What's Going On? Is Live Over? Options

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If you missed it Ed went on Instagram basically stating that Live never was much of a band, that the reunion wasn't really a "reunion ", and that he's not in anyone's band.

Chad Gracey commented on this on Facebook:
"There is only one source of drama in LIVE. You guys figure it out. And obviously it’s not Ed."

Bill Hynes then replied to Chad "Chad Gracey and that person has small penis Napoleon narcissist syndrome." to which Chad liked with a laugh emoji.

Bill also said this on Facebook in the conversation:

"One thing is certain. Ed don’t need anyone. His talent and song writing ability is his. As it was seen before. He is irreplaceable. Others need him more than he needs them. When the band broke up the first time it was one person and only one persons fault and that person wasn’t Ed. It rhymes with Tad Chaylor."

and Bill in response to Ed's comments:

"That’s actually is NOT what he is saying. He’s saying he isn’t in someone’s band. He’s in HIS band. But someone has an ego and likes to tell everyone that he’s the band and it’s his band and take credit for songs that he didn’t write. So what ED is saying is that HE isn’t in someone else’s band."

There was also a comment about Chad being a successful insurance agent. Chad replied "I do insurance on the side with my partner George. Im also into a few other endeavors."

Quite a flurry of activity after little to no comments on the state of the band for a lengthy period of time.

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Chad Taylor's FOL Tour Diary @ Dec 24, 2004

Scott Joplin (ragtime pioneer) and Oscar Robertson (only man to average a triple double in the NBA) have always been my aliases when we tour. They share my birthday and I hope I share in their greatness. Neil Young was born on the 15th and Jimi on the 27th. I guess that would put me right in the middle of my two heroes. Perfect.

I am in body 34 years old today but my spirit feels no connection to the body. Three years ago in New Zealand I thought long and hard about letting this body go. It would have been a long fall. I leaned as far as I could over the balcony of a fifty story hotel and asked myself, "Is that the answer?" At the time I felt so incredibly lonely and sad. I thought LIVE had run its course and, most important to me, I was afraid Ed and my boys no longer wanted or needed me. Yet, I was far from home trapped by a tour without my wife or our kids. Why would I let myself get this low? I have shared these thoughts with almost no one.

Death wasn't all that bad. I was sad for those who were left behind, but the weight of my baggage was no longer a burden. My past was just that, past. Enter the rebirth. All of my contraction gone. In this new life I would not hold back. I would love without limit. I would celebrate joy and happiness and give unconditionally. I would own nothing.

I sold my house and cars. I began to write my own songs and produce. I renewed my friendship and love with the boys. I wrote it all down and turned it into a television show. I met many women. I shared myself like never before. I pulled my family back together. I set my wife free and know her better than ever. Honestly, we should all die this death.

No more religion for me. Nothing that will separate me from anyone else. Blissful heart. fuck, drink, hug, kiss, smell, breath, give, BE. Its all my drama and yours too. Why did it take me over thirty years to cut that fucking baggage loose?

What was I waiting on? I knew this was possible.

Lisa has been so amazing for me. Never once has she demanded me for herself exclusively. She told me that she always knew I was married to the energy of light, love, and joy. She never called me home from a tour, never questioned my faith or belief in her or my guys. In fact I am pretty sure that at times she was the one connection between my amazing friend Ed and I. The anti-Yoko.

Ed's wife tried too. When Ed wrote V on his own I was crushed, and she was the only person that took me aside to explain that Ed still loved me. I was really fucking confused, but could feel her heart as though it was mine. Thanks Erin.

My girls just called to sing Happy Birthday to me. I hope daddy can show them this freedom. I can't stand when people imply that the teenage years will be really difficult - which means when your girls start having sex. What bullshit. I want those girls to find bliss. Physically and spiritually evolved women are the glue that hold us together. The mother force is not to be fucked with. The ultimate oneness is within every woman, and I would never encourage my wife or daughters to not share that. Nothing compares to that unity.

Sure you can boil it down to simple physical pleasure, but in the physical moment you have a spiritual journey even when you don't seek or want one. That is the point of Yoga, it begins in the body and ends in oneness of the soul. This is why Lisa and I have the Yoga studio.

Can you feel the violence, the noise of fear and death? What are you and I doing to hush the madness? What is a flag, a government, or this elusive democracy that the US is fighting for?

We just watched an electoral campaign of fear. It came from all sides, this fear of what we are, what we will be, and what we will have. Huh?

I will never vote for fear! I will never vote for a country of lost souls who claim to be a nation under God yet have little to do with truth or purity. When my friends in our armed forces die for this fear 'of what we are not' I am destroyed. Freedom is in you, not outward. Yes, these other forces are scared too. Just as Bush has his head smashed into Christianity, the Muslim word is holding fast to its fear too. At their core both of these religions are just, but what God justifies separation? Obviously this is a human interpretation that only ties itself to contraction.

I ask you if there was no God would we have peace?

If there was no government would we fall apart into anarchy as all imply?

Probably not.

Do you care?

Do I?

Never again will I sleep. I had thirty years of rest. Happy birthday Chad, your only three, just a little kid in a mixed up world of adults and none of them are having fun. Does anyone want to play? I do.

Love Chad