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Sounds like Air Force One off of LPU 16.

Yeah, good point. If you listen to the demos of the song from Time Capsule, there is a computer voice saying ''we are''. In the Death To Analog/Transformers version, you can clearly hear someone saying ''we are''. It could be Ryan but idk.

Is Chester featured in the studio version of Technical Difficulties off of Death To Analog? Chester made many guest appearances live during the song. He did Technical Difficulties with them at their first ever show at Club Tattoo in 2006, many times throughout 2007, he did it with them at Club Tattoo in 2008, and even a few shows in 2009. The demos of the song on Time Capsule lack the vocals on Death To Analog. It sounds like a distorted Chester, for sure. Chester also executive produced the album, even though the track was released on Transformers back in 2007, the same mix.

I wish they would be. They are good tracks; it’s weird he kept them only for that vinyl. I hope one day he will put them on Apple Music, etc., maybe in 2019.

There are probably a bunch of demos for THP and early MTM demos that have a similar sound to this song, at least vocally.

I LOVE THIS TRACK. It's so good. I'm happy we got it and I'm happy Chester left us with a track like this. I've always been a huge fan of Chester's solo work and all of his bands, and this is no exception, it's a great track. I'll probably have more to say about it after a few days of listening to it. It also looks like the song will be released as a single since it had it's own cover art. EDIT: I already ordered Anesthetic last week, I got the Zip-Up hoodie and CD bundle. Can't wait for both.

Did a little write up for the cancelled U.S. tour for OML. Introduction The North American Tour 2017 was set to be Linkin Park's U.S. tour for One More Light. The tour was set to run from July 27th to October 22nd, with over a month long gap in between shows in September and October. Before The Tour Before the tour was set to start, Linkin Park did a massive tour across Europe. The tour featured the band's first show ever in Hungary, as well as the band visiting many countries and playing many big festivals, etc. The band wrapped up the tour with 3 shows in the U.K., featuring an exclusive show at London's 02 Academy Brixton. The band finished up the tour with a show in Birmingham, England, which would later come to be Chester Bennington's final show with the band. It is unknown if there were any rehearsals, etc. before the North American Tour took place. Linkin Park was scheduled to play The Sound Lounge for Chicago's 101WKQX Studios on July 25th, which was discovered after Chester's death was announced. It is unknown what songs the band were set to perform. Main Summary Since the tour was completely cancelled before the tour started, there isn't much to talk about. Besides the main dates of the tour, the band was set to play Good Morning America's concert series in Central Park on August 4th. The band also had two special ''Blinkin Park'' shows wedged in between the Mansfield and Camden dates, which were co-headlining shows with Blink-182, and were set to be performed in stadiums, something that Linkin Park has never done on their own. Touring bands The support acts were set to be very interesting for this tour. Machine Gun Kelly was set to join the band as direct support throughout the Mansfield date all the way through the Las Vegas date. One OK Rock was added to a few of the East Coast shows for Mansfield, Camden, Bristow and Uncasville. Snoop Dogg was set to be direct support throughout the Seattle date through the Los Angeles date on the final leg of the tour. The band also had several unique performances scattered throughout the tour, with two ''Blinkin Park'' shows in Flushing, NY and Hershey, PA. They weren't necessarily part of the U.S. Tour but they were set to take place during shows of the main tour, so they're worth noting. They were co-headlining shows with Blink-182. Machine Gun Kelly was support for both shows, and Wu-Tang Clan was also support for the Flushing, NY show. Linkin Park was going to headline the Hershey, PA show, while Blink-182 was going to headline the Flushing, NY show.

I have never seen any song be promoted as much as Mike has promoted this particular track. It's been like 5 months of promoting this sole song, with it's own merch line, radio campaign, over the top like performances of it every time it's performed, TV appearances, festival appearances with K.Flay, etc. It's easily the worst song on the entire album for me personally - but I know some people like it. K.Flay's voice is possibly the most irritating thing I have ever heard. This is also pop to the max, people thought that One More Light was pop, they have to listen to this track then. I wonder how much more he will promote this one song for. All of 2019? Not hating on that, just wondering. Maybe another merch line for it?

Definitely going to order that hoodie + CD bundle today.

Can’t wait for this. Extremely excited!!!! I know I’m going to love it. Been waiting literally since the day that Mark and Chester announced it in 2017.

Mike was doing FM solo shows in 2015 and he also put out Welcome, etc. LOL. Lift Off and I.O.U. were also written for FM, before Chester even passed. People are stupid and will say anything to make it seem like LP was about to break up and Chester killed himself for some stupid reason of whatever they have in their head. I hate people like that. All these conspiracy theory idiots like the guy who asked Mike during an interview if he believed that ''sinister hands'' were involved in Chester's death. Or the idiots who think Chester and Chris Cornell were going to expose some pedophile ring so they got ''suicided'' to keep from saying anything. These people truly are the worst.

I never heard that about Mike wanting to go solo. Or Chester. They wrote music all the time on their own throughout their entire career.

