TSO in 2020

[Johny35]

Chris Olivia died in 1993 due to a car accident. Since his death, Jon and Paul have used his guitar recordings in other Savatage albums, a couple Trans-Siberian Orchestra songs and Jon Oliva’s other projects outside of those two bands. Chris’s Caffery, on the other hand, and Paul O’Neil (among a few others) did guitars for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra albums alongside with Al. Also a side note: They used the Savatage version of Believe in the credits of the livestream.

Not sure if that clears anything up for you.

Not exactly. I'm familiar with Savatage's history and I know how Criss Oliva died and that he was replaced by Alex Skolnick to play solos on Handful Of Rain album and on subsequent tour. He then left because he felt like hired gun and couldn't participate on writing the music. So that was the time when Chris Caffery finally came back to Savatage full time. Plus they hired Al Pitrelli, I guess to have a star name in line up, since the band was still struggling to really break through.

I was talking about the songs credits that you can see in the end subtitles of the Christmas Eve And Other Stories stream. Some of the songs have different songwriters compared to the album's booklet! And I noticed that thanks to Believe, which was definitely written by both Oliva brothers and Paul O'Neill but here in the stream it only says Paul O'Neill.
And while I was comparing the songwriting credits of the first TSO album, I found out that Chris Caffery didn't play on it at all. He is only mentioned the "thanks to" note. I though the whole Savatage went and recorded the first  TSO album. Well at least he probably plays in Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24 as it was taken from the Savatage album.