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Easter re-tracking privileges



In the hopes of clearing up just one bit of 
confusion -- the disc set I weeded of 
the audience recording of the 12/30/05 
show (I believe the first to be offered 
on babel-list) _did_ have Patti's 
post-"Godspeed" chatter included on disc 1 
rather than disc 2 -- on purpose. 

I personally made that editorial decision
and take the heat for the heartache it 
may have caused. 

I realize that this flies counter to the 
original torrent's organization, and the 
liners later offered on that same torrent, 
but the original separation was just 
(IMHO) a bad decision. 

The original separation seemed to be driven 
by nothing more than an impulse to follow 
the "purity" of the Easter setlist, and 
that was outweighed by how the playback 
suffered as a result (IMHO). I know it's 
just some two-minute chatter, but the 
placement made a big difference. 

No one ever wrote me to say "Yo! Where's
Privilege?!", or to complain about 2-second 
gaps, so I assume that every copy I sent 
out was right with God as far as those
two issues are concerned.