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MUCH better quality, IMO. Thanks for sharing. It's interesting that when you drag the file into iTunes, it's listed under One More Light and as Track 4. I wonder if there are more demos from One More Light out there. It's a mystery how we got this demo as it is. I bet there are more that people don't want to share. But it would be awesome if someone were to share the shit eventually if there is stuff. Especially if the Russians release it since nothing can be done to them for it, unlike the DBS demos thing.

It would only be cool if they polished up some b-sides that they have and released those as a compilation album, like maybe a 10 song album, 10 b-sides from all album eras. We know that they recorded a few songs at least for each album that were fully done, but cut from the album. All they'd have to do is mix and master them properly with someone and put em out. Put it out on CD, Vinyl, Apple Music/Spotify, etc. Doesn't have to be a LPU CD. You know? If they ever get back in the studio as a 5 piece of with a new singer, they shouldn't use old Chester vocals. Wouldn't make sense to.

That would be awesome but idk if they will.. I was expecting some of that with LPU17 but we never got any music. Maybe LPU18.

I think OML, the song and the entire album, meant something new to 90% of people after Chester passed. I mean cmon, you can’t help but look at it different now.

There are PLENTY of main singles that Mike can sing himself easily, yet nobody seems to think Mike is capable. He is very capable. This is Mike fucking Shinoda we're talking about here. So some of these songs here would be good but it's missing a lot of main singles that Mike can sing. I don't even care what they would play but I know some people would.

Thanks for clearing it up for me.

For once Soul, I agree with you fully. Mike can sing stuff like that. Of course it won't sound the same as how Chester sang them, and why would it? So many of the singles that have ''scream'' sections are for a very short period in the song, such as Faint or One Step Closer. So why not simply just have the crowd chant those little parts? Seems logical to me. Hell, Chester even used to let the crowd do that a lot. Look at Faint from Summer Sonic 2006 as example, he let the crowd do the ''I won't be ignored'' scream. There are so many damn possibilities of what they could play. They could EASILY do a 25 song set no problem. And it wouldn't have to be full of ''rare'' songs, either, although I think some of those would be cool to hear. Let's look at the singles. The main singles from Hybrid Theory were One Step Closer, Papercut, Crawling and In The End. Mike could easily whip up a nice piano version of Crawling, with him singing, similar to the 2017 version. He could easily do that. He could easily do In The End, IMO. He could easily do Papercut, IMO, since he basically always sang the chorus during live performances anyways. And he has even done the bridge along with Chester in that one. Easy. One Step Closer, he could sing the verses and most likely the chorus, or even have the chorus sing a line, etc. Fans are gonna be singing along anyways. He could let the the crowd do the small ''shut up'' bridge, easily. So there's that album. Meteora, the main singles were Somewhere I Belong, Faint, Numb and Breaking The Habit. Mike could easily sing Numb and Breaking The Habit, maybe even doing really nice piano versions of those. Somewhere I Belong, I don't see him having much of an issue. Faint would be the only challenging one, but he could easily let the crowd chant the ''I won't be ignored'' part. The chorus isn't that bad, especially since Chester sang it WAY less aggressively during live performances than on the studio version. Minutes To Midnight had What I've Done, Bleed It Out, Shadow Of The Day, Given Up and Leave Out All The Rest as main singles. Mike could easily sing What I've Done, Shadow Of The Day and Leave Out All The Rest, IMO. Once again he could do piano for those, etc. if he wanted. Given Up would be very hard for him, I admit that, but why would they play it anyways, it wasn't played on the OML cycle and it wasn't a big single. Bleed It Out would be a little challenging but not by much. He could easily sing his own version of the chorus, IMO. The bridge would be hard but the crowd could easily do that short part. He could even just sing the ''ohhh'' part that he does normally. Who cares. ATS had The Catalyst, WFTE, BITS and Iridescent as main singles. I can't see them playing BITS ever again, since it wasn't played since 2011. But he could easily sing that one. Iridescent he could easily do, he even sang the original demo for it, so why not? WFTE he could most likely do, IMO. Doesn't seem too challenging to me. The Catalyst would be kind of hard but for some reason they might not even play it. He could do the chorus, though, I'm willing to bet. LT had BID, LITE and COG for singles. BID and COG he could easily do. LITE would be hard but they haven't played the full version in a while and they honestly don't need to play it, it wasn't that huge of a single. THP would be hard for him but they were only playing 1 song from the album in 2017 as it was, and it wasn't a ''big hit'' by any means. He could do UIG or Final Masquerade, IMO, once again, he sang the original Final Masquerade. He could even do a beautiful piano version of it, or acoustic, like that track the band put out. Fans would like it. I could even see him doing Rebellion, sing he sings a lot of the song anyways. Just let the crowd sing the chant part from Chester. He could improvise with it, too. OML, I could see him being able to handle all songs on the album, honestly. No problems there. And as far as the singles, he could easily do Heavy and OML. So that's their whole main discography dissected. Also, keep in mind that they have many rare songs they could now do that hardcore fans would like, so they could throw those in, too. Roads Untraveled and Sorry For Now are musts, too. And this would all also be with new songs that they write with Mike in mind as the lead singer as well. Could very easily work, IMO. Fans just don't support Mike enough. He is very good at what he does and he is very underrated. Mark Wakefield, nah. I had that idea at one point but it very quickly faded from my mind. Just can't see it happening. He already struggled and hated playing live as it was, and this was in 1998 and prior, so yeah. I don't think he would even want the position, honestly.

