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On April 17th, Mike made a Nintendo Game Boy sounds Corona Jam and took a few questions! Here's what was said: - "Have you ever thought about writing and illustrating children's books?" -> "In college I messed around with it a little bit but I never really got super into it. I did a few little projects at school, like children's book projects but they weren't very good." - "You did some remixes for Meteora, would you like to release them at some point?" -> "I don't know if that's true. I don't remember them if we did. But, you know, if they're around somewhere maybe they end up coming out. Since you said that, I will keep an eye out for any Meteora remixes when I'm in the hard drives looking for stuff." - "Do you prefer making music or making art? Is there any instrument you couldn't play?" -> "There's lot of instruments I can't play. Keyboard is piano and keyboard is not like just sampling things (you can make a very convincing live drum sound or guitar sound on keyboard, so if you can play that you can play those instruments in theory)... but learning piano helps you learn the way chords fit together and sit in a scale. Like classical piano will help you play other instruments. And to layer instruments because it is a polyphonic instrument by nature so you will understand how things fit together. That's why I think so many composes have a piano background in their training." - "Would you give us a tour of the studio at some point?" -> "Maybe we will do that at some point next week." - "Vocals are not what we are doing at this point on these jams." - "Wikipedia says One Step Closer, Papercut, and In the End were recorded in New Orleans. Is that actually true?" -> "No, it is not true. I don't know where that information came up. We wrote and recorded all of those in LA. If you can go clear that up on Wikipedia, on our page, that would be helpful." - "Would you consider doing seminars for colleges and universities about music production?" -> "Yeah I'd do that. I did a thing, I don't know when it's coming out, but Mike West from 686 does a business class at USC and he had me come down and talk to the students there. He's going to put that up at some point so you can watch that. It's about an hour or so that I was there." It appears Mike answered one random question before the last one when the stream cut out - if you know what it was let us know. For more information on the Meteora remixes, visit the Linkinpedia page. The band said a few were done in 2003 and would be released, but no information ever surfaced.

Wow that is a cool poster. We will keep an eye out for it. If someone has it, it'd be someone here for sure. Let's see if someone pops up with one. You could make a great version of this for sure.

Mark Hoppus in a recent Twitch stream revealed that the track he worked on with Mike at Midem 2017 was actually taken and worked on by both Mike and Mark after the event, before they actually had Chester join in on the song. He said that both bands planned on finishing the song after the 2017 North American Tour. Mark describes the track as having great melodies and lyrics written by Chester for it. He says, "it is honestly just a beautiful song."

He picks what to answer so it depends what type of mood he's in, he may not want to answer in depth LP questions every single chat haha

We're back with another Q&A from Mike during his CoronaJam sessions. He didn't take but a few questions on the 16th when he did his Money Mark Jam but here is what was said. - "Do you still own the Korg Triton keyboard you used on stage back in the day?" -> "I do not own it, I think we sold it. Yeah because I use the Nord now. The Triton was fine for a while but the Nord has the sample capability, I like that better." - "Do you have a big secret hobby?" -> "I am a big basketball fan, a Lakers fan. There are a ton of Japanese dishes I like to cook." - "What is your favorite video game ever?" -> "My favorite video game ever is probably Metroid. It's a run off between Metroid to play on my own by myself, Megaman to draw, and then my favorite multiplayer situation was Halo. I loved Halo for the first few that came out." - "Which CoronaJam was the most fun one to make so far?" -> "I don't know, I like all of them. I like just doing it. I haven't really gone back and listened to them that much, maybe we will go back and do that together." - "Will Brad ever grow back his fro?" -> "The big fro, probably not. Brad's natural hair pattern is excessively curly. He doesn't have much of a choice in terms of growing back his fro." Mike added - "We will probably make one more song together then we will flip things up and do something different."

