Upcoming: Chad Taylor & Friends concert Options

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I'd be curious to see the set-list and hear how this goes

https://zoetropolis.com/special_events/chad-taylor-friends/

Fri, Oct 27

8:00 pm

Run Time: 180 min.

Doors – 7:30 PM

Showtime – 8:00 PM

Tickets – $20

Join us for an intimate evening to celebrate the long-awaited return to the stage for Chad Taylor, founding member, co-songwriter, and former guitarist of the multi-platinum band LIVE.

After a three-year hiatus, the musical performance will feature a robust music catalog, including songs from LIVE, The Gracious Few, and new material. Taylor fronts the five-piece band on vocals and guitar while performing “Taylor’s Version” of songs spanning his nearly 40-year musical journey. This is a new path in Taylor’s historic rise from CBGB’s, 9:30 Club, and The Chameleon Club to global recognition.

Taylor & Friends is filled with fresh faces and at least one musician with a bowling average above 220 who has a known affinity for chocolate Easter bunnies.

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these penned paragraphs tell a story that a man is getting back on the horse, but really the horse is still chasing a rabid dog.

Some bleak days

The past few years, Taylor has been in the news for things that have had nothing to do with music.

It’s a long story that involves a litany of deceit and betrayal and a dump truck load of lawsuits and countersuits involving Live’s various financial entanglements – a seemingly endless legal Gordian knot of accusations and counter-accusations. It may have seemed that, for the past few years, Taylor was spending much more time reviewing stacks of legal briefs and depositions rather than doing what he loves – playing the guitar and creating music.

(the deceit and betrayal is all Taylor’s doing; seemingly out to continue to live his rock star lifestyle without the funds to do so; defrauded investors and business partners up to 10’s of millions of dollars, lying to his fellow band mates on his intentions or hidden intentions on direction; to string out a series of half-truths and sabotaged plans for better band success; schemes involving fans’ participation and other well intentioned investors who were in Chad’s corner; giving bad advice to people in his inner and immediate circle; misrepresenting his net-worth and financial status; blaming other people for all of the misfortune, except to blame the man in the mirror-himself)

Through the hard times – including the legal drama that wound up shattering a band that had been together since middle school and had achieved great success – music was there, albeit in the background for the first time in Taylor’s life. The band disintegrated amid rancor. Kowalczyk is touring as Live with a new band. Taylor and drummer Chad Gracey, friends since childhood, are not on speaking terms. And even though Taylor has said he would play with the band in a heartbeat, Gracey apparently doesn’t want to have anything to do with him, telling Rolling Stone that he will never play with Taylor again.

(the forever rift with Kowalczyk over writing credits/musical compositions and publicizing that he wrote works that, Ed in fact did, led to the first split in 2009, then after going that legal recourse to lose and settle out of court for Chad lying about what was put in the lawsuit; split the fanbase; restarting the band with Chris Shinn in order to scratch out some survival coin; crowd sourced those endeavors as well, where that ended in the same clouded mystery; the same issue from 2009 split, seems to be of same issue now, according to Ed K; where Ed has finally had enough of the habitual disingenuous lying Chad Taylor; lying to bandmates after being the voice and their willingness to go along with his plans; finally committing adultery with Chad Gracey’s wife. Taylor is sure a fake and awful person, not the bubbly popular outspoken light bringer of LIVE……his new endeavor of moving on is steeped in the same shady ponzi-scheme and new capturing new unsuspecting victims)