2025.09.15 - San Jose, California

[RogueSoul]

With the From Zero World Tour back in action for its final stretch of its North American Leg, Linkin Park are continuing through their home state of California with a show in San Jose at the SAP Center (formerly the HP Pavilion) tonight, September 15, 2025 for their eleventh show in the area!

 

 

This will be Linkin Park's first appearance in the San Jose area (which includes Mountain View) in thirteen years, their last show in the area being at Mountain View's Shoreline Amphitheater in 2012, at the end of the Honda Civic Tour with Incubus on the Living Things World Tour. The epic Set B included an 'A Place For My Head' opener and the likes of 'In My Remains,' 'Victimized (w/ QWERTY),' and 'Lost In The Echo,' as well as guest Mike Einziger (guitarist of Incubus) on 'Bleed It Out' after the extended bridge where the band covered 'Sabotage' by the Beastie Boys. The band performed in the area twice on the A Thousand Suns World Tour in 2011, the latter of which was again at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View for Live 105's BFD in June, one of the band's last U.S. shows of the cycle. This came on a run of shows leading up to the band's summer European Tour, and came packed with huge hits right off the bat like 'Papercut' coming out of 'The Requiem' and 'The Radiance' straight into 'Lying From You.' This was the first full Linkin Park show since the KROQ Weenie Roast y Fiesta in 2007 to not feature an encore break! The band's last performance in San Jose proper was a few months before this on the A Thousand Suns North American Tour in February, which was a bit of an interesting show for the band. Technical difficulties after 'Numb' led the band to pause the show for a bit as Chester led the crowd in a sing-a-long of 'Iridescent,' followed by a surprise performance of 'The Messenger' mid-set as they finished fixing the issues. Despite the technical issues, the band still delivered an epic show bringing tracks like 'Blackout' and 'When They Come For Me' to San Jose for the first time. 

 

 

Linkin Park's full performance (with the DSP audio edited over it) from the HP Pavilion in San Jose, California on February 22, 2011. Technical issues led to a sing-a-long of 'Iridescent' and a rare performance of 'The Messenger' in the middle of the set!

 

San Jose got two shows in the area on the Minutes To Midnight World Tour as well, but these were a bit more spread apart than the shows in 2011. The band performed in Mountain View in the middle of Projekt Revolution 2008, which featured a special 'Bleed It Out' - Brad pulled a prank on Rob by not coming in on his cue after his drum solo intro, leading Rob to extend his solo not once, but twice before the band finally kicked straight into the first verse! Another awesome moment from the set includes Chris Cornell joining the band for 'Crawling,' after Mike rapped 'Hands Held High' over the 'KRWLNG' intro. Linkin Park's show in Mountain View at the start of Projekt Revolution 2007 is another legendary set - perhaps one of the lesser talked about ones, too! The band debuted a new Set B at this show, the first tour where they had introduced the idea of playing different tracks every night. 'No More Sorrow' opened a show for the first time, it's beloved Long Intro getting its debut here. The full version of 'Hands Held High' got its live debut here, and the Minutes To Midnight Tour Version of 'Cure For The Itch' also made its first appearance, right before a new version of 'QWERTY' was performed for the first time on the whole cycle!

 

Linkin Park's best-known performance in San Jose is undoubetedly Mountain View 2004, which was the second-to-last show on the Meteora World Tour and final show of Projekt Revolution 2004. The set featured all the critical moments of one of Linkin Park's most legendary setlists, which includes the Hip-Hop Medley ('Step Up,' 'Nobody's Listening,' and 'It's Goin' Down'), their cover of Nine Inch Nails' 'Wish,' and the Blood, Anger, Suffering Outro Transition between 'Figure.09' and 'From The Inside.' The band had some fun with their final headlining show of the Meteora World Tour, jamming in the encore to rare demo 'A.06' and Guns N' Roses' 'Sweet Child O' Mine!' Brad cutoff 'A.06' just before the heavy part, annoying Chester and causing him to yell at Brad, which then caused Brad to mess up 'Wish' and jam 'Sweet Child O' Mine' instead. Chaos, but we love to see it! The band headlined their first show in San Jose proper earlier that year, playing their first headlining show at tonight's venue on the Meteora North American Tour in February.

