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!

[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.

[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