BETHLEHEM, Pa. – Live, the Pennsylvania native alternative rock band best known for its hit “Lightning Crashes” and other hits from the 1994 album “Throwing Copper,” will play a paid-ticket show at Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks, it was announced Monday.
The band will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 1. General admission tickets, at $49 in advance and $52 day of the show, will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 17, on the SteelStacks website and at 610-332-1300.
- Alternative rock band Live will headline Levitt Pavilion SteelStacks on June 1
- Tickets, at $49 in advance and $52 day of the show, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 17
- The band features classic-lineup singer Ed Kowalczyk with other new members
The band retains lead singer Ed Kowalczyk from its classic lineup, with new other members guitarist Zak Loy, drummer Robin Diaz and bassist Chris Heerlein.
Live, which was founded in York, reunited in 2017 with Kowalczyk after a long and often bitter hiatus.
“Lightning Crashes,” was not released as a single in the United States, but still received enough radio airplay to peak at No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart and to hit No. 1 for 10 weeks on Billboard’s Album Rock chart and nine weeks on the Modern Rock chart.
Other hits from “Throwing Copper” were the No. 1 “Selling the Drama,” the No. 4 “All Over You” and the No. 6 “I Alone.”
Those songs pushed “Throwing Copper” to No. 1 and it sold eight times platinum, making it among the best-selling discs of the 1990s.
Live followed that album with 1997’s chart-topping, double-platinum “Secret Samadhi,” with its No. 1 Alternative chart hit “Lakini’s Juice.” The band’s fifth album, “The Distance to Here,” in 1999 also went platinum and charted in the Top 5.
Kowalczyk left the band for a solo career in 2009, and in 2014 the band released its most recent album, “The Turn” with Chris Shinn as a singer.
The original members of Live reunited in 2017, but disbanded again.
In all, Live has released nine studio albums, two compilation discs and a live album — five charted in the Top 30 and four went gold or platinum. Fifteen of its singles charted in the Top 30, with eight hitting the Top 10.
Live last played the Lehigh Valley as headliners with the band Bush at The Great Allentown Fair in 2019.
Live also played a headline show on its comeback tour at Musikfest in 2017 and played a sold-out show at Musikfest’s former RiverPlace main stage in 2002.
