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

[lovemachine97]

Well, this is an interesting thread. I have rarely posted on these boards, but have lurked for what seems like years and years, even back to the old board. I got in to Live with Throwing Copper, and have bought every album since. I saw them Live once in 2002, and again in 2009.

STP happens to be my favorite band, and that's who I saw Live play with first in San Diego. 7 years later, it seemed like a different band.

I have only my memory to go on with this, but the 2002 incarnation of the band seemed so much more intense and into the music. Ed sang more like a rock star. He was all over the stage. I even wondered how STP would live up to the show (though they did).

Cut to May 2009 in Anaheim, and the band looked bored. Ed went from a very intense performer to a smiley guy who shakes his ass a lot, and did a lot of posing. Definitely way different performer. This is on top of the fact that the band looked bored, and they rarely talked to each other. In between each song, Ed went back to talk on a microphone near the drumset (who was he talking to?), and then would come back front stage for the next song. Weird. Live just looked like a tired band going through the motions, especially in comparison to those other shows at the same time in the same place.

Before the show, Ed showed up to the House of Blues as if he was going to eat. He never did. He stood in the middle of the outside portion and got hit up for autographs and pics. When that died down, he went back into a little hallway and waited. We could still see him from our line. Soon, he emerged from the hallway, and after a few more pics, as alone again, and then took off. Again, weird.

All this adds up to me thinking it is a good thing that they are taking time apart. Coming from an STP fanatic, we got some pretty good music from Talk Show (with Dave Coutts on vocals with STP) and Army of Anyone (with Richard Patrick on vocals and Ray Luzier on drums with the DeLeo bros) as well as 2 Scott Weiland solo albums and 2 Velvet Revolver albums?

Were they as good as STP? No, but they did what they needed to do to be back together, ready to release a new full-length in 2010, and put on shows that had energy again.

In the meantime, the DeLeo's said some stuff about Weiland, and Weiland took veiled shots at the brothers (saying Slash was the best guitarist he'd ever played with, etc.), but people say things. And I wouldn't be surprised if Ed was a cock to work with. I also wouldn't be surprised if the other guys did stuff out of spite, and a lot of stuff was said. Dean DeLeo and Weiland got into a fist fight their last show.

But bands are like family. Sometimes, one of the guys is just done (like John Fogerty refusing to play with the CCR guys at their R&R HOF induction). Often times, though, you realize you really love those people and the good outweighed the bad.

Stay strong, I believe the guys will be back, despite what has been said.