Līve Interviews

NOTE: This article I found on the Geocities archive while searching for my old Līve fansite. Enjoy! Lisa Rebuck Mar 31, 1992 The Pennsylvania quartet and MTV buzz band Live returned to Southern California recently with the "MTV 120 Minutes" tour. The tour, presented by Hyundai, also features BAD II, PIL and Blind Melon, and was held at UCI's Crawford Hall last week. The MTV 120 Minutes Tour is the first major tour that Live has done. In the past few months, the band has played short...

NOTE: This article I found on the Geocities archive while searching for my old Līve fansite. Enjoy! Jeff Jolley 1994 Chad Gracey, drummer extraordinaire for Live, caught up with RAD on 27 May, 1994. Battling severe drowsiness and talking fire-alarms, he had a lot to say about their latest tour and their earliest history. RAD - Did you release anything before "Mental Jewelry"? Chad - Yeah, we released a record called "Death of a Dictionary" when I guess we were seniors in high school in...

NOTE: This article I found on the Geocities archive while searching for my old Līve fansite. Enjoy! Matt Peiken Jul 1, 1994 Chad Gracey doesn't consider himself a drummer's drummer. He doesn't read music, doesn't practice, avoids contact with the technical side of the instrument, and says he'd go into the medical field if his current band -- the only band he's ever been in -- dissolved. But in the only sense that really matters -- to the ears -- Gracey is every bit a player's player. The...

NOTE: This article I found on the Geocities archive while searching for my old Līve fansite. Enjoy! From Megaphone Fanzine issue #2, July-August 1995 This interview was conducted by a Lancaster radio station with Gracey in December, 1994. Q - Now, we know you guys are from York, are you all from York, or some from Lancaster? Chad - We're all from York. Ed lives in Lancaster, right at this, at the moment, yes. Q - Okay, how'd you guys get together? Chad - We started in the 8th grade...

NOTE: This article I found on the Geocities archive while searching for my old Līve fansite. Enjoy! Sheldon Noland Sep 4, 1997 If there is any one reason for Live's success, it is that they simply work harder. "We're not joking around up there," said Live drummer Chad Gracey in an interview with the Campus Press. "We never wanted to be slackers. I can't stand people who stand around in concert with no enthusiasm." As grunge fades away by its own lack of creativity, simplistic...

NOTE: This article I found on the Geocities archive while searching for my old Līve fansite. Enjoy! Robert K. Hayes Apr 29, 1992 What's in a name? Ask Live, the fast rising alternative rock group playing tonight at Moravian College in Bethlehem. For awhile last year, the York, PA. band had no name, preferring that to its original name of Public Affection. This is not a good idea if you're on a record label which wants to promote you. "Public Affection was a name that popped out when we...

NOTE: This article I found on the Geocities archive while searching for my old Līve fansite. Enjoy! Chad Gracey Plays in a band that has sold more than seven million records, performed hundreds of shows, graced the covers of Spin and Rolling Stone, performed at Woodstock II, put together one of the most impassioned sets of music in the MTV "Unplugged" series, and been hailed by fans (and, lately, by critics) as modern rock's savior. Still, Gracey doesn't seem entirely comfortable with the...

NOTE: This article I found on the Geocities archive while searching for my old Līve fansite. Enjoy! Rock history is littered with tales of budding careers stopped dead by lackluster sophomore albums. But what if the follow-up to a young band's promising debut is absolutely huge? What if six million people buy it, and heavy radio/video rotation turns the band members into bona-fide rock stars, and industry naysayers begin predicting a junior slump? Just ask the four guys from York...