Ed Kowalczyk working for LIVE Reunion?! Options

[SJN1279]

Kowalczyk said he left Live in 2009 because he needed a creative spark. But the band has not been pleased. Just last week, Live, which has a new singer, filed a lawsuit, trying to prevent Kowalczyk from using the Live name.

“I don’t take any of that seriously,” said Kowalczyk, referring to reports of discontent. “I mean, the fans obviously are interested and deserve some sort of reunion with the four original members. And I’m still working for that.”

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2012/07/26/v-...ck-stardom.html

[Hobbsy]

I just can't understand any other reason apart from wanting Live to get more popular and Ed to get richer (none of which should have ANY baring on the enjoyment of the music) that he'd want Ed to go back to Live, assuming everything he's said in the past few years about how Ed is the be all and end all of Live and he's happy with him being solo is true?

He's gone to such great lengths to downplay CCP's importance and highlight Ed's importance and also great lengths to say he's happy with how everything is going for Ed now. So one way or the other as far as I can see it, Nick is exposed here - either he admits that Ed needs CCP and the name Live to survive which goes against everything he's ever told us or he shuts the fuck up and doesn't want a Live reunion with Ed in which case he has no business being on this site because he's effectively admitting he's done with Live.
Either way, I can't fathom Nick giving a response as to why he wants Ed to come back that has to do with THE MUSIC.

Personally, based on everything Nick has said so far, I'd have expected both Nick and the rest of the board to be in complete agreement, although for different reasons. That we don't want Ed back (well, most of us) because we are afraid he will go back to ruining Live's music, and Nick wouldn't want him to go back because he's just as happy with Ed on his own, thinks its just as good and that he doesn't need Live or the Live name. But I guess it just goes to show us that as usual, SJN is full of it.

He can't say it's "for the fans" because apparently, according to Nick AND Ed the fans are more than happy with the solo move and they're all really excited and enthusiastic about where it's going. IF Ed had decided "nope, I'm playing no Live song and I'm only playing solo songs", then I could see how it could be for the fans if he refused to play Live songs unless it was as part of Live. But the fans are apparently getting those same 12 songs that they want over and over and over. And it can't be for the music because apparently there are "no noticeable drop offs" ... so what else is left? Money. It's all about money. Sad.

So come on Nick, is it purely for the money or what because any other answer is just going to completely contradict everything you've been telling us for years.

Great post Pokey

I'd really love Nick to respond to this but we all know he won't.