TTM is a great example that just because Chester isn't a primary writer of a song, doesn't mean that he didn't help with lyrics and melodies. It's shown many times throughout LPTV/LPUTV/Making Of's, etc. and said during interviews. Good points, though. Chester said that 2015 was the worst year of his life and 2016 wasn't that great, either, during this interview for OML. https://i.imgur.com/FJppy9i.pngScott Weiland also passing was definitely hard on Chester. Scott and Chester's weren't close friends, as Scott revealed during an interview after Chester joined the band, but still, Chester looked up to him growing up and stuff. And then his Step Dad died, he says in that interview posted above that someone else close to him attempted suicide,etc. On top of that he started drinking again, etc. like you pointed out. And then in 2017, Chris Cornell's suicide was a huge blow to Chester. I'm not sure if that was the final blow for him, because we don't know other issues that he was going through in his personal life, but you never know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfoV2L2MkQ4 He also talks here about how all of his relationships in life were failing and that he told his therapist that he just wanted to die or not feel anything. Some dark stuff. Chester had depression. And with suicide, you're never going to know the answer, it's text book, everyone struggles with that after losing someone to suicide. But if you look at all of those things together, plus probably way more that we don't know/shouldn't know, there you go.

Hmmm...

Best show of each album touring cycle: HT: Goldsmith College 2001 Meteora: Mountain View 2004 MTM: Lots of good ones... maybe a European Summer Tour 2008 show or Hannover, MSG, Sacramento 2008 ATS: MSG 2011 LT: Summer Sonic 2013 THP: Orlando 2015 or Beijing 2015 OML: Was cut way too short in touring cycle to tell, but probably Berlin 2017? But best 5? Probably 1. Mountain View 2004 2. Goldsmith College 2001 3. Summer Sonic 2013 4. MSG 2011 5. Hannover 2008

Honestly, I preferred the shows that were only Mike (Weenie Roast 2018 through LoveLoud 2018) but this show isn’t that bad. Thanks for sharing.

Weenie Roast 2007 is one of my favorites and even though the quality isn’t that good, I feel like it’s better than a lot of other shows they have webcasted. AAC 2012 sounded worse than AAC 2000, wtf? Lol. But yeah, I don’t know why they haven’t tried to do anything for it.

Great point. Mike has said a few times that Crossing A Line is the middle of the record, and it was there intentionally, because the way that he sequenced the album, was that the first half was darker and looking back, while the second half, starting with Crossing A Line, was coming out of that darkness. The first 7 tracks are pretty dark. Place To Start, while it doesn't sound as dark as the others instrumentally, has some somewhat dark lyrics, with Mike questioning his career, his path ahead, everything. It was also a OML demo that he wanted originally to open up OML, but they went with NCSM as time went on, he said something like that in Kerrang about that song, so it was probably dark for him to revisit a song that Chester probably had heard at one point, etc.. Over Again, we know it's a dark song, talking about Chester's tribute show, and also Mike's career, etc. Watching As I Fall deals with Mike struggling emotionally and it's a pretty straight forward track. Nothing Makes Sense Anymore is dark as hell, lyrically, it doesn't have much ''hope'' in the lyrics, it's basically about being lost in life, at least to me. About You might be the darkest, or close to it. Basically the song is saying that even when Mike tries to write about something else, or do something else, people will just associate it with Chester. Blackbear also worked on OML with LP so it probably opened up some old scars bringing back memories of Mike and Chester, etc. Brooding has always been a super dark sounding instrumental to me. Promises I Can't Keep is also kind of dark, talking about how he never saw the band coming unglued, or being broken apart, and how he now has to face that going forward, there will be some promises that he can't keep.

I'm not even saying that I personally believe that. But ever since Chester's sister came out with that info and stuff, it's just thrown everything into a frenzy for a lot of fans. I was mainly just saying that's what the original post I had was about.

People weren’t saying he didn’t grieve publicly enough. It was what he was grieving for that was the question.

The LPTV and LPUTV for MTM. The Making Of doesn't really have any unknown songs during it aside from showing small clips of Grecian, Song #72 and early versions of songs like Blackbirds, Given Up, Leave Out All The Rest, No More Sorrow. I can think of one episode in particular, called ''Mike's Shirt'' from LPUTV 2007. It featured an unknown instrumental during the episode. But there are many more. They stopped doing it with ATS and onwards. Unfortunately, I don't have higher quality videos of LPTV from 2003. I don't know where you would find it.

Sub par video. Love the song, though.

I agree with some of the stuff you're saying but you’ll probably get slaughtered for having an opinion like that in the LP fan base. A lot of people online are saying it seems like Mike was upset about losing his career and his band more than he was about losing his friend to suicide. But yeah, LFAA is the only song really speaking about losing Chester, and it was just a live one time thing, I'm starting to think. Someone asked him about the song on the Europe tour a few months ago apparently and he said that he doesn’t even remember the song.

The touring cycle was fine, I saw the band 3 times in 2012 and 1 time in 2013, they were some of the best shows that I’ve ever been to. And the album is amazing and always has been. Is it their best album of all? No, but it’s amazing. Tinfoil/Powerless is probably my favorite closer to any album from the band, Powerless is such a great, powerful and emotional song. Skin To Bone, Until It Breaks, Victimized and Roads Untraveled are all experimental as fuck and great tracks. Roads Untraveled especially now that Mike revived it in recent years. Castle Of Glass, Burn It Down and Lost In The Echo are all great singles and amazing live songs. Huge energy. And it’s clear that the band loves those singles. In My Remains and I’ll Be Gone are pretty good songs, even though Primo was a little better than I’ll Be Gone, I’ll Be Gone is still a great song. In My Remains is a beautiful song.

Seems like you really just hate Living Things for whatever reason. It's fine if you don't like it. My original point was that the album had some personal lyrics on it, which the band specifically said they wanted to have on the album.