarist and co-founder, there is one drawback to revisiting this key release.

“I have to learn a whole bunch of songs I haven’t played in 20 years,” he say

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/ats/ins...1a4bcf887a.html

[phungi]

anyone know if there is an opening act?

[SJN1279]

anyone know if there is an opening act?

Yes there is.

[dangum]

anyone know if there is an opening act?

The Shackeltons. They're on the Think Loud Entertainment label.

[SJN1279]

Did anyone win the contest for a free HOB room and tickets?

[SinfulEyes]

Did anyone win the contest for a free HOB room and tickets?

What does it matter to you Nicki?

[SJN1279]

What does it matter to you Nicki?

I take that as a no.

[SinfulEyes]

I take that as a no.

No because I have no idea. It's an irrelevant especially to such a CCP hater no?

[SJN1279]

The Shackeltons. They're on the Think Loud Entertainment label.

Supposedly the crowd turned on them and booed them off the stage.

[SinfulEyes]

Supposedly the crowd turned on them and booed them off the stage.

Making shit up again I see. Way to go Nicki.

[dangum]

It's true. I've seen multiple reports.

Read the comments on this photo that Live posted:
http://instagram.com/p/fGWeoYQWYX/

I also saw posts on Facebook saying the the crowd was turning on The Shackeltons and they were booed off stage.

BTW, the encore was:

Pain Lies On The Riverside
The Dolphin's Cry
Lakini's Juice
Horse

[SinfulEyes]

It's true. I've seen multiple reports.

Read the comments on this photo that Live posted:
http://instagram.com/p/fGWeoYQWYX/

I also saw posts on Facebook saying the the crowd was turning on The Shackeltons and they were booed off stage.

BTW, the encore was:

Pain Lies On The Riverside
The Dolphin's Cry
Lakini's Juice
Horse

They must have been bad.