Inside the Studio for "Overflow" [LPTV FROM ZERO: Episode 22]

[martinez]

Sixth episode of behind the scenes from the making of the From Zero album. This episode shows the process of the making of "Overflow" track.

 

 

[JZLP-Benningstrong]

-Teddy Swims appears in the video, guy on the left side 1:11 sucks that they cut him out

-Brad on the thumbnail but he appears only for like 20 seconds

-Awesome song.

Edited May 17 by JZLP-Benningstrong

[Yucker]

I think that's pretty obvious that Brad rejoined the band around April-May'24.

 

The first drum take was kinda cool but the final one, more straightforward and simple fits very well, making the synths and electronic elements more prominent and to the front.

[blackout]

13 minutes ago, JZLP-Benningstrong said:

-Teddy Swims appears in the video, guy on the left side 1:11 sucks that they cut him out

-Brad on the thumbnail but he appears only for like 20 seconds

-Awesome song.

 

I am not sure if it's Teddy Swims on the left because at 1:29 we can hear Emily's laugh. So... either both Emily and Teddy were working together in the studio at that time or it's not him.

[LeonardoMF93]

In this video, you can see how Mike has evolved as a vocalist over the years. We had already noticed that, but it really stood out to me in this episode.

[KeysToTheLinkinPark]

5 minutes ago, blackout said:

 

I am not sure if it's Teddy Swims on the left because at 1:29 we can hear Emily's laugh. So... either both Emily and Teddy were working together in the studio at that time or it's not him.

Emily is basically sitting on the couch next to Joe 

[JZLP-Benningstrong]

2 hours ago, blackout said:

 

I am not sure if it's Teddy Swims on the left because at 1:29 we can hear Emily's laugh. So... either both Emily and Teddy were working together in the studio at that time or it's not him.

you are right.

Edited May 17 by JZLP-Benningstrong

[DystopianBy]

Isn't that Ethan Mates?

[Capacity]

that's ethan mates. Man, the demos for this album, most of them were very different.  We need them

[JZLP-Benningstrong]

got excited about Teddy!  sorry for the mistake.

 

I wish we had material w him doing backup vocals...

[ScottiePippo]

5 hours ago, Yucker said:

I think that's pretty obvious that Brad rejoined the band around April-May'24.

 

The first drum take was kinda cool but the final one, more straightforward and simple fits very well, making the synths and electronic elements more prominent and to the front.

Earlier than that. Brad appears in the bts video for Friendly Fire. He's in Mike's studio in december 2023.

[leftshoe18]

I'm sure I've mentioned it elsewhere,, but part of me wonders if getting Brad in to work on Friendly Fire was what prompted him to rejoin to finish the album.

[silverwing]

Feels like Emily came way later in the process too. Colin was involved many months before.

[KeysToTheLinkinPark]

3 hours ago, silverwing said:

Feels like Emily came way later in the process too. Colin was involved many months before.

Well Colin was with Mike for whole different reason: Producing. He met with him for production reasons. They produced a couple of songs for others and you can even find pictures of them from a couple of years. I guess then it was elevated to him vein with the other LP members.

[LPLStaff]

I don't think we can equate Brad touching up Friendly Fire with Mike in 2023 to the time period he decided to join the new LP. They are entirely different projects. Brad has his hand on all of the older LP stuff and is involved heavily in the box sets. That doesn't mean he was interested in writing new material with the band in 2022, 2023, or early 2024. It looks like mid-2024 is when he made a conscious decision to join in. This was probably after some of the shows have been booked (summer 2025 festivals), the band told their management and label they are for sure finishing an album to put out, and the band is officially coming back full time with new members. At some point a conversation was had with Brad and he hopped in. Emily described it as he just showed up at East/West Studios one day randomly and she's like, "oh there's Brad", but I'm sure Mike, Joe, and Dave talked to him at some point in the middle of 2024 and said, "look - this is happening, we really want you involved."

