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I get what you mean. I just hope we get a box set for Minutes To Midnight in 2027. We have to…

I archived audio, video and photos for every show possible from 1997-2008. What show do you need photos from? I guarantee if photos exist from a certain show, I have them. I have a crazy amount of stuff from those days. I started working on my archive years ago after Chester died, I streamlined my whole LP collection, got rid of everything after 2008 as I didn’t like it, and started focusing on that time period and it’s crazy now, my archive as well as my merch, it’s so much.

By the time it came out I had already kind of ‘’been over’’ the band as I only enjoyed the first three albums and kept going to shows to hear older songs and stuck around because we got LPU releases of old demos every year, etc. so I didn’t expect much from it. I’m not going to lie, I don’t like the song at all. Just not the kind of music that I listen to. I think it should have been released without Kiara and just Chester, for sure, she ruined the song IMO. I didn’t know how much the song meant to Chester at the time lyrically, but knowing how much it did, even more so should it have been just him singing on it. When Julia Michaels turned down the offer to sing on it, that’s when they should have just said ok, let’s just have Chester sing the whole song and put it out that way. Kiara adds nothing, she isn’t bad but isn’t great, she’s not popular, does she even make music anymore? I just think for a lead single that was a crazy move to do. Talking To Myself or Battle Symphony should have been the lead single anyways.

His best drumming is for sure on Minutes To Midnight. Every track has incredible drums. Given Up, Valentine’s Day, In Pieces and of course The Little Things Give You Away are the best examples.

Aside from how he kind of fucked over Ryan and Amir with the whole Orgy getting back together thing in 2010 or so.

No reason why the band can’t celebrate their massive past while still embracing the future with Emily. It doesn’t have to be one or the other. The band knows that, they had a basically 20 year career of massive success and they know that Hybrid Theory and Meteora weren’t the only successful and beloved albums by fans. Yes, they sold the most and have a cult following, but some of the later stuff is still very popular, especially Minutes To Midnight because it has huge singles on it like What I’ve Done which is their third biggest single ever, Bleed It Out which is insanely popular and the ultimate Linkin Park live song, Leave Out All The Rest which has gained a huge cult following since Chester’s death and Given Up which will always be iconic because of Chester’s vocals. Plus, Mike and the band love A Thousand Suns and they know they have to do Minutes To Midnight first, Mike even said that one day he would love to do a box set for A Thousand Suns but he said it makes sense to do every album in order, he said that on Twitch. And the band loves Minutes To Midnight as well, I’d say both Minutes To Midnight and A Thousand Suns are very special to Mike and Brad and the rest of the band. However, it is totally possible that they will skip 2005 and 2006 live stuff for the Minutes To Midnight box set. The 2005 and 2006 demos released through the LPU over the years will surely be a part but I’m talking about live stuff from those years. It’s just how it is, sadly. I said in a previous post that I consider 2005 and 2006 to be the Minutes To Midnight era, I was partially wrong IMO now that I think about it. I’d say after the GRAMMYs in 2006, that’s when the Minutes To Midnight era really started truly, as all the Collision Course stuff was then over, and Collision Course is an extension of the Meteora era as Reanimation is to the Hybrid Theory era. 2005 had two shows and Jay-Z performed with them at both shows, the Anaheim show featuring the whole Collision Course album, and Live 8 featured most of it as well as a Jay-Z track from his Black Album, which the band essentially covered, totally rare for them to have done that but epic, and then of course the GRAMMYs performance with Paul McCartney and Jay-Z). I feel like that truly wrapped up the ‘’Meteora era’’. Summer Sonic 2006 is 100% the Minutes To Midnight era. I mean they started working on the album in November of 2005 (ultimateguitar interview with Brad) and by the time the Summer Sonic shows happened, they were already 10 months into writing for the album, already had switched from the Korn Studio to the Houdini House, etc. QWERTY is a true Minutes To Midnight song, it just didn’t make the album. But it was still a song written alongside all the other songs written, it’s not like a New Divide situation where it was written specifically for something, it was started before they left for the tour and then the band finished it up on the plane (lyrics) to perform at the shows. They were going to play Grecian as we all know but it was abandoned for QWERTY last minute. So I’d love to see it as a part of the Minutes To Midnight box set. It’s an important show, it’s a holy grail and has been since 2006 for fans. And to answer a reply, I know the show we are talking about is Chiba, I just called it Tokyo because the band did at the show, etc. The band could easily give us the Chiba show as well as several 2007 shows and a 2008 show or two (I’d rather have more 2007 shows, but obviously we need a 2008 show on there, I just hope they don’t waste space with a 2009 show that really isn’t the Minutes To Midnight era, that would suck). I’d say Chiba 2006, Bamboozle 2007,😍 Rock am Ring 2007, Clarkston 2007, MSG 2008 and maybe a Europe 2008 show or PR08 show would be good. Chiba 2006, Rock am Ring 2007 and Clarkston 2007 are musts for the set. If they skip Projekt Revolution 2007, don’t even bother putting out live DVD’s, that’s how epic that tour was, you had to be there.