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What’s worse?

So apparently the lead singer from Live, Ed Kowalczyk, is kind of a dick:

On November 30, 2009, Taylor revealed that the “hiatus” was more likely a permanent split. He cited Kowalczyk’s demand for a $100,000 “lead singer bonus” at the 2009 Pinkpop Festival and a 2005 contract that made Kowalczyk the sole signatory of the band’s Black Coffee Publishing company as reasons for the break-up.
At the end of May 2010, the other three members of Live filed a lawsuit against Kowalczyk and their former business manager in the New York State Supreme Court. Among their demands were $225,000 in unpaid publishing money and royalties for songs written by the band that Kowalczyk sold on his website. It was also noted that in 2005 Kowalczyk presented the other band members with an ultimatum: Either agree that all songs on future Live albums would be credited as written by Ed Kowalczyk or he would leave the band.

But before you side with these guys, know this: the rest of the dudes in Live went on to form a band called The Gracious Few with the singer dude from Candlebox.   Euchhh.