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

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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.

[Pokey]

Exactly, I mean hell as much as it would absolutely suck. If Ed had said that he was feeling trapped in Live and needed the change and to do something different and all that jazz, then went solo and released a hip hop album ... I mean it would provide a lot of quality laughs, but you could at least say he meant what he said and wanted to get out there and do something different.
The differences between SFBM and Alive are just so minimal it's not really worth it. Ironically it was the rest of the band who came out with something quite radically different to anything Live had done in years. If Ed had broken free and came out with an album with music on the same scale as TGF and was legit actually trying to sound like he was turning back the clock to TC .. then that's something different. Making Grace and saying it could have fit in on TC is just pathetic.

As others have said, his ego is way too big .. he hears his voice and that is the be all and end all. He probably does truly believe Grace belongs on TC because after all, "hey its the same guy singing it!". Screw all the other elements that make a song. Unfortunatly this is what people like Nick and the other big Ed fans hear the most. To them a front man IS a band. Nick's comment about the LJ performance having "no noticable drop offs" is probably the exact same way Ed hears it when he listens to recordings because to him, the voice is there, so what else could possibly matter?! Call me a music snob, but people who think like this really don't deserve music.

This post has been edited by Pokey: Jun 8 2011, 8:52 am

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Nick's comment about the LJ performance having "no noticable drop offs" is probably the exact same way Ed hears it when he listens to recordings because to him, the voice is there, so what else could possibly matter?! Call me a music snob, but people who think like this really don't deserve music.

That song is completely neutered now when Eddie and the K's perform it. Its complete nothingness.