Because people keep asking him about it 24/7. What would be funny is if they release it this year for the Hybrid Theory 20 anniversary and it really isn't very good, just as he said a decade ago LOL

We're back with another Mike Q&A summary, this time from April 15th! - "It has been said that Pictureboard has been played one time with Linkin Park. Did it turn into another song?" -> "It did not. It got played back then and then there's a sample in it so we didn't play it anymore so we didn't want to deal with it anymore. So that's the story on that. I don't know if it was played as an intro to another song. Not a record, I'll tell you that much." - "Have you considered releasing CoronaJams as a fundraiser for COVID-19 relief?" -> "We'll see. I don't know, we'll see. It has occurred to me but I am not making any commitments yet." - "Does Post Traumatic feel current or does it feel like a representation of where you were at two years ago?" -> "The subject matter feels really far away, thank god. The production does not. The production on it I feel like, I really like what was going on with the production with that. The good news is that those of us going through difficult things, some of you going through difficult things right now, it does get better. Take your mental health seriously." - "Have you ever thought about selling good quality prints on your store?" -> "I have done it before, it's a good idea, there are none up there right now. Maybe there is a good way to do it for COVID-19 fundraising. There are always these legal hurdles that get in the way of doing that. I'll think about it and try to figure it out." Mike is going to take the Instagram Live demos we heard (when he was streaming on his phone), bring them into Albeton and work on them soon so we can hear good quality versions.

In November 2018, Linkin Park's music video for Numb became the band's first video to amass 1 billion views on YouTube. It was the second rock song in history to achieve the feat, following November Rain by Guns N' Roses. In April 2020, the video achieved yet another milestone - it has now passed November Rain for the most views of any rock video on YouTube. With November Rain sitting in the 1 billion, 333,000 range, Numb has now surpassed 1 billion, 350,000 views! Congratulations to Numb! Next up for Linkin Park, In the End is over 955,000,000 views and rapidly approaching 1 billion itself, which will likely happen in 2020! Linkin Park will then become the second rock band on YouTube with two rock songs over 1 billion views - an amazing feat! Guns N Roses recently had Sweet Child O Mine reach 1 billion as well.

Done! It was in the chat yesterday which we just summarized here: https://lplive.net/forums/topic/14106-mike-qa-summary-april-8th-2020/

During some of his recent CoronaJam Sessions, Mike has taken questions from fans about a variety of topics. Here is a quick summary of things he mentioned on April 8th: - A funny LP touring story: Chester jumped off the stage to sing on top of a porta potty, but the very top of it broke which could have lead to a really messy situation... thankfully he didn't fall in! LPL note: This was likely the Miami, FL April 2001 show where Chester sings on top of the porta potty on "Points of Authority." - He really liked the sweet popcorn in Brazil when he visited during Linkin Park's tours. However, he likes salty popcorn at the movies when he goes. - Does he import these CoronaJam sessions into ProTools later on? Yes, he said he would if he added vocals to the songs because ProTools is easier to do vocals. He said he will do a stream with fans to show how he does vocals but warns that it might be boring for fans. Ableton is easier to do the music on because it constantly loops. And ProTools is easier for multitracks, multiple mics, drums, etc because it can handle such a big workload. - His Hogwarts house the first time he did the test was Ravenclaw and the second time it was Gryffindor. - The reason LP songwriting sessions weren't as experimental after ATS and moved to a more classic writing process was because ATS was a unique journey and he always wants to feel like he is learning or doing something fresh for him. Wherever he is inspired at the moment, basically. - He is totally down to do a drawing / doodling live stream instead of music sometime, he just has to figure the technology out. But he wants to do it on iPad Pro. - When the band released The Hunting Party, Mike said he wanted to make an album that was fun to play live but ironically THP was the album with the least songs performed live. Mike says the problem was that the rest of the band only wanted to play a certain amount of time on stage, like a set that was around 100 minutes. Mike wanted to play longer but LP didn't get around to rehearsing on the road or making the songs fit into the live setlist with the amount of time they had agreed upon for the set. - Some footage of the band performing as Xero exists but Mike says they look like children and they dressed up weirdly on stage. He talks about the quality of the videos not being that great from that era because at that time you needed really legit cameras to film with. - Mike loves visiting Brazil and says the crowds there have a ton of energy. He says the Rock In Rio crowds are epic. He said LP had an end of tour party at their hotel there one time and had a great time drinking and hanging out. - Mike thinks that Linkin Park didn't end up rehearsing Keys to the Kingdom to play live, but thinks it's a dope song and he loves it. - LP worked out on tour but not as a group, but he worked out with Chester and Phoenix. He tried to stay with those two on tour (meaning the same hotel) whereas Rob, Brad, and Joe stayed together. It basically boiled down to those three being the most social but also liking the same style of hotels. - Mike said Chester loved working out and would work out twice a day quite frequently.

