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Live - Lightning Crashes
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Live - Lightning Crashes
Live - I Alone
Album of the day: Throwing Copper by LIVE (1994) featuring I Alone #live #throwingcopper #ialone #90s
On this day in 1994, Live dropped their iconic album Throwing Copper 🎸⚡️
Oh, now feel it coming back again Like a rolling thunder chasing the wind Forces pulling from the center of the Earth again I CAN FEEL IT ⚡️
Fan art of Ed Kowalczyk from Live!
Live - Lightning Crashes
Oh, now feel it comin' back again
Like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind
Forces pullin' from the center of the Earth again
I can feel it
I can feel it
Bleak cover, but unsurprising given the nature of the album.
Live - Throwing Copper (Radioactive/MCA, 1994) - Illustration by Peter Howson
The painting is called "Sisters of Mercy" and was painted by Howson in 1989. He explains the meaning of the painting in a 2005 Herald Scotland article:
This painting was done at a time when I was walking on the road to self-destruction [...] The man in the painting is blind, and he is troubled because there is no-one to guide him. He is clutching a red Bible, trying to find sanctuary in the cliff-edge church, but that is now derelict. Finally, he will be led over the edge and fall to his doom. The girls do not care and it is all a bit of fun for them. Obviously this is not my most optimistic creation, but I am glad when something moves people to question our existence.
Yeesh, take that as you may.
Fun fact: the original painting was sold at Christie's New York at a 2005 auction. The price? $186,000. Lucky Pete.
Image courtesy of Stereogum.
Diogenes (1979) & Alexander and Diogenes (2011) by Vladimir Ovchinnikov
I like to think that, I don't know if I have any answers, I don't know if we ever do, but I'd like to think of my journey as a man, and a performer and an artist, tradesperson that all of that time spent, and still being spent contemplating spiritual things has made me over the years more at peace with myself and more confident onstage, more confident just in general. I would hesitate to say that I have found the Holy Grail.
—Live's Ed Kowalczyk Reflects on 25 Years of 'Throwing Copper'
See also The Twelve Senses, Forces & World Views
