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They did a very bad job contacting the purchasers of the box set. This is on the label. The USA people didn't get any sort of emails, right? We had to go out of our way to ask for a link from someone in the UK/Europe with a link to apply for replacement pieces. It was geographically restricted it seems. And if you didn't buy it through Warner you were screwed it seems. WTF?

This is fucking awesome. Love all the little teasers to figure stuff out. They know this fanbase and definitely read the room correctly, giving us a good teaser campaign. The band's website looks good. To be honest, just a normal countdown to reveal all the info today would have been pretty lame because they did so much more for Hybrid Theory 20. The "Pictureboard" -> "InYourself.mp3" thing was so cool, and the band emails, file names, etc. Loved all of that. Looking forward to more of the Meteora stuff. We already know the package is coming in March, no reason to rush an announcement if they can do a cool unveiling of it. Nice work by them so far, because building on the whole computer theme from HT (which is still very relevant for Meteora) is sweet.

HT20 is still available everywhere. "Limited Super Deluxe Edition" etc is just sales marketing to get people to buy it. There are enough for fans lol As we said in 2020, they wanted to release something else in the RaR spot but weren't able to. There are still plenty of HT shows to release for HT30, HT40, etc. They need to put the audio on vinyl for sure. Was just thinking about that yesterday. That's an epic show.

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Could be, but he put unreleased clips of beats on The Sequel DVD to be funny. He's always done that when editing stuff. It's hilarious.

Over an HOUR of new video? Wow. Watch us get clips of other unreleased demos LOL, Fiore loves teasing fans like that.

They definitely have more than what he is leading on. This amount of content for Meteora that is released they have for MTM, but they released the MTM songs with vocals already. But that's ok, put them on a CD anyway. And a few demos. ATS, LT, THP, OML may have a few fully finished non-album songs but they definitely have demos for days. Imagine how many demos MTM, ATS, and OML have. THP and LT may not have nearly as many but that's totally ok. Did not know that about the song board. What else is interesting about it? What other songs had vocals that we only have in instrumental form? Not super surprised because Cumulus is such a great demo and is better than some of the album tracks, even.

Why do you think Cumulus is the working title for another song? Why would Cumulus not just be Cumulus, the LPU demo from Meteora? lol

That makes sense. Probably with Reanimation and then the band was finishing Meteora that year, they didn't want too many releases out there at once. Yeah, agreed about the talking being cut. It's very strange and takes away from the listening experience. Glad we have the DVD but yes, one with the band talking would be great. They have that epic speech by Chester before My December that is cut out of the DVD and pasted into the The Sequel DVD. It looks like judging by The Sequel DVD, they may have more PR02 footage possibly of another show. And then Colorado Springs, maybe that was filmed too. We will see one day! Glad we have the show on HT20 though. Yes - Summer Sonic 06 is absolutely epic. I was afraid if it wasn't on Meteora 20 then it maybe wouldn't ever be released. We will have to wait a few years, but maybe they'd put it out in 2026. Who knows. But man, that's an epic one.

Starting in the ATS era, the band recorded video of every show they performed. In the MTM era, they started recording audio of every show they performed. This is common amongst really large bands - Foo Fighters and Metallica have done this for a while. There are two different types of recordings the bands do. It's common for the large bands to take the house feeds (shown on the video screens) at their own headlining shows and then also take the festival proshots, sometimes with a few more camera angles, that they are entitled to as the headliner in their contracts. These aren't great feeds usually. They work and are fine but they aren't like, ready-to-press to DVD style tapes. That is why Metallica is just webcasting theirs online and allowing fans to see them. Linkin Park's Numb video from 2017 is from the house feeds. The Birmingham 2017 videos that leaked are from them too. It's a different situation when the bands bring in recording gear to professionally film a show from a lot of angles. Linkin Park has not done the latter that much in their career to our knowledge, but then again, we don't have full access to their vault. They filmed the London O2 Arena show in 2017, Chester's second to last show. They will likely release that one day. Meteora 20 may be a mix of the house feeds for some shows and real professionally filmed, ready to go live DVDs. They probably only professionally shot a few shows themselves in the Meteora era. We know of Detroit 2003 for MTV, Live in Texas in 2003 for the band to release and they likely filmed a few shows before it to prep the DVD angles and stuff... this is common too when a DVD is going to be filmed, and I always guessed they filmed a Meteora 2004 arena show since they filmed Projekt Revolution 2002. It appears they may not have. Maybe they filmed Denver 2004 like that instead during the summer time. Seoul 2003 is a MASSIVE stadium crowd and it looks like they filmed that with a few angles along with at least night 2 of Tokyo's Budokan. We will see how many angles that is and what it really looks like. Same for Manila 2004 and Philadelphia 2003. We really don't know the level of production until we see the videos in the box set - it could be a low level "take 2-3 feeds from something and put it out" (seems unlikely they would do that), something mid tier with a few more angles, or a full blast Live in Texas-style release. The band probably didn't film a LOT of shows like that. There are some unreleased ones though that they did film with bigger production budgets - Berlin 2014, Beijing 2015, etc. Probably some from 2007-2013 that we do not know about. Basically, they put some of them out that they film with big time equipment and they sit on a few of them. They knew going in that they were going to release Road to Revolution in Milton Keynes. We knew since 2003 that they filmed at least something from a PR02 show because there is a clip in the Meteora DVD of a 2002 show in great quality. It is a shame Docklands wasn't on the HT20 box set - they should at least put the full audio of that show out one day.

