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Chad Gracey. @chadgraceyLIVE 1.24K subscribers. I am Chad Gracey, the original drummer and co-founder of the band LĪVE. I have set up this channel for people and fans that enjoy my drumming...
Chad Alan Gracey (born July 23, 1971, in York, Pennsylvania, U.S.) is the former drummer for the bands Live and The Gracious Few. Live have sold over 20 million records, [1] including the 8× platinum album Throwing Copper. [2]
Feb 18, 2023 · Kowalczyk fired Live drummer Chad Gracey and bassist Patrick Dahlheimer, too — albeit in a less public fashion. Taylor remains on good terms with Dahlheimer, but the rest of the band now...
Live From My Drum Room With John DeChristopher! My guest is Chad Gracey - drummer and founding member of "LIVE." Chad and I discuss his stellar drumming on the band's hugely successful...
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- Live From My Drum Room With John DeChristopher!
- Ed Kowalczyk Joins The Band as Singer and Rhythm Guitar Player
- The Death of A Dictionary Is Released Under The Moniker Public Affection
- Public Affection Changes Their Name to Live
- “We Decided to Go Back and Take A Look at Where We Came from.” – Ed Kowalczyk
- Throwing Copper Catapults Live to Super Stardom
- “Selling The Drama” Is Released as Throwing Copper’s First Single
- Live Follows Up Secret Samadhi Album with The Distance to Here
- Live’s Relationship with MCA Goes South
- Ed Kowalczyk Leave Live to Pursue Solo Career
Kowalczyk originally wanted to join the band as a guitarist, but they already had someone who played lead. They knew he could sing and talked him into becoming a singer and rhythm guitar player. Taking the stage name Public Affection, they developed into a competent live cover band whose early shows saw the group play sets consisting of songs by th...
That seed money helped the band release their 1988 record, The Death of a Dictionary, under the moniker Public Affection. The album was released on their own label and sold at shows and local record shops. It’s estimated they put out about 2,000 copies of their debut record. The Death of a Dictionary, according to the Washington Post, piqued the in...
While the demo left the label disappointed, they allowed the group to take the tape and shop it around to other labels. That led to them signing with Radioactive Records and they soon changed their name to Live after drawing it out of a hat. The label enlisted Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads fame to produce the group’s first album in 1991, Mental J...
Kowalczyk told Spin magazine, “We decided to go back and take a look at where we came from. Our town, our friends, our roots. We wanted to slow down, take a break and not be so theoretical in the new songs and talk about what we’ve experienced in our lives.” Unlike hopelessness or nihilism which were popular lyrical themes during the early 90’s, Li...
Released several weeks after the death of Kurt Cobain, Throwing Copper catapulted Live to a whole new level of super stardom. They had gigs on MTV’s Unplugged, David Letterman, and they appeared on countless magazine covers, not to mention the hours of attention MTV and rock radio gave to their singles. Even though Mental Jewelry was well received ...
While MTV first embraced the band back in 1991, a lot of radio programmers, according to Billboard magazine, weren’t fans of the band and felt pressured to play Operation Spirit on rock radio. To combat this, they released “Selling the Drama” as the album’s first single. The label didn’t see much crossover appeal and heavily worked college and mode...
The band followed up Secret Samadhi with The Distance to Here in 1999, which produced the radio-friendly hits, “The Dolphin’s Cry” and “Run To The Water”, which peaked at No. 3 and 14 on the modern rock charts. If Secret Samadhi represented the great upheaval in the member’s career following their monumental success in the mid 90’s, The Distance to...
Radioactive Records at this time was now gone and the band was now dealing with MCA. Their relationship with the label quickly went south. There were disagreements over the album artwork, whether to release a single and music videos, all of which led to the album getting delayed by almost a year. Released a week after 9/11, the song, “Overcome” rec...
One year later in 2010, it was announced that Kowalczyk had left the band. He embarked on a solo career and soon, an ugly legal battle ensued between him and his ex-bandmates. His former bandmates sued him for breach of contract, relating to their publishing agreement and touring using the name Live. He, in turn, would counter-sue. Kowalczyk conten...
We chat with the drummer from LIVE, Chad Gracey, about what's going on with the band, the Platinum level music and albums and so much more.
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Feb 28, 2023 · Live brought in a second drummer when Chad Gracey was injured in 2017, creating intense backstage drama.