During some of his recent CoronaJam Sessions, Mike has taken questions from fans about a variety of topics. Here is a quick summary of things he mentioned on April 9th: - Mike talks about the famous New York City 2001 video of And One where Mike jumps into the crowd. He wasn't a fan of doing it much because the band got so popular so fast and the crowds got pretty large. However, he was a fan of going down on the barricade during the shows. He talked about the story where the necklace with his Japanese family crest was yanked off during the show... so Mike at the end of the show asked people to back up and find the necklace; it was returned to him luckily! - He thinks Paramore is so dope but doesn't know if they'd be open to a collaboration with HIM. He hasn't heard Haley's new solo material besides one song so far but he liked it. - An artist who he always wanted to do a collaboration with but never got the chance - Kendrick Lamar is someone he'd like to collaborate with. Kendrick doesn't do many collaborations. - When asked if he'd ever work with Adult Swim, Mike says he loves them and he would love to work with them but he doesn't know what he would do or what they would want from him. - His favorite Pokemon are Eevee and Pikachu. Eevee is his favorite though. - It is too long for him to do a rundown of his plug-ins but he may do it tomorrow. He's avoiding certain plug-ins because some of them slow down and/or crash the stream due to an issue with Ableton - Advice for graphic designers? Get out there, do as much work as you can. Try to find your own vibe and style. Don't try and imitate someone else who is successful. - The Battle Symphony vocal chops came from demo scat vocals Mike chopped up in ProTools. He used pitch shifter and alterboy, and grabbed pieces and chopped it up on the grid. Then added some effects to finalize it. - Mike reached out to Twitch but the person who would be in charge of partnering him as the Twitch artist relations person has the coronavirus currently. - The music video for Hold It Together was finished but the hard drive it was on was stolen at an Israeli airport on tour. The tour videographer was subjected to "extra screening" (Mike's politically correct way of saying it)... all the videographer's stuff was torn up and sifted through and the hard drive was stolen during the process. This is why there was no Hold It Together video. He said it was hard to wrap his head around doing another video for the song, sadly. - When asked about his favorite venues to play in the USA outside of California, he mentioned that he loved the Pier Rooftop venue in NYC he played on the Post Traumatic Tour. He said Red Rocks is amazing and the Gorge is amazing. He also remembers TLA in Philadelphia being amazing. - He is totally ok with fans taking the CoronaJams and remixing them, writing over them, etc and posting them online as long as they aren't monetizing them. Thank you to Justin for helping summarize the chat today - we'll be back with more summaries!

Well that's Meteora, try in a few years lol The Lockout guy wants $50,000 for that footage. LP has their own footage like this (see: Esaul on Frat Party) so I doubt they'd want to spend such an insane amount of money for a video like this. They probably even have videos filmed at that rehearsal spot too.

Following last month's successful Hybrid Theory 20 stream with Mike, Joe, and Phoenix reacting to an unreleased Linkin Park show in San Diego during the Hybrid Theory tour, the band has started posting each song in full on YouTube. Two songs will be released each Monday and Thursday until the full show is up! Visit the show page for more information about the performance, which had a completely unknown setlist until this year.