 

 

The full audio of Linkin Park's show at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California on September 5, 2004. The final headlining show of the Meteora World Tour, Linkin Park had some fun with the encore at this show! This is one of the most beloved recordings from the early era of the band, so if you haven't heard it before, definitely check it out!

 

Linkin Park's first shows in the San Jose area were on the Hybrid Theory World Tour, with three total performances there, the last of which was in December 2001 for LIVE 105's Not So Silent Night! Opening with 'With You' and 'Runaway,' Linkin Park immediately blasted into a massive set to reign in the holidays! The band had plenty of presents to give fans for the Christmas season, including an acoustic version of 'My December,' a full performance of 'Step Up,' and another short cover of 'Sweet Child O' Mine!' Chester mentioned during the show that their last time in San Jose was literally just three weeks prior - which is just about true, as Linkin Park performed at the same venue less than a month before on the Family Values Tour. Finally, Linkin Park's very first show in the area was in Mountain View on the Ozzfest 2001, delivering old cuts from Hybrid Theory like 'By Myself' and 'Points Of Authority' to the city for the first time. With ten shows under their belt in the city and innumerable memorable moments, the band's history in San Jose is only bound to continue tonight!

 

After a week off from touring, Linkin Park resumed their From Zero North American Tour in their hometown of Los Angeles at the Intuit Dome on Saturday, and definitely came back with a bang! The band played Set B (with the 'Iridescent' theme; also side-note, this is like the third time I've mentioned a Set B so far in this thread), but made a number of tweaks to the set from its last performance in Kansas City, Missouri! 'Up From The Bottom' kept its new spot early in Act I alongside 'Crawling' and 'Lying From You,' while 'Stained' took its regular place in Act II - the first time since Paris, France in July that the song had featured in that spot! The action kept coming as Mike rapped 'High Voltage' over the 'When They Come For Me/Remember The Name' medley for the first time on tour, the song appearing in a Linkin Park set for the first time since Bremen, Germany in November 2014 on The Hunting Party World Tour, and for the first time live since the last full show of Mike's Post Traumatic Tour in Manila, Philippines in September 2019! Mike brought it out for a fan who said that was the song that got him into the band all those years ago, and boy do we need to see more of it. Act II kept giving as 'IGYEIH' was rotated into Set B for the first time, replacing 'Given Up' in the spot. Act III delivered a moment we've been waiting for for months: the live debut of 'Unshatter!' The song is massive live and the debut was as fantastic as it was important; with its debut, every song currently released from the From Zero era has been played live (barring the intro track)! This makes it the first album since Hybrid Theory to be played in full INCLUDING the bonus tracks! After all of that, the band had one more surprise as they added 'Over Each Other' into the set in place of 'Let You Fade' (couldn't have too many bonus tracks in one set I guess), making it a total of nine songs from From Zero being played live - the only ones missing were 'Cut The Bridge,' 'Casualty,' and 'Let You Fade,' all of which are on rotation in the other sets! The end of the set also switched around, with 'In The End' and 'Faint' closing the main set and 'Heavy Is The Crown' and 'Bleed It Out' closing the whole show.

 

 

The live debut of 'Unshatter' at the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, California on September 13, 2025! With this, the From Zero live discography is complete!

 

With all that action in Los Angeles, can we expect the energy to continue in San Jose? Most likely! The band is lined up to play Set C in San Jose (finally escaping the hold Set B has on the city, apparently), which featured 'Burn It Down' lyrics during the interludes. With all the changes the band made to the previous set in Los Angeles, there's no telling what we'll see happen with the set in San Jose, but here's what they whipped out the last time they played it, which was in Denver, Colorado two weeks ago: 'Points Of Authority,' 'Crawling,' and 'New Divide' in Act I, 'Castle Of Glass' and 'IGYEIH' in Act II, 'Stained' in Act III, and 'Let You Fade' in the encore, with a 'Bleed It Out' closer. It's likely we see 'Lies Greed Misery' come back out of hiding after Jean Dawson featuring on 'Castle Of Glass' banished it to the shadow realm, and we could see 'Unshatter' come back out for another run as the band warms it up to a live setting! That being said, the band's been changing many things up, like the position of 'Up From The Bottom' and what replaces it in Act II, so we'll have our eyes on all the small details to keep you posted.

