Live At The Paradiso and Radiant Sea, Fan Favor or Money Grab? Options

[Hoodstock]

With info now released about "Live At The Paradiso" I'm seeing this connection. Radiant Sea and Live At The Paradiso have a collection of live songs (RS has random concert recordings and LATP has parts of a concert) and two previously unreleased and unheard songs each.

Essentially they are the same type of album (with the exception of the DVD).

First of all, is this now the type of release that we can expect from Live - live material with a pair of new songs?

Secondly, why is Live doing this? They are essentially releasing the same type of album to their fanbase twice in a row. Why release them both back to back?

I know that fanclub members only had to pay shipping for RS, but do you feel that Live is doing this for their fans or they are attempting a money grab at their fanbase with the release of 4 new songs on 2 seperate albums.

I'm actually happy about both releases but I want to ask an honest question based on the connection I see between the albums.

[SecretInsomnia]

With info now released about "Live At The Paradiso" I'm seeing this connection. Radiant Sea and Live At The Paradiso have a collection of live songs (RS has random concert recordings and LATP has parts of a concert) and two previously unreleased and unheard songs each.

Essentially they are the same type of album (with the exception of the DVD).

First of all, is this now the type of release that we can expect from Live - live material with a pair of new songs?

Secondly, why is Live doing this? They are essentially releasing the same type of album to their fanbase twice in a row. Why release them both back to back?

I know that fanclub members only had to pay shipping for RS, but do you feel that Live is doing this for their fans or they are attempting a money grab at their fanbase with the release of 4 new songs on 2 seperate albums.

I'm actually happy about both releases but I want to ask an honest question based on the connection I see between the albums.

to be honest: I don't see a link between the two releases at all!
- Radiant Sea was very obvious for the fans, and Ed stated that several times ('the old cool fanclub feeling').
- O'right, the Paradiso thing will ALSO contain a cd, but they would never released it if it wasn't for the dvd. The DVD is a project 15 years in the making, as Chad called it. The cd is an extra, to make the package complete. While theyre adding a live CD of Paradiso with the DVD (which keeps the main thing), they were able to but some other, not live recorded stuff on it. So than it was perfactly possible to put a single on it to promote it. I really think they went into the studio to record A SINGLE (or two maybe), and that's the first time ever, because they wanted some promotional music for the DVD. That makes it a lot different from the fanclub release Radiant Sea, which contained b-sides as new songs that were never singles.
And to answer the question about the future: no I don't see them releasing live recordings any time soon again.

[Merica]

to be honest: I don't see a link between the two releases at all!
- Radiant Sea was very obvious for the fans, and Ed stated that several times ('the old cool fanclub feeling').
- O'right, the Paradiso thing will ALSO contain a cd, but they would never released it if it wasn't for the dvd. The DVD is a project 15 years in the making, as Chad called it. The cd is an extra, to make the package complete. While theyre adding a live CD of Paradiso with the DVD (which keeps the main thing), they were able to but some other, not live recorded stuff on it. So than it was perfactly possible to put a single on it to promote it. I really think they went into the studio to record A SINGLE (or two maybe), and that's the first time ever, because they wanted some promotional music for the DVD. That makes it a lot different from the fanclub release Radiant Sea, which contained b-sides as new songs that were never singles.
And to answer the question about the future: no I don't see them releasing live recordings any time soon again.

My thoughts exactly...