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It was too emotionally intense for him (which is why he didn't keep touring the world for it). Wanted it to be an in-person connection, etc.
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Since Mike has Xero live footage, he probably has HT band live footage too, etc. So, it's realistic that that information (not the recordings) can be given to us one day. Mike has been nothing but extraordinarily kind to us (and all fansites) over time.
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A great cause - thanks for sharing. Will post this on socials. Going to enter as well!
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There was no crowd at this, this was a studio performance.
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Those were taken from a separate soundboard audio source the band/label has, most likely. The VHS is terrible quality.
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Last night in Los Angeles, Mike made his first appearance on a live stage since September 8, 2019's final show of the Post Traumatic Tour in Nagoya, Japan. He appeared as a surprise guest with grandson at the Wiltern Theatre in LA, singing on the songs "Riptide" and "Half My Heart." Mike produced "Riptide" and mentored grandson through the process of that song in 2019, and "Half My Heart" was co-written and produced by Mike with grandson. It is featured on the new grandson album from 2023. This was Mike's first guest appearance since August 26, 2018 when he joined Sum 41 at Leeds in England for their cover of "Faint" by Linkin Park.
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Can't tell a difference in the songs unfortunately. A release of the album in demo form would have been cool, though.
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Whatever it is called or not called, Mike absolutely needs to play some shows. Still don't understand why he doesn't capitalize on all of these one-off singles he releases like fine, Happy Endings, In My Head, etc and play LA or NY. Literally just an LA venue if he wants to do something fun. He said he couldn't wait to get back on stage to play some of those tracks and yet here we are with 2023 halfway done and zero shows announced still. Surprised he didn't do a TV performance for one of them too. But is it really that difficult to play one small headline solo show? He doesn't even need Dan and Matt.
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We have been waiting for a while for the band to update their verified lyrics for Meteora|20 songs on Genius, and it looks like they have had a plan all along. Genius has just posted a video of Mike talking about the "Fighting Myself" official lyrics and meaning. The description reads: "Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda stopped by the GENIUS studio to discuss the band’s latest hit “Fighting Myself." Although it's new to the world, the track is actually 20-years-old. "This is a demo that we barely finished," Shinoda tells GENIUS of the song that includes his signature rapping and Chester Bennington's powerful vocals. "Then it got put on a hard drive and left there." It was left on that hard drive until the band started piecing together their beloved album "Meteora's" 20th anniversary release. Now, "Fighting Myself" isn't just on a hard drive anymore. On today’s episode of VERIFIED, find out what inspired the cut and why it's representative of the "Hybrid Theory" model that Linkin Park embodies so well." A little more context from Linkinpedia... the song wasn't fully finished in 2002 - Mike's comments about "barely finished" run contrary to what he has said about the song previously. He indicated the track didn't have a fully completed chorus and in the multitracks his manager found, he picked through vocal takes to build a chorus and to build the ending of the song up. In one sense, it was "barely finished" because he was able to take what was recorded by Chester to finish the song in 2022, two decades later, but it was not a song that was just wrapped up in 2002 and thrown on a hard drive in a ready-to-release form - a significant amount of work had to be done on it to get it ready for Meteora|20. Mike wanted to re-record the vocals but the band convinced him not to, and to keep the song in its original form. In another sense... it was "barely finished" in 2022 because it was pure luck the session still existed with Chester's vocals on it as Mike only had a version without any Chester vocals / chorus. Maybe we will get a video for "More the Victim"!
