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Well at least he is not abusing it as much as all these other mainstream artists out there. Sometimes you need more voices to get the effect to the audience. Without any background voices it might be hard. But maybe he is not there yet, where he can completely get rid of it.

I don't believe this happened.

 

Stood in line, a couple people came up to me because of either my hair or LPLive (one person wanted a picture!). When it finally came time for Mike, we actually had a little talk. He knew me as Rogue Soul. He's read my posts, he remembers talking to me through LPLive. When I told him I was also Immortal Reviews, he said, "That's you too? You're like my hero." He even remembered seeing me before (Grand Central Station). Even as I was getting ushered away, he called back at me "What's your name? It was a pleasure to finally meet you!"

 

God I love this man. Definitely worth driving through the atrocity of Long Island's roads.

He is basically a god and a genius at the same time. But it shows how many people we can reach out to with this fan page.

As you already pointed out...Mike is improving and I'm curious to where he takes us with his voice. But now that he has to sing more and is doing quite a lot of shows, we have to get used to the fact that he will have some vocal problems here and there like Chester had. It's normal when you sing so much for so many shows, but Mike never really had vocal problems since he never sang so much in LP shows.

Yep, I hope that he plays Hold It Together or Can't Hear You Now

Just let the other 4 see Mike perform and develop of the course of the year and maybe then they get more confidence in him (They already have, but you know)

Okay, so the picture of Mike and MGK made me think. It was shot in Berlin on an offday according to MGK and he claims to have wrote his verse there. When was Mike in Berlin with MGK?? Only thing I can think off was last year during the OML tour, right?

 

Also in the annotations for I.O.U. Mike makes it sound like the track was also complete before Chester passed. And if I recall correctly there was an interview with Mike from when CAL was released where he states that had been thinking of going solo before Chester passed. Add those facts with the cool Fort Minor shirts Mike wore during the OML tour and I think its safe to say that Mike was well on its way to making a new Fort Minor record. With Lift Off and I.O.U. as demos. Ofcourse everything changed after july 20.

 

But to me it seems that the foundations of PT were already laid more than a year ago as a potential Fort Minor album. I think thats more than logical coming from a guy that always writes. And I dont blame him, but for me it does take something away from Post Traumatic as an album about coping with the loss of a dear friend. Like, couldnt he have saved those tracks for later and instead release a 12 or 10 track record? I think I would have prefered that TBH.

 

I wanna state again that I dont blame Mike. And maybe my theory doesnt even add up.

 

But what are your thoughts?

As you already stated. Mike always writes and has ideas, but when LP was still in tact, he had a buisniss to run and shows to play around the world and probably didn't have the time to release a whole FM album. July 20th changed everything that's right, but I don't think that it takes too much aways from the album. If older demos work know better than ever than he should use them and not start from scratch. Make It Up As I Go was written during the OML session and he just revisited the song and fixed it in order to be linked with the overall topic of PT.

I can understand that certain things in his interviews may sound a bit 'harsh'. Him saying that it's so complicated writing an album with 5 other guys may sound weird and cast a por light on the procedure within LP. But it's so clear that you can only understand MIke's argument. He is always justifying this argument in order to not sound to harsh.

Hold It Together, Lift Off and Running From My Shadow are my favourites as of right now

I cannot watch this video without imagining how Mike sits below the "screen" and having fun making this video

Crossing A Line as a LP song would've been on the radio all the time...100 %

 

For YEARS I thought the band had 3 different vocalists .

Loool...I had the same problem

grandson posted a new preview in his Instagram Story

His raps are great...man!

 

 

Not all of 2015 was bad. Orlando, Nashville and Indianapolis were great. Orlando was probably the best show of THP cycle, honestly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mZYTXkT2tE Probably the best Final Masquerade they have ever played.

I'm quite shocked...tbh. With instrumentals being added, it sounds really good to me. I guess TTM is another song he can perform with some backing tracks as they always used them on TTM (Especially the second chorus)

Holy moly

Somehow, Mike often seems to not have the same volume throughout a song. Sometimes his voice is lowered and seems less powerfull than he obviously is. Especially during the ITE performance at the Bowl. He is able to sing the chorus and we fans (sadly) have to get away from comparing him to Chester's voice. He can handle it but there, it seems like he didn't sing in full volume. The same goes for BIO. His style of screaming, or whatever you wanna call it, is not too bad. He's more screamsinging the BIO chorus and it's in a way you can get used to it and say "Why not all the time". Mike has to adjust and needs to get his volume up sometimes. He probably not comfortable doing it with full volume yet, maybe he is scared that we fans won't like it.

Hahninator mentioned Rebellion and he sang the bridge alongside Daron and no surprise that Daron overpowered him, but you could see a glimps of how he would perform the bridge and tbh. it would be fine for me.

Mike needs time to adjust and now be the one who is in the center of everything as the "frontman" of LP and to follow into Chester's footsteps isn't that easy.

Since a lot of guys were saying that they expected Mike to do better on Bleed It Out, I would like to know what excatly you were expecting? I mean, there is no way that you will get to hear Mike scream even a bit of BIO, right?

Lol

That escalated

 

It's still really painful to see Mike doing some of these songs without Chester and I don't know if that'll ever go away personally.

The first time he played Over Again...man there were so much pain in his eyes and voice you could feel it. Definitely one of the hardest songs to perfom.

btw he is probably able to perform Papercut in its standard version. Her partly sang the bridge at the Hollywood Bowl show, so I guess that he doesn't need that voice changing thing.

Chester was much better.

Huh, really? Did not know that

Do you think that the way he performed Papercut is a possible way to play it in 'future' LP shows (If there will be shows) ? Of course the instrumental will be the same but the way he tried the vocals.

Soundcheck:

 

1) Welcome

2) When They Come For Me

3) Watching As I Fall

4) Sorry For Now

Unfair to be in Germany.-...

 

Man, no one reads the posts lol

 

There's a countdown under each of the webstream info spoiler tags.

Rip your hard work

R.I.P. not able to watch the stream...it will start at about 1am in Germany.

12. Lift Off (feat. Chino Moreno & Machine Gun Kelly)

Well MGK is not a surprise but Chino? Man, I'm hyped