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Version 2 has been released: http://lp-bits.com/details.php?id=851
 

The original DSP (Digital Souvenir Package) torrent was released on May 11, 2016. This is Version 2 from LPLive, with the following updates:
 

-Removed over 200 jpg files for AlbumArtSmall.jpg, Folder.jpg and Thumbs in various folders that shouldn't be there.
-Tags were added for  07_27_07_LP_LIVE_PR_Sacramento and 07_22_08_LP_LIVE_Wantagh.
-Removed track number tags from 07_28_07_LP_LIVE_PR_SanBernardino.
-Removed the unnecessary folder inside of a folder: DSPs 2007/08_11_07_LP_LIVE_PR_Tampa/08_14_07_LP_LIVE_PR_VirginiaBeach/
-Upgraded Cover 3 (PR08).jpg in the 2008 folder.
-Fixed typo from “16_LIttle_Things_Give_You_Away_08_19_07_LP_LIVE_PR_Washington_DC” to “16_Little_Things_Give_You_Away_08_19_07_LP_LIVE_PR_Washington_DC”
-Added “lparchivescover.jpg” cover art to 2010, 2011, and 2012 folders.
-Replaced 06_09_12_LP_LIVE_Warsaw’s corrupted audio files.
-Removed the unnecessary mike.chester.jpg file in the 11_10_12_LP_LIVE_Johannesburg folder and the chester.jpg file in the 09_04_12_LP_LIVE_Vancouver folder.
-The following 18 shows were provided for download on the live downloads website with a “double” numbering system (01_01_One_Step_Closer, 02_02_Lying_From_You, etc) and have been fixed:
08_07_07_LP_LIVE_PR_Atlanta
08_08_07_LP_LIVE_PR_Charlotte
08_10_07_LP_LIVE_PR_WestPalm
08_11_07_LP_LIVE_PR_Tampa
08_14_07_LP_LIVE_PR_VirginiaBeach
08_17_07_LP_LIVE_PR_Cleveland
08_18_07_LP_LIVE_PR_Buffalo
08_21_07_LP_LIVE_PR_Toronto
08_22_07_LP_LIVE_PR_Detroit
08_24_07_LP_LIVE_PR_Boston
08_25_07_LP_LIVE_PR_Philadelphia
08_26_07_LP_LIVE_PR_Hartford
08_28_07_LP_LIVE_PR_Syracuse
08_29_07_LP_LIVE_PR_Holmdel
08_31_07_LP_LIVE_PR_Indy
09_01_07_LP_LIVE_PR_Chicago
09_03_07_LP_LIVE_PR_Denver
11_10_07_LP_LIVE_Bangkok

Literally don't care about the NFTs, have not followed it at all. Thought it was so weird Mike sold a 37 second clip of One Hundredth Stream for $36,000 and all of us thought he was selling the actual song in full lol

There isn't any real downside to him doing NFTs for the LP community. He's releasing music and has made everything available musically to everyone that he's sold as NFTs. So why does it matter that much to us? He pissed off the gamer community but that's their problem they have with him about coming up with hypothetical futuristic situations. He preaches all the time about like, "don't get into NFTs if you don't know what you are doing" to the LP fans. In that regard, he isn't being careless about being a "leader" for some folks in that area.

Just don't see it as such a huge deal when he's always been interested in new technology for pretty much the entire history of the band. We don't pay it any attention since we aren't interested. Some people may like it, so that's fine.

Did anyone else catch the quoted replies to Mike on Twitter about NFTs?

Mike recently struck a nerve with the gamer community over his seemingly innocent speculation about NFTs for gamers, bringing in an oddly significant amount of backlash.

Anyone have any thoughts about this?

It's really not worth us having different titles for every LPU CD, we just keep it all the same and can put photos of them. Of course they change like the numbering from 9 to X, then 15 to Sixteen, etc... blah.

Hey everyone,

To help out a friend, we are trying to find a specific video that was posted on Instagram and other social media sites in recent years. We are having trouble finding it again.

The video is from the 2007-2011 era, when 'Shadow of the Day' was in the setlist. It features Chester, Sean Paden (Brad's guitar tech), and Kurt Schneck (Mike and Chester's guitar tech) side stage, and Chester is very excited, jumping around talking about how much he loves a specific black guitar that he was playing.

If you have any leads on the video, please let us know! Thank you!

While working on Linkinpedia's Fort Minor song pages, we came across a news article from 2005 that said Mike gave a shout out on a mixtape song by an artist named Trek Life.

After tracking down the song, we have uploaded it to our YouTube page.
 

The song is called "Freestyle Audio-Live & Amad Jamal" by Trek Life, from the 2005 mixtape "Keep the Receipt." It features a shout out by Mike Shinoda at the beginning of the track: "What up ladies and gentlemen. You are tuned into the sounds of Trek Life, working hard over here in the city of angels. My name is Mike Shinoda, I'm coming at you straight out of Fort Minor. Big shoutout to my man Kevin Sakoda. Kev, keep the receipt big boy, peace!"

The mixtape was released on September 18, 2005, during the Fort Minor era.

You can download it for free on his Bandcamp page:

https://treklife.bandcamp.com/track/freestyle-audio-live-amad-jamal

Linkin Park has announced that they have moved to the 21st year of the Linkin Park Underground fan club.

"21 years of Linkin Park Underground. Whether this is your 1st or your 21st year in the LPU, thank you for choosing to participate in our Linkin Park family… we love you all, stay strong and we hope you enjoy LPU 21. -Phoenix"

The LPU said, "The new LPU 21 bundle and merchandise are now in the LP Underground store. This year, we drew inspiration from the LPU 2.0 collection by bringing back the bold colors of the bundle. We also created exclusive vintage items including an LPU 2.0 vintage tee AND exclusive LPU 2.0 music in cassette form."