CORRECTION: Yesterday we posted that Mike will be releasing a new EP, entitled Open Door. The song will actually be released by itself and there will not be an EP. We apologize for the mistake.

As you all have known by now, Mike has released his demo of "Open Door" to fans and asked them to submit their own vocals for possible inclusion on the final song. He has also opened the process up to collaborate with fans artistically as well, as the winner of the #DesignOpenDoor contest will have their artwork chosen as the cover of the Open Door single. Typespire is the company Mike is working with to pick the fans for the artwork, and they say, "During this time of uncertainty, especially with fellow freelancers and small business owners, we want to bring some opportunity and good news in this crazy world. So... Typespire are teaming up with Linkin Park & Fort Minor's Mike Shinoda in a bid to find him some cover artwork during our isolation period!" This past weekend Mike showed us a look at working on Open Door again, with fan vocals, via Instagram Live. Today, the top 50 submissions have been chosen by Typespire and Mike will now pick the winner from those top 50. Mike posted a note on his Instagram story from Typespire, saying, "A huge thank you to everyone who took part in #designopendoor with Mike Shinoda. We have seen some really brilliant submissions you have all put together in no less than a week. We hope you've all enjoyed it as much as we all have seeing all of your designs. We're glad we could bring the community together whilst under quarantine to really showcase the power of connectivity, creativity, and community. We present to you our top 50. Of which Mike Shinoda will be handpicking his winner to be chosen on the cover of his EP Open Door, along with a $1,000 US prize!" CORRECTION: Yesterday we posted that Mike will be releasing a new EP, entitled Open Door. The song will actually be released by itself and there will not be an EP. We apologize for the mistake. So it appears that Open Door will become a new single! Mike has been working via YouTube Live, Twitch, Facebook Live, and Periscope (following Instagram Live) for weeks now, giving fans a look into his process at making new music. He will go live for over an hour at times, showcasing new beats and instrumentals he is writing. Videos of these songwriting sessions can be found on Mike's YouTube page.

Yeah this is right. Astat can add technical parts about it for sure. Crawling and PMA required a second guitar which happened literally at the start of this tour in 2001.

They promoted it saying live stream, but we all knew it was pre recorded. All good.

We'll ask the band. What a great show and an awesome idea. The commentary was really good and worth doing. A lot more interesting than just uploading an old show, even though we do need the show eventually. Can't believe they forgot And One, ha. First song they wrote with Chester.

It's from a totally unreleased show none of us have ever seen. That looks like the clip indeed but we likely don't even have the city/date right (we guessed Portland). This is really, really great for the band to do.

It's time to start celebrating Hybrid Theory! Linkin Park has announced a new live stream to debut a fully unreleased live show from 2001 tomorrow! Adding to that, the band will be reacting live to the show! "Join LINKIN PARK in celebrating the 20th anniversary of HYBRID THEORY as they react to never before seen LIVE concert footage from 2001. #HybridTheory20 Set a reminder on @youtube to watch on March 24th @ 11am PST"

Doubt that Mike makes new music every single day. Sure, it's close but a demo like this every day? And Open Door going to radio? And will become a single? Seems like a cool, creative way for a new release with all of this music.

You guessed it! Mike was back with yet another full hour live stream via Instagram on March 22nd for a new beat. Check out the stream below if you missed it. It sure seems like something is cooking, right? What do you think he is going to do with all of this music?

Mike went live on Instagram for the fourth time in a week to showcase him making another new beat, this time something that has an A Thousand Suns-style vibe! The full stream was an hour and you can check it out below.

This? One of their best. Just epic.

Well in later LPU years Mike was starting to attribute demos to album years when they were from the album sessions. We all said immediately when Attached came out it would be 2002, not 2003. Almost absolutely nothing was done in 2003 studio wise. Chester wrapped up vocals in January I believe which was like, late as hell anyway. Every Meteora era song would be 2001 or 2002.