Ed Performing On New Years Eve, Atlanta Options

[Hoodstock]

Ed will be performing at the Downtown Countdown 2011 in Atlanta on New Years Eve. He will be on stage from 10:15-11:45 right before the midnight countdown to the ball drop. He will be followed by Naughty By Nature who will take the stage at 12am.

From Facebook: "(Ed K.) Atlanta! I'll be performing and ringing in 2012 with you this year at Downtown Countdown, see you 12/31/11 :-)"

From Entertainment Atlanta: Ed Kowalczyk, widely known as the lead-singer, frontman, guitarist of the band LIVE, has built an impressive résumé with his bandmates that includes eight full-length albums, total CD sales exceeding 20 million, a huge international fan base and extensive touring all over the world. Live has been one of the most successful and enduring alternative rock bands of the 1990s and 2000s. Look for Ed to perform all of Live's biggest hits will his full rock band! Check out a video of Ed Kowalczyk's live show!

[Pokey]

Surely Ed can't be ignorant to how he's being booked. Whilst it may not be his idea (or maybe it is, only speculation) you'd think your integrity as a person who professes to be good and true would be to say "hey I shouldn't be booked this way anymore guys.." but we all know he's not going to initiate that conversation.

[FishOutaWater]

I think that Ed should be slapped with a temporary restratining order to cease this activity. If I get fired from my job at a prestigious employer, I can't go around doing public speaking and writing articles and passing out my business card with my former employer's name on it, passing myself off as still being employed by them. Particularly if trading on that name accrues commercial and financial benefit to me and I knowingly and intentionally do so (or tacitly approve it or acquiesce as to its use) for personal gain. On top of that, Ed's former band, Live, could be commercial harmed by this activity to the extent that the public is deceived into thinking that Ed is still with the band and Live has a harder time communicating clearly that Ed is no longer with Live, that Live is moving on, and Live has a new singer. This kind of advertising will create confusion and dilute Live's message that it is new, it is moving on, and it has a new lead singer. They will have a hard enough time pivoting away from Ed without having Ed out their billing himself as the singer of Live and identifying himself with a band with which he is no longer associated. It's yet another form of stealing. Stealing money, stealing royalties from the publishing of his solo performance sales, and stealing the good name and reputation and good will of the band Live, which he does not have the legal right to use. That kind of behavior is not very Christian and it is not just business. It is unethical.

This post has been edited by FishOutaWater: Oct 10 2011, 9:48 am

[dangum]

Is there any official statement from CCP that Ed is no longer part of Live? The only thing I've seen is a blog post by Chad T and perhaps something on Facebook.

Until Ed's replacement is announced, I don't have a problem with Ed being promoted as being "from Live".