Chad Taylor

I don't know why.

I'm fairly certain I can read through one of them and see Chad Taylor from Live, which I would do that.

I would talk to that guy.

This list would have been made when I lived in York, Pennsylvania.

I have a young band called The Bytes out of L.A. who are a fantastic rock band.

and i'm chad taylor the guitar player founding member of the band live his new project is called the mercy revival chad taylor's mercy revival and we are launching that we are in the process of launching that and i work with chad on every aspect of his career he's he's become a big you know daily i'm on the phone with him all the time and it's really exciting because it's we're we're launching something new you know he's got live he's got that side of his career we're launching something new um so those are those are my three clients right now and it's it's good i'm busy i'm active i they all offer something different you know um know taimi is in a lane with what he's doing with faster pussycat the bites are in a completely different lane because they're an emerging band uh complete different set of challenges and chad is coming at this from an also a different perspective because we're not marketing him as live we're marketing him as the guitar player of live with a new project so it's it's exciting everybody offers something different everybody challenges me in a different way and i'm loving it you know that's that's the transition for me from journalism to management i had the i had the segue to the record label in the middle and i think it was a really critical segue for me to have i feel like my journalism background gave me a really good insight into why i wanted to be a manager because i became close with a lot of bands and when you write for 15 years there you develop relationships and you get to the point where people trust you and they tell you things and that's not in a bad way it's just you know whatever band i don't even want to name a band because i don't want to make it real but somebody will just bitch to you off the record about their manager or they'll bitch to you about their record label or they'll complain about radio or they'll complain about a photo shoot and you feel like i really felt like i had this whole base to go in.

When I went to the record label side, I had the artist vision already in my head.

I knew what artists went through.

And I think that... is what is very, from a business perspective, I like to keep that freshness.

I like to keep that kind of, if you will, the older I get, that youthful sparkle about what makes the industry so exciting to me.

Because it is, you know, what can we do that makes kids today feel the way I feel at 55? What can we do today to make a Faster Pussycat fan or a live fan feel like they're getting something special for the money that they spend? And, you know, Chad and I were talking about this, Chad Taylor, with its new project you know it is chad didn't chad didn't come up parallel to where you had ed and chad like slash and axel you know so we are people know who ed is the singer of live but not everybody Not everybody recognizes the guitar player who was instrumental in the founding of the band and instrumental in the songwriting of the band and is the head of the corporation that owns the band.

Not everybody knows that.