Ed radio interview 9/7/07, Good news inside Options

[SJN1279]

Received this email from Lisa who heard Eddie K. on 103.1 promoting the upcoming concert in West Palm Beach, Florida. Here is the main highlight:

Most importantly, Ed said said that the DVD in the works and on the "front burner" and the bootleg rarites album with 2 brand new songs. He said they will most likely play their new songs at the FL shows!

Rest of interview, which was hard to transcribe:

In the beginning of the interview Ed was talking about being on tour with CS and CC. Then the dj mentioned the show Hard Rock show in Ft. Lauderdale from a few years back. Eddie said he loves playing in the summer.

Then they talked about Adam. The dj had said that he noticed that they incorporated Adam into the band and Eddie said that Adam is a great songwriter and he loves having him around. . Anyway, then they started talking about CBGB's and how they played there when he was 19. They got into the history and Eddie said that they were a part of the 20th anniversary and that later on he realized what a legendary place it was. Now they are talking about MJ and Krishnamurti and his spiritual search. Ha ha ha...he said he got into that by accident by walking into a bookstore and he thought he would look cool. He loves the Joshua Tree. Secret Samadhi and the self discovery in all their albums. So far, meditation is the topic but the dj keeps bringing it up. Now they are playing Run to the Water!!! Woo-hoo! Now we are talking about "V" and Overcome and it being a spontaneous healing song. And the rest of the album is experimental...lol. He is talking about how grateful he is to the fans for making Overcome what it was. Daughtry! and I Walk the line and how Chris is a true LIVE fan. He said that he was impressed with Chris and when he played IWTL he knew he was a true fan because most people didn't know about that. He said that they are friends now and that he was rooting for him.
End of interview. Trey (the dj) said it will be up online soon so when I find that link I'll send it your way!

[Badman]

Yes!! An album of some sort! And it came from Ed's mouth and not from a radio station or something! Thanks so much for posting this man. I am excited to hear new stuff

This brings more questions... what songs do we think are going to be in the new rarities album when it comes out??

[SecretInsomnia]

bootleg abum ?

so the rest is all live concert recordings?

[Existentialist]

Yeah, as I heard, it will all be professionally recorded live recordings of unreleased songs except for Radiant Sea and Beautiful Invisible. Radioactive owns the rights to the rest of their unreleased songs and they would rather just release great concert recordings than buy back the rights to the songs.

Also, Nick, the upcoming Live show is in Boca, not West Palm. Don't ever insult West Palm like that again.

[Pokey]

So I'm guess the upcoming setlists will provide us with the tracklisting then?

[Merica]

Cheers for this SJN.

[SJN1279]

Here is the link, but this is an old interview with Ed from January. New interview not up yet:

http://www.buzz103.com/pages/139774.php

[SecretInsomnia]

Yeah, as I heard, it will all be professionally recorded live recordings of unreleased songs except for Radiant Sea and Beautiful Invisible. Radioactive owns the rights to the rest of their unreleased songs and they would rather just release great concert recordings than buy back the rights to the songs.

hey you can be right man, but something doesn't fit here. u remember the story at livediscography.com, about Lift me Up. Moviemakers asked several for Lift me Up as music in a film, and the 3th time in 2006. And even than the answer was: no!! we want it to keep for the right moment to release. But if it's true what your saying, they didn't even have the rights back than to release it ever. So it's kinda strange...

I'm really lookin' forward to see what this cd is gonna be like.

This post has been edited by SecretInsomnia: Sep 8 2007, 8:29 am

[AgentK7]

Yeah, as I heard, it will all be professionally recorded live recordings of unreleased songs except for Radiant Sea and Beautiful Invisible. Radioactive owns the rights to the rest of their unreleased songs and they would rather just release great concert recordings than buy back the rights to the songs.

To me that just seems silly to "re-record" the old bootleg/b-side stuff. Usually bands can work out agreements with previous labels, otherwise career spanning greatest hits albums would be non-existent for many artists.

I'd much rather hear the original recordings than re-recordings. Don't get me wrong, I'll take what I can get, but it would be impossible for the band to try and "emulate" the original recording. I don't think it would be nearly as interesting.

An example I would give is the difference between Good Pain on Death Of A Dictionary and Mental Jewelry. While the song rendition is almost the same, the recordings are very different. Ed's voice isn't as mature on DoaD, the guitar's a little "crunchier", it's just a different listening experience (I actually prefer the DoaD version).

If Live has finally decided to release a rarities album, it's primarily for the fans. Unless they have a really good reason for it, I think they'd be disappointing the fans by not trying to have the original recordings.

