In the revived thread about the keyboard-based pattern found DT's album releases, it was brought up that perhaps the band might still release the Budokan show from 2017 AFTER they release DOT, which got me thinking....
If the band released a live album after DOT came out, which would you rather have? Both have a full album played live (IAW at Budokan, and SFAM from the DOT tour), and will feature another set of other songs.
For the Budokan show, this means some fan favorites, but only four songs that have yet to be released live by the band (The Bigger Picture, Hell's Kitchen, The Gift of Music, Our New World). Otherwise, if you're a longtime fan, you've got most of these songs already, and even 7 of the 8 IAW songs have been released with MM playing on them (between Live At Luna Park at the free Christmas digital album they released from that same tour).
For the DOT Tour, we're not quite sure what we'll get in the first half of the show, though we can assume it will mostly feature NEW songs from the upcoming album, along with a couple of others from their back catalog. Set two will feature SFAM played live in its entirety, which hasn't had as many of its songs released with MM live as IAW (only 7 out of the album's 12 tracks between LALP, Happy Holidays, and BTFW), so we'll finally get live renditions of "Regression", "Through Her Eyes","Beyond This Life", "Home" and "One Last Time" with the current line-up, which should be a treat! Then there's also whatever the encore might hold, which could be any of their epics that they haven't played in a decade (Octavarium, ITPOE, ITNOG...who knows!).
So which live show would you rather see them release after DOT?
-Marc.