Live Facebook Q&A, 24 - 27 April 2018 Options

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Mark your calendars! +LIVE+ are logging on this week for a FB Q&A and to chat with YOU about their upcoming summer tour with @CountingCrows!

Pat - 4/24 @ 10am PST/1pm EST
Ed - 4/25 @ 10am PST/1pm EST
Chad G. - 4/26 @ 10am PST/1pm EST
Chad T. - 4/27 @ 10am PST/1pm EST

https://twitter.com/Freaks4Live/status/988490844117270528

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Chad G Q and A

Do you still keep in touch with the guy that used to run your fan site? I won an autographed drum stick and a copy of DoaD way back in 97/98. Best album. Love it!
Yes I still occasionally speak to Greg.

Hey chad, what’s the most demanding live song for you to play live. Always a huge fan of your style!
Iris and White D

Lots of different great opening songs throughout the years including, The Damn at Otter Creek, Rattlesnake, All Over You, and Where Fishes Go. Which is your favorite all time intro?
Damn at Otter Creek. I love that way it starts quiet and is fucking off the chain by the end.

How is your mom doing? After meeting you at west York athletic club, I used to run into her occasionally. Haven't seen her in a while?
She is great. Thanks Steve!

What’s your favorite song, as a drummer, to play in concert?
White D and Iris.

Hey Chad, hello from the U.K.! How come you never seem to age???
Ha! Thanks Spencer. Lots of vitamins!

What’s the craziest thing a fan has ever done to you?
Message me on FB....😂😜

what's up brother ! What's your favorite memory from working at Falloons ?
Removing cases of beer and liquor from the basement into your house next door. Notice I did not say" steal" 😂

If you were in the zombie apocalypse, how would you survive?
I would hook up with Rick!

Will where fishes go get added on to your setlist and also what is your favorite song to play
That would be cool but its been a long time.

Chad, what is your favorite, "b-side" from Secret Samadhi?
I'd have to listen to them to remember but I do like Mallrat.

Hey Chad who (musicians) were your biggest influences / inspired you musically as a drummer, growing up? Secondly,Tool's Danny Carey is my favourite drummer, who is yours?
U2 and Larry Mullens Jr. Favorite young drummer. Ben Thatcher. Dave Grohl, Matt Cameron, John Bonham.

What are you guys going to do with the property in Reading Pennsylvania that you purchased a few years back?
We no longer own that property.

Hey Chad!!! Not a love related question but I am curious as to if we are going to hear a new gracious few album?? Ohh and see you in Toronto this summer
One never knows if this will happen...

Hey Chad... What snare(s) did you use on Mental Jewelry and Throwing Copper? Anything interesting you may remember about tracking those records? Such an amazing drum sound, great production... Huge fan! TC and MJ were my first ever Cd's as a toddler... Thank you for influencing me to play drums and produce!!
I was using Pearl free floating piccolo snares back then. I have a maple and a brass!. Thanks Mike!

Is there any chance of playing a tour in Germany 🇩🇪? Not only Festivals in Netherlands or Belgium... please
Probably in '19

Hi! Thanks for doing this. I love your drumming in all songs but the drums in All Over You really get me pumped up. That has been the opening song almost every time of seen you which has been many times. How do you decide on an order for the setlist?
Its a great opener because it get going right out the box! Usually CT picks the sets

Hi ChadG - how did you come up with your drums in Selling The Drama? (Can I also ask the same about All I Hear) You're the only drummer on my Best Drummer list - none of the others can even come close to reaching you.
Thank you Angela. My parts come when I get a sense of what the guitar and melody is doing in the song. Then I weave it in there.

I hope your arm is better! I saw you guys last year at Arroyo Seco. Cant wait until you come back to Calif this summer! So happy you guys are back together!!!
Thanks Debbie. My arm is all healed now.

Hey!! 😁 As I'm sure you remember Bluesfest in Ottawa last summer getting rained out. Are there any immediate future plans to come back to Ottawa. Not necessarily a festival, but even a private show or something? Thanks!
Yeah. That was a bummer. No plasn as of now but we will for sure be back to Ottawa at some point.

How were your experiences in shows in Brazil? Do you want to go back one day? Can we dream about this possibility? Thanks for ALL 🇧🇷
Brazil is always amazing and yes we want to go back but not sure when at the moment

Great to see you guys back together. Will you be doing meet and greet when you come back to the UK. We need you back here 😎😎😎
Thanks Lee. We always do meet and greets so yes sir!

Did you guys ever think to yourself “Two Chads in one band? That’s crazy!!”
HA! We are so used to it now but it is funny.

Is Live going on another tour after the tour with the counting crows?
Not is the states but we will tour in 19.

Have you played a “hometown” show in York since you reunited? Any plans to?
We played NYE 2017 but that was a private show.

Saw you when you opened for Guns n’ Roses in Winston Salem. You guys are awesome!
Thanks Benjamin. That was a great run!

You are awesome, the best drummer...
Wow! Thank you Déde!

Chad. Would you like to grab some beers with me and the gf when you are in York?
Joe. One never knows what will happen in York, PA!

When can we expect new material?
We are working on stuff.

What won’t the greatest of teachers hesistate to do?
I beat things for a living. The word guy was on yesterday...

Any plans of a solo tour after this one?
Drums Alone coming to a city near you...

Do you still have all of your sets from past tours?
I do. They are in storage in York.

Am I allowed to ask - why were you in your undies in that photo Patrick posted on IG lol
It was after the show and I had just changed out of my wet stage clothes.

How much practice does it take to remember how to play a song ie if you guys were to unexpectedly play a song not on the setlist?
Most of the songs we could probably figure our way through on the spot but otherwise a couple of full passes and we usually get it.
So this might sound crazy, but back in 1993 yous guys did a show at the TLA in Philly, me and several of my friends attended and after the show ran into one of the Chads across the street from the venue getting food or drinks, he was really awesome and signed a bunch of shit for my girlfriend, was that by chance you? I for the life of me can't remember which one it was, my memory for events is awesome, names not so good.
George I can barely remember what I ate yesterday....

Bill Hynes How do you change the Kangen filters ? 😂
Remove the black cover, twist the ring at the bottom of filter clockwise and remove. Make sure you seat the o-rings when replacing!

Hey CG! Drink any good red recently?
HA. No but Im always down!

Other favorite drummer(s)?
Matt Cameron, Dave Krusen, John Bonham, Larry Mullens Jr. Ben Thatcher and or course my man Dave Grohl!