Chris Shinn on Fronting Live: ‘I’m Just Embarrassed...." Options

[717raised]

Interesting read

Chris Shinn on Fronting Live: ‘I’m Just Embarrassed By the Whole Thing’


https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-fe...zyk-1234621472/

This post has been edited by 717raised: Nov 2 2022, 10:04 am

[gerrycan70]

The timing of this article is a hatchet job!

The million dollar question is WHO poked Rolling Stone and said hey I think you should randomly do an interview with Shinn

I wish I could say more because there is more, but I can't.

What I will say, however, is after 4 years being in a band there is ZERO excuses for still having lyrics at your feet on stage!


What an absolute shit show.... if only Netflix could see the value in a Some Kind Of Monster 2 starring.....

[JonSnow]

The timing of this article is a hatchet job!

The million dollar question is WHO poked Rolling Stone and said hey I think you should randomly do an interview with Shinn

The timing of this article coincides with Shinn putting out his own album. There's no mystery there. But you assume no one wants to hear from Shinn after all the shit that's gone down with the band recently? "Whoever" poked Rolling Stone probably didn't have to poke very hard.

I wish I could say more because there is more, but I can't.

What this intimates in not so very subtle terms is that Shinn has some sour grapes. Well, no shit. He all but says so in any interview he's given about what went down between he and CCP. He's not hiding that shit.

What I will say, however, is after 4 years being in a band there is ZERO excuses for still having lyrics at your feet on stage!

So what if he had lyrics on the stage? You say that like it makes him a bad person. At most it makes him a mediocre performer. Maybe he's just not cut out to be in an arena rock band. Or maybe it means he 's just better off performing his own music under his terms. He didn't write any of those Līve hits he was tasked with performing, after all.

What an absolute shit show.... if only Netflix could see the value in a Some Kind Of Monster 2 starring.....

No, I think the shit show is what's going on with the "band" right now. We're met with silence for a long time and then when we finally hear anything about what's going on is how the guitar player is fired for being a Big Dick all these years and how things are being set right... only to see the singer take off with the name and play shows with hired hands. EK should just drop the v out of the name Līve.

Maybe CT is the biggest douche ever, but maybe Ed is right behind him in 2nd place for pulling his own bitch made coup. Because that's what it looks like to me, especially if what CS said in that interview has any truth to it about the rest of the band being fired.

People will just have to make up their own minds about that and reconcile it with all the people who have nothing but glowing things to say about Shinn as a person who have met him. Seems like the biggest gripe people have had with Shinn is that he forgets lyrics and that he came from daddy's money, both of which are weak/thinly veiled attacks on his character based on both his performances as an artist (get up there and do it your fucking self if you think he sucked so badly) and life circumstances (he didn't control what family he was born into... why should he have to apologize for his father being successful).

If Ed has fired the entire band then he's not much better than CT, imo, at least when it comes the business of being in a world renowned rock band. And his touring under the name is as much a farce as everyone said it was for CCCP to tour and record under it.

This post has been edited by AManIsTadChaylor: Nov 3 2022, 11:14 am

[Voodoo Lady]

Maybe CT is the biggest douche ever, but maybe Ed is right behind him in 2nd place for pulling his own bitch made coup. Because that's what it looks like to me, especially if what CS said in that interview has any truth to it about the rest of the band being fired.

Are you for real?
There is nothing that infuriates me more than to see Ed get hated on for trying to keep this band going. As soon as I read the interview with Shinn yesterday, I thought, “Oh great. Cue the Ed haters.”
Poor guy. He never has a bad word to say about any of them, doesn’t have anything to do with their bad business dealings, brings back the music for us, and look at what he gets.

I could tell on the tours that PD’s heart wasn’t in it. - The way he acted on stage. Shinn confirmed it in the interview. I’ve been tired of CG’s bullshit for quite a while. No, I’m not talking political. Remember the “promoter chooses the setlist” lie, and then calling out fans who were commenting about them phoning it in? If your heart is not into it, then good riddance! Ed’s heart is still in it. That Niagara Falls show, from the videos I saw, looked like it was fantastic. I’ll take Ed and the hired musicians over the months upon months of silence we suffered through. Let Ed move away from the drama and the band mates who aren’t feeling it anymore and be able to do his art, what he loves. Enjoy it for what it is. If not, move on as well.

[mattyeagles]

Are you for real?
There is nothing that infuriates me more than to see Ed get hated on for trying to keep this band going. As soon as I read the interview with Shinn yesterday, I thought, “Oh great. Cue the Ed haters.”
Poor guy. He never has a bad word to say about any of them, doesn’t have anything to do with their bad business dealings, brings back the music for us, and look at what he gets.

I could tell on the tours that PD’s heart wasn’t in it. - The way he acted on stage. Shinn confirmed it in the interview. I’ve been tired of CG’s bullshit for quite a while. No, I’m not talking political. Remember the “promoter chooses the setlist” lie, and then calling out fans who were commenting about them phoning it in? If your heart is not into it, then good riddance! Ed’s heart is still in it. That Niagara Falls show, from the videos I saw, looked like it was fantastic. I’ll take Ed and the hired musicians over the months upon months of silence we suffered through. Let Ed move away from the drama and the band mates who aren’t feeling it anymore and be able to do his art, what he loves. Enjoy it for what it is. If not, move on as well.

I agree - I can’t understand the perspective that Ed is the bad guy here, at all. Besides for perhaps having a lead singer ego, I can’t point to anything he’s done “wrong”.