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]

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.

[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

[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.

[CRH]

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.

Do you have the demo tape versions of Lift Me Up and Susquehanna? While not the best quality, I'd say they are pretty damn good.

[AgentK7]

Do you have the demo tape versions of Lift Me Up and Susquehanna? While not the best quality, I'd say they are pretty damn good.

Is there a true studio demo of Susquehanna floating around? All the versions I have sound like tweaked versions of the 93 University of Rhode Island performance.

You know, I have a couple tapes from the early 93/94 era that I never completely listened to that I got from trading direct copies of my DoaD tape in the early SOY days. I should dig those out and make sure I don't have something that's not already circulating (I always hated trading tapes and sometimes not even listening to them...I preferred original CDs, silver bootlegs, etc)