"Did You Know" Facts

[lpliveusername]

Hey can someone compile a list of facts from Mike's listening party for THP + other THP ones? I'll add them right away. Just cool stuff like about the sample in Keys, etc. ALITS intro is from ATS era. Stuff like that.

http://lplive.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=10406&page=2&do=findComment&comment=223151

 

The KTTK sample was explained by Mike on a Chideo video. I transcribed what he said here:

http://lplive.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=10406&do=findComment&comment=207390

[Skipees]

Styles Of Beyond has since won The Wake Up Show's "Best New Group Of 1997" award. S.O.B. has been called "...the band that will take us into the next millenium" by reviewer Joseph Hahn of Urban Network magazine.

 

Source.

[RogueSoul]

2014 is the only year in Linkin Park history that two touring cycles overlapped (Living Things and The Hunting Party)

[Skipees]

Mike already mentiond James Jean (The Hunting Party artwork designer) on his blog back in 2009

[lpliveusername]

The official music video of "Identity Disorder" by Of Mice & Men was recorded live during The Hunting Party Tour.

[Geki]

2014 is the only year in Linkin Park history that two touring cycles overlapped (Living Things and The Hunting Party)

 

Idk about that... In my mind, the LT touring cycle ended in August 2013 after the Asia tour. Same way I don't consider 2005 and 2006 shows as Meteora touring cycle, I don't consider 2009 to be MTM cycle, etc.

[thedamian58c]

lpliveusername, on 24 May 2014 - 11:07 PM, said:

lpliveusername, on 22 May 2014 - 07:32 AM, said:

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On our first tour, we opened for a band that treated us like crap. Our album wasn’t out—incidentally, neither was theirs—but they had a single that was starting to do well on the radio. We would get to the venue, and those guys would take up every room in the place, leaving us to sit on the curb outside waiting to play.

Instead of signing autographs, they would charge their fans for a signed picture. They had hairdressers and bodyguards, and we were playing 500-seat clubs! It was ridiculous. But instead of moping outside, we talked to the fans. We signed everything and gave our demo cassettes away for free.

We learned a great lesson: treat your opening bands and fans with respect. Today, we still set up a meet-and-greet with our fan club at every event, and we make an effort to treat our opening bands with respect.

http://www.turnaroun...k-mike-shinoda/

I guess he was talking about this same band:

 

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PRP: Have you ever farted in a Tupperware container which contained food, closed the lid fast and left it in the fridge for an unsuspecting victim?
Mike: No, but one of our band members once pooped in a bag, with the intention of throwing the bag on another band we were playing with.

http://web.archive.o...linkinpark.html

Which band was it?

Which demo cassettes could it be?

 

Idk about that... In my mind, the LT touring cycle ended in August 2013 after the Asia tour. Same way I don't consider 2005 and 2006 shows as Meteora touring cycle, I don't consider 2009 to be MTM cycle, etc.

Agree

[lpliveusername]

Which band was it?

 

The Union Underground:

http://www.mtv.de/shows/1896-the-ride/staffeln/5390/folgen/64399-104

[lpliveusername]

 

Sorry to be a noob here, but was Mike actually approached about doing the male vocals on Bring Me To Life? I've seen it online a few times that they approached Mike, but after he declined they settled on Paul McCoy.

 

Wind-Up wanted Amy to ask Mike because they were recording Fallen at NRG at the same time LP was recording Meteora. Amy didn't think the song needed rap vocals in the first place and didn't want to ask him, because it was basically just a case of Wind-Up trying to make Evanescence's first single sound like LP since they were the "big thing" at the time. Amy talked to Chester about it and asked him for advice, he told her to do what she wanted and not listen to the label, so she never asked Mike.

 

Then the label gave Amy a big "fuck you" and brought in Paul McCoy from 12 Stones (another Wind-Up band) to do the vocals she didn't want them to force into the song in the first place.

[Chris]

One Step Closer is actually referenced in a book, "The Heart and the Fist" by Eric Greitens, specifically the bridge section of the song. It's an autobiographical book about a SEAL and humanitarian's experiences, and the reference appears when he is recounting his training in the year 2000. Just thought this would be interesting.

 

I arrived every morning at the base before there was any hint of sun. As I pulled in, I often heard hard, angry rock music blaring from the barracks—Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!

Edited January 27, 2015 by Lorde-Wobbuffet

[Astat]

A few instances of LP-related people crossing paths prior to their "main" contributions to the LP-related world...