If they recorded drums on 18 songs, 10 are on Meteora, 11 is A6 and 12 is Lost, then we have quite a few songs with live drums that we are missing. Meaning this box set is setting itself up to be pretty epic. All of the LPU demos for Meteora are Mike's programmed sampled beats/drums from what I can tell except A-Six. Soundtrack, Program, Cumulus, Rhinocerous, Broken Foot, Halo, Pepper, Ominous, Unfortunate, and Attached all appear to be Mike sampled beats. So what else did they record drums on?

The artwork is really, really good. When I think of Meteora I think blue, so that's great. And they've had some red Meteora merch over the years, and Nottingham's vinyl 2 cover is red. A+.

Just as the band has started ramping up their teasers for Meteora by transforming their social media platforms and website to Meteora-themed graphics, Linkin Park has now launched an official Discord channel. You might already be members of Mike Shinoda's Discord, and now you can join Linkin Park's. https://discord.gg/linkinpark

MTM holy grail is probably NRL with Chester. Hate to say it probably isn't great but even Chester said that himself LOL. Mike's version is really, really good. And the damn MTM Webster Hall theater "making of" video.

The fact this thread has 29,000+ views and 625 replies before it's even officially announced is really... surprising in this era of the band. The hype on this is massive. More so than the Hybrid Theory box set, maybe.

February 23 now. https://twitter.com/CamArcher/status/1617681974067625984

Why would LP put a remix of another band's song on there? lol. Seems unlikely for something they'd release. They'd indicate it on the tracklist. Some of the release info seems like placeholder info, like the second Meteora documentary(?) on the DVD. Track-wise - would love Rob's drum song to be one of the unknown songs. Surely has to be as they were working on it so far into the process it was at NRG. There are questions now about song titles and demo titles, though. Both Plaster II and Figure.09 are listed as different songs on the LP song board, and they are the same demo here. We also don't know the titles of Nocturnal and Serpent - they could be Numb and Nobody's Listening, or they could be one of the first 3 songs on the Lost Demos CD, or even others on that CD. And then Sick is Don't Stay, so only 3 demos were left off of the release which actually is quite impressive. They are releasing a lot of stuff. Only a few things are held back and for all we know, that stuff isn't great they didn't include. So, what are Nocturnal and Serpent? What is the old Plaster II that turned into Figure.09?

Wow. Stick N Move's verses are pretty bad by Mike IMO. She Couldn't was a pretty unique track. How does anyone know that Lost is Thoughts That Take Away My Pride? Is that even confirmed somewhere? They aren't going to release music IMO until the announcement whenever the countdown ends.

If another artist guests inside your own headline show, you don't need their permission to release that. You need permission to release a cover, release a co-branded performance with another artist, etc. If Paul McCartney joins Foo Fighters for a song, Foo doesn't need to ask Paul McCartney if they can release that. Rock am Ring 2004 is the most popular show the band has played. It's out in GREAT quality with Mike Shinoda's own personal mix and the label/mgmt's own video edit. Remember, this show did not air originally like this - it was webcasted in potato quality and not shown on TV right away. The band's team took it, edited it themselves and Mike did the mix and then it was aired months later. This was edited to remove the encore break, part of the Crawling intro, Mike's laugh on ITE, the intro and outro, etc. What was shown on TV already ***IS*** the band's official release of Rock am Ring lol, it was just shown on TV. That's their exact release of that show, they had more control over that show's release than anything shown on TV for a proshot. They even picked the camera angles of the whole show, which is why they are so different from the MTV2 version. We have the Rock am Ring 2004 release by LP, from 2004 lol. It just isn't on a physical DVD. If they filmed MFR 2005, THAT is a show they'd have to work out with Jay-Z to release, like Live 8 2005. Roxy 2004, MFR 2005, Live 8 etc are LPJZ shows. Literally none of it appears on the Meteora box set besides LP's own performance of the Hip Hop Medley from the Roxy during their intro set. Notice they put no Live 8 songs on this either. We have no literal modern day confirmation that Meteora remixes exist. They were mentioned one time ever, Mike said recently he doesn't remember them, they haven't come up anywhere in any sort of LPU CD or even this comprehensive box set. They literally may not even be a thing. Whatever they started working on may have been scrapped or turned into Collision Course.

The info came from somewhere. Seems very possible, yes. We wouldn't have just listed it or made it up out of nowhere unless we saw it somewhere mentioned. Tried searching Getty Images today and only found photos from Wantagh of it. We will see.

No. 2004 and prior. The 2005-2006 shows are solid as there is a recording of every single one minus Tokyo Zepp 2006 and that setlist came directly from the LP Japan fansite like... an hour after the concert. I remember getting it from there the same night. The LP fanbase went BALLISTIC about the setlist - QWERTY new song, Reading My Eyes, BTH closed the show for the first time. My December. People thought it was so epic.

Just checked the thread for the first time in 12+ pages. WOW. What a release. Incredibly impressed with the studio songs and the live footage. A+ job. So, so good. Glad to have waited to see it all at once, but should have held out for another day or so for the trailer and announcement lol. But still... wow.

He talked about it on Twitch several times, he wanted to know who all works on it (which websites), he knew LPLive like "curated" it, etc. He knows we asked him for stuff, like the Sorry for Now demo lyrics. He's probably at least glanced at it.

We were quoted over $50k on it after Chester passed because the value went up on it, apparently.

Seems like it could be LP-related with him mentioning it like, "no new album BUT...." after mentioning Meteora.