Get Rid of it all Options

[Hobbsy]

Time to get rid of all of the Ed shit. It's time to move on.

This is a Fans of Live website not a shrine to Ed.

Ed's moved on, Live's moved on - and we don't need photo's of Ed, info on Ed, Ed fans or Ed's crap.

Fans of Live - not fans of Live plus "a little bit of space for that guy who used to sing for them".

I'm fine to have the history and the "archives" but I'm sick of seeing this guy's face and I'm sick of hearing his name.

Bring on the new Live. Bring on the future. Cya Ed.

[Merica]

Live with a new singer can't really do much worse than they did towards the end with Ed when it comes to sales (which shouldn't be important to those who value integrity and the art itself), so I don't know what Nick is wanting to do if they fail.

Ed made them fail sales wise at the end so... you know...

*shrug*

[SJN1279]

Live with a new singer can't really do much worse than they did towards the end with Ed when it comes to sales (which shouldn't be important to those who value integrity and the art itself), so I don't know what Nick is wanting to do if they fail.

Ed made them fail sales wise at the end so... you know...

*shrug*

Overseas LIVE at the end with did strong sales, particuarly in Holland. Also sales for SFBM were much better than for Alive or The Gracious Few in the US. SFBM reached #3 on the Billboard Indie charts, while Alive or TGF didn't make the top 25.

That said the new CD could do okay and should outperform ALIVE and The Gracious Few(just on name alone). Where new LIVE will run into trouble is on tour. They may do okay at first, but once the audiences sees that their is a new singer, they will be rejected by many fans. Like it or not, most fans go to see LIVE in concert to hear the hits performed by LIVE(with Ed doing the vocals). This new version will not suffice. You can't change what worked for 20 years and think it will do well.

[Pokey]

Overseas LIVE at the end with did strong sales, particuarly in Holland. Also sales for SFBM were much better than for Alive or The Gracious Few in the US. SFBM reached #3 on the Billboard Indie charts, while Alive or TGF didn't make the top 25.

That said the new CD could do okay and should outperform ALIVE and The Gracious Few(just on name alone). Where new LIVE will run into trouble is on tour. They may do okay at first, but once the audiences sees that their is a new singer, they will be rejected by many fans. Like it or not, most fans go to see LIVE in concert to hear the hits performed by LIVE(with Ed doing the vocals). This new version will not suffice. You can't change what worked for 20 years and think it will do well.

So what? If people aren't happy with it then fuck 'em, time for them to move on to other things and the ones who legit enjoy Live 2.0 and be left to just enjoy it. Does it really matter what the success is in those terms? What matters is the god damn music, I just don't understand how you can't understand that. How they perform commercially is mildly interesting at best. It should not be the defining factor and thought process.
If people go to the show and they expected to see Ed then that's their own damn fault for not even bothering to look into who they are spending money to go and see. Doesn't take much to punch a few words into google.
Why should you cater to the average fan who just wants to see the hits? If you have any kind of artistic credibility and are a musician with self respect towards you art, you do what YOU want and those who like it can like it, and those who don't can find something else.
Touring as a damn nostalgia act just playing the hits are just mind numbingly dull. People who go to gigs "just to hear the hits" piss me off, yeah I know that's a large portion of people, but people are stupid.

So fuck this image of whether it will "do well" and focus on more on if it will sound good.
You still haven't answered why you're still here? You said it yourself you wanted to be counted out, and you have no interest in Live going forward so just ... go stick with Ed. Why keep hanging onto something when all it's going to cause you is negative feelings?