Billy could have published the 2000 Farewell-Show of the PUMPKINS at the METRO since over ten years, as the band got the release rights from EMI back only a few years later.
So why didn't he do it?
-Was it his feud with James Iha, not to bow out from him and Jimmy, but thanking on stage the absent D'arcy for her time with the band?
-Was it the reunion of the band seven years later with half of them being new musicians?
-Did Billy then want to release the stuff only as a bonus to the reissues of the studio recordings?
A luxury version of the MACHINA album would contain two DVD's minimum by the length of the concert. Then there might be different mixes of the two known MACHINA albums in new orders. This could make the MACHINA box the by far most expensive one.
Wouldn't it therefore be more useful now to release something from the Arising tour with D'arcy's last performances on the luxury edition?
And to put out the 2000 show at the Metro now finally alone on a DVD set?
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