If the encores are "restored" surely they're using a mix of sources? I thought that it was a studio track (and no encores) on Archive 1 because the tape ran out and they simply didn't have it.
Is it and the encores from the other show they later found? Why not use the entire other show?
I sincerely hope that (re)using the Shrine Auditorium show (with the copious overdubs) isn't because it's the only version of a live Lamb show that Peter will sign off on. Even back in the 90s before the box set came out I had thought/hoped that only The Colony of Slippermen would be the only overdubbed track due to the well-publicized issues with recording the vocals.
Obviously that wasn't the case, but I have also hoped that in the decades since Archive 1 Peter might have softened on his desire to use those perfectly imperfect overdubs and might allow a more honest Lamb show to be released. Especially once a new multitracked show surfaced I had really hoped that it would be released, and I had thought that this 50th anniversary set would be the place for it.
I suppose that it's entirely possible that the Shrine Auditorium show could still be used without using as many of the 1995 overdubs (much like the 2009 live box used a less overdubbed Rainbow concert) but that still leaves the question about the source of the Lamb show encores. If they came from that "other" Lamb show, why mix and match? Why not just use the whole other Lamb show?
I absolutely love The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, so this new boxed set is going to be a must buy no matter what, but (as usual) it's filled with some head-scratching choices.