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I kinda disagree here. In my opinion, MTM is the only Linkin Park record THP shares similarities with. Yeah, MTM is definitely a lot softer, but it's the only truly guitar-based record they had released before THP.

Are there any other songs where he uses autotune? And, by the way, I'm still confused about the GATS autotune. Why do they use it there, the verses are extremely simple, it's not like they're very demanding and impossible to hit.

Both With You and Runaway use the 7th string. Check Astat's tabs - they are the most accurate out there. http://lplive.net/astat/Guitar_tabs/Hybrid_Theory/

This is an answerable one - he went on to manage a band called Taproot. He also did a song called 'Barack Your World' with Mike Shinoda under the name 'White Pegacorn' in 2008.

What, you believe GATS is mixed the way it is because they didn't have enough time and just gave us an early unmixed version? I hope the album's mix is raw as fuck.

Pretend to Be was written after MTM, as far as I know. Mike was writing some stuff for Linkin Park's fourth album, which he later abandoned as he felt it was too similar to Minutes to Midnight. Not Alone - I believe it was started during the MTM sessions. Whether it was a finished song and they just changed the lyrics or it was a rough demo, we could only guess.

Okay, this thread has gone too far.

Yes. They are not the band I listen to most at a lot of occasions. Hell, there are sometimes weeks or even months when I listen to LP like 10 times at all. Most of the time, there are at least 2 or 3 different bands I listen to more than Linkin Park. But Linkin Park is the only band that excites me so much, the only band I follow like crazy when a new album is being recorded, the only band I know every song of, and, of course, the first band I became a fan of when I was still a kid. I've heard tons of awesome music since then, found a lot of other favorites, but LP is the band I'll probably call 'my favorite' even after 30 years.

Change them to normal spelling. I don't mind the #ALLCAPSEVERYTHING, but LT song titles look bad when mixed with other tracks.

Okay, a lot of huge names in that list. For starters - you haven't heard of Nirvana?

There's no link, he just says there are audible gang vocals on GATS and we don't know what that photo is - for all we know, GATS might be the only song with gang vocals on the record.

Of course Rakim wrote his verse. He's not some lame-ass rapper that lets other people write his verses.

Why the fuck are 30STM put in front of LP on that poster? Don't tell me they are gonna rotate the headline spot like GNR and Metallica did back in 1992...

I don't think it's LP's logo. There's a second line close to the first line - it doesn't look like the logo.

OH MY GOD, IT'S GETTING HUGE AGAIN! /fanmodeon

I'm not familiar with how things went at this festival, but the ones picking the line-ups at festivals are usually the promoters, not the bands. It's highly unlikely that LP picked those bands. Whether they were asked how they felt about the other performers or not - we'll never know, but I don't find that very plausible, either.

I accidentally bumped into a 2005 article from a Bulgarian teen magazine, entitled 'Linkin Park's secrets'. I've heard of most of the stuff, but there are several things I never knew, so I'm curious whether they're true. The first one is not that important, but is Mike really shortsighted and wearing contact lenses all the time? The other one is concerning Rob. The article says that Rob's mother was a close friend with Joey Kramer, Aerosmith's drummer. It was Joey who first taught Rob to play the drums. I've never heard of that, but I found similar information on Google. It only says Joey gave Rob his first kick pedal, though, but then adds that one of Joey's ex-girlfriends is Rob's mother. Which one is true?

The guys at LPA mentioned Eastwest Studios in LA. Guess that's the one you're referring.

You're blessed not to be able to watch it, trust me.

You can still be disappointed, though. I don't hate Living Things - not at all. I even play it like once in a month. It really disappointed me coming after ATS, however.

Okay, it's about time they hit Bulgaria, but let's not be the 'COME TO BRAZIL, PLEASE!!!' guy. I do hope so, but if not - Romania again, please? Or Serbia for the first time? Even Greece might work out, although I prefer the former two. Can't wait to see the band for the very first time! The crowds here (especially Bulgaria and Serbia) are insane, give us a chance!

Mike's holding a regular guitar, not a bass guitar. They are similarly colored, so I guess the person who uploaded the photo just didn't know the difference between an electric guitar and a bass guitar.

The article won't open for some reason, but if it means any of these three guys will perform with LP, then fuck yeah!

200bpm.

Okay, I know most of us are hardcore fans, who know basically everything about the band, but I'm sure we all had one of those 'wow, did they really do that?' or even 'damn, is that Linkin Park?' moments. Following a band that changes on a regular basis, it's kinda inevitable. When did LP catch you off guard? For me, it would be back in 2007, when I was listening to MTM for the very first time. The album was different from the standard stuff we knew from HT/M, but still felt Linkin Park-ish in an awesome way. However, after hearing the first nine songs, something I totally hadn't seen coming happened. A Linkin Park song lacking Chester's singing and Mike's rapping. In Between featured Mike as the lead vocalist, who was singing the main vocal melody for the first time on a studio record. I was so surprised at first, being used to the usual Chester and Mike's roles, especially given that Chester sung most of the record, that I thought it might not be really Linkin Park, but some other band's song appearing on the leak version instead. Of course, I realized what was actually happening after a few seconds, but it really caught me off guard. Six years later, it's still a very favorite song of mine. What about you?