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Jonathan Slye, CEO of Blue Ridge Rock Festival, has posted an exclusive snapshot for his game plan for 2024 for his festival, held at the Virginia International Raceway in Alton, VA. In the Facebook group "BLUE RIDGE ROCK FESTIVAL FAN ZONE" with over 40,000 members, he has released his list of what his "game plan" is for 2024 and says that much of the artist bookings are already in motion. To kick it off, he mentions System of a Down and how he would like to get them, but goes on to list a number of acts: Korn, Avenged Sevenfold, Bring Me the Horizon, Alice in Chains, Godsmack, Deftones, Incubus, Judas PRriest, Breaking Benjamin, Weird Al, Volbeat, Mike Shinoda & Friends, Sum 41 (farewell), and more. His post reads, "As promised, here is the Fan Zone exclusive snapshot at what my game plan is at the moment for 2024. Much of this is already in motion given where you all have taken sales to for Blue Ridge this year. This plan is what I would call "subject to fan approval" as that is what matters here at Blue Ridge. So, take a look below and weigh-in in the comments! At Blue Ridge this year we are also working on perks/exclusive 2024 ticket pricing for those in attendance." There are several interesting things about this list that he says is in motion - first, Blue Ridge Rock Festival is known for booking a lot of artist reunions and getting exclusive one-off shows. Next, what exactly is "Mike Shinoda & Friends"? Is this simply Mike, Dan, and Matt, or is it something like Mike with other artists? Any Linkin Park members like Phoenix? Festivals are booked very far in advance, as we've seen announcements for Linkin Park 7+ months before festivals actually happen and undoubtedly contracts are discussed, offers are made, and more well before that. For example, Andy Copping was already in discussions with Linkin Park's camp in July 2017 for the band to headline Download Australia in March 2018. But where did he get the name "Mike Shinoda & Friends"? Has Mike/his team put it out there that he will be touring under that name in 2024 in order to get some festivals already booked and on the table? Or is this just simply wishful thinking by Jonathan Slye? It seems unlikely he would just make that artist name up, but anything is possible. He added in his post: "Note: The following is just a snapshot. As always, I focus on the overall body of work to give you something throughout your entire day's at Blue Ridge. With that in mind, I have included a lot of the top targets for midcard and undercard as well. Lastly, I did not include any names from this year's lineup, but there will be some repeats (as always) from top performing/requested bands that are playing this year." We have quite a long time until this festival announces its 2024 lineup, but the fact that the name "Mike Shinoda & Friends" is mentioned as he's already putting things in motion for 2024's festival may give us some potentially good news. Mike Shinoda has not performed live since September 8, 2019, almost four years ago already.
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Meteora (20th Anniversary Edition) | Out April 7, 2023
LPLStaff replied to BeardyWilderness's topic in Newswire
This is all correct, except Fighting Myself wasn't even finished in 2002. It didn't have the Chester vocals in the song itself, but they were in the session / multitracks. So when you say Mike said "we cleaned the mix", you are correct because he mixed it fresh in 2022 - that's right. But that song wasn't done enough at the time to mix properly by 2002 standards, if it didn't have Chester on it. You could argue that it's a "new mix" from how Mike had it set up in ProTools or whatever at the time, sure haha -
Possibility of some new Fort Minor music?
LPLStaff replied to gusjay2906's topic in Everything Linkin Park
I would agree but Mike literally said a year ago he could "absolutely" make another Fort Minor album, but does he want to? No. lol -
Possibility of some new Fort Minor music?
LPLStaff replied to gusjay2906's topic in Everything Linkin Park
You have to remember he made the songs in 2017 to be on a Fort Minor release, and LP was down with it. It was a Mike Shinoda release because Chester passed and it then became personal with the new songs he was writing. The original hip hop tracks on that album were Fort Minor songs for a fall 2017 release. He could easily do FM anytime he wanted. -
It really is strange. Apparently the person had LP's blessing to release it? The site itself didn't work right, and no one bid that insane amount of money for one unreleased, bad song. If this were something like More the Victim or something, I could see it. But Mike literally raps "mincemeat" lmao. We haven't been able to figure out what's going on with the song or the auction... how could it have completely fallen to the side? We were definitely interested in at least getting the track and putting it out there for free. The fact the person won't rip the tape and upload it to make sure it isn't lost in time is a little disappointing. It isn't even just about the unreleased song - the other tracks need to be preserved too regardless of if there are differences or not in them.
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Again - Mike isn't the one calling all of the shots with a Xero song. There are multiple people involved in that process, if someone besides Mike says "no" at any point, then it doesn't happen.
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Grey Daze Performing Live @ 98KUPD FM Radio’s U Fest 2023
LPLStaff replied to JZLP-Benningstrong's topic in Newswire
Did ChatGPT write this? -
What's next for birthday? Is collision course 20th possible?
LPLStaff replied to thigolpbr's topic in Everything Linkin Park
Fort Minor seems much more realistic than Collision Course. BUT - they didn't include Collision Course in Meteora|20 like they did with Reanimation on HT20, so anything is possible. Just putting those live songs out from the start of the Roxy show would be a nice nod by LP. Put it on YouTube and call it a day, at worst. And you don't even have to put the LPJZ stuff out since it's already released. -
Hence why you probably don't see the band supporting anything Jeff is doing...
