Peace Out Options

[Tips]

I initially wrote this big text but I know no one cares. I still wanted to keep parts of it though, especially the part about Ed.

I joined this board in 2003.

I've been a huge fan of Live since 1997. Lakini's Juice is the first song from Live I had ever heard.

At first, it was the music I stopped liking (Birds of Pray and Songs from Black Mountain). My hopes came back with The Turn but then... you know.

And now all this shit that's going on! Accusations of rape against Hynes, accusations of physical and emotional abuse againt Chad T., Chad G. who seems to be sticking with Hynes, etc. It's all way too much. And from the outside, we're never, ever going to know the truth. All we will ever know is that there's a lot of very serious shit going on.

So fuck it, I'm following a band not a fucking soap opera and this is all too much for me.

Before I go, for what it's worth:

I apologize for talking about Ed like I knew what he was like and putting the blame solely on him for the past 10 years. I wish he would have been more vocal at the time so we could better understand his side, but seeing how he's handling things now, I now think he might have always been trying to keep it about the music and away from the drama and him firing the rest of the band seems to confirm this. He wants to move on with the music and let go of all the shit. I wish him the best.

I hope the very best for the victims. What they had and still have to go through is far worst than the bad soap opera going on around the band and they deserve to heal.

All of this shit could have happened in 1970 and it wouldn't have tarnished their legacy. But unfortunately, we live in an era where every thing needs to be public... so it's hard for me to listen to anything they've done, music about life and spirituality and love and not think about all of this. Maybe with time it'll pass but for now, Live's music is tainted for me.

I am no longer a fan of live and therefore no longer have any business being on this board.

Peace out

[Merica]

Don't you listen to these mean old Yankees, Tips. You make as many posts as you like.