28.01.2011 - St. Paul, MN

[sublimeric]

What the hell is up with that encore? If I detect even the slightest hint of this setlist in Boston, I'll be leaving after "Bleed It Out". (which, BTW, is an excellent closer if it has the extras like APFMH included)

 

Thanks for all the show notes Astat. Jealous you got to see/hear BITS!

[Borellus]

When you're at the show it's amazing everytime. You don't care about the setlist just as long as you're there enjoying yourself. Although, when I see the setlist here it looks like a poor setlist to me. Then again if I was at the show I wouldn't care and would come on these boards and tell you all how great it was. In my opinion, this setlist is tied for last with A1.

[Qwerty18]

It seems like they've already gotten sick of WAK, which seemed to be the funniest song from ATS live. Weird.

[feelthless]

fuck yeah for bringing FAINT as a closer <3

[venom12]

It seems like they've already gotten sick of WAK, which seemed to be the funniest song from ATS live. Weird.

They're sick of W&K? They playing for 7 years numb onevery show and they arent sick of that, maybe tonight will be set a1 wit W&K

[pianolp325]

A1 is def the best setlist of the tour in my opinion. also i wanna see chester playing a telecaster. that sounds pretty cool. lol

[MONDREUS240]

Pretty cool set, but its still a shame that they cut W&K.

[DecanoLP]

They're sick of W&K? They playing for 7 years numb onevery show and they arent sick of that, maybe tonight will be set a1 wit W&K

I'm pretty sure they're sick of playing Numb, but they know they can't drop it

[Sucre06]

Setlist:

1. Requiem

2. Papercut w/ Savio Speech

3. Lying From You

4. Given Up

5. What I've Done (new piano outro into)

6. Empty Spaces/When They Come For Me

7. No More Sorrow (Long Intro)

8. Jornada Del Muerto

9. Waiting For the End

10. Burning in the Skies

11. Numb

12. Radiance (Live Version)

13. Breaking the Habit

14. Fallout/Catalyst

15. Crawling

16. One Step Closer

17. Bleed it out w/A Place for My Head/ Drum solo

Encore

18. Wisdom, Justice and Love

19. Iridescent

20. Shadow of the Day

21. In the End

22. New Divide

23. Faint

- Very awesome setlist. One of my favorite setlists ever.

[feelthless]

erm.. they could play blackout and it would be the best setlist ever. anyways it is badass <3

[annare]

I laugh so hard at some people reponses... Sorry

[Xero21]

-Bleed it Out with APFMH in the bridge and the drum solo totally DESTROYS One Step Closer as a closing type of song (last song before encore or end of the show), I don't care what anybody else says. People went NUTS for APFMH.

This is what I've been saying. Also the reason why I don't want them to play APFMH in full.

[arbiter]

A1 is def the best setlist of the tour in my opinion. also i wanna see chester playing a telecaster. that sounds pretty cool. lol

This. Simply because to me, any setlist without Lying From You, and more ATS will always be the best. It's a shame it doesn't have BITS and Blackout because those songs are spectacular live. They've improved it for sure. If they took out OSC and Numb and replaced them with those two ATS songs, it would be the best setlist ever.

[DecanoLP]

[...]If they took out OSC[...]

Come on, are you serious? I agree with Numb because it sucks live, but you can't drop One Step Closer... I still wonder why they still take out some other songs instead of just adding 2-3 more ones to the setlist.

A 27 songs long setlist (including interludes!!) won't kill them.

[RiderSSPU]

Come on, are you serious? I agree with Numb because it sucks live, but you can't drop One Step Closer... I still wonder why they still take out some other songs instead of just adding 2-3 more ones to the setlist.

A 27 songs long setlist (including interludes!!) won't kill them.

i agree

[Astat]

Based on crowd reaction alone, I think the following songs fall into the "MUST be played live" category:

 

Bleed it Out

One Step Closer

In the End

Numb

What I've Done

 

And arguably Breaking the Habit/New Divide. I still can't stand Numb as a song, but I have no problem with it remaining a live staple. They perform it well, and it typically gets the second loudest reaction of the night at any given show, behind Bleed it Out.

[bLePn]

It was fun meeting you Astat. BTW our banner got on stage and there are multiple pics of it including one where Mike is RIGHT over it.

 

Yes, this is probably the worst song selection the band has ever done , but it was still the greatest night of my life and the performance was perfect.

