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What exactly is Linkin Park Live?

Linkin Park Live (http://lplive.net) is essentially an informative listing of all Linkin Park tour dates from 2000 until present day. The Live Guide contains tour and show information on Linkin Park, Fort Minor (Mike Shinoda's side project), Chester Bennington's (lead singer of Linkin Park) guest appearances with other bands, including the band Julien-K (a side project from the group Orgy, who are friends of Linkin Park). We are proud to say that we will are now featuring the Dead By Sunrise (Chester's side project) shows, too.

Each show that we have information on has its own page that features the setlist and any known live recording information (aka. soundboard or audience recordings, etc.) on it. We give runtimes of shows, tapers of shows and any other information. Also included on the pages are Show Notes and Other Notes. Show Notes include interesting bits of information unique to that show. For example, if a certain show was the first time Linkin Park ever played song X or if a guest artist come out on a song. If anything else special happened during the show, you can expect to find it there. Other Notes include information such as if a song from the show was used on a CD or DVD, like for the Linkin Park Underground (Linkin Park Fan Club) CDs, or if Chester or Mike came out and joined another band on the bill for a song.


How did the idea come about for the site?

In 2006, current site owner Mark (Hahninator), decided that, after viewing other sites that were featuring live information on the band, he'd take the initiative to create his own site. He had offered to help manage other sites that had tour info, but after being declined a few times, he thought it'd just be easier to create one of his own. By doing this, he envisioned that he could not only dedicate one single site towards all aspects of the live show, but that it would also be something that could be updated almost effortlessly in real-time immediately following shows. Since other sites with tour setlists and show info were incomplete and lacking in-depth show information, the goal of LPLive was to make a site where fans could contribute full of accurate details on all the shows possible to form one large guide.

When LPLive first debuted after several months of work in September 2006, it was nothing more than just a few white pages containing links to text documents that had information on each show. Although it was basic, it got the job done and soon had quite a database of information. In April 2007, when the band was getting ready to tour in support of "Minutes To Midnight", Mark was approached by Sebastian Sebotta. Unknown to Mark at the time, Sebastian was the creator of the original Linkin Park Live Guide that made its debut in 2001. Mark was asked specifically by Sebastian to merge his existing Live Guide (which covered years 2000 through 2003) with the current LPLive project (the one with the text documents). Mark gleefully accepted this major source of help, and thus a major project was started shortly thereafter.

As the Live Guide was kept updated throughout the Minutes To Midnight promotional shows, the European Tour, and Projekt Revolution 2007, Mark worked on adding all the information that Sebastian had given him. Gratified, Mark was able to enlist the help of several online friends: [AndOne] (Germany) and SergSlim (Ukraine). From that moment on, the new team focused its attention on creating a brand new Live Guide. This new project would later be known as "Live Guide 2.0". Coincidentally, [AndOne] had a small live guide on his site that was filled with information on which shows had audience and professional recordings. This guide proved to be VERY useful in the construction of the 2.0 project. The threesome worked throughout the spring on the project, but unfortunately things slowed to a crawl.

Due to the busy schedules of the team, they didn't make much progress throughout the summer. Nevertheless, once the team saw the band live a few times over the summer, the enthusiasm was there to continue constructing the new site. Needing a good layout for the site, Mark contacted a good friend, Shadowfax1007 (Australia), who worked with him on the 'CureForTheItch' project. After going through two demo layouts, Shadowfax delivered the final layout in under 2 hours flat! The Live Guide was worked on throughout September and October 2007, and was finally launched on October 22, 2007. The work was finally able to be shown to the public, complete with a new domain name(LPLive.net instead of LinkinParkLiveGuide.com) and soon began to attract a popular crowd.

With its team of talented staff from around the globe, LPLive was able to successfully stay quite up-to-date throughout the Australia and Asia 2007 Tours, the KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas 2007 show, the Europe 2008 Winter tour, and the North American 2008 Winter Tour. The site was able to feature professional and detailed information on setlists and shows, with a great deal of assistance being provided by Astat. He wrote specific, in-depth pages for each tour that gave as many technicalities as one could ever want. A search box and rotating banners at the top of the site were added during this stretch as well.

In May 2008, during the three-month break for the band, Mark was contacted by a guy named Lloyd, who ran a website called LPU-International. The site at the time contained a large vault of live downloads of the band. Lloyd suggested some new features to LPLive, like forums, downloads, user blogs, and a gallery. On May 23rd, after some negotiations, he was commissioned to build what became known as "LPLive 3.0". Astonishingly (even to Lloyd himself), the project was completed three weeks ahead of schedule, on June 6th 2008. After a brief run of testing, the site was launched on June 8th, 2008. LPLive was able to finally have a database of its users and also be able to track its excessive traffic throughout the summer. Due to the hardcore LPLive / LPUnderground members, setlists were being posted for some shows within minutes of the show ending. Incredible!

