![]() ![]() He became a conductor, I guess, with his right arm. His other arm was literally in a sling, playing like chicken scratch and cuing Robin visually. ![]() ![]() Taylor: We set up two drum risers side by side with Gracey only with one arm. I played one-armed, with my left arm, and Robin played all the parts. No rehearsals, just walk on stage.” We literally met Robin when he showed up a half hour before the show time. Taylor: Ed could have been like, “Fuck that, I’m not walking on stage unrehearsed in front of 50,000 people without my drummer.” So Gracey and management called me back and they say, “Tell Robin he’s got the show.” I call Robin and I’m like, “Dude, we’re going to do the show. Taylor still didn’t know if the other members of Live would agree. I can play the drum parts right now.”Ĭhris Shinn on Fronting Live: 'I'm Just Embarrassed By the Whole Thing’ I don’t even need to rehearse your songs. I call him up, still not knowing if we’re going to even do the gig. He’s played with Hole and Billy Corgan.” I get Robin’s number. Taylor: I’d never heard Robin’s name, but he’s like, “He played with Candlebox. Gracey: Robin Diaz is a great studio drummer. Taylor: I’m like, “Do you know anyone that could potentially do this gig?” He was like, “Yep. Taylor started by calling up Kevin Martin from Candlebox to see if he knew anyone. I don’t know what I think about any of that yet, but you better start looking.” I was like, “OK.” “Do you want me to find somebody to play drums?” I wanted him to make the decision, not me. Don’t cancel the show yet.” I said, “Well, what do you want me to do?” Now we’re down to less than a day. They’re already scheduling my surgery.” I said, “Do you want me to cancel the show?” Ed and Patrick were on the same flight, and they were flying from the East Coast, so they were up in the air. Taylor: So Gracey calls me back and he’s like, “Dude. The injury came just two days before the group was set to play the Arroyo Seco festival in Pasadena, California, on the same evening as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Taylor: They were like, “You’re going to need surgery.” “I’m a drummer,” he says. (It’s worth bearing in mind, as you read this, that nearly anything one of the Chads says is likely to be contested in part or in full by the other Chad.) Here is the complete story, in the voices of Taylor and Gracey - who, again, are no longer on speaking terms and were interviewed separately. It involves an injury that Gracey suffered on Live’s 2017 reunion tour the addition of replacement drummer Robin Diaz the band’s strained attempts to record new music and a lot of anger and resentment. Our article goes deep into the weeds of what went wrong, giving voice to all sides of the conflict, but there was one story we simply didn’t have the space to reveal. I love them, and I love the music we made.” “I love them - even Gracey and all his screwed-up shit. ![]() “I’d do a show with all the boys tomorrow,” he said. Taylor has a different take on the situation. Every time he opens his mouth, he’s either manipulating you, trying to control you, or bully you.” “The best way to deal with a narcissist is to not deal with him, so I don’t want to. “I don’t ever want to play with Chad Taylor again,” Gracey told Rolling Stone. Bassist Patrick Dahlheimer is caught in the middle. Original guitarist Chad Taylor and drummer Chad Gracey were best friends from childhood, but now they don’t even speak. What’s indisputable is that lead singer Ed Kowalczyk now tours with an entirely new version of Live. As we recently revealed in an in-depth feature, the collapse of Nineties rock band Live was a very complex situation, and nobody can agree on the exact cause. ![]()
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