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“More The Victim” coming to Rock Band 4 as DLC on 4/13
LPLStaff replied to letdownagain's topic in Newswire
One thing is for sure - if LP made it 2000+, they have the multitracks saved lol -
The 2008 set sounds so good because it's heavy and has the rock feel to it. What I think you are referring to is the later sound they had in 2009-2010 was too electronic, and I am not a big fan of it either. That's why inherently that music sounded better acoustically. They needed to rip it with the guitars and not have the synths, etc so loud. The Let Down from the Columbia show is such a step down from the 2005 live acoustic one. The DBS era was a disaster in itself. Remember they flat out refused to have a website? They said check MySpace (!) for all of the updates... what a horrendous strategy. Getting info on what they were doing was extremely difficult. On that LP tour in 2009 it was extremely confusing to figure out shows they were going to play or not, beforehand. I believe the label stuff. They probably didn't want to give much money to it at all, and for them to push something there needs to be a big hit involved. Howard producing the album is an entirely separate topic itself - they could have done much better with him but he has the signature rock albums (which are great) attached to his name and I'm sure the label helped push him to work with Chester. His 10 Years Feeding the Wolves album is very overproduced compared to anything else in their catalog, for example. But he does have some great pre-2010 records. Remember Mike said in 09 or 10 that the label didn't want to fund the massive Projekt Rev tours anymore? Too much expense on their end. That's why PR scaled down. The only disadvantage to being on a massive label like that is you need have results for many things to make it make sense. The DSPs needed to sell way better, the band needed more sold out shows, etc to make it make sense to do it all again/keep it going. The advantages are huge for being on Warner - don't get me wrong. Their press/A&R machine is probably the best on the planet for artists. Fort Minor did their entire operation much better than DBS did. At the very worst, they should have teamed up for a run in 2009 or 2010 for shows. No USA tour for DBS was a very weird move, but I'm sure they tried as you said. Mike was probably knees deep in ATS at that time making a masterpiece LP album and didn't want to run another FM album/EP/drop out with a tour lol.
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The reasons the DSPs were stopped is because the shows weren't selling much anymore. LPL probably directly contributed to that with how much they were shared online for free for years, and torrenting after that (when LPU 9 launched). But the band said multiple times to post the shows for free everywhere - Mike even made an LPU forum thread for that lol. But this will show you the disconnect between the band / fans and the label - ultimately you have to be making money on them no matter how much the band and fans love them being shared. If they aren't selling but 20-30 copies a show then they aren't worth paying Pooch and Dylan to do (at the time). Now, there is an entirely separate topic for how piss poor LP's marketing was for them. RHCP advertised them in emails, at the shows, etc. They should have done an additional add-on when buying tickets on Ticketmaster etc for adding a $10 show recording. Metallica isn't a good comparison because they are so big they will sell a trillion copies of every show, but for LP you need some results. The label could have done much better promoting these to ensure the program would have continued. What we were left with was a random tour they stopped (with no public announcement - we had to reach out privately) when LP was on fire on stage - Vegas -> NZ/Australia 2013 when they had really great setlists. Blah. NZ/Australia 2007 was mixed in 2009 when they were ready for release. There was a dispute with Warner Australia basically over "if people buy the show recording then it will hurt MTM sales in Australia", which is true, but come on, that's more label BS in general. It got worked out and they were released. To date, there has never been a valid reason given for the entire 2008 Summer European Tour not being released. No one has ever said anything about that. Pooch is on record multiple times saying they recorded the shows and he wished they could be released, but it wasn't his call. 2007-2012 there were times where venues started wanting fees from local labor unions etc (not super well-versed in this topic) from bands who record their shows. There are lots of Google articles on this - look into it. You'd have to pay off the local union or something to get stuff recorded. How that is even a thing is beyond me but that is why Wantagh one year has no recording released, Mountain View, etc. And sometimes partnerships on shows like MTV (Monterrey 2012) prevent them from being released due to contracts signed. That isn't the standard deal at festivals though so that reason isn't why Europe 2008 wasn't released. But that is why 2012, 2008, 2007 shows were missing. And 2009 too for some shows, probably (not confirmed). I do know for a fact that MSG charges bands $40,000 to record their performances at The Garden. And LP paid that in 2008 (or whatever the 2008 rate was) to get the LP/JZ show out because of how fucking big that moment was. But for example remember we had no Wantagh 2007 (no idea how it got worked out for 2008) recording. It's all super confusing. What needed to happen was they had someone in charge SPECIFICALLY for the live recordings and in that role you work out every kink and hiccup imaginable so shows can be released. Notice Metallica doesn't have this issue - they release every single damn show they play lol. If they play their instruments on stage, it's released.
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I think legally, once you get contacted by Warner or LP after posting this statement publicly if you are Jeff, things become much more complicated than just "I am going to release demos online" lol
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lol There is no shot Jeff will be allowed to release any demos to fans. Not only would the band themselves not be ok with that, at all, but Mark, who is on those tracks, would be adamantly against that. Mark is pretty high up in the music industry - completely separate from whatever status LP has in the world. Jeff risking his career by leaking a ton of Xero demos? Doesn't seem logical at all. Not only does Mike not want more Xero out - he had to convince Mark to even agree to put the Xero stuff on HT20. It's very unlikely any more Xero stuff would ever be released.