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Rob's use of the sampler pads during shows is pretty impressive, especially when you see Colin in 2024 with the band - a different sound/style. Rob was a machine behind the kit. Hoping he shows back up one day.

Extending a big Happy Birthday to Rob Bourdon!

Watched this last night. Thanks for sharing, this is great. Chester is a MONSTER at this show, a fucking force. The video of the Meteora art day stuff being shown on From the Inside, Figure.09, etc is cool. Reanimation stuff on P5hng. Loved checking all the video content out, it was neat to see the footage they put together for the tour. Numb has some footage driving through what looks like LA neighborhoods.

Started with Riyadh to move backwards but will hop into these updates first for the first few shows that you posted. Thanks for your help. https://linkinpedia.com/wiki/Live:20241212

The album itself was not a flop by any measure of the term. But the backlash was severe. He took it personally - it was on the level of A Thousand Suns but he wasn't in a good headspace for OML.

From the Inside probably returns in Mexico, if not this summer. It's been played on every album cycle the band has ever done. It'll show back up soon enough - it's one of their favorite songs. He has every right to play any song he wants in his solo spot in the show - he chose Welcome and RTN previously and chooses WTCFM and RTN now. Would love to see High Voltage pop into that spot eventually. WTCFM is fantastic. Never really saw the need for a Fort Minor song in the middle of the LP set but it doesn't hurt, the crowd goes nuts for it. It made sense when Mike didn't tour solo but with LP it's a little odd considering the LP discography is so large. It's no problem though.

It's hard to tell because the first 3 shows I saw were 360 and the sound was noticeably weaker than a normal show. That's probably for any artist playing 360. The intros were so loud at the Forum and Barclays you couldn't hear what was going on - the bass was overwhelmingly too loud. Texas was a stadium and was mixed absolutely flawlessly. Really great mix there, the entire production was a true sight to see and the band nailed it. Loved the mini set at the end of the catwalk too.

Fresh from the Nerdmatics Instagram as Linkin Park prepares to head to Mexico this month is a series of two videos detailing some of the behind the scenes setup and gear for the band's touring rigs. "Nerdmatics is a design team based out of Los Angeles, California specializing in music performance systems and audio & midi software development." In these videos you'll get to see some of the work that was put into setting up the band's gear for the From Zero World Tour. There is another video on Mike's build as well: "New build for @m_shinoda currently being used on tour with @linkinpark With gear from @nativeinstruments @embodme and @iconnectivity_interfaces we created a custom station for Mike to play samples, run VSTs, and use multi channel audio FX. This steup can also sample audio from different instruments on stage and add FX to it as well. The center of the rig is a Prodigy.MP from @directout as well as @digitalaudiodenmark Core 256 for thunderbolt connection and low latency audio. Thanks to Marc VanGool and the LP crew for all their help with this." Thank you to Nerdmatics for sharing!

Looking back ten years ago today - Linkin Park was in Indianapolis, Indiana to perform their third show of the 2015 North American Tour for The Hunting Party. Just before the show, Chester broke his ankle and still performed the full show. It's hard to believe it has been ten years since this incident, but it ended up being just another notch in the belt for Chester of injuries sustained around shows where he ended up powering through and performing the show. Here is a throwback to the LPTV episode of the incident: Other injuries sustained over the years for Chester include the infamous spider bite incident in 2001 where he was told to cancel shows immediately by a doctor but still performed, breaking what appears to be his wrist in the middle of the fall European Tour in 2003 but still playing all of the shows, jumping off of the stage in Australia during Papercut and breaking his wrist mid show but still toughing it out for the rest of the set, hitting himself in the face with a tennis racket and requiring stitches in Asia on the Minutes to Midnight tour, and more. One thing these all have in common? He kept going and played the shows for the fans. Always remembering Chester who is missed dearly.

Oops, thanks!

Linkin Park has begun rehearsing for their upcoming shows in Mexico and Asia, about two weeks out from the first show in Mexico City on January 30. Returning to Third Encore, Colin has posted several photos of multiple drum kits which doesn't come as a surprise since the band will need to return to multiple touring rigs again as they are accustomed to due to the travel. We were already being reserved about any expectations for changes in the show since the Los Angeles fires undoubtedly impacted the region and possibly the crew as well, but surprise - Alex Feder has posted a video of him playing 'Good Things Go' on drums. GTG.mp4 We have already seen an instrument change on the tour with Colin playing guitar on both 'When They Come For Me' (electric guitar) and 'My December' (acoustic guitar) on the tour. In interviews for the album, Mike said he originally asked Colin if he wanted to play guitar or drums, knowing that they needed both, before Brad recruited Alex. It definitely wouldn't come as a surprise to see Colin incorporated on guitar more on the tour... meaning they'd need someone on drums if they took the idea further - enter Alex. 'Good Things Go' has become an instant fan-favorite on the new album. Mike said around the album's release, "Lots of people saying Good Things Go is a favorite on the album. Love that, I didn't expect it." We honestly would have expected 'Overflow' as the next live debut on the album, as the band has said since September they want to perform it live. Emily said, "'Over Each Other' is cool, but, like... 'Overflow,' come on! On the album, it's a standout to me, it expands the album in a really cool way, I think it's going to do that live, too." 'Good Things Go' would be a great surprise for fans as it is a top song on album reviews and album ranks across the fanbase. Linkin Park returns to the stage January 31 in Mexico City for their first show in Mexico in nearly a decade, kicking off a three show run of Mexico in stadiums. After that, two shows in Japan follow along with Jakarta, Indonesia. The U.S. leg of the From Zero World Tour kicks off in April in Austin, Texas.

Skipping Collision Course was a shame. There was a good opportunity there for the Roxy show (LP songs) to release in some format. Just afraid the recent Fort Minor physical releases - there were quite a few - will hinder them from doing something for this. At least put a show out digitally.

Maybe another pressing of the one they just put out?

They did, they added Queens of the Stone Age for Dodger Stadium specifically. That makes sense - good post. That would explain why the band turned down the offer of Linkin Park x Panic at the Disco shows in 2014 in Brazil. Along with the 2 festivals, they were offered what, 3 more headline shows but with P!ATD opening? The guarantees were not high enough for LP to accept the offer, so they didn't do them. Aka, the promoter didn't offer more because he didn't think X amount of tickets would be sold. It's all money-driven at the end of the day. Now looking back it would have been wild to have had Brad out for like 5 shows in a row lol

Ryu thought he was on the normal version of the song and it was a Fort Minor comeback with him included. https://x.com/TherealRyu/status/612870898404622337 It's easy to see how this got out of control - it looks like Mike cut his verse and didn't tell him lol. He was even at the music video shoot for the song - he thought he was involved in all of this.