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It feels like a whole different concert, when suddenly hear Mike's voice in a lot of songs now. Really like it

I just listened to it on Spotify and even though I'm not the biggest fan of the acoustic version of Crawling, the sounds makes me really excited for the other songs. Especially for Talking To Myself

I'm really looking forward to this. Chester was in great shape this tour and sounded fucking great. It was definitely one of the better years performance wise for him.

Like he did on the Rebellion bridge. He sounded a bit like a singing Serj from SOAD and I would accept that. We have to give him respect for trying to sing (or whatever you wanna call it) the Papercut or Rebellion bridge. And let's be, we should be greatful for anything they present at future shows (of course, only if they do continue) and not be mad if certain parts/songs don't sound the same as they did before.

We probably have to give them more time. In the Karreng magazine where Mike talked about Chester and the band, he pointed out that some of the band members couldn't listen to their own songs with Chester on it (So almost every single one) for weeks. This show was harder than we think. I believe that they tried to hide their emotions as much as possible, even though we saw Phoenix, Brad and Mike being very emotional during certain songs. Especially during songs like In The End.

Yep, he supported the band throughout the whole show and did amazing!

It was going to, I believe Rob said it in the intro clip, be really healing for them and us fans to see them perform and them seeing us being happy to see them on stage again after Chester's passing. They realized, but certainly know, that they need us as much as we need them to perform.

That's actually a good point. They know that they need us as much as we need them to continue performing. And if they mix their future concerts up like you mentioned, nobody will be mad. I don't think that even one dude would go there after a concert and would complain about certain things. And as I mentioned earlier, Mike tried a bit of screamsinging here and there. He tried Rebellion, Papercut and some of the In The End Chorus and it wasn't bad. And the first 4 songs until Numb really showed us how a future LP could look like.

This one I agree. Especially In The End was tough. Seeing the 3, Brad, Phoenix and Mike, being in the front standing together and the crowd singing the chorus. This for me was the moment where Chester's missing was huge. Something about this moment was so emotional. Joe and Rob at their typical position of course, but you have the other 3 standing together looking at each other and you could almost read their minds, what's going through their heads. Really emotional and by their facial expression you can see how hard it was for them.

I guess that you have at least give them credit that they had the courage to perform with such a big and influential band. Especially those who are pretty new to this buisness.

True. All of them looked shocked, painful and quiet abstracted from the show, because of the difficulty to play this night, As I wrote earlier, especially in famous songs with great parts from Chester, the 3 (Brad, Mike and Phoenix --- Joe and Rob stay where they are) feel lost in the front. Chester had such a stage presence, which the other 3 in the front cannot equalize. But I agree, they didn't look comfortable yesterday.

I already thought about how they'll approach a new tour. I guess that they would start with small Shows (O2 Academy Brixton) across the US.

After the show yesterday, I wanted to revive this thread to discuss further ideas, now that we have an idea how a 5 piece LP could look like. Personally I don't know. It felt like they needed the show yesterday, but you could also see that they are still in pain. Especially in certain parts (ITE, Papercut etc.) everybody looks stunned, shockend and full of pain. I guess that if we want them to continue, we have to continue showin massiv support.

It got cleared up but general music listeners are still salty and hate Oli even more. Of course, people are salty in beforehand and have prejudices about him and now that the Stream failed - people are even more salty about him. It's sad cause they don't inform themselves about what happend and spread this throughout the social media and brings even more bad light above Oli.

Why should they? It's still demo if you want and just the first piece of the song.

Totally agree. Especially when the camera was in the position of the crowd and looked up to the stage and you saw the 5 playing. I was like "If they contiune as 5 then we have the future right in front of us - this is how it will look like when they play shows" Of course there were notes he missed but seriously, this dude has been through so much shit that he goes there and plays for 3 hours is truly special.

Great video. In the webcast it looked like he wasn't singing "....what is real" but it came to my speakers. IN this video you can clearly hear that there was no playback. Still sounded great

So hyped for this show, doesnt matter that it is 4 am for me when it starts

I almost forgot one thing to mention. Really really nice post Dylan!

As of right now we don't know whether they will play only with guest or have a section where LP plays alone to show us fans how they might go forward in the future. And NRL is one song, which is 1. sung by Mike and 2. There aren't any screams in it so Mike can handle it pretty well I don't think that they will play it on Friday, but I do believe that they will play it in future shows (We know that they will continue)

I can only agree. Grammys are almost like the MTV Music Awards or AMA's. As much as I'd love LP to get nominated and win something, it's most likey that they don't get any nomination in these catagories, because they are "old" or whatever

They probably will not get any nominations out of that but if they do get nominated then for Song of The Year. Even though it does not fit to the rest of the mainstream bullshit(My Opinion), it really sends a message and OML has such a depth, probably no other song in this list has. Best Record and Album is way too much in my opinion.

He can handle it with backing tracks.. I saw them last year and it was full of it. I mean LP used it on TTM and maybe Heavy but thats it.

He is not performing but Daron is really capable of screaming.

Doing all this stuff prevented him from suicide for a long time. As he said, he has to do something or be around someone else otherwise he is not the guys he normally is.