-Prior to joining Julien-K (and later, Dead By Sunrise), a young Brandon Belsky actually worked as a Pro Tools engineer on Linkin Park's "Live in Texas" CD/DVD in 2003.

-Prior to either of them working with Linkin Park, current FOH engineer Ken "Pooch" Van Druten and former guitar tech Sean Paden worked together as crew members for KISS, most notably for the 2003 "Alive IV: Symphony" performance in Australia.

 

-Mike Shinoda's current guitar tech Marc VanGool played rhythm guitar on Carlos Santana's "Guitar Heaven" covers album in 2010, an album which Chester performed guest vocals on ("Riders on the Storm").

[lpliveusername]

_Rogue_Shadow_ 33 (16:54:10)

What is the strangest thing anyone has ever asked you to sign?

 

m_shinoda (16:56:47)

So many questions! I'm going to answer the "strangest thing to sign"--the answer is: a real live baby.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3gqpvp/iama_mike_shinoda_ama/cu0lq4r

 

 

Some guy in Malaysia asked me to sign his baby. I was sitting at a shoe store, and this guy walks up and holds his one-year-old kid out, face-down, and hands me a marker. I felt like if I didn't sign the kid, he was going to be pissed, so I did it.

http://www.fixins.com/fortminor/

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I've been pushing for us to do, not necessarily [now] but at some point, a cover of The Cars, their song "Drive". Because I've always really liked that song a lot, and I think we could do a pretty cool and different interpretation of it. But I don't think that some of the other guys really like that idea, and I don't know if it's ever going to happen. And I don't have the 'vocal prowess' to do it justice without some help..

http://www.lpassociation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23353

How Scott Koziol joined Hybrid Theory:

 

I was referred to the band by the infamous Barry Squire who runs a LA musician referral service. Rob Bourdon gave me a call, we chatted for a bit then he sent me a CD of a few tracks to learn. I had a few auditions with the band then we started rehearsing in Hollywood 6 days a week for about 8 hours a day in preparation for Live performances and the recording of Hybrid Theory.

http://morningafter.webtalk.ru/viewtopic.php?id=34&p=12#p6752

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Stone Temple Pilots planned to release a music video for "Wonderful":

 

 

STP's "Wonderful" will serve as the first single and will be sent next week to U.S. radio outlets for airplay consideration. A video treatment is being developed and may include live footage from the tour.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020403080314/http://www.billboard.com/billboard/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1382813

 

 

Although the group's "Wonderful" was originally scheduled to be the set's first single, Elektra has opted to send a sampler featuring various album tracks to U.S. radio outlets for airplay consideration.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020414045812/http://www.billboard.com/billboard/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1437151

 

 

STP decided to cancel the release of their single "Wonderful" which was going to feature a video w/ shots of Linkin Park. So sadly the video will be no more.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020607141514/http://www.pushmeaway.com/maintablepg.html

In 2012, Linkin Park played 1 show in Brazil for each goal scored during the Brazil x USA football (soccer) match in May 30, 2012. The result of the game was 4x1, so the band played 4 shows in Brazil.

Source: 1 | 2

 

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Q: What was the first demo you were sent from the band?

 

I think it had the original version of Place for my Head. That was the song that I got.

http://www.lpassociation.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34537

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About the ATS tour:

 

“We looked at music sites to see which songs are most popular and made a compilation of all the things we did before. I think people will be happy because we will play many songs that they want to hear,” he said.

http://mikeshinodaclan.com/media/interviews/i-can-also-sing-says-vocalist-behind-the-screams-of-linkin-park/

 

 

"Never Let Me Down" from Download To Donate For Haiti is the collaboration between Kenna and Mike shinoda that was supposed to come out in 2009 on Kenna's (unreleased) MSTSMF Outtakes EP.

The track dates back to 2005:

 

 

MIKE IS A GENIUS

PERIOD

I HAD THE CHANCE TO WORK WITH HIM FOR MY UPCOMING ALBUM AND I CANT TELL YOU HOW GREAT THAT WAS

 

YES, HE PRODUCED A RECORD WITH CHAD FROM THE NEPTUNES AND I

ALBUM SHOULD BE OUT SOMETIME NEXT YEAR

https://web.archive.org/web/20061207111534/http://www.fortminor.co.uk/chat/kenna-surprise-20051111.html

Edited November 2, 2015 by Skipees

[lpliveusername]

 

 

Today i had a chance to talk to Coby and Jerry from Papa Roach in Toronto.Of course i was promoting Linkin Park and the tour came up. According to Coby, after their tour together just before the holidays, they will get back on the road together around March.Look for that tour to come to Canada as well.

