KeysToTheLinkinPark

Saw that video and damn that looks like tons of fun!

The only way for LP to play these rare songs is in the form of an LPU-like tour. Ideally, this would also be advertised in such a way that especially rare songs are played live.

For me it is way easier to play it like Brad. Both the bridge and the verse. You don't have to think too much about palm muting to strumming. You can fake the rhythm by letting the strings ring a bit and then hit the next chord instead of strumming it.

That is true. Same goes for the verses. Apart from the palm muting technique, Alex plays the second verse plam muted like the album version. Brad played around way more. You can hear that in a show from 2017 where Brad doesn't really stop between any of those palm mutes. It's played liked this in the 2nd verse: C# |1-----1-----3-----0-----0-----0-----------------8-----------8--8--8-----7-----7-----------------------------------| Between the last 0 and the first 8 is a clear stop on the record and here Brad just runs it through and creates way more guitar sound with it. He barly palm mutes the lowest string either. It's a stylistic choice tbh. I play around with the 2nd verse as well when I play guitar. Sometimes I like it a bit more open, sometimes a bit darker with more palm muting. Bridge on the record: you hear some strumming, Bridge 2004: You hear like zero strumming Bridge 2025: Clear strumming pattern Bridge 2017: strumming pattern is the closest to record in the beginning of the bridge but Brad runs it through towards the middle/end I would say that Alex may put a bit too much energy into the strumming which leads to almost a full stop of the notes. On the other hand, Brad just never really played it like the record as well and created way more guitar sound.

It's probably hard when the basis of your songwriting is no longer there. 90% of the songs were written about things from Chester's life. Many of the new songs can only be roughly interpreted in terms of Emily's past. But we know too little about her for that (for obvious reasons). To put it bluntly, would we know how terrible the influence of a certain church was on her or that she has now reflected that she was brainwashed by it. Then of course there are topics you can sing about that are very authentic. But since we don't know very much, interpretations of the lyrics of more recent songs are based on speculation (e.g. Casualty).

Another full show source from behind the stage.

I've pointed this out a few times in the chatbox. It's the same setup they used in Japan and it's most likely an Austin-only thing because the show sold really well and they opened up those sections about a month before the show to give more people a chance to see LP. That's not going to happen with the rest of the US shows of the first leg because those shows didn't sell as well in comparison or the arena do not allow such setup (e.g. Baltimore where no sections on one end even exist) But yea, it is neither fish nor fowl compared to the classic 360° set up.

Full show in good quality.

Cool to see Mike so far up in the crowd.

I'm just happy he's still a part of the band and most likely will be more involved in the creation of the next album.

Song will be out on Friday

The legendary middle finger thing picture. That was the picture where everybody thought that it was Mike studio even though it was obvious that it wasn't

Man how time flies. I remember during the Meteora20 times how Mike indicated that everything is possible except touring. He was never that open to new LP before that so I had an I Idea that something will be coming eventually. Then Gordon the Lord gave us all the hopes and from there it slowly came together.

Well I don’t see them doing a big USA January/February tour 2026 like they planned in 2015. they see the demand and they will come to Europe/Asia/South America instead of the US where the demand is not that big.

So I guess they announced too many shows for Brazil in the first place?