Ed has no plans to rejoin LIVE, 6/8/11 Interview Options

[SJN1279]

http://166.70.44.73/sltrib/entertainment/5...html.csp?page=1

Q. What is your side of the story about why Live disbanded? Do you ever foresee working with your former band mates again?

A. I had simply come to the end of a chapter in my life and wanted to spread my wings and move beyond what I had been doing, in the same way, for almost 20 years. As far as the allegations that were leveled at me and purported as the reason for the breakup, they were all absolutely untrue. I have no plans to work with those individuals again. The spirit of Live is alive and well in my performances and my new material — come and see for yourself.

[OutToDry]

this is always good to bring up at the appropriate times.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8bbS05QCvM&NR

pay attention to the 4:20 mark.

[FishOutaWater]

I think that the reason Ed uses the Live catalog in his new shows is:

1) He can sing them with another band and it can sound like Live (like David Lee Roth used to perform classic Van Halen songs in his solo career). The presence of the songs and the fact that his voice can make it sound like Live sells tickets to his solo shows. More tickets means more money and more promotion of his solo material. I don't begrudge him of any of that. I would do it too.

2) He truly believs that I Alone and Lightning Crashes and Pain Lies on The Riverside and Beauty of Gray and Dolphins Cry were the product of only Ed without any help from the others. His quote in the article is "My show is a mixture of all of the hits of my work as the singer and songwriter for Live as well as my new solo material. " He does not value the concept of synergy and contribution and creative flow from the enitre group of 4 people. I have heard and read enough interviews with artists about the songwriting process and the creative magic and synergy of a band working together, combined with direct emperical evidence of the progression (or digression really) of Live's catalogue, to know that Ed is flat out wrong about that. All you have to do is listen to TGF to hear the creative energy that was present in MJ, TC SS and TDTH. When the four guys were working out material in a garage in York and trying to create something in the wake of Throwing Copper, high on dope in Jamaica, who could possibily think that Ed did all of the work and it would have been no different if CCP were no where to be found. Even the smallest guitar chord, or change-up in drum beat is what infused Live with MAGIC that didn't exist anywhere else in the universe except from the collective contribution of those FOUR guys. But Ed's ego won't allow him to see it. It is so ironic that the guy who inspired me to reach such spiritual depths based on deep universal eastern spiritual truths has developed an ego so big that it can't get out of his own way.

This post has been edited by FishOutaWater: Jun 8 2011, 8:25 am