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Thank you @lpplus - this is super helpful for archiving. I know @xxHybridXeroxx has been trying to get some of the original files for the shows. But it's very hard since YouTube has no direct messaging anymore for users. I can't believe they got rid of that. So it's going to be hard to track down people for files... we can try I guess.

https://youtu.be/R-ownaMNQYs?si=sBFohaWvqW_6IrU9

Yeah. Think there is nothing more to that than him mixing up the albums. He isn't hiding anything.

Full show front row just uploaded.

"Linkin Park sit down with AP’s Editor-in-Chief, Anna Zanes, for an exclusive interview. Mike Shinoda, along with bassist Dave Farrell and new lead vocalist Emily Armstrong, unraveled the meaning of legacy — what it means to be a part of one, and to join one along the way — while also looking forward, and forging ahead. We talk about what’s at the very core of Linkin Park — a band as much as a community, built on connection, catharsis, and unabashedly big feelings."

"#LinkinPark joins N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN for a legendary episode of #DrinkChamps, diving into their long career. They discuss their hip hop roots and how those beginnings shaped their sound, brining on iconic collaborations, including the legendary project with #JayZ. The band reflects on their evolution throughout the years, working with legendary producer Rick Rubin, and their experiences touring globally, noting their huge fanbases in Germany and China. Mike and Joe also open up about continuing after Chester Bennington's passing, introducing new band members, and their world tour in support of their new album "From Zero" with vocalist Emily Armstrong. Get ready for some untold stories from one of music's most influential groups and don't forget to grab From Zero's Deluxe Edition and some tickets to their world tour."

What The Words Meant off of Post Traumatic https://linkinpedia.com/wiki/What_The_Words_Meant