This post has been edited by AgentK7: Sep 8 2007, 12:15 pm

[Existentialist]

I agree that it'd be awesome to have the studio versions of those songs. However, I'm sure Live is wise enough to know that this album won't sell shit. It's purely for the fans, and I wouldn't want them to take a financial hit for doing it. I'd imagine the cost of working out a deal with Radioactive would exceed the profit made from this album.

[SJN1279]

I agree that it'd be awesome to have the studio versions of those songs. However, I'm sure Live is wise enough to know that this album won't sell shit. It's purely for the fans, and I wouldn't want them to take a financial hit for doing it. I'd imagine the cost of working out a deal with Radioactive would exceed the profit made from this album.

Agreed 100 percent, this album is for hardcore fans and won't be a huge seller. However, I am really excited to hear new songs in concert this fall and getting my hands on a new album in the near future.

[AgentK7]

I agree that it'd be awesome to have the studio versions of those songs. However, I'm sure Live is wise enough to know that this album won't sell shit. It's purely for the fans, and I wouldn't want them to take a financial hit for doing it. I'd imagine the cost of working out a deal with Radioactive would exceed the profit made from this album.

There has to be more to it then that. Businesses are in business to make money, there is no question about that. However, look at it from Radioactive's perspective, if they don't work out an agreement, Radioactive makes $0 as does Live.

If this was going to be a problem, why didn't Radioactive work something out with Live when the Best Of album came out? They could have used the U2 best of scheme and had a two disc special edition with the second disc being all b-sides. Instead we got the DVD, which really should have been released separately and included additional material.

I think if promoted properly with a single, I think a b-sides album would do ok sales. Not necessarily great in the US, but pretty good in the international territories.

I wonder if this issue has anything to do with the "promotion" or lack there of on Sony's part in the US? Maybe Sony doesn't want to split the profits or whatever arrangement Radioactive was willing to work out.

What also seems strange is Radioactive's website actually lists the unreleased songs in their publishing section here. (I question if this is truly the official website). If the website is real, it seems really strange that they would list the "unpublished works", especially since quite a few of those tracks have been officially released.

Anyway, if this re-recording scheme is what happens, we'll probably never get a truly straight answer over why something wasn't worked out.

This post has been edited by AgentK7: Sep 8 2007, 1:48 pm

[SecretInsomnia]

To me that just seems silly to "re-record" the old bootleg/b-side stuff.

uhhmmm...as far as I understood it will be concert recordings of songs that never made the albums. Recordings of back than, when they were played ? Not just re- play those songs now and re-record it!

[AgentK7]

uhhmmm...as far as I understood it will be concert recordings of songs that never made the albums. Recordings of back than, when they were played ? Not just re- play those songs now and re-record it!

Originally, that's what I remember reading about in previous threads. I may have gotten a little overzealous thinking they were planning on new recordings for everything.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure if Hold Me Up/Lift Me Up/Spew was ever played live back in the day? The studio version is the one I'd really want (as with most Live fans).

I'd also like the studio version of Susquehanna, I believe it was recorded during the Throwing Copper sessions. I doubt that any live version they would use would be much different than the ones already in circulation.

Before Live worries about releasing a played live rarities album, it'd be nice if they would release just a proper played live album, given that's why they took that name and all.

[SecretInsomnia]

Originally, that's what I remember reading about in previous threads. I may have gotten a little overzealous thinking they were planning on new recordings for everything.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure if Hold Me Up/Lift Me Up/Spew was ever played live back in the day? The studio version is the one I'd really want (as with most Live fans).

I'd also like the studio version of Susquehanna, I believe it was recorded during the Throwing Copper sessions. I doubt that any live version they would use would be much different than the ones already in circulation.

Before Live worries about releasing a played live rarities album, it'd be nice if they would release just a proper played live album, given that's why they took that name and all.

haha indeed. Almost every single little unknown band has put out a LIVE-cd or -dvd, and the 'famous' band that is named 'live', didn't. Still unbelievable. Bring that 2008 dvd, pleaz!!!

About re-recording: no I çan't imagine them re-record all those unreleased work again. Otherwise they could just re-record it in means of studio versions.

Ohw and, Lift me up was played a lot of times back in 1994. I think most of the times before TC was released. Just like Still Aroused was played several times, and some others.
But I think Live, or the management, or whatever, has many live recordings of the band that are really good, but that we never heard! They didn't put it at bootlegheaven or so, haha, but I think they will have a quite cool collection of recordings over the years, in which there will be a lot of good recordings of rare material

But it's all guessing. Guess we'll see it soon enough

Btw, is there no possibility to just sign RadioActive again? and just own the rights again they have no label at the moment, right?