The LPU 2 album is available on cassette for the first time ever, previously only being released in physical CD and digital formats. Other items for LPU 21 include a notebook, an olive beanie, a vintage LPU 2 shirt, and a bundle with a different Underground shirt, sticker, guitar pick, and keychain.

There is still no update on a future LPU CD release. The band released 16 CDs to the LPU from 2001 to 2016, with the Hybrid Theory EP reissue kicking off the series. The last CD, LP Underground Sixteen, was released in November 2016.

Any guesses at the lyrics for Mike's verses?

The rest of the lyrics are here: https://linkinpedia.com/index.php?title=Fort_Minor_Medley

Whoever has them, upload them one more time and I can make an LP Bits torrent.

I guess we should probably put these on LP Bits.

Torrent download of them all in case anyone missed it: http://lp-bits.com/details.php?id=848

You're right.

From Mike:

Yeah
Lift off like Virgin Galactic
My Richard's too Branson to fuck with you bastards
Very legendary that’s some matter-of-fact shit
You're the opposite of stars like "rats" spelled backwards
I float poems out to Saturn and past it
Easy as a standard anti-gravity backflip
Satellite tracking can't map out my tactics
I spit the same shit they split an atom in half with
No, it's not what I want but it had to be
And lames heads hang like I'm drainin' their battery
I put you in retirement, imagine you're mad at me
The space shuttle Challengers get turned into tragedies
Rocketdyne rhyming yeah heavily tested
Mess with M.S., yes I hope you invested
I don't drop mics, only let it smoke where I set it
And I don't play, even when they press, get it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocketdyne

Yeah the comments about it not being a demo are correct. Sean did this in 2002 for a 2003 release and the LP label blocked it. https://www.lpassociation.com/forum/threads/coming-soon-exclusive-remastered-audio-of-grey-dazes-no-sun-today.25382/ Info is there. It's a remaster.

All for accuracy but it seems like that comes last these days - GD B12, LP Shadow of the Day, Mike mislabeling LPU demo years, etc. We'll at least note it correctly on the wiki and that's all we can do.

If all of those are released then that's a good project, IMO.

The wrong version of Shadow of the Day is on this vinyl. How in the world did they not catch that?

Been a while. Saw this video on Twitter and gave it another stab. Will ask Mike about these after the ZIGGURATS drop and get them officially.

Yeah!
Lift off like Virgin Galactic
My Richard’s too Branson to fuck with you bastards
Very legendary that’s some matter of fact shit
You're the opposite of stars like rats spelled backwards
I flow poems out to Saturn and past it
Easy as a standard anti-gravity backflip
Satellite tracking can't map up my tactics
I spit the same shit they split an atom in half with
No, it’s not what I want but it had to be
And lames heads hang like I'm drainin' their battery
I put you in retirement, imagine you're mad at me
The space shuttle challengers get turned into tragedies
Rock and dime (?) rhymin', yes heavily tested
Mess with Em', messed, yes I hope you invested
I don’t drop mikes, only let it smoke where I set it
And I don't play, even when they press, get it?

They sound like LPU demos like Basil.

This is a really interesting situation here. It's possible the 24 bit masters are completely lost and they had to re-record the guitar part? Maybe that's why it took them so long to replace this on SOTD.

How does Mike's hard drives/computer not have the original ProTools session files and all of the song files still there? Then you just mix down a "new" (same as 2007) version of the song. Why the need to re-record?

Ana has been aware of this all year, she's working on it. Someone asked this to Mike, lol?

Wish he had released "One Hundredth Stream" instead of this meme jam.

On Twitch today, Mike said that he is doing a writing session over Zoom with Eg White. Eg, who we all know from Linkin Park's last album, co-wrote the title track 'One More Light' with Mike. Mike originally performed lead vocals on the track until the band decided to switch the vocals out for Chester's version just before the album was completed.

To read more about the background behind 'One More Light' (song), visit the song's Linkinpedia page.

In March 2019, Eg joined Mike on stage in London to perform 'One More Light' for just the second time since Chester's passing, the first being the Hollywood Bowl Celebration of Life performance. The fan-filmed video from London has over 1.7 million views on YouTube and the performance that day received considerable attention on social media.

Source: BroodingAnanas via Twitter

The three Minutes to Midnight songs released in 2012-2013+ with the wrong versions are apparently the versions that are still streaming on Apple Music, as confirmed by a few Twitter users this past week. These were originally released on HDTracks, then the "Mastered for iTunes" version of Minutes To Midnight in 2013, and in 2017 on the picture vinyl release of the album. The three songs affected are 'Shadow of the Day' (different strings and bass), 'No Roads Left' (added drum track and louder strings), and 'Across the Line' (no bass on the first verse).

We have the three Alternate Versions on our LPLive Archive YouTube channel to listen to.

1. Lies Greed Misery

2. ALTNC Rick Rubin Reboot

Wow this is great! This is one of the best covers Chester's ever done (already) and this version just sounds awesome. 

Saw a terrible comment on YouTube: "Hope linkin park learns how to honor Chester like you guys"

This is easily one of Mike's best instrumental pieces. Really a big fan of the sound of it... would be quite a cool sound/genre for LP to try. Imagine vocals come in at 0:35.... it'd already be better than Lies Greed Misery lol

And they said Fort Minor was a group. They really jumped through things and only measured success with TRL and the VMAs... quite odd.