Chad Gracey to appear on What Not app, April 12, 2022 Options

[dangum]

This was posted on the Fans of Live Facebook page

Stephen K Herbster

EDITED: Gracey is gonna do another VIDEO chat on the What Not app April 12th at 8pm EST with user "Pops and Such" (Tim) like he did back in July - (when they were selling off his drums) The link is below.

https://whatnot.com/live/cac7c0da-f943-4d3b...a4-9ea0c6a54522

You can put any questions here in this thread and I will forward them. If you watched it last time Chad was pretty open about a lot of the questions that were sent.

Chad and Tim are good friends- so Chad is doing this for fun. Its not a press conference. They've known each other like 25 years and its a good opportunity to head friends tell stories.

Maybe- we can convince Gracey to sell off some of the rumored LIVE swag that's in his storage container?

https://www.facebook.com/groups/LiveStreetT...275225819209635

[SJN1279]

This was posted on the Fans of Live Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/groups/LiveStreetT...275225819209635

Gracey just said on FB that Live isn't splitting up, but gave no other update.
Limbo?!

[Voodoo Lady]

Gracey just said on FB that Live isn't splitting up, but gave no other update.
Limbo?!

I don’t find what he says reassuring.
Take it at face value.

[Bremang]

I don't see the limbo if he says they're not splitting up. Maybe one of you guys can get some details on the band's current state of affairs and future plans.

[Pingfah]

But are they making another album?

If not, they can go right ahead and split up.

[Bob]

"LIVE is not splitting. Chill peeps."

No official announcement from the band about any new recorded music, upcoming tour, or any real individual band member update, but yet they're not splitting up. Pretty much the definition of limbo according to Mirriam-Webster:

a. a place or state of restraint or confinement
b. a place or state of neglect or oblivion
c. an intermediate or transitional place or state
d. a state of uncertainty

I'd say they're at least 3 for 4, so yeah, limbo wins.

My .02. Grain of salt. Etc.

[Ecstatic Fanatic]

Is it possible they don’t even know what’s going on and there is no plan? That’s what I’m getting the longer this goes on. Like, there was some argument/disagreement/spat and they went and did their own things without really talking about any next steps. So the band isn’t splitting up but there is no plan for what’s next either.

[Voodoo Lady]

Is it possible they don’t even know what’s going on and there is no plan? That’s what I’m getting the longer this goes on. Like, there was some argument/disagreement/spat and they went and did their own things without really talking about any next steps. So the band isn’t splitting up but there is no plan for what’s next either.

I feel this way too. There’s obviously been disagreements between them and they aren’t even talking. Wouldn’t their management, who perhaps makes a good 20% off the band’s touring, intervene? I mean, if I have a band who doesn’t want to tour or make music, why would I even want them under my name, sitting idle? They need an intervention.

[mattyeagles]

I feel this way too. There’s obviously been disagreements between them and they aren’t even talking. Wouldn’t their management, who perhaps makes a good 20% off the band’s touring, intervene? I mean, if I have a band who doesn’t want to tour or make music, why would I even want them under my name, sitting idle? They need an intervention.

Pretty much nothing this band does make sense. It’s sad that comparable bands (collective soul etc) are still touring and making music and Live does nothing. Just a group of “musicians” that appear to not actually like performing or making music.

This post has been edited by mattyeagles: Apr 9 2022, 12:25 pm

[dangum]

Starts in 90 minutes

[Bob]

Starts in 90 minutes

The lag was so bad on my phone I couldn't watch most of it. He asked CG a bunch of questions about their past, and CG told a story I hadn't heard before about the band watching their first music video in the lobby of a hotel in SF with Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic of Nirvana back in '91 because their rooms didn't have cable. CG said his favorite place to play is Red Rocks. They're also going to auction off an autographed guitar, but I missed the details.

[dangum]

The lag was so bad on my phone I couldn't watch most of it.

I had a similar experience.

I was driving to work and accessed the stream on the Chrome browser on my Android phone and listened via Bluetooth on my car speakers. Audio was choppy, cut in and out.

So, I plugged in some headphones into my phone. Same issue.

I arrived at work, connected to the corporate Wi-Fi on my phone. Same issue.

Used my Windows 10 PC and Chrome browser. Needed to sign up. Signed up and logged in. Asked me to verify my phone number. Pass.

In summary didn't hear much of the interview.

What I can remember...

• Chad's favourite songs to play are White, Discussion, Lakini's Juice and Iris.
• When asked what tracks fans wanted to hear but Live didn't play, he mentioned Mental Jewelry.
  He said he recently listened to "10,000 Years (Peace Is Now)"
• Chad talked about how the band formed with the help of high school music teacher Don Carn.

[brianblank]

I recorded the audio of the stream. It drops out a few times, but from Dan and Bob's descriptions it sounds like I had better luck than they did.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/sc260tb11ve3...Gracey.mp3/file

The first hour is Tim and Chad talking, the next two hours are Tim talking about Funko Soda. I kept recording in case he said more about Chad/Live, but I didn't listen. If someone listens to the rest of the recording, let us know if Tim says anything else about the band.

I asked about a tour or new material, Chad said not right now (or something like that.) But later he suggested that something might be in the works.

This post has been edited by brianblank: Apr 12 2022, 9:44 pm

[Voodoo Lady]

I recorded the audio of the stream. It drops out a few times, but from Dan and Bob's descriptions it sounds like I had better luck than they did.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/sc260tb11ve3...Gracey.mp3/file

The first hour is Tim and Chad talking, the next two hours are Tim talking about Funko Soda. I kept recording in case he said more about Chad/Live, but I didn't listen. If someone listens to the rest of the recording, let us know if Tim says anything else about the band.

I asked about a tour or new material, Chad said not right now (or something like that.) But later he suggested that something might be in the works.

Thank you, everyone, for the summaries. Brian’s question would have been my question. It’s the closest way of asking CG to address the mystery-that-is-the-band right now, and yet the frustration continues.

[dangum]

I recorded the audio of the stream.

Thank you so much for the mp3! I just finished listening to the Tim and Chad Gracey interview. I was a bit frustrated this morning but you saved the day with a recording.