Digging out this story Dave told in Mark Yarm's Everybody Loves Our Town, which suggests he at least had some contact with Stone, Mike and Jeff after being fired.wease wrote:Just odd that Ed and Jeff would let anyone from the PJ camp be friendly towards him, really.
That Cornell show must be one or other of the Seattle shows on the 1999 Euphoria Morning tour, either 26 November at the Paramount Theatre or 27 November at the Columbia City Theatre.I got home and Mike called and Jeff called. I think it was difficult for everybody in the band, except for the one person I never spoke with after that, which was Eddie. The only time I ever had two words with Eddie since I got fired was two or three years later. I was sitting with Alain Johannes from Eleven on the curb after a Chris Cornell show in Seattle, and Eddie came up to us. He said, “Dave Abbruzzese,” and kinda put his arms out in greeting, because he couldn’t hide from me. And I stood up and realized how much shorter he was than I remembered. I think it was a one-armed hug. He started rambling and tried to join in our conversation, and he ended up toddling off. There was a little part of me that would’ve loved to clobber him and another part of me that felt like I already had, just by the fact that I could still sleep at night and I was still proud of everything that we accomplished.
