Welcome Back! to the Stage

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   I am a bit confused with the first two live Arena albums featured on PA.

Their title is pretty much similar one is :  Welcome Back! to the Stage while the other is  Welcome to the Stage.

When you look at the tracklist on PA, they are almost similar. Only the overture is missing on "Welcome Back!"

Actually, this is totally wrong. "Welcome Back!" is a live EP featuring only three songs recorded suring the same concerts that was used to produce "Welcome". Both were recorded at the venue Le D'Auteuil in Quebec Canada (May 1997).
"Welcome Back!" only features three tracks which makes it quite complementary to "Welcome". 
These are : "Empire Of A Thousand Days", "Fool's Gold" and "Crying For Help VII". I have just reviewed it as such.

This EP is known to make part of Arena's "Cage CD". This collection comprises "The Visitor Revisited", "Radiance", "Unlocking The Cage - 1995 - 2000", "The Edits" and "Welcome BACK! To The Stage" of course.
Most of them are not available any longer.

I also believe that "Welcome Back!" should be listed after "Welcome" in the list of their work.

I hope this will help correcting this misunderstanding.

Take care.