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

[sellingthdrama]

Wow, the surprises and dysfunction never end. I listened to the band in Niagra - I thought they sounded bad. Not necessarily drums, guitar, and bass, but Ed - as he has been for the last 20 years, he sounds like he's in a karaoke bar. For Christ's sake, stop fucking demanding the audience sings along. They'll sing along if they damn well please. They don't need to be fucking reminded at every break in every song.

I listened to Chris Shinn's new song Billy Grooves, and he has something there. He has something on his new album, too. FYI on Apple music it's under "Shinn", not Chris Shinn, for some reason. Chris' new music sounds like what Live might've sounded like if they evolved and grew as people and musicians over the last 20 years.

Live is dead. Live's been dead. The last 15 to 20 years has been us and the various band members moving the arms and legs of the corpse and saying 'hey, there's some life in this, I think it's still alive', but it's not. It's dead.

The spirit of live, the energy and essence of what we all fell in love with - I look forward to however I, or we, find that again in our lives. That, I believe, can still be found.