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Just scored pit tickets to Boston, and it was $192 after fees. The last time I saw LP, it was at the same venue, February 2011 on the ATS world tour. For me, price doesn’t matter. This is my way to finally say thank you and goodbye to Chester.

Pretty emotional over this. LP are playing at TD Garden in Boston, the last place I saw them play with Chester back in 2011. Definitely starting over “From Zero”! But terrified of what the prices will be like. I wish we could know that info in advance!

Pretty emotional over this. LP are playing at TD Garden in Boston, the last place I saw them play with Chester back in 2011. Definitely starting over “From Zero”!

So I logged into LpU and it says I have passport plus “legacy” account, with a renewal date of December 31, 1969. does anyone else see a similar thing? I don’t recall paying anything, though I was an LPU member for the first ten years or so. i don’t want to miss the presale for the 2025 tour!

Very emotional and anxious about this event and can’t wait for it to be over. Not sure if I’ll be supporting the band moving forward though. Linkin Park have played a major role in my life since 2001. My favorite band of all time, and Chester is my hero. It was an honor to meet him in 2003, go to a handful of LP shows, be in the LPU, work with the Street Team, and be part of the LPlive community. If the smoke clears after today’s event and “Linkin Park” are releasing new music, tour dates, or have a new member, I’m out. To me, Chester IS Linkin Park. The heart, the soul, the voice. I don’t care who created the band, who wrote the music, and who is still here to move forward. Chester is gone. And “Linkin Park” should be, too. My other favorite band, Sublime, just spent almost 15 years with a new singer, making music and touring as “Sublime with Rome.” It was upsetting to hear people say “Hey I’m going to see Sublime tonight!” No, you’re not. Bradley Nowell isn’t playing guitar and singing on stage. He can’t. I know Chester supported Sublime with Rome, and he himself “replaced” Scott Weiland, touring and making new music as “Stone Temple Pilots”, so there’s certainly a valid argument of “Chester would have wanted this” or “it’s a tribute to him” and “continues the legacy.” I hope that if new music comes out, it involves Chester outtakes. If they tour, they play his vocals over the PA, or have the crowd + band do his parts. That’s the most I can hope for. I’m happy others are excited and wish the surviving members the best of luck, but this potentially crosses a line for me personally and is too upsetting to be part of.

I’d pay retail price just for the acoustic performances. Hoping I can grab a copy of this on Record Store Day, and that it’s on streaming services too!

I like “Friendly Fire”, but as is the case with most LP studio tracks, I HATE the effects on Chester’s voice. It sounds more like AI than Chester himself. Thankful we get to hear unreleased music, though, and finally have QWERTY on streaming services. I hope the band never stop releasing material, especially if they want to open their live recording vault, which we know has hundreds of shows in it

My "Meteora 20" wishlist had a DVD of the $2 Bill Detroit show (in full), or a full show from the US LPU Tour, but no complaints from me after seeing the contents! My favorite part has to be the Nottingham show. I was in my second year of college and stayed up all night to listen to the Webcast. I still remember hearing "Lying From You" for the first time, and playing the recording for my friend on our drive to see LP for the first time in Worcester, MA a week later on the LPU Tour. Can't wait to listen to a better quality recording of the FULL show!!!

Not a fan of Chester's singing style during the, ahem, Grey Daze, but a cool project for fans that reminds me of those homemade acoustic/piano remixes of LP songs on YouTube.

Just read the book over the last couple days, and loved every second of it. LP's interviews, like their music, always seem so rehearsed and overproduced. Not that this is a negative thing, but it leaves a lot of stones unturned. It was fascinating reading Jeff's recount of meeting Brad, discovering Xero, and hearing songs like "Blue" or "Rhinestone" for the first time. I was surprised by some of the details - like how long it took LP to offer Chester the lead singer role - and just flat out smiling ear to ear at other parts, like David Kahne going from hating the band to wanting to personally mix "Plaster." Great read, and I wish there was more to it, or a documentary made from it, with Jeff's archive of tapes, flyers, etc. Would also love to hear the band respond to it, but I assume they'll just dismiss everything or say they don't remember. Still doesn't make any sense to me why they had a falling out with Jeff, despite the details he gives in the book. I can see LP wanting to be in control of their career, and hurt/insulted over the "Replace Mike with Mad Lion" stuff, but I'd think they would trust Jeff and realize what he put on the line for them enough to be amicable.

