If you've explored our live guide or been in the LP community online for a few years, you've probably heard of how from 2001-2004 it was very common for the band to have guests on 'One Step Closer'. Band members from Cypress Hill, Story Of The Year, POD, Adema and more....Aaron Lewis from Staind, Jonathan Davis from Korn and many others have joined Linkin Park over the years for OSC. This means you've probably heard of the time Eminem and D12 joined them on the song in Detroit in 2002.

Yeah, except that didn't happen.

Thanks to a recent discovery by an LPLive member in the forum shoutbox, we now can read a review of the show and see pictures of it.


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In the above picture you'll see Mark from Adema and Sen Dog from Cypress Hill along with Chester, Rob, and Brad on stage for 'One Step Closer'...and there's no D12 or Eminem! Earlier today the LPLive staff researched where in fact this "rumor" came from and all we could find is that "Forfeit The Game", an old LP fansite says this:
"Over the years, the band have collaborated on the live version of One Step Closer with many different artists, some of these include:
- Dilated Peoples
- Marky Chavez (of Adema)
- Wes Scantlin (of Puddle of Mudd)
- Sonny Sandovel (of P.O.D.)
- Hoobastank
- Story of the Year
- Jonathan Davis (of Korn)
- Eminem & D-12"

But that doesn't list the exact show. Upon further investigation we couldn't really figure out how this rumor got started so we wanted to set it straight that Eminem and D12 at least didn't come out on 'One Step Closer' at LP's fifth show of Projekt Revolution 2002 in Detroit (show page here). If they did really come out for OSC at a show, we don't know when! Maybe a band member can help us out at a future M&G....

So thanks to you guys, we're a little bit more accurate now with the live guide - thanks!

Ha, remember the Q&A quiz game they did with the band members? I wouldn't ask Mike or Pheonix.

So you put in the news that a 10-years old story is fake? Purposeless..

No show until the 22nd and want to know how many times people have requested mp3s of this in the audio section and/or made threads in general LP discussion talking about it? Probably one of the most talked about "live happenings" at an LP show due to all the uncertainty surrounding it. 2007 to now on LPL I know this has been discussed a lot. If this isn't your kind of news, you don't have to read it

It is certainly interesting to read, and please don't tell what or what not to read.. I just said it doesn't deserve home-page news.. Anyways, I guess you know better..

Easy tiger! I think it'd be a good question at the summit...

I guess you have a fair point. I guess we have shifted from live updates of random stuff to more of a legit news-reporting website and live coverage. I still remember when we posted news articles about a day's worth of updates to the site. Just links and what was corrected on shows, etc. Originally we never reported any LP news during at least half of 2007 and after that we slowly shifted into doing news. Fair enough.

Very diplomatic.

Maybe he's one of those people who doesn't know that this is a live guide

Yeah, I've been here since 2007 and I have no idea what this is..
Holy shit, if someone says his opinion about a post in the news every moderator just goes crazy..

What the hell? Relax..

That's the spirit!

lol, don't take things too serious dude, maybe we are just a little sick of this "this is not newsworthy" arguement on our own site.

Some people don't seem to be aware, sadly, but anyhow

I personally think this is very interesting that his popped up. We always deal with incorrect info here and there and are always happy to corrections and that sort of stuff, especially for older shows.

I don't really take it seriously, I was just arguing.. Anyways, I also said that it's an interesting story nevertheless..

a band member may help?

Not very likely they dont remember a lot of things about the band

remember that mike said that wake was part of meteora xD

Ha...that's what I was saying. Maybe they were jetlagged.

What ever happened to forfeitthegame.com anyway? Was one of the first LP fansites I used...

LOL @ this thread.

Though i am kinda bummed this apparently never happened. Was hoping someone out there had a recording that would surface eventually.

We don't know that it *never* happened, just that it didn't happen there over OSC.

gotcha, didn't read it correctly. sorry

I wanna know if the rumor about 2Pac doing OSC is true.

Awesome to finally know that Eminem and D12 never came out on OSC... I thought that for so many years. The rumor has been asked around the fanclub since like 2003, I remember it.

