Fleur de Lys

Maybe he is saving his voice for the show tonight? Never heard him not screaming those parts. Also, I really disagree with the way Pooch is mixing the guitars. Sometimes it's like he never even listened to albums. Mike's parts are so far down in the mix, they're almost not audible, which is a huge contrast to the mix on the studio version. He mixes it like Brad parts are lead parts, but I'll bet you that it would sound 10 times better if he mixed them equally. It would also give Chester a heavier foundation for his screams. Loud distorted guitars and screams just go well together. Anyway, I know he has been doing it this way for years, but it is just so evident in that video during Faint.

How is this not "confirming nothing"?

Stone Temple Pilots drummer Eric Kretz recently touched upon making the first full-length record with Chester Bennington as their vocalist. "At this point we're, like, 'Okay, we need to try and make an album,' but Chester was going on tour with Linkin Park to Asia through the month of June. So it was, 'Okay, we've got so little time here,'" the drummer added. http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcomi...z_confirms.html It seems we are in for a STP album in 2014 and not just another EP, which is what was speculated earlier. So there's going to be two full-length Chester records in one year. Sounds good to me!

I can't say agree. You can't really put a timeline like that on a creative process. In my experience, the best decisions in songwriting are the initial ones, and over-thinking can really hurt the outcome. I have a feeling that LP would do better if they went with their first thought on more occasions. This could be different from musician to musician, I'm just saying that time won't necessarily influence quality. If you take look at some of the most classic songs in rock-history, they come from albums that were released a year or maybe even a HALF year after the last one. The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, the list goes on.

He definitely moved more there, but that was not my point anyway. I was talking about his face. And maybe it's not new but to me it's gotten worse over the last couple of years and with a pro-shot showing it so clearly, I decided to take it up for discussion now.

I'm very much aware of this, but it's just sad seeing him this emotionless in his face. Maybe he had a bad day, I just think it comes off slightly arrogant.

They obviously added a distortion-effect to Chester's mic in all the screaming parts. Sounds pretty cool to me. It's also on the chorus' of Given Up and it's still on when he says "Thank you very much" in the end of the video. You can also hear this effect on other songs from the crowd recordings, so it seems to be on purpose. On another note, I remember Brad once said that they're not idiots jumping around on stage anymore. That's cool with me, but one could also call someone an idiot when he does the exact opposite. You could at least show just a little bit of emotion when playing your songs, not just a straight face and a constant tongue out of you mouth? It doesn't seem like he cares about the (old) music anymore, and he plays it quite sloppy. It just kills part of the energy the other guys put into the show.

Chester was way off key, it was kind of hard to enjoy the chorus. I don't really think I like the melody either. It helped when Mike harmonized in the last chorus though. The arrangement is pretty generic and boring too from what I can tell. But the verses definitely sound awesome.

His voice is definitely auto-tuned here.

I think that is a bit of an exaggeration there, he hates Runaway and Nobody's Listening maybe one more, and he cannot see One Step Closers big appeal. But saying that he hates pretty much all songs from HT and Meteora is not true. From what I have heard him say, that is. He mentioned that he listened to all the albums in his car one day, and he was surprised that they were actually very different sounding from HT to ATS; like a new band. That is all, the package in which the songs were delivered were different, but the songwriting was equally good, and I think Chester acknowledges that. Also, I think he said he loves Crawling.

The six of them sitting table there. That's what I call a special M&G. Ha! I don't like it. I love the song, but this music video does nothing me. Except for the fact that I like the way Mike looks so troubled when he sings. I like the emotion. For me, a good music video is supposed to be a good blend of a tale and a band performance. Or just a band performance, because when it comes down to it, that's what we all like to see. There is no real story here, only a setting. And no real band performance. So it lacks both and therefore it does not move me personally. Don't get me wrong, actually this is better than a music video with only a tale, and no performance at all. This rarely works. I hate it when the main focus is on the video and not the music. They are at least singing here, and the story is not good enough for you to forget about the music. Balance is the key. But you'll need the right elements to make this balance, and they are missing here.

Looks interesting enough, but I fear we're going to get yet another video filled with slow motion. It fits the vibe though.

Yeah, he was definitely stoned. That is also why he misses part of the bridge, I don't think it is his mic.

Dosn't he have a click track and monitor in his headphones? Or are they not electrical and only for noise-reduction?

They won't need another guitar. A guitar can be set up for that song in a matter of 5 minutes. They only need to take three strings off his half step down drop D guitar, and put one new D string on it. A guitar tech can do this in no time. So that is obviously not what's holding them back.

First of all, that is exactly what it's called over here in Denmark, I have several jewish friends here who call it that in danish, so there's no reason to be nitpicking. Secondly, you have a good eye.

Cool that Brad is wearing a jew hat. He is jewish so it makes sense.

Great performance. Chester sounds amazing here. I don't know if they used autotune though. Good mix too.

Wow. These recordings feel so claustrophobic, because of the stupid mixing. They should leave some of the crowd in the mix, and blend the onboard recordings with recordings from mics in the crowd, to give the instruments that reverb-feel they get in a real live situation. This feels like LP are performing infront of an imaginary crowd. Looks incredibly silly and lonely when Chester sings infront of the crowd in the end of Breaking The Habit. And that last "tonight" by the crowd haha, sounds so stupid, it was all ready being turned down in the mix while it was yelled. Thank god Pooch is better at this.

I'm beginning to suspect Chester's drum part on the triggers to be fake and sampled. It's only obivous when you keep your eyes on him the entire breakdown. Especially the end. He ends with the same fill that he played earlier, but this time it can't be heard. Plus, he missed that same fill just before. And in the break where he dosn't play, it dosn't look like he comes in at the right spot again. I don't know, I'm not sure yet. Hard to explain, you guys should go see for yourself.

No he shouldn't. Harmonies makes the verses a lot more interesting (when they work), plus Chester is doing the exact same thing on the record. Why shouldn't he do that live? Proof of this? Nothing looks sampled to me? It is not tight enough for that. In my opinion, that is a great and very energic part of the song. You can definitely see that the band loves playing it, compared to some of the old stuff. And it looks and sounds awesome. I don't think they pretend playing anything right now. Now they even play the New Divide bridge live too.

Would be awesome!

Well, I could. They can't turn the PA louder than the specific country's rules allow them to, so it's not their fault.

Exactly. It was the setlist above. It was really really good. Chester was full of energy tonight. Check out Given Up when it comes up. I hoped for the setlist with Messenger, Papercut and APFMH (in whatever way), and that's what I got. Nice. The crowd went nuts when they got into the bridge of APFMH in Bleed it Out! It was crazy!

I just came back from the show. Awesome concert! One of the best I've been to. It was the setlist containing Papercut and Messenger. And APFMH first verse and bridge was in Bleed It Out. The only thing I missed was more crowd-interaction.