I can see how the PR:02 editing can bug completists and all that, but having great quality copies of these amazing songs/performances is blowing my mind as I watch the show again today. I can’t believe they’ve had this in the vaults for so long! Makes me excited for the Meteora anniversary, in hopes we get a full LPU tour show, with tracks like “Hit the Floor” and “Easier to Run” in great quality. Or a show from the Meteora world tour? The PR show was what I wanted most from the HT20 release and they didn’t let me down. Thankful to be an LP fan, and here talking about their music like I did back when LPU and this site launched so many years ago!

Fingers still crossed that the DVD's are somehow available for purchase outside of the box set. They're the only thing I want, but I can't drop $200

Super encouraging to see that people have not forgotten (no pun intended) about the "Hybrid Theory" set from Download. I think I have listened to that set more than anything else LP have ever released, in 20 years as a fan. Fingers crossed the full video is released!

Me! But as Astat said on the LPlive Instagram review of the box set, including Docklands on this might mean we don't get one of the unreleased shows. At least we have the full Docklands show that LPlive released, even if it's not perfect quality. Maybe LP will put it out for the 25th anniversary

They should have swapped out "Reanimation" for the Download Festival "Hybrid Theory" set. Makes no sense to me why they wouldn't include that in the box, unless they felt the DVD's satisfied the "live material" quota

As of now, yes, but I'd be surprised if the DVD's are not available one way or another, whether it's for sale individually on Digital Platforms (itunes), or simply uploaded to YouTube like the DVD's for the International/Tour Editions of past releases (A Thousand Sunds+, Living Things+).

Yeah, iTunes lists 80 tracks as part of the $49.99 deluxe edition. Looks like they have everything that the box set has, except the DVD content.

So unless I missed something, the only thing truly exclusive to the box set is the 2 DVD's, with the unreleased concerts + Frat Party 2, right? Seems like everything else will be available on Spotify and other streaming services.

I only want the DVD's. Hoping they do what A Perfect Circle did with their box set release, and make the DVD content available on iTunes as an individual purchase.

What's on the DVDs? $200 is a major investment for someone who doesn't care about vinyl, but if the shows on the DVDs are worthwhile...

Still holding out hope for the pro-shot video of the Download Festival full-album performance. Or a vinyl with that on it. Even make it one of the discs, along with the BBC full album show from '01 or whenever? I'm so beyond excited for this, and hope LP give the rest of their albums the same anniversary treatment when they turn 20

It would be cool if they are planning a few different versions of this release, one of which contains an actual cassette tape of Chester’s audition tracks or something similar. I’m also curious if there will be a “single” released, in the form of an unreleased track/demo. I know when bands like STP put out Anniversary editions, they released a couple songs in advance. Not necessarily for radio play or to blow up the Billboard charts, but still felt like the modern way of putting out the first track from an upcoming album.

Are we finally getting "Live at Docklands" released? Not that the LPlive version isn't great, but I wouldn't mind a BluRay

Assuming it won't be slanderous against LP, I can't wait for this!

While the negativity surrounding OML sucks, and could easily be taken personally, I'm at least thankful Chester (and the band) got to do a little bit of touring in 2017. It's great to see the crowd embrace the new songs, jumping up and down for "Talking To Myself", or singing parts of "Heavy" and "Good Goodbye". That hopefully gave LP some assurance that despite what critics or the minority of internet trolls said, the fans paying money for tickets and traveling to shows enjoyed OML for what it was.