I doubt they would. Jon never performs anything but IE material on tour. He's very strict with that sort of stuff.
Maybe he'd do a separate tour for it, but I doubt it. I'd think this would remain just a studio type thing.
Say what you will about Ripper, but the fact is the guy had his priorities set. Anytime IE needed him, he'd be there.
Schaffer wanted a guy who isn't going to do anything else musically, but when you live exclusively off of touring, which
Tim does, it's not always going to pay the bills, especially when they do maybe one tour a year. As you can see, Tim is having
to tour under 4 or 5 different bands to make enough to support his family.
Now we're stuck with a very inactive band as Matt's priority is being a police officer, which is fine, I have no issue with that.
But I'm sure it won't be long before Jon realizes that going with Matt is going to cost him even more because of the inability
to live off of the road. To me, IE is no longer an active beast to anticipate. It's sadly a band with such potential that will never
quite reach the apex it should've. They're gonna remain a cult band, which is a shame. I felt they had the potential to break
a little bigger then that.
For a good 5 year stretch, IE were my favorite American band. They've fallen by the way side due to some shoddy business decisions
and just general bad choices on the part of Jon. I guess I'll always love'em deep down, but I can't lie. My genuine enthusiasm plummeted many moons ago and continues to wane.