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]

We all know how the song starts. A bunch of "la la las and da da das." We both laughed heartedly at another failed effort from Ed and turned it off. To this day, I cannot stand 90% of Sounds from Black Mountain. It is very sad that was their last official album release. It's sort of like a star player whose sun has set who doesn't know when to say good-bye and retire. Live was much better off closing shop after V even though that was a terrible album as well.

Anyways, all I can say is that there are plenty of things better than hearing a new song for the first time. Especially when it comes to post-TDTH Live songs.

This was close to my first experience with The River. with BOP whilst it was mostly a miss, there were still elements that maybe they were starting to try and find something. They'd lost their way, not exactly come back with a bang but it at least kept some hope. So when Ed was talking up SFBM I thought that maybe it was time. Then the sample of The River leaked and a friend of mine from the board here heard it first and texted me and I still remember the text, it just said "its a pop song, it's god damn Savage Garden". I downloaded it and I think the colour must have drained from my face when I heard "la da da da".

However, the last "new" Live songs I heard were Mallrat and Photograph and they both blew me away. Mallrat especially, that song is seriously in my top few Live songs. So that's why I'm psyched about this release even if it is good quality demos of songs we have heard, at least I know that there is no way in hell I can be disappointed.