 

Brad's role is much more of a producer role in the band now (and has been for a while, you could argue) than a guitarist - of course he records some guitar but a lot of the guitar on the album is Mike and Colin. They need Brad for that producer aspect - the true "glue" for LP is Mike's songwriting and producing plus Brad's producer role. That's how you get the good stuff.

[JerseyShore]

1 hour ago, LPLStaff said:

I don't think we can equate Brad touching up Friendly Fire with Mike in 2023 to the time period he decided to join the new LP. They are entirely different projects. Brad has his hand on all of the older LP stuff and is involved heavily in the box sets. That doesn't mean he was interested in writing new material with the band in 2022, 2023, or early 2024. It looks like mid-2024 is when he made a conscious decision to join in. This was probably after some of the shows have been booked (summer 2025 festivals), the band told their management and label they are for sure finishing an album to put out, and the band is officially coming back full time with new members. At some point a conversation was had with Brad and he hopped in. Emily described it as he just showed up at East/West Studios one day randomly and she's like, "oh there's Brad", but I'm sure Mike, Joe, and Dave talked to him at some point in the middle of 2024 and said, "look - this is happening, we really want you involved."

 

Brad's role is much more of a producer role in the band now (and has been for a while, you could argue) than a guitarist - of course he records some guitar but a lot of the guitar on the album is Mike and Colin. They need Brad for that producer aspect - the true "glue" for LP is Mike's songwriting and producing plus Brad's producer role. That's how you get the good stuff.

 

Mike has said that the music is just better when it's LP, so whatever system they have going for them right now sure as hell works for me. They've released 13 new good songs. Something we all thought had .01% of ever happening. 

[JZLP-Benningstrong]

1 hour ago, LPLStaff said:

Brad's role is much more of a producer role in the band now (and has been for a while, you could argue) than a guitarist - of course he records some guitar but a lot of the guitar on the album is Mike and Colin. They need Brad for that producer aspect - the true "glue" for LP is Mike's songwriting and producing plus Brad's producer role. That's how you get the good stuff.

The Emptiness Machine guitar sounds a lot like Brad's style (Crawling, P5HNG, BID) 

but that one was an early demo, Mike can emulate brad's style for sure.

[KeysToTheLinkinPark]

There is almost no difference between Mike and Brad. At least for a large amount of songs you cannot identify who came up with the guitar idea. That’s due to the simplicity of LPs guitar style.

Remember a lot of guitar stuff off of THP even came from Mike.
I guess something like POA, LFY, Forgotten, Don’t stay is something that Brad creates. 
 

Faints leads were created by Mike after he figured it out. 

we should exaggerate Brads role when it comes to creating guitar riffs. At least since ATS he was identified more than a guitar player and that’s why it’s good he continues.

  

[JZLP-Benningstrong]

14 minutes ago, KeysToTheLinkinPark said:

There is almost no difference between Mike and Brad. At least for a large amount of songs you cannot identify who came up with the guitar idea. That’s due to the simplicity of LPs guitar style.

Remember a lot of guitar stuff off of THP even came from Mike.
I guess something like POA, LFY, Forgotten, Don’t stay is something that Brad creates. 
 

Faints leads were created by Mike after he figured it out. 

we should exaggerate Brads role when it comes to creating guitar riffs. At least since ATS he was identified more than a guitar player and that’s why it’s good he continues.

  

Know that I think about it Mike is a really great guitar player, very underrated we never talk about how good he is.

[YRQRM0]

With OEO and potentially GTG and LYF being OML era demos, I wonder if there are versions with any Chester vocals OR if Friendly Fire or other OML ideas like Tidal Wave or Ricochet got Emily vocals (or other singers)  

 

also I wonder if they’ve basically locked in what we’re getting with an LPU cd and that’s what these BTS are built around. Like we might not get Overflows alt chorus since we heard nothing of it, but we’ll get Mike singing an early version of OEO for example 

[Luki98]

It's always great to see Emily in scream action!

 

So it turns out that Mr. Delson played more of a producer role on the album than a guitarist. I miss some solos on the album, like on THP. I hope they appear on the next album.