Nobody remembers where this info originated from anymore? That's surprising...it was one of many factoids in the "Touring Info" section on pushmeaway.com: http://web.archive.org/web/20050207052204/...ouringinfo.html

"D12 and Eminem showed up at the the Projekt Revolution 2002 tour date in Detroit. They rapped a little and later came out to help with "One Step Closer"."

That website was usually VERY reliable for info - the girl who ran it knew LP personally, and the site itself was hosted on the Sparkart servers that used to host linkinpark.com as well (she won a contest that got her site hosted on LP's servers way back in like 2001).

I remember that website. Back in the day, LPFuse, Chestersings, Pushmeaway, linkin-inside, lptimes, those were all the sites I used to go on...I miss them...I also miss the FM boards and the old LPU boards...

All of the other facts on PMA are accurate. I don't think this one is though.

Maybe something to ask at the Summit. Enough members from here are going.

this

Ryan Jonik: https://twitter.com/BoingBoomTshak/status/215658306193207296

Hung out with him at Bonnaroo 2009...he's taped LP a few times.

Still around

Hm, whatever you say I don't believe it. This thread, I will not Believe. You just crushed my dream so I won't believe it.

What if there was another show in Detroit, that we don't know of?

I remember an LPU chat with Mike about a year ago, someone asked him about a collab with Eminem, and Mike said he'd never met or spoken to him and didn't have any plans to. So I guess that backs up this thread, never happened.

Why do people keep saying Eminem AND D12? Eminem IS part of D12

I guess to just highlight the idea that Eminem was allegedly there. But, this is true, Eminem IS a member of D12.

Oh come on, I just talked about this in the shoutbox, yesterday!
I think, we kinda started that discussion..damn it, I wish I never talked about this.

Shit..I kinda dreamed about finding a recording of that show and know..aaah..terrible

If they are on the side of stage and doesn't on angle of view on this picture?

M&G lucker guys, please ask try to Mike. Mike is an Eminem fan, he is able to remember it, I think... He can remember if it is real or not, but I think he won't remember an exactly date

It's off topic, but still in the same vein - the Notes for the 02.08.2004 show at Jones Beach aren't 100% complete. I submitted this information at some point and it got nowhere. Not nearly as interesting as the Em thing, but I know the moderators have been in this thread.

During the Hip Hop Medley, Snoop Dogg came out, but his microphone cut out. I remember Mike telling the sound guys to fix it. He may or may not have given Snoop his mic, but I'm not 100% on that. I remember hearing Snoop say one line but by the time things worked out he was pretty much finished. Sorry my memory of it isn't as clear, but it was 8 years ago. There's a bunch of pictures of him onstage on Getty Images.

Also, Bert McCracken from The Used came out and sang on 'Faint'. I haven't found anything to back it up, but I'm pretty sure it happened. They were my two favorite bands at that time and I lost my shit. Someone I didn't know at the time who was at the show also mentioned this. I also found out there's footage of one of his performances on The Used's "Berth" DVD, but it doesn't look like Jones Beach to me and I've been there 9 times, so I can say that with some authority.

let's do some calls!

erm....where's my credit for pointing this all out in the shoutbox?!


not happy

Good luck seeing that being fixed. I've been submitting stuff to the corrections thread for quite some time and have yet to see anything fixed

if stuff's important it gets priority. odd little show notes are less important, plus editing show pages is time-consuming.

Sorry about that, we want to get everything as accurate as possible, 2012 has the priority right now, editing older stuff in on halt right now for various reason. Trust me, my to do list is HUGE.

I posed what I posted just to have it be seen. This is a live guide and the information I provided will help make it more comprehensive. Honestly, it's just always bugged me more than normal because it was not only my first LP show but my first show ever. That's obviously a personal thing though, and in the grand scheme, it's just another show, but this seemed like an okay place to mention it.

Yeah, I told Mark about it long time ago, and we fixed it in the notes of Detroit show.

But I guess, even on some official CDs they sometimes write it this way.
That's the same as writing Chester Bennington & Linkin Park. XD

Mike said he's never met or spoke to eminen so i this rumor has to be bs.

Where?

Yeah, link to proof of his such words would be good to have.
I remember him talking about Eminem, while answering some question, but that about collab, I guess. And I don't remember him saying that he didn't meet him.

I don't ever remember him saying he didn't meet Eminem. Source would be good..