CT on New Album, just in Options

[OutToDry]

Chad Taylor - 11 seconds ago via mobileThe new LIVE tracks just keep getting better and better. Shinn is CRUSHING his vocal performances. As a producer he is an utter pleasure to record. We wrapped this session late last night so I'll spend the day making rough mixes for the boys and management. We are not rushing this process and it really shows in the quality. LIVE fans have waited 13 years for a real LIVE album and we're not about to let you down - CT

The process is taking time for the right reasons!!! Awesome!!

[Pokey]

There is music I liked 10 years ago and probably at some point recommended it to someone which now I think "god why the hell did I ever like that and why would I have recommended it??" ... but the person I recommended it to might still really like it and whats wrong with that?
Chad made some music which he promoted at the time which now he doesn't think is quite so good but some people still like it ... god it's just not that hard to wrap your head around. Why does everything have to be absolute and constant all the time ... like Funky said, music is constantly in flux, so is some taste.

I don't see what is so hard to understand about CT having an internal struggle to want to do right by his friend and support him even if it goes against what the band initially stood for, partly to see where it goes, partly to keep the friendship on better terms ... CT supported Ed when Ed started taking over Live, perhaps he thought it was a phase that would be gotten over and they'd get back to the old dynamic but eventually it just got worse and worse to breaking point where he couldn't do it anymore. Yes in hindsight breaking point should have been around V, or certainly after BOP ... but everything is easy to say in hindsight, it just would not have been so simple and so black and white at the time ... these were complex, deep friendships being dealt with. To just decided "CT just did it to ride the gravy train" is just fucking stupid, completely simplifying the situation to such a degree to sound like a moron because you can't comprehend the complexity of such a situation and based on absolutely nothing. Not to mention if you wanted to ride the gravy train you'd not be part of writing shit like SFBM which was not destined for big bucks, you'd be making TC parts 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 over and over.