Wow what an experience this show was. Unlike Sonic Temple which is pretty condensed and in a city, Rockville entails much more walking since it's at a race track. With 95 degrees expected all day, we knew for a 12 hour day we were in for a long one. From the car to the entrance gate it was already over a mile of walking. We kept up best we could with water all day long and took breaks when we tried to escape the sun - shout out to the Metallica Blackened whiskey tent for some shade mid-day. The sun from 2-5pm was pretty brutal and this is probably the hottest show I've ever been to. They booked this day perfectly for bands because Hoobastank, POD, and Incubus are who exactly we want to see before LP and all 3 bands absolutely nailed it. We started with Hooba and people were already having heat exhaustion in the crowd and EMS was having to come get them over the barricade. Both Hooba and POD crushed their sets and played very well. Throughout the day we wandered through the other stages at times if needed, like the Hollywood Undead set was surprisingly quite good. Taking Back Sunday was a bit of a letdown as Adam's voice just seems off to me. There is an entire genre of "new rock" of bands like Pierce the Veil, Bear tooth, I Prevail, Bad Omens, Sleeping With Sirens, etc - all of that is so, so bad to me and thankfully all of that type of stuff is pretty easy to avoid at shows like this. But you need that stuff to sell tickets to the teenage fans and early 20s fans it looks like. I'd much rather have Rise Against, Seether, Chevelle and those types of bands all day - Jimmy Eat World is a phenomenal one - than those newer rock acts but that's just how it goes, you need something for everyone. Hooba and POD singlehandedly blew all of the 5 grandson sets away I've seen before LP by miles. One thing about these festivals is the logistics are really well done. They put electric fans up in as many places as they can for people to cool off. There were a ton of free water stands, they discounted bottled water to $2 and allowed re-entry into the show so people could go cool off when they wanted to. Food and drink lines were non-existent with a million booths set up. So, they do a great job with all of this stuff. We got a good spot for Incubus that allowed us out of the way of the crowdsurfers and to be in a good spot for the sound. Alex came out and stood by Chad from Mudvayne near us to watch the Incubus set. Incubus played one of the best sets I've seen in a while - absolutely GREAT performance and they crushed it. Brandon sounds incredible and they even hit some deep cuts with Vitamin, Sick Sad Little World, and The Warmth. The newer girl bassist they have is quite solid too. Overall just an amazing Incubus set and it makes me really miss them touring with LP. 10/10 from them. Mike, Emily, and Joe watched on the side of the stage for their set. Incubus is at the top of their game right now and could easily headline one of these nights of the show but I'm glad they were before LP because I have no idea how people could do 12+ hours of this multiple days in a row with the heat and amount of walking. My watch logged 8 miles by the time LP came on - crazy. The Rockville box office told us at 12:00 p.m. that Saturday sold so many tickets that they far exceeded their allocation of Saturday wristbands, and extra Saturday wristbands, so at noon they moved to selling and giving out Thursday wristbands that they just activated for Saturday. That means they sold a TON of tickets for the Saturday show, which is usually the highest attended day of a festival anyway across the board, but they must have been a bit shocked at this year's numbers. Also I wanted to point out that Friday set the largest crowd ever for Rockville for a headliner and that was with the Green Day set. So, this year's festival brought an insane amount of people for them and I'm happy to hear it because these festivals are incredibly well run across the board. LP came on and what do you expect - they of course played another great (and loud) festival set. The issue at some of the shows has been the guitar mix being really quiet (Greenville) and samples not being loud. I think this has to do with where you are in the crowd and it's even more noticeable at the 360 shows due to how they set the sound up. Festivals and stadiums are fantastic spots to watch this new LP lineup play because the sound is loud as hell and they crank the volume on every instrument. From the get go, you could hear Joe's scratching on the show intro very loudly and I knew we were in for a good one. Emily looked quite nervous at the start for a few songs, most noticeably on New Divide. She seems to have been touching her ears a few times and then looked down at the lyrics and wasn't fully "on top of" the microphone. After one of those early songs, the band took a break and Mike said something like "we're pausing for a second" (or whatever he said) - the Rockville comments online made it sound like maybe Emily and Mike couldn't hear themselves too well to start. Well, from that point, they must have fixed it because she was on fire the rest of the show - check out One Step Closer and Faint. She was blowing it up on stage. Immediately thought something was up when Waiting for the End got skipped, but thought they'd maybe sub in Points or Keys or something in the encore, or hit a mid-set Given Up. Even though that sounds odd for a replacement for WFTE, of course. Wanted to also reiterate once again that Lying From You early in the set and Two Faced early in the set need to keep happening. This is no time for a Cut the Bridge spot in the show - play Cut the Bridge later. You want big big rock energy to start and you get that with the Somewhere I Belong, Lying From You, Crawling, Two Faced run to open. It's a noticeable energy with that run and the band rocks it. Then New Divide and Emptiness Machine? Fantastic. Up From the Bottom is a banger live. Have really enjoyed all the performances of it lately. And then A Place For My Head came out of nowhere. I've been able to at least enjoy the Hybrid Theory songs more with Alex's guitar stuff going on, so I enjoyed this APFMH performance. APFMH into OSC is old school Linkin Park... they should totally keep doing that. Good run of stuff there. Lost rocked it, Overflow was awesome yet again and now I fully see why LP is going with Overflow much more than Good Things Go - because Overflow is a VERY good live song. With the encore, I thought again maybe Points comes after Papercut or something. The second Joe played one small sample after Papercut, I knew something was up. But I didn't guess a new song - I thought maybe something obscure from the last 6-7 months that I couldn't think of that they'd play. A rock song. Then Mike goes into the speech on "firsts" on the tour and they played Let You Fade. What a great live song that was for its first performance... quite strong. And heavy. They looked like they had rehearsed it a million times. Really enjoyed the debut. Heavy is the Crown is one, like Two Faced, that the new fans LOVE and people really get into that one. Both songs + Emptiness Machine will likely be staples in the LP sets for a long time. As they should be. They all 3 rock live. Bleed It Out had the There They Go verse which A LOT OF PEOPLE around me knew all the words for. Mike said it was for old school fans, but like, 10 people around me knew the whole verse. Now that's crazy as hell considering There They Go is a Rising Tied bonus track, but honestly a We Major song first. Other notable things - Mike gave a speech about Optimus Prime and asked if he was in the crowd at this show. He reposted my photo on his Instagram of Optimus at the Sonic Temple show. Well as he is saying this, the girl directly to my right started talking about, like, "Optimus landed just behind me at Sonic Temple." I overheard her and said "HUH?!" - I pulled my phone out to find pics and videos of that moment on What I've Done last weekend and she was the PERSON RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. lol. What the fuck are the odds the exact same 2 people are standing by each other 2 shows in a row, at festivals in different parts of the country, in crowds of 50, 60k? That blew my mind. For those of you around a while, you know Trip in the LP community, and we met Billy, a great friend of Nick Kramar's, too. We all watched bands together all day and they were so much fun during the Incubus and LP sets. And what about Amit, from the UK, somehow finding us 5 minutes before LP in the middle of the crowd and jamming with us? That was really really cool. ALL IN ALL - Linkin Park has kicked ass at these two festivals and they should play them as often as they can (every 3-4 years) because the quality of their show is really high, the crowds are massive so the band delivers big time, and you get to see them on huge stages. Plus all the other bands. Despite what the Internet may say, both crowds were massive and they have a really big draw in the USA. Ticket-wise for the summer/fall, they probably did themselves a favor by playing these two rock festivals because they likely sold some headline show tickets from these performances by winning over casual fans. Danny Wimmer (festival creator/CEO) is at it again commenting all over Rockville socials about how good the LP set was... I'm sure he told them he'd love to have them back ASAP in-person, so it wouldn't surprise me to see them on his Louder Than Life or Aftershock lineups one day. He absolutely loved the two shows. Interestingly I think I have enjoyed the festival shows for LP more than the arena shows because of how large the show is/how loud it is/how many people are there. I don't think I would have said that 10-15 years ago. And for once I don't feel like I am missing anything substantial in a 90 minute set versus a headline set. I know that's a lot of music, but you cut the Joe solo, Mike solo, and a few rotation spots (which are now mostly new songs so it's not a massive loss to me) and here we are. Also, LP went over by about 10 minutes on their 90 minute festival set (which I doubt Wimmer cares at all about or is strict on for LP) so let's see what happens in Europe when they are almost all 90 minute sets there too. Incubus also went over before LP. Hollywood Undead too. I like all of that because honestly no bands need over 30 minutes to set up a stage... play as much as you can even if you go over by 1-2 songs. LP finished at 12:01 a.m. (scheduled for 11:50 p.m.) which is good. FUN USA leg... never imagined we'd get so many song debuts. Up From The Bottom, Stained, Cut The Bridge, IGYEIH, Let You Fade. They nailed this USA run. Looking forward to their return in the fall. But also looking forward to what the future of USA touring looks like for them... this lineup is built for the festivals so they should take advantage of them as much as they can especially as they work to build their new/younger fanbase. I was absolutely exhausted after this one in the 12 hour heat but I never felt BAD - 8+ waters, 4 liquid IV packs, laying down when we needed to and resting, etc saved the day. Anyone who rode the barricade or something all day must have had one hell of a hard time with how hot it was and no escape from the sun. Staying super super super hydrated (and no alcohol) is the key for something like this. Would I do it again? Absolutely, I sure hope LP returns to play it again.