 

 

According to a fan who had a chance to talk with Mike Shinoda several days ago, the band made a special intro at the start of their video for "One Step Closer", that thanks the street teamers for all of their hard work. Apparently this version of the video is on DVD and will be sent to the street teamers sometime in the future. Keep in mind that this is only rumor, but it sounded pretty damn good, so there ya go :-) Props to Evan. You be da man. Unless your lying. Cuz then you will get a beat down.

http://www.angelfire.com/band/linkinpark/archive.html

[lpliveusername]

 

 

When we were making Meteora, we wrote 70 to 90 songs to come up with the 12 tracks that are on the album

http://www.mtv.com/news/1530011/mike-shinoda-says-linkin-park-halfway-done-with-new-album/

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About the Xero demo tape:

 

 

Mike shinoda told him, the shopping cart was actually a joke for a cover for the demo tape but then they actually had some made before the baby version was made.. If I remmeber he implied fewer were made.

http://lpcatalog.com/

[thedamian58c]

Bourdon's mother, Patty, was a high school girlfriend of Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer, who credits her with helping him come up with the band's name.

[lpliveusername]

 

 

Q: Who has the biggest porn stash hidden in his bunk?

A: I don't think anybody has one, but we used to have a bus driver who was an aspiring porn director, and apparently when we were gone he was driving around with other porn characters and making movies on the bus.

https://web.archive.org/web/20040209093101/http://lptimes.com/article/article.html

 

 

I had ProTools to work on this record, to write and record drums onto; on the last record, I had microphones taped onto the ceiling with a four-track! So it was definitely more convenient and time-efficient. I think having more technology to be able to do all of this stuff really helped me to think of new things and be more creative.

https://web.archive.org/web/20040217045653/http://launch.yahoo.com/read/feature.asp?contentID=212687

 

 

The mother of a teenager who cut herself with a blade in class says song lyrics from bands such as Linkin Park contributed to her daughter harming herself. Speaking exclusively to the Wakefield Express she said many bands portrayed a bad image to youngsters through their song lyrics. A Linkin Park lyric from One Step Closer: "Everything you say to me takes me one step closer to the edge, And I'm about to break."

Text | Source

[lpliveusername]

 

[20:13:10]  hey chester!! my friend lyss said hi, she couldn't be here...anyway...i just want to ask, who chose the cover for live in texas or rather, who did it? i liked it very much...

[20:13:58]  Mike designed the font for the cover, Frank Maddocks designed the album cover.

http://pages.intnet.mu/akira7/chesterchat.txt

 

[20:17:18]  Howdee Chester, how would you react if someone in a really cheesy satan costume chased you with a baked potato, randomly? By the way, Good luck with the show dude! OH, and my friend couldnt be here, but her question is does the milk in the FTI video have any significance?

[20:19:04]  Yeah the milk is a visual representation of the kind of intense power the kid released when he yelled. It's not anything like "don't cry over spilled milk." When the kid screamed there's a big sonic boom, the earth shaking, and that was a simple way to show that.

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"Morning After" dates from sometime around 1996, when Chester was still with Grey Daze:

 

 

[00:02] Chester, Will The Morning After be on your new CD
[00:02] Probably not. That was a song that I wrote about 6 years ago and I just play every once and
a while .. just for fun.

http://pages.intnet.mu/akira7/chesterlpuchat2.txt

[lpliveusername]

 

 

Metal-is:
I take it you haven’t had time to write any new songs lately?
M:
In all reality, we’re just trying to concentrate on this one, but we’ve thrown out a couple of things. Right now, we’re working on a song with the Dust Brothers and we’re hoping that it goes on their album, but we’ll see. When we write, we write by recording, we don’t jam or anything, which means we have to record somewhere loudly. In the past, the place that we found was easiest to record in was my room. My walls are about three inches thick and my neighbours must have thought people were dying in my house! The whole neighbourhood could hear it!
C:
And you’d hear someone go, “You fucking SUCK! Shut up!”
M:
I think we were subliminally influenced for the bridge on ‘One Step Closer’ by my neighbours; “SHUT UP! I’M TRYING TO SLEEP!”
C:
At ten o’clock every night, we’d hear (he bangs his fist against the wall) and that was our alarm, so we almost ended up naming the band ‘Ten PM Stocker’, ’cause we recorded on Stocker Street every night and at 10 PM, we had to stop.

