Chad Taylor reminisces about Live, Facebook posts Options

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Chad Taylor has been posting anecdotes and memories of Live's history on Facebook.

His page is located here: https://www.facebook.com/chad.taylor.live

But for those who don't use Facebook, I'm also posting them here.

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Chad Taylor
May 16, 2026
Throwback to 2000 - I sat down for an interview on Channel V’s “The Drum” with Molly Meldrum. It was near the close of Live’s “The Distance to Here” tour of Australia. These songwriting philosophies still ring true all these years later ✌🏻
#live #thedistancetohere #mollymeldrum #thedrum #channelv

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1963159391229700/

Chad Taylor
May 18, 2026
Back at Woodstock ’99 playing “Lakini’s Juice” with Live in Rome, NY on July 23, 1999. I was playing my “Ruby Lou” guitar, named after my daughter just a year after she was born.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/827980540384872/

Chad Taylor
May 21, 2026

32 years ago today, on May 21, 1994, “Selling the Drama” reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Modern Rock chart.

After Radioactive/MCA began the promotional push on February 1 (which would later become my second daughter’s birthday), the song became the first public signal of Throwing Copper and the label’s chosen doorway into LIVE’s next era. It was a true band moment, four people listening to each other closely enough to become something larger than themselves: Gracey’s drums, Dahlheimer’s bass, Ed’s voice, and my guitar language all locking into the sound that would carry LIVE around the world.

Like “Operation Spirit” before it, “Selling the Drama” was built from one of my foundational musical contributions. My songwriting and creative priority was always inclusion. By bringing the band into the idea, letting each player shape it, and allowing the collective sound to become larger than any one person or part, the goal was always to build something that could hold all of us inside it, and something the audience could recognize themselves in, too.

The milestone gave LIVE its first No. 1 alternative-radio single and began a three-week run at the top. It also marked another step in my growth as a songwriter within the band, with two major radio breakthroughs rooted in musical ideas I helped set in motion.
Years later, during a radio interview with me on WMMR, Pierre Robert framed the tension in a way I never forgot: “Can you imagine how different Nirvana would have been had Dave Grohl, not Kurt Cobain, written ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’?”

The question stayed with me because it captured something difficult to explain: collaboration is both beautiful and complicated, and ego and ownership ultimately have to give way to something larger than any one person. In the best creative spaces, there is no winning or possessing, only contributing, listening, and sharing in service of the work itself.

While “Selling the Drama” began with one of my creative ideas, a spark that helped set an extraordinary chain of events into motion, the real achievement was never personal recognition. It was creating something honest enough to still mean something to people 32 years later.
https://www.facebook.com/chad.taylor.live/p...BtAr5ALpBfzCTql

Chad Taylor
May 23, 2026
@thechadgracey love you, brother! Your passion and talent will always amaze me. This clip is from 2003, the year my youngest daughter was born. LIVE was on the road in New Zealand. Feeling nothing but gratitude for the music and the memories
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1302540768676725

Chad Taylor
May 25, 2026
2006 guitar solo at Paradiso in Amsterdam with LIVE
https://www.facebook.com/reel/26727055400269841/