Live - Final Show and Goodbyes, It has Been a Good Run Fellas Options

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Associated Press
Updated: 3 hours, 26 minutes ago

New York - After 15 years of recording music and touring the world, lead singer Ed Kowalcyzk, guitarist Chad Taylor, bassist Patrick Dalheimer and drummer Chad Gracey are ready to call it quits. They will make their last stop in their career as the band Live at the Atlantic City House of Blues on November 17th, 2006.

Frontman Ed Kowalcyzk says, \"We as a band are very content with where we are and what we have done as a group over the last decade and a half. We offered the world everything we could and our spiritual journey through music is coming to an end. And what better place to do it then one of our favorite places to perform and in the area it all began?\"

Live\'s unique brand of spiritually influenced music mixed with anthemic rockers and energizing scores put them on the scene in 1991. Their debut album, Mental Jewelry featured hit singles \"Operation Spirit\" and \"Pain Lies On The Riverside\" was followed with their breakout album, Throwing Copper. The band saw the album reach #1 on the Billboard Top 200 52 weeks after it\'s release and sold more than 12 million copies worldwide. Since then though, the band has not been able to recapture the limelight with lackluster sales of their proceeding albums The Distance to Here, \"V\", Birds of Pray and most recently, \"Songs from Black Mountain.\"

\"To say our declining record sales is the reason we are calling it a career would be wrong. Our fans have still been coming out to see us and they have been more energized than ever. But we feel as though there is not much more to sing about.\"

So on Friday night in front of thousands of screaming fans Live will make the final stop in their long career at their favorite place to perform. What better place to end it where it all began?

This post has been edited by crustyclown80: Nov 13 2006, 5:41 pm