Chad Taylor on V, Where can I find it? Options

[sellingthdrama]

I'm looking for the text or posts by Chad T on the V - or any of the post-TDTH albums. I've always wanted to know the backstory as to why my favorite favorite band went off-track. Can someone link to them? Or summarize what he's said?

[thefunkyredcaboose]

Let's get it back on track.

I find it incredibly interesting that the label fumbled V so badly. Deep Enough, IMO, would have been a great single in that climate. It had the remix in the Fast and the Furious that would have backed it too.

We all complained about the rap stuff, but I think, given what CT has said, that the label picked up all of the rap songs because of what was popular at the time.

Between Fast and the Furious, Mummy Returns, and Overcome at 9/11 it should have been a big album even if the songs were complete garbage (some of them were), but if everyone remembers, there was little to no push from the label at all for any of these things. It didn't help that the song for the Mummy movie was pretty craptastic, but the band should have been playing that and Deep Enough on every late night show. Instead, the label was pushing Simple Creed.

Awful.

[tiger]

Let's get it back on track.

I find it incredibly interesting that the label fumbled V so badly. Deep Enough, IMO, would have been a great single in that climate. It had the remix in the Fast and the Furious that would have backed it too.

We all complained about the rap stuff, but I think, given what CT has said, that the label picked up all of the rap songs because of what was popular at the time.

Between Fast and the Furious, Mummy Returns, and Overcome at 9/11 it should have been a big album even if the songs were complete garbage (some of them were), but if everyone remembers, there was little to no push from the label at all for any of these things. It didn't help that the song for the Mummy movie was pretty craptastic, but the band should have been playing that and Deep Enough on every late night show. Instead, the label was pushing Simple Creed.

Awful.

Deep Enough is about as un Live like as anything they've done. Can't stand that song. Simple Creed is light years better. No way Deep Enough would have held up on radio amidst all the aggressive nu metal. Probably nothing on V would have. Might as well put out the better songs, and Simple Creed is one of them. Heard Ed perform it acoustic on a radio promo and it was great. Take out all the funked up production and rapping and it's a solid song. Can't say the same for "Does he run it deep enough".

[LolEd]

Deep Enough is about as un Live like as anything they've done. Can't stand that song. Simple Creed is light years better. No way Deep Enough would have held up on radio amidst all the aggressive nu metal. Probably nothing on V would have. Might as well put out the better songs, and Simple Creed is one of them. Heard Ed perform it acoustic on a radio promo and it was great. Take out all the funked up production and rapping and it's a solid song. Can't say the same for "Does he run it deep enough".

I wish they never released V. Right at that point, I lost all respect for Live as song-writers. I wish they could take it back and pretend it never happened. Oh well.

[tiger]

I wish they never released V. Right at that point, I lost all respect for Live as song-writers. I wish they could take it back and pretend it never happened. Oh well.

Unfortunately for many fans this is their jump the shark moment that they never recovered from. They really needed to right the ship with BOP but they were too fragmented at that point and even more so by SFBM.

This post has been edited by tiger: Aug 10 2011, 11:08 am