 

Haha the weird intro to WFTE was REALLY noticeable now that I think of it.

Edited January 29, 2011 by bLePn

[arbiter]

Come on, are you serious? I agree with Numb because it sucks live, but you can't drop One Step Closer... I still wonder why they still take out some other songs instead of just adding 2-3 more ones to the setlist.

A 27 songs long setlist (including interludes!!) won't kill them.

Well excuse me! Of course i'm serious. I never liked it that much the first time i heard it and it still hasn't grown on me no matter how many years have passed. It is a terrible song in my opinion although i would rather hear it than LFY or DS. Now if they were to play the reanimated version, i might just be okay with it.

[Qwerty18]

If they took out OSC and Numb and replaced them with those two ATS songs, it would be the best setlist ever.

No way. You maybe don't like it, but OSC remains a fan favorite, and one of Linkin Park biggest hits. Not to mention the fact it gets the crownd going crazy, which is not the case of some ATS songs. So it will stay in the setlist for a very long time. And personaly, I'm very happy with that. Edited January 29, 2011 by Qwerty18

[RiderSSPU]

No way. You maybe don't like it, but OSC remains a fan favorite, and one of Linkin Park biggest hits. Not to mention the fact it gets the crownd going crazy, which is not the case of all ATS songs. So it will stay in the setlist for a very very very very long time. And personaly, I'm very very very very happy with that.

+1

[Numbrocker]

I'm pretty sure I fall in the minority of keeping Numb on the setlist purely because I enjoy the song. However, though it is my favorite song I think it could be dropped for a few of the lists as long as you keep all the other singles.

 

Another thing I'm super disappointed about is W&K being dropped. WTF is up with that?! That was one of the best songs at the NYC Best Buy Show. It was new and people were STILL reacting favorably to it. smh. I don't get it.

 

The encore is a bit of a head scratcher too. But I know that the concert goers enjoyed it and that's the important bit. Still I'm REALLY hoping they realize that everyone loves APFMH and play it live in full. Maybe NYC...

[GraDoN]

it's good to see fans happy about setlists and not calling for another song petition.

[L13413P]

Based on crowd reaction alone, I think the following songs fall into the "MUST be played live" category:

 

Bleed it Out

One Step Closer

In the End

Numb

What I've Done

 

And arguably Breaking the Habit/New Divide. I still can't stand Numb as a song, but I have no problem with it remaining a live staple. They perform it well, and it typically gets the second loudest reaction of the night at any given show, behind Bleed it Out.

I think Crawling can fall into this category too.

 

The last 4 times I've seen them live, they played 10 of the same songs.

 

Papercut

One Step Closer

Points Of Authority

Crawling

In The End

Somewhere I Belong

Lying From You

Faint

From The Inside

Numb

 

I saw a couple comments in this thread of people complaining about the encore in this set, and in my opinion I could care less. I think just going to see Linkin Park live, regardless of what setlist they play, is good enough.

[mattyice318]

Hey guys, back from the show.

 

Had an AWESOME time. Met up with a couple guys from LPA (Ben and Zane), they were pretty cool. Zane got his guitar signed by the band. I met an LPL member in line for the M&G, had a great conversation with him but I'm totally blanking on his name, sorry man! If you could post here, that'd be great.

 

The band was late getting to the show, we lined up for the M&G at 7:30 and then were told their flight hadn't even landed yet. It was around 8 before we got in, and they originally said the M&G was only going to be with Mike because the rest of the band was still on the way, but they all ended up showing up. M&G was actually held in a restaurant type section in the basement/backstage area.

 

I ended up getting the setlist from the show I went to on PR08 signed. Brad was really interested in it, he actually spent a bit looking over it. The guy next to me was having a conversation with Phoenix about the Super Bowl, I chimed in on that about how I'm a ironically a Steelers fan from Cleveland, and Joe responded to that with the quote of the night - "Oh, the Cleveland steamers, they're MY favorite team!" I told Joe I was excited to see the new video, someone else in the M&G asked him about Transformers 3 and he said it will be Iridescent in the film. I asked Rob about how he has his trigger pads built into real drum shells now, he said it's just to make it look cooler, said he'd like to get lights put inside his drums too. I told him it makes his drum set look bigger, "not Neil Peart huge, but it's getting there!" Chester responded to that by saying "we're working on it, that's our ultimate goal." Finally I asked Mike about being pulled up to play Faint (gave Pez a shout-out in the process), and he said that the band voted on it before the tour and decided they weren't doing it at all for this leg of U.S. shows (I honestly think with all the regulations in the U.S. these days, it might be a liability issue).