 

Who's going to the show? JPEGMAFIA will be opening this final stretch of shows in North America, and will be packing a punch with his indie-infused hip-hop hits like 'Lean Beef Patty' and 'SIN MIEDO,' so be sure to check his set out if you can make it on time! Weatherman Rogue Soul here to report a beautiful California day is ahead for San Jose with sunny skies, a high of 89°F, and a low of 61°F, so be prepared for that California sun and get ready to jam! Linkin Park has one more stop in California in its capital city of Sacramento before heading up the west coast to wrap the leg up in Portland, Oregon, back to Canada for a show in Vancouver, British Columbia, and finally to Seattle, Washington this week. 

 

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[bloodbath]

Wouldn't Meteora enter in the same category of Hybrid Theory? I mean the only b-side of that album would be Lost, since tracks like More the Victim, although great, are considered demos by the band itself 

[LPLStaff]

I think it's just messy to even say it at all because of how weird the b-side situations are for any album. My December wasn't even recorded with Hybrid Theory. Lost was played live. I'd count Meteora.

[Zeroendorphine]

“the only ones missing were 'Cut The Bridge,' 'Casualty,' and 'Let You Fade,' “

- and Good Things Go :)

[bloodbath]

46 minutes ago, LPLStaff said:

I think it's just messy to even say it at all because of how weird the b-side situations are for any album. My December wasn't even recorded with Hybrid Theory. Lost was played live. I'd count Meteora.

So, the only "true" b-side from HT would be High Voltage? 

[MMM]

Variation of the melody that Emily doing in Stained last chorus is fcken great in the last shows.

Edited September 16 by MMM

[KeysToTheLinkinPark]

1 hour ago, MMM said:

Variation of the melody that Emily doing in Stained last chorus is fcken great in the last shows.

Totally agree that's why I think that the song is way better in a live setting.

Reminds me of the way Chester slightly changed the way he sang Final Masquerade here:
 

 

[LPLStaff]

That Final Masquerade Orlando 2015 performance is REALLY good.

[javignacio]

they really played From Zero (Intro) LOL. love this band

[JZLP-Benningstrong]

1 hour ago, javignacio said:

they really played From Zero (Intro) LOL. love this band

justice for Foreword! lol

 

wish the album had a proper intro like Wake

[JZLP-Benningstrong]

5 hours ago, LPLStaff said:

That Final Masquerade Orlando 2015 performance is REALLY good.

one of the songs that will never comeback.. which other songs will never be played?

[KeysToTheLinkinPark]

 

 

For the show notes. The kid talking was there as well and not cut out of the Intro. 

[Shubho-Lp]

15 hours ago, JZLP-Benningstrong said:

justice for Foreword! lol

 

wish the album had a proper intro like Wake

 

I believe Foreward has been played already hahaha.

Wake is undoubtedly one of their best intro/instrumentals for an album. What they have done for FZ with the loop thing gives an interesting take.

[lpplus]

 

[linkin_boss]

On 9/16/2025 at 11:26 AM, JZLP-Benningstrong said:

justice for Foreword! lol

 

wish the album had a proper intro like Wake

It could have been an instrumental version of the inception intro 😁

[RogueSoul]

On 9/16/2025 at 2:26 PM, JZLP-Benningstrong said:

justice for Foreword! lol

 

18 minutes ago, linkin_boss said:

It could have been an instrumental version of the inception intro 😁

 

pretty sure Foreward IS in the Inception Intro lol

[linkin_boss]

On 9/19/2025 at 12:16 AM, RogueSoul said:

 

 

pretty sure Foreward IS in the Inception Intro lol

I meant to say that inception could have been an instrumental opening to from zero. I wonder if anyone will be able to put together a "studio version" mock-up

[brGutzy]

5 hours ago, linkin_boss said:

I meant to say that inception could have been an instrumental opening to from zero. I wonder if anyone will be able to put together a "studio version" mock-up

There are some on YouTube.

 

 

[linkin_boss]

23 minutes ago, brGutzy said:

There are some on YouTube.

 

 

I'll check them after tonight's show 😁