Unfortunately, in August 2008, disaster struck. Without even three months of having launched 3.0, some trouble found its way to LPLive. Due to conflicting interests with other staff, members were at each others' throats and personal attacks were launched. The end result being the removal of some staff and the discovery that the very designer of version 3.0 performed his own act of sabotage against the site when he took it offline, deleted admin accounts and changed login passwords later that month. Deemed completely unacceptable, Mark took immediate action and removed all involved members from the site permanently. After some staff regroup, it was decided by the team to downgrade back to version 2.0 on August 21, 2008. With some brand new forums and a total revamp of the site information, LPLive was at its peak once again and rebounded strongly after a period of downtime. Never has the site been so up-to-date with information as before and a shoutout must be given to the staff at how much work they put in to update the site regularly.

Shortly afterwards, work was begun on LPLive version 4.0. After a long time and a great deal of work, 4.0 was finally launched in June of 2010. The new site features changeable themes, a fully new layout, a gallery and more.


What about the staff?

The Live Guide is comprised of an interesting variety of staff members. Not counting Mark - SergSlim, [AndOne], and Shadowfax1007 were added on as staff in mid-2007 and have been a part of the team ever since. NKramar was officially added as staff a few months after that. Earlier in 2008, LESTAT joined us to work specifically on the Chester Bennington and Julien-K sections, while we've received excellent, quality work from South American staff members - Joe_LP and Felipeintheend. Rounding out the current line-up are moderators HybridThe0ry97, Jen, LPxDC and Wilderness. The current fourteen member team represents seven countries including the United States, Germany, Ukraine, Australia, Colombia, Brazil and the United Kingdom. It can now be said that LPLive has succeeded in its goal to have diverse, dedicated and quality staff members from around the globe. To learn more about each member of our team, visit the 'Staff' page here.


Who else helped with the site?

LPLive has had many inspirators and has received assistance from a generous amount of fans throughout the years.

Major credits go out to:
- [AndOne], a fellow staff member, for allowing us to use some of his trading and recording information on his old "Recording Guide".
- Shadowfax1007, for his graphics, layouts, coding and assorted help with LPLive throughout the years.
- sotrix, for all of the hosting and server needs that we've stuck him with since the site was created.
- Crewdy, of ForfeitTheGame.com, for his archived setlists taken from the old PushMeAway.com.
- Sebastian Sobotta and Omar Osatch, who indirectly helped by creating the first major live guide that went public and allowing us to use a generous amount of their live information.
- foofighterslive.com, for the huge inspiration and ideas for the site. Simon K, this means you!
- Astat, who has contributed more information himself than any other person throughout the history of this site.
- All of the fans that have sent and continue to submit information and corrections to us which help better the Live Guide overall (major shoutout to the LP Underground members right here).

For a full listing of all that have helped out and contributed to the site in some way or another, head on over to the 'Contributors' page found here.


So why in the world would you even need a Live Guide?

There are many reasons! The Live Guide was created because of the neccesity for the everyday LP trader and collector to know what all is out there and to have a place to come for accurate information about each show. I have visited other traders' sites and seen mislabeled shows too many times. As previously stated, one reason this site was started was due to the sheer "junkiness" of other LP sites in covering information about shows. We hope you find what you need here as we've compiled every possible piece of information to date on the live shows by Linkin Park, Fort Minor, Dead By Sunrise, Julien-K, Chester's guest appearances, and more.


Anything else?

The Live Guide itself has had it's share of success. believe it or not.

On February 22, 2008, Mike Shinoda mentioned the Live Guide on his blog at www.mikeshinoda.com. He referenced the release of 'Plaster' (the One Step Closer demo) and linked to all 4 sites that released it (LPLive, LPFuse, LPProjekt and LPAssociation). In the spring of 2008, Mark called in to 'Rockline', where Mike commented on the Live Guide. Mike also commented on version 3.0 of the site, saying that he thought it was excellent, at the Milton Keynes show during the LP Underground 'Meet and Greet' in summer of 2008. Lastly, in February of 2008, LPLive was mentioned in a Tour Mag interview with Ken "Pooch" Van Druten, the LP "Front Of House" Engineer.

We at LPLive really hope you enjoy this Live Guide as much as we do. We hope you get something useful out of it, and we'd love to hear from you if you have any questions, comments, or would even like to add information to the site. Thanks and enjoy!




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Linkin Park played the song “Reading My Eyes”, a Xero song from 1997, on a few occasions in 2006 and 2008.
 
 
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Opened: September 16, 2006
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