I don't think we can equate Brad touching up Friendly Fire with Mike in 2023 to the time period he decided to join the new LP. They are entirely different projects. Brad has his hand on all of the older LP stuff and is involved heavily in the box sets. That doesn't mean he was interested in writing new material with the band in 2022, 2023, or early 2024. It looks like mid-2024 is when he made a conscious decision to join in. This was probably after some of the shows have been booked (summer 2025 festivals), the band told their management and label they are for sure finishing an album to put out, and the band is officially coming back full time with new members. At some point a conversation was had with Brad and he hopped in. Emily described it as he just showed up at East/West Studios one day randomly and she's like, "oh there's Brad", but I'm sure Mike, Joe, and Dave talked to him at some point in the middle of 2024 and said, "look - this is happening, we really want you involved." Brad's role is much more of a producer role in the band now (and has been for a while, you could argue) than a guitarist - of course he records some guitar but a lot of the guitar on the album is Mike and Colin. They need Brad for that producer aspect - the true "glue" for LP is Mike's songwriting and producing plus Brad's producer role. That's how you get the good stuff.

Mike very rarely ever talks about lyrics of a song publicly; the fact he posted that on Twitter is an indication at least in his mind he thought of Chester when writing it or thought of him at some point in that process. He seems a little defensive about "I don't want to say what it is about" for the moment.

Odd choice, right? To not include the live songs on any streaming?

Emily would do well on Shadow. Play as many songs as you can. Agreed that they could/likely will play the other 2 new songs in Europe. There are so many tour dates coming all year that there's plenty of time to get more songs in the show. Heading down to Rockville shortly. LP could run the entire same set back again and crush it. Wouldn't surprise me if Given Up replaces Casualty. They really don't need to tweak much. Keep Lying From You in there, keep Two Faced early. This set works great at festivals and there isn't a lot of room for changes here. Overflow is a great live song so they'll probably keep that.