That's just one performance. And he could easily train his voice to do harder stuff if he wanted to. I actually believe in Mike. I mean at the end of the day, it's up to Linkin Park, obviously, what they want to do. As an individual fan, I couldn't support a replacement for Chester, but that's just me.

Was the ''U.S. To Europe Tour'' an official leg of the Hybrid Theory touring cycle or was is it just dubbed that from fans, etc.? It seems like the shows on that tour were just random festivals and shit, similar to the 2015 Summer American shows or whatever was, it wasn't an official leg of the tour but the fans basically dubbed it that.

That's a good point, when the full album drops, I bet the discussion will be interesting in a lot of ways. We still have a lot of new songs to hear and I'm sure a lot of them will be different like this one.

Whether it's right or wrong, I honestly think people will ask about Chester and Linkin Park forever. Even if Linkin Park makes new music again and tours, Chester will still be at the forefront. The man was a pure legend and he'll never be forgotten, especially with the name ''Linkin Park''. Most people think of Chester and Mike when they think of Linkin Park and they will forever be intertwined with it. Just my opinion. Mike was Chester's brother, he was extremely close with him. That's partially why people don't understand that Linkin Park isn't like a lot of these other bands who have lost vocalists. Chester and Mike had a bond that was very unique and special, IMO. And they had a 20 year career practically. Massive album cycles, spending massive amounts of time together on the road and in the studio, etc. Mike even saved Chester's life a few times basically. I don't think Mike will ever get angry or sick of hearing/talking about Chester. He will continue to create music for himself and for the fans, etc. I think this album was really about his grieving process of losing Chester so I think he knew going in that releasing these really personal songs and stuff, he would be asked about Chester a lot. Mike is also very smart, he knows the business, etc.

Idk man. I look through all of their singles from OSC to OML (All Singles) and I could see Mike being able to handle 90% of them. The only ones he probably wouldn’t be able to do are like stuff like OSC, GU. And a lot of the scream parts, they aren’t for the whole song. The crowd could do those parts even. Mike could sing MANY of the hits, including stuff like Numb, Crawling, LOATR, ITE and more. He is a good singer and who knows, we haven’t heard him ever try to sing sing aggressive or scream before. What if he actually could? You honestly never know. Piano versions of Numb and Crawling would be cool. A lot of possibility with stuff.

I feel extremely relieved after hearing this today. I hope they carry on as a 5 piece. I don’t want them to ever replace Chester ever. I couldn’t support it. But I don’t think Mike will do it. So yeah, I feel super relieved. I have full confidence in them carrying on as a 5 piece. They could do many songs. I can even see Mike being able to do stuff like Papercut or Bleed It Out. Stuff like Given Up or Keys To The Kingdom and songs like those weren’t being played even before Chester died. OSC maybe they could have Mike sing the verses and some of the chorus and let the crowd just sing the other parts for that one. I’ll elaborate more on this when I get home, I’m posting from mobile right now.

I agree with you that UIB is way better. I was just sayin’.

Well he’s sang on some stuff so far. And I’m sure the rest of the album will have some other songs in which he sings. Over Again and Watching As I Fall do have some singing, too. About You is the only straight forward trap/rap track we got so far, IMO. The others are kind of all over.

I saw someone say this song is like Until It Breaks Part 2 because that song had like 4 song ideas mashed into one. I guess they were kind of right. Lol.

Same. Noticed that as well. I always go back and edit the mistakes out though when I get to my computer, usually.

Wow, I didn't know this. Thanks for sharing this info.

Eh. The song isn't my favorite. It's not terrible. Definitely wasn't worth the hype or wait for it, IMO. Kind of was let down by blackbear's feature. I originally was hoping he would do a chorus. His verse is OK, but still, a little disappointed. It's not a bad song, just not the style of music that I like. I like Sorry For Now a lot better.

http://www.ioffer.com/i/linkin-park-live-peru-2017-extremely-rare-dvd-full-636857090 Is this a pro shot or a very good audience recording? I kind of want to buy it. Is it a rip off???

I'm not sure why people had an issue with this show. I have a great quality rip of the show and it sounds good to me. Probably my favorite out of the shows we have. I'm sure there were better shows on the European tour obviously, but I like this show better than Werchter and a couple others. I thought Chester sounded pretty good at this show.

I want 10 Living Things demos, all with vocals.

I bet Machine Gun Kelly will be featured on the album. He was seen in the studio with Mike last fall some time, when a lot of these songs were worked on. He is also good friends with Mike and he loved Chester, paying tribute to him many times. I like blackbear a lot, surprisingly. I don't love the pop genre but he is the best at it, IMO. I wish he sang that chorus but Astat revealed it was Mike singing it. Hope he actually provides vocals on the track and the ''featuring'' isn't just him as a producer of the track, etc.

I just prefer Mike as a rapper personally. He is good at rapping IMO. Some people think he isn't but who cares.

Mike has made some not so great songs with later albums, IMO. But he is talented as fuck, for sure. Sometimes I feel like he has strayed too far from his original self in terms of his style and music, but I suppose that's just growing. I thought Mike was cool as fuck though, up until like 2005. His style and attitude on the Meteora and Hybrid Theory touring cycles was badass. He looked awesome on PR04.