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 27, 2026
LIVE on the @sharonosbourne show performing “Run Away” from Birds of Pray with @ogshelbylynne back in 2003

https://www.facebook.com/reel/860883430399829/

Chad Taylor
May 28, 2026
Happy 16th Anniversary! TGF debuted at a secret show at Fat Daddy’s in York, PA - May 27, 2010.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/967008882905177/

Chad Taylor
May 29, 2026
This video is from September 27, 2003. LIVE performed at Brasília Music Festival, Autódromo Internacional Nelson Piquet in Brasília, Brazil. 48,000 people were in attendance for LIVE’s headlining set. 🇧🇷
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2025367398050180/

Chad Taylor is with 930club.
June 1, 2026
Happy 46th Anniversary 9:30 Club!
46 years ago today — May 31, 1980 — the original 9:30 Club opened in Washington, D.C.
Before LIVE reached arenas, MTV, and the Billboard charts, we were a young band from York, Pennsylvania trying to prove ourselves in the rooms that mattered.
The 9:30 Club was one of those rooms.
Located at 930 F Street NW, it became one of America’s defining independent music venues—a home for punk, new wave, hardcore, college rock, and alternative bands that would eventually reshape the mainstream. It was small, intense, credible, and important. The kind of place where reputations were earned.
For Public Affection, later known as LIVE, the 9:30 Club was part of the same proving-ground circuit as CBGB, Maxwell’s, and the Chameleon Club. These rooms mattered because of the people inside them: the fans, promoters, managers, and true believers who could see something before everyone else did.
One of those believers was Seth Hurwitz, the legendary D.C. promoter behind I.M.P. and the modern 9:30 Club. Seth was an early champion of LIVE, and that mattered. Bands don’t rise on talent alone. They rise because people take risks and open doors.
On November 15, 1990, Public Affection played the 9:30 Club. That show helped lead to a pivotal connection with Gary Kurfirst, who came to see us at CBGB the following night. After the show, he shook our hands and said, “We are going to do great things together.”
He was right.
According to my archives, Public Affection/LIVE played the 9:30 Club 18 times between 1990 and 2019—from the Public Affection days through Mental Jewelry, Throwing Copper, Secret Samadhi, a surprise 2001 show, and later returns in 2008 and 2019.
The original club eventually closed, but in 1996 the 9:30 Club moved to its current home on V Street, where it remains one of the most respected live-music rooms in America.
Today is about the room—and the people who kept rooms like that alive.
Happy 46th anniversary to the 9:30 Club.
Small stages can carry very big futures.
Tell me if you saw LIVE or Public Affection at the 9:30 Club, and what year(s)!

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1006422178502570

Chad Taylor is with timothywhite and spinmag.
June 2, 2026

June 1, 1995.
LIVE appeared on the cover of SPIN magazine.
Timothy White’s feature, Lightning Strikes, arrived at a moment when Throwing Copper was sitting at the center of American rock culture.
White didn’t treat us like another alternative band having a lucky year. He understood the scale, the ambition, the spiritual charge, and the strange chemistry that carried four boys from York, Pennsylvania, onto the world stage.
At one point, he wrote: “I think we’re looking at the American U2.”
That line mattered.
Not because comparison defines legacy — but because a serious national writer saw past the noise of sudden success and recognized what we had been building since we were kids.
The space.
The drama.
The questions.
The conviction.
The sound.
Thirty-one years later, I’m still proud of that cover.
And I’m still proud of the boyhood chemistry that made it possible.
https://www.facebook.com/chad.taylor.live/p...bKrNdguXadq5V2l

Chad Taylor is with official_sponge_detroit and 3 others.
June 2, 2026

June 2, 2013 — Time Warner Cable Uptown Amphitheater — Charlotte, North Carolina
LIVE performs as part of the Summerland Tour with @everclear, @officialfilter, and @official_sponge_detroit.
This one mattered because it was @chrisshinn’s hometown show.
Charlotte brought out a wide circle of Chris’s friends and family — people who had supported him through every chapter of his musical life, from Unified Theory to Blind Melon, and then into his role fronting LIVE.
There was also a deeper Charlotte lineage around the Shinn family, including the founding story of the original Charlotte Hornets NBA expansion franchise.
For Chris, this wasn’t just another amphitheater date. It was a homecoming.
For LIVE, it was a moment to celebrate a new chapter on a large stage — with Chris standing in front of his hometown crowd, fully arrived.
https://www.facebook.com/chad.taylor.live/p...ydQNxGG2F9F4Gsl