lpliveusername Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 A previously unknown Xero tape is being auctioned on May 19th to benefit the American Association for Suicide Prevention. This tape comes from the personal collection of a music industry executive who received it from Mike Shinoda back in 1997 when Xero was just starting and trying to get signed. The tracklist includes the song "Deftest" which in recent years has become a holy grail in the Linkin Park community. The tracklist will be coming soon from the seller, but at the moment we can tell you a full song ripped from the tape will be posted online as the date approaches. Bidding starts on May 1st. Follow @theflotilla on Twitter for future updates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stranger Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 OMG! this is a BIG NEWS! also, i'm so sorry for the kid who lost her father. May he Rest in Peace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SFNL14 Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Is it possible for LPL to pool in to get this tape? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danacky Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Happy to chip in a donation towards this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumtram Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Thank god this wasn't posted on April 1st. Amazing news for us even though I remain skeptical whether or not the band gave their ok for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJPLP Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 (edited) On 4/4/2022 at 10:52 PM, lpliveusername said: The tracklist includes the song "Deftest" which in recent years has become a holy grail in the Linkin Park community. The tracklist will be coming soon from the seller, but at the moment we can tell you a full song ripped from the tape will be posted online as the date approaches. Hopefully the song that got ripped from the tape is Deftest. Also, I wonder what the full track listing of the tape is? 🤔 Edit: The ripped song from the tape is not “Deftest”, it’s something else, though, I’m unsure what song it is. Edited April 7, 2022 by NJPLP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrS Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 7 hours ago, NJPLP said: Hopefully the song that got ripped from the tape is Deftest. Also, I wonder what the full track listing of the tape is? 🤔 tbh i would be more surprised if it's a song that was never heard of before Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJPLP Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 (edited) On 4/5/2022 at 4:55 PM, MrS said: tbh i would be more surprised if it's a song that was never heard of before It could be anything, though the only thing we know is that she mentioned “Deftest” being on it, but that’s it. Edited April 7, 2022 by NJPLP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hybrid1988 Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Wait, is the band going to actually let this happen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrS Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 1 hour ago, NJPLP said: All the other tracks that are on the tape, whatever they are, are released and "Deftest" is the only song that is unreleased out of all the tracks on the tape. oh so that means no Carousel or Slip with Mark? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJPLP Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 16 minutes ago, Hybrid1988 said: Wait, is the band going to actually let this happen? I mean, the tape is being auctioned to help donate to benefit the American Association for Suicide Prevention, in honor of her father, so I don't think they would mind. 10 minutes ago, MrS said: oh so that means no Carousel or Slip with Mark? I think you got something wrong. "Carousel" and "Slip", the Xero versions, anyway, were made in late 1998, somewhere around there. This tape dates back to 1997, a year before "Carousel" and "Slip" were made, and it includes "Deftest", which is one of the earliest, if not, one of the first demos, along with "Dialate", that started it all for Xero. And both of those tracks were on a 2-track cassette tape, which Dave Garrett has a copy of, which was made my Mike and Mark, before Xero was even formed, back in the summer of 1996. So, no, "Carousel" nor "Slip" is on this cassette tape. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpliveusername Posted April 5, 2022 Author Share Posted April 5, 2022 13 minutes ago, NJPLP said: 2-track cassette tape This is wrong too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJPLP Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 (edited) 7 minutes ago, lpliveusername said: This is wrong too. How is that wrong? When I told Dave Garrett if the tracks on the cassette tape that he got back in the summer of 1996 were just "Deftest" and "Dialate", this is what he replied back to me with: Quote The intial songs that Mark brought back to me that summer were Dialate and Deftest. It wasn't a demo, just some songs they had put together and they were literally just on a blank cassete, so no art work or anything like that. It was pretty exciting stuff because near the end of relative degree that was really the direction we were wanting to move into after having some jam sessions with Mike goofing around with relative degree. I'm pretty sure though that the tape that Dave Garrett has is not the same tape that this girl has. Edited April 5, 2022 by NJPLP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJPLP Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 (edited) Some of the information I said from before is wrong. The ripped song from the tape is not "Deftest". It would greatly devalue the tape, making the tape basically worthless. So that’s the reason why it’s obviously not “Deftest”. Edited April 7, 2022 by NJPLP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayGun4200 Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 (edited) Hopefully we get a rip of all the tracks on it, even if we all already have the other tracks that are on it, for collection sake anyways, kinda sucks to have them missing ya know. Edited April 6, 2022 by RayGun4200 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJPLP Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 (edited) 19 hours ago, RayGun4200 said: Hopefully we get a rip of all the tracks on it, even if we all already have the other tracks that are on it, for collection sake anyways, kinda sucks to have them missing ya know. I’m pretty sure if she ripped one of the tracks from the tape to later be released before the auction, I’m pretty sure she ripped all of the tracks off the tape. Edited April 7, 2022 by NJPLP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayGun4200 Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 1 hour ago, NJPLP said: I’m pretty sure if she ripped one of the tracks from the tape to later be leaked before the auction, I’m pretty sure she ripped all of the tracks off the tape. Fair point, we'll see in time I suppose Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xeroboi Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 How did this person even got it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c3bebuilder Posted April 7, 2022 Share Posted April 7, 2022 5 hours ago, xeroboi said: How did this person even got it "This tape comes from the personal collection of a music industry executive who received it from Mike Shinoda back in 1997 when Xero was just starting and trying to get signed" The person got it from their fathers tape collection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awalkinthelinkinpark Posted April 13, 2022 Share Posted April 13, 2022 Well we gotta do a donation and the most trusted of the site should buy it with money racked up in total, serious let's start a gofundme cuz we gotta get this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattyice318 Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 I'd put in at least a hundred if it came down to it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpliveusername Posted April 20, 2022 Author Share Posted April 20, 2022 On 4/4/2022 at 11:52 PM, lpliveusername said: The tracklist will be coming soon from the seller https://twitter.com/theflotilla/status/1516782860165947393 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stranger Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 5 hours ago, lpliveusername said: https://twitter.com/theflotilla/status/1516782860165947393 it'll be interesting take on how the raw sounds of "Dialate" from the tape. i'm hoping "Fuse" will be the another version of the song, love the track. thanks for the update man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayGun4200 Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 5 minutes ago, Stranger said: it'll be interesting take on how the raw sounds of "Dialate" from the tape. i'm hoping "Fuse" will be the another version of the song, love the track. thanks for the update man. We could all hope honestly, I'm pretty hyped for it tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stranger Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 2 minutes ago, RayGun4200 said: We could all hope honestly, I'm pretty hyped for it tho. yup, me too! the real gem will be DEFTEST. finally, a new old song of XERO release in 2022. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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