FANSOL letter to Chad Taylor, our thoughts and the mail compilation Options

[+Ed+]

OK, guys, Ray has a great idea which I totally support.

Why not email chad T about the songs that never surfaced. We sure hav got nothing to lose and we may even be able to receive a reply!

So I suggest discussing it here, after which I will compile the thoughts into a letter and send it to Chad T with signatures of all the board members who participate along with the countries named. We may be lucky. Remember, even Pat was speaking he still had SS demo album!

Why not give it a try?


Fire the thoughts away!

[FishOutaWater]

Sonofabitch! I take like a week off of this message board because I think I am getting too addicted to it, and I come back and this nuclear bomb goes off?!?!?! Damn! I didn't even get to add my name to the letter!

I am speechless. I am without speech.

I've always said that Chad is the man, and I will say it again. Chad is the man.

I've told this before, but I will never foget the first time I met him. In the lobby of Trump Marina in Atlantic City. Early in the morning, the day after the show. I sheepishly approached him for an autograph. Not knowing what to expect from the encounter. He looked at me, got a huge grin on his face. Introduced himself "Hi, I'm Chad!" and grabbed my pen and signed an autograph. He then proceeded to talk MY ear off for 15 minutes about what a great night he had the night before. He was telling me how much fun it was to jump on stage with the local cover band in the club and play and have fun. How late he was up, and how tired he was. Like, uh, he was the rockstar here, and he was acting like he was excited to see me! I've met Chad dozens of times since then. In all kinds of circumstances that most fans never get a chance to have. He's introduced me to his friends and family. And he has ALWAYS been nice and warm and friendly and talkative. And he really bares his soul.

So yeah. I'm a big Chad Taylor fan. And a big Gracey and Patrick fan too. I take nothing away from those guys either.

This blog post will really take a long time for me to digest.

I will say this. I think it helped me reconcile my feelings for Ed. At the end of the day I think I have blamed him for too much. The stuff about the V era is particularly helpful. And while the record label was taking control and screwing things up, Ed, as the lead singer and front man, tried to keep control of the ship, run the business and make things work. After 25 years, there are differences of opinion and there is no black and white - just shades of gray. There's more to it than that, but this context certainly does help.


Bravo to everyone who pulled this off! This is the coup of the century for Live fans.


P.S. - why hasn't Nick commented in this thread in the last 10 pages?

This post has been edited by FishOutaWater: Jul 20 2010, 2:38 pm