this whole break up thing...TGF vs EK Options

[zmanpga]

1st off...if TGF or ED thinks I am going to take sides and choose one or the other ...they r Fking crazy....this is the best thing that could have happened to this band and as a fan of the "whole" band..I am not going to choose sides...I am going to enjoy the 2(bands) going at each other for how ever long it lasts, and I say "they will bring us some great music"...listen to what we have heard so far....awesome..sorry guys...now lets buy some tickets!

This post has been edited by zmanpga: Mar 10 2010, 7:48 pm

[OutToDry]

I am firmly standing on why the breakup occured. Parting of the ways over musical direction. All the final straws were the match to the years of stagnant pool of gasoline.

I watched the old 95-97 live videos recently to verify my beliefs on the split in direction. It'a all plain on the page/screen. These guys had something that is rarely bottled. When adam came on and ed stopped playing the electric guitar and began his prancing idolitry shit, I knew things were moving towards the end.


(Jim, please post what you wrote in Honest Man over here)

[Jim]

This is a post from a different thread that really had nothing to do TGF and Ed, I was asked to move this here to keep the other thread clean. So here it is...

I just disliked how members of TGF handled the break-up publicly. They tried to turn the fanbase on Ed, and in turn win over the Live fan base with pity. The only thing they actually accomplished was splitting a certain percentage of the fanbase between Ed and themselves.

Well lets be fair here, what TGF did publicly was the direct result of stuff that Ed did privately. So privately in fact, that the other people in the band didn't even know about it until 4 to 5 years later. I'm talking about the hidden publishing contract Ed signed. We probably wouldn't be even dealing with this "hiatus" if it weren't for Ed's actions. I dislike how Ed broke up the band over greed and selfishness, while singing about faith, love, and peace in every song. It's sad in a way, he has just become so fake and cliched at this point that I never would have imagined this is what he would become.

Even when I ran Live-Web ~10 years ago there were hints of Ed being way too controlling of the band, and their music. (And with "V" it was pretty damn obvious). When I came back to check on Live only to find they had broken up due to secret deals Ed had done...well, I was not surprised at all.

This post has been edited by Jim: May 2 2010, 12:40 pm

[thefunkyredcaboose]

Even when I ran Live-Web ~10 years ago there were hints of Ed being way too controlling of the band, and their music. (And with "V" it was pretty damn obvious). When I came back to check on Live only to find they had broken up due to secret deals Ed had done...well, I was not surprised at all.

Jim it is good to see you around these parts, Live Web was the shit.

[Jim]

Jim it is good to see you around these parts, Live Web was the shit.

Thanks! Hard to believe that was nearly 10 years ago! Man, I feel old!