 

Anyway, the show was really good, they had a barricade that split the floor into two sections, we started off right up against the barricade in the rear section, but got up in the front section during the encore and wound up about 20 feet from the stage.

 

Setlist was as follows:

 

01. The Requiem/The Radiance (w/Mario Savio speech)

02. Papercut

03. Lying From You

04. Given Up (w/short extended outro)

05. What I've Done (w/new piano outro)

06. Empty Spaces

07. When They Come For Me

08. No More Sorrow (w/long intro)

09. Jornada Del Muerto

10. Waiting For the End

11. Burning in the Skies

12. Numb (piano transition into...)

13. The Radiance (live version)

14. Breaking the Habit (w/acapella ending)

15. Fallout

16. The Catalyst

17. Crawling

18. One Step Closer (w/extended outro)

19. Bleed it Out (w/APFMH over bridge, drum solo, and extended outro)

 

Encore

 

20. Wisdom, Justice, and Love

21. Iridescent

22. Shadow of the Day

23. In the End

24. New Divide

25. Faint (w/extended outro)

 

There were a bunch of interesting little details about the show that I remember...

 

-The new piano outro to WID really caught me off guard. I don't know if they've done that at any other shows on this tour, but it faded into the crickets and stuff at the beginning of Empty Spaces, probably went on for about 20-30 seconds.

-No Spanish part from Brad on WTCFM, just the siren on the megaphone.

-Before Jornada Del Muerto, Mike asked anybody who had cameras to pull them out, in reference to the live video of Waiting For the End that's being filmed using footage from the Chicago and St. Paul shows.

-There were some technical issues starting with Jornada Del Muerto, the long "droning" keyboard note at the beginning of the song cut out at one point.

-At the beginning of WFTE right when the intro sample kicked in, there was a really loud bass noise that obviously wasn't supposed to be there, not sure what that was about but I'd bet it'll get fixed on the DSP.

-Brad's guitar didn't work for the first few notes of Burning in the Skies, but other than that, the song sounded really good for a U.S. debut.

-Crawling had a lot of sample issues, Joe played the first note of the intro, then stopped, and they restarted it. Then, during the verses, some of his samples were either being played back at the wrong pitch or just didn't sound right (hard to tell with how loud it was in there), but his tech came out and was working on his gear for a solid minute or so during the song.

-Bleed it Out with APFMH in the bridge and the drum solo totally DESTROYS One Step Closer as a closing type of song (last song before encore or end of the show), I don't care what anybody else says. People went NUTS for APFMH.

-The encore really threw me for a loop, but I think it worked pretty well, it had a constant energy build over the course of those 5 songs.

-Just noticed this for all the gear heads, Chester's playing Fender Telecaster on Iridescent now.

-Joe and Phoenix were fucking around with each other during Shadow of the Day, Joe kept putting his mic up to Phoenix like he was trying to make him sing, then later on in the song they were clapping each other's hands together, haha.

-I don't know if this was intentional (it might transition better into Faint that way), but Joe didn't play the last note in the New Divide outro.

-Brad threw in some licks in the Faint outro solo I've never heard him play before, up until this point I've always heard him stick with variations on that tremolo picking part starting around the 12th fret on the D string, but he was all over the neck tonight.

 

Another random observation: The LPU M&G passes still say "A Thousand Suns World Tour 2010" on them. Whoops.

 

Anyway, I had a great time. Definitely the most fun I've had at an LP show, this is the 4th time I've seen them. The people running the M&G (I can't remember their names other than Hugo) were awesome, I was a little worried about the atmosphere of the M&G based on some past stories, but they made it really fun.

 

I also have to be at work in...6 hours and 17 minutes. I think I'm gonna try to sleep now.

I hope you're talking about me, the guy in line right next to you. My name's Austin. It was great to meet you, hope I can post more on the website!

[Spin]

I saw a couple comments in this thread of people complaining about the encore in this set, and in my opinion I could care less. I think just going to see Linkin Park live, regardless of what setlist they play, is good enough.

+10000. Seriously, I saw them live twice, PR07 and PR08. In PR08, 18 of the 19 songs played were played in the PR07 show, and yet I was thrilled to be seeing 'em anyway. Edited January 30, 2011 by Spin