I think it goes without saying that this reunion wouldn't have happen if not for the pandemic. Wait, check that, Wilson basically did say that.
I have it said it before and I will say it again: Edwin not being a part of this does take a bit of the sheen off the reunion, but I suspect that will all fade away if the album comes out and is really good or even great.
The fact that Edwin isn't apart of the reunion itself is not what bothers me. It's how they've handled the situation that doesn't sit right with me.
I think their PR out of it could certainly have been better, as it feels like it would have been better to address it directly rather than mostly ignore (Barbieri's comments in that one interview aside), but I agree with devieira73 in that there is probably more to it than is probably best left unsaid to the general public.
I really couldn't care less about the Colin situation, or how it's been handled.
He's not part of the band anymore, yes he is a great bass player, but the core of PT is on the album.
Not sure I agree. Not to split hairs, but once PT mushroomed into a full time band, as opposed to just Wilson's pet project, the core was Wilson, Barbieri and Edwin. They were the core and the three constants from 1993-2011. As great as Gavin Harrison is, to me, he is the most replaceable of the four. We already know that PT can be consistently great with Edwin and without Harrison (see: The Sky Moves Sideways, Signify, Stupid Dream, Lightbulb Sun, etc.). It remains to be seen if PT can be consistently great without Edwin.