Recent Gracey Twitter Post, Possible Hacker? Options

[garadius]

I keep getting asked about the plexi glass. This was to protect Ed's wittle ears. As evidenced by his "lounge act" from holland Ed has.....
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become EXTREMELY soft. Oh and his "new" song...WOW what ball busting rocker that is!! hahahahahahah Sad!
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Could that be a real post by Gracey or was his twitter account hacked?

Let's hope it was a hacker cuz thats a major slam to Ed.

This post has been edited by garadius: Oct 5 2009, 2:59 pm

[thefunkyredcaboose]

Classy or not, many of us have been speculating about the problems within this band for YEARS. There have been many signs pointing to this. Can you imagine what it was like for the guys actually in the trenches?

For those saying, why did they bother to play on BOP or SFBM. There are a lot of potential reasons.

1. It's their job - I know music fans don't like to hear this, but, if you've had a job for a long time you realize that things can get stale. Sure playing music sounds great as a career, but in reality its a lot of time on the road and a lot of scrutiny. It's a job, and sometimes you can't just up and quit because you want to, there are a great deal of contracts involved for bands that none of us would ever consider.

2. Maybe they believed things would be better? Ed has gone through many phases (religiously, etc.) from what I can tell, and maybe the guys were riding it out to see what would happen. Maybe they even believed that even if they didn't like the music that it could be successful, or that they would come to like it more?

3. Last possibility, that despite the musical differences the 4 guys were still maintaining a strong friendship. The band always seemed loyal to one another. Seemingly this tension had been building for a long time, so perhaps something finally happened that tipped the scales?

Again, just possibilities here but given that we all say things we shouldn't I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Have you ever lived your life under such scrutiny? At least Chad is owning up to it and not deleting his Tweet if it caused controversy.

There's always two sides to every story. Its likely easy for Ed to not be bitter, as primary songwriter I would imagine he brought in a lot more money than the other guys on the last few albums. That is speculation, of course, but splits over songwriting occur all the time in the music business. He can also go off and tour on his own to bring in money, something the other guys don't have the luxury of doing. Given that his acoustic tours began close to the split I wonder how much that contributed.

God I love internet speculation.