Alright - I was just watching Lollapalooza 2010 on Fuse and Ed appeard twice on the hour long show that looks at the festival (not bad for a guy who performed only 3 songs).

Early in the show they are interviewing Perry Farrell and he's talking about some acts. While he's talking they start showing a few random CD's of performers and one of the is the cover of Alive.

(Side note - Perry said Jane's Addiction has three songs fully done, 12 more to do this October, and will have a new album out. Next year is the 20th anniversary of the festival, which he started, so I'm assuming they'll be there. He said to celebrate they are looking at having a complete all star line-up. He said they were working out contracts backstage at the festival and they've already been working on making sure the lineup will the best ever to celebrate.)

The interesting part - Later in the show (around the 28 min mark) they do about a three minute interview with Ed after his performance. There are literally people sitting right behind them on a blanket during the interview, so it looks like it would have been really easy to walk right up and talk to Ed after his show.

I recorded the show and the quotes I have are exact and I will put them in bold.

First question they ask is how did it go over playing a set to a bunch of kids. He says he doesn't have any kids music but songs that are inspired by kids. He talks about Heaven which makes sense since it is about his kids, but then tries to stretch the idea and goes into LC where the response kind of fizzles.

A cool part is when he is asked about exposing kids to music. He talks about his history with music, listening to songs in the car with his parents when he was 5, singing in a choir, and writing songs with his own kids to play together (he mentions they have drums). Actually - a really nice part of the interview.

Then they start playing Grace. They ask him how Alive is different from his previous work. He says "the song writing is the same, it's the core of what I do, it's the lyric". He also says "a lot of people said it's like a return to form of um, you know, the stuff they fell in love with in the mid nineties like Throwing Copper and Distnace to here, so especially the single Grace, which is out, really throws back to that kind of vibe."

(I noticed he skipped SS).

He goes on to talk about working with new musicians "amazing band from Austin Texas who just interpreted the songs in a way that was really sort of revolutionized the way that I sound and um everybody loves it. So far so good ".

I looked everywhere online for the interview but no luck. Hopefully it will surface soon. Here is a link to the Fuze website where they have four photos of Ed performing at Lollapalooza.

http://fuse.tv/tours/lollapalooza2010/phot...?gallery_id=381

This post has been edited by Hoodstock: Aug 17 2010, 9:50 pm