http://mikeshinodaclan.com/media/interviews/metal-is-com-interview-shut-up-when-im-talking-to-you/

[lpliveusername]

Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins was asked to record with Linkin Park:

It's not just her former bandmates she has left behind. For the last 12 years, she has barely engaged with music. She sang on Massive Attack's 1998 album Mezzanine and exquisite hit Teardrop (and toured with them in 2006), but that's it. She's been offered sums "beyond your wildest dreams" to collaborate with other artists – "the weirdest one was Linkin Park" – but all have been turned down.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/nov/26/cocteau-twins-elizabeth-fraser-interview

Edited January 10, 2016 by lpliveusername

[LESTAT]

Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins was asked to record with Linkin Park:

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/nov/26/cocteau-twins-elizabeth-fraser-interview

Awesome find. I love Cocteau Twins and she's a great artist.

Funny, because, thanks to Z-Trip, you can actually hear her and Chester on the same track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWSUbYfGnbY

[lpliveusername]

Backyard Bangers, the duo who remixed Rnw@y on Reanimation, is composed of Josh Kouzomis (Troublemaker) and Eric Moss (E.Moss). Besides working on this track, Troublemaker also worked on a remix of Lady Tigra's Bass On The Bottom with Joe Hahn, a remix of The Catalyst (the "King Fantastic remix" on the The Catalyst iTunes EP), and a remix of Roads Untraveled (the "Rad Omen remix" on Recharged).

 

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In September 2012, Mike asked on Twitter for good fan made remixes of Living Things songs.

One of the remixes submitted to him was the Hann With Gun remix of Burn It Down, which was included in the Burn It Down Remixes promo CD.

 

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Linkin Park obtained all the rights to the LPAssociation remix album Viscera and released it to LP Underground members for free download to celebrate the anniversary of The Hunting Party. The LPU version was slightly edited.

 

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Mark Wakefield, the band's first vocalist, created the cover art of System Of A Down's second album, Toxicity.

 

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In a 2005 interview with YRB, Mike Shinoda revealed he had plans to do a song with Sting.

It's unknown if the collaboration did happen.

Edited February 8, 2016 by lpliveusername

[SergSlim]

Linkin Park obtained all the rights to the LPAssociation remix album Viscera and released it to LP Underground members for free download to celebrate the anniversary of The Hunting Party. The LPU version was slightly edited.

 

Only the last song.

[lpliveusername]

In September 2012, Mike asked on Twitter for good fan made remixes of Living Things songs.

One of the remixes submitted to him was the Hann With Gun remix of Burn It Down, which was included in the Burn It Down Remixes promo CD.

 

 

The Hunn with Gun Remix was given to LP on a meet and greet during their Europe Tour earlier this year (I forgot which show, sorry). Also, one of the remixers, Arya Shani, is only 13 years old. Respect!

http://lpfancorner.com/2012/07/12/news-roundup-honda-civic-tour-contest-interviews-kerrang-scan-bid-remix-cd-etc-via-lpassociation-mikeshinodaclan-and-lptimes/

[lpliveusername]

Gino The Ghost, the rapper/actor on the "Lost In The Echo" music video:

 

 

When I was younger I used to only listen to rock music. When Linkin Park released “Hybrid Theory”, I fell in love with hip hop immediately. Mike is such a dope lyricist and he really inspired me to get into it in the first place. I’m also a big Fort Minor fan, been waiting for that next project!

http://www.roadtorevolutionbr.com/2012/09/05/rtrbr-entrevista-exclusiva-com-ginotheghost/

[lpliveusername]

 

 

Q: Do you have any wild stories or embarrassing moments to share, while living on the road?

Chester: While we were on the road a few months ago, there was this huge rumor that my wife and I had split up and I was seeing Chasmin Stover, she's the former bass player of the band Fetisch.

Mike: The funny thing is, we never met her before that rumor and we ran into her at a show back in February. Her and Joe hit it off and now she's his girlfriend.

Joe: Ironic huh?

http://www.angelfire.com/ca6/linkinpark/drinter.html