Interesting they went with Casualty from Bogota instead of the really long debut one from Arlington which was a really cool performance. The hype right now on the band is Up From the Bottom, Good Things Go, and Overflow live - hopefully they get around to putting those out. These are good performances for sure of these songs but 3 of them were already released 6 months ago. This is tailored for sure for the casual fan because of that, lol. Would love to see them keep going with the live videos on YouTube + then put all of those out digitally for the LPU or for sale at the end of the year, or add to streaming on From Zero Live or something. We definitely need the tour highlights: From the Inside, Lost, Good Things Go, Overflow, Cut the Bridge, IGYEIH, and all of that. Let's see what they do by the end of the year. The Brazil show is sadly missing literally all of that but has My December, Friendly Fire, Keys to the Kingdom, Lost in the Echo and the 2024 highlights in it so we'll get those as a start. Looking forward to that release. Up From the Bottom is the best new song in this release to me. Unshatter and Let You Fade are maybe the weakest songs in the entire From Zero song batch to me but it's good to see them trying so many genres and styles with Emily right off the bat - a good sign for the future.

Wanted to drop in and leave a review of this show. Have had one of the busiest weeks ever, following a week of 3 LP shows last week. Crazy, but grateful. Sonic Temple is one of the most well-run events in music. They do so well with such large crowds; a major benefit is the main stage is inside of the stadium and the outside stages are close, so you can have easy access to everything and see a ton of bands. There were no lines for food, drink, bathrooms, etc. Just for main merch but the LP merch line was non-existent. Hoobastank, Sick Puppies, Jimmy Eat World, Trustcompany, etc were all badass and played great sets. LP brought a massive merch selection to the show and had even exclusive pins and magnets for this festival. A lot of Chester and LP shirts were walking around all day, and LP flags (one of which I took a photo with). Quite a few people had seen them at the 2015 show at Rock on the Range since this festival has a loyal following of thousands that see it every year. They had a mini version of the LP VIP museum there (photos earlier in this thread) for Rockstar VIPs - a super high tier of VIP at the festival. Saw Colin and some LP crew going in there to check it out. We went up in the crowd during I Prevail and because this festival is so relaxed, you can literally get 10 rows back for a headliner if you just go when the band before them ends. There is an hour+ gap between bands so many people want to see the stuff on the other stages at that time... this time it was Bullet For My Valentine which we watched on the big screen - a cool feature. LP showed up and blew that shit up. This was a great show and specifically, I keep pointing to Lying From You in the set but that's a game changer for the energy. People love Mike bouncing around the stage and it's a great song to put as second in the set after the opener. Two Faced early also is good. You want the shows as energetic as possible. And LP delivered on that front - the crowd loved it and they drew a huge crowd as the headliner. Packed it. The setlist itself speaks for itself but the show was quite solid. You can tell they gave it a little extra... something for this one because of the implications of it probably - the first big festival in the USA since the return. They were playing to a way more casual group of fans than a normal LP headline show. And they really delivered. The band looked like they had a blast. Mike came down and laughed when he saw me on In the End - video here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DJf_1XZtfVY/ Overflow instead of something heavier was a surprise but I saw several comments after the show that it was the favorite song of quite a few people. Walking out - lots of comments from people, even folks in Metallica shirts, about how good LP was. Definitely think that's one of the best performances they've had since they returned. The crowd was eating it up. Well done by the band. Also boarded my flight home the next morning (was there less than 24 hours lol) and ran right into Alex on the plane. Randomly saw someone in a Julien-K shirt who knew my name and was on LPLive 10+ years ago - small world. Loved Sonic Temple and would like to return one day for sure. LP could play that thing every 3-4 years and I'd love it. Go check the Sonic Temple Facebook group... people absolutely loved the LP show and it blew a lot of people away. I commented on the Sonic Temple Facebook page itself saying "LP absolutely owned that shit. Great show." and Danny Wimmer (festival creator/CEO) replied to me and said "yes they did" Ranking the shows in 2025 I've seen: -Raleigh (Emily coming into the pit to us is going to be hard to beat) -Sonic Temple -Austin -Greenville Looking forward to Rockville.

In a new interview with Billboard, the band discusses "Let You Fade" and more about the From Zero (Deluxe Edition) out this week. Shinoda said LP wrote “Up From the Bottom” at the end of last year and though it was the last new song they laid down for the deluxe, it was the quickest one to wrap. “It’s kind of fun having that shorter momentum,” he said, noting that typically the band is “so meticulous” that it was a breath of fresh air to turn something so quickly. He also said that “Let You Fade” started off as a not-as-loud song on a demo that just didn’t make the cut before the group pivoted to a piano-and-vocals only arrangement that was transformed into a song that starts off really loud and goes quiet on the bridge. “That piano and vocal thing was the second demo [we recorded during the initial sessions],” Shinoda said. “Of the three it’s probably my favorite.” The expanded album will also feature the new song “Unshatter,” a track Shinoda said LP began working on when they were first just getting to know Armstrong.