Fleur de Lys

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.

Cut Mike out of the picture and put him into the banner on the top of the site. That will probably boost sales haha.

Haha lol at Mike dropping his capo at the end of Bleed it Out. APFMH was a disaster over Bleed It Out, and I don't think he will do it again. But it was still good fun. Chester sounds very nice here.

Ah, this is what they Linkin Park sounds like without clicktrack. Yes, way out of time. I believe the reason why Mike called it "unrehearsed" is really because they had no clicktrack to follow, like they always have, so he was a afraid they might mess up some places. They know that song to death, so it had nothing to do with the lyrics, chords, patterns etc. Only tightness. That's why Brad messed up slowing down in the intro too. But really, I don't blame them, I know what it's like to play live. Chester couldn't hear Rob in the whisper section, so only when he looked at him, he could follow him. That's not his fault. Brad where distracted by the crowds untight clapping, which always is a nice and appreciated response, though it's very annoying related to tightness. Overall, it was still awesome.

My favourite song is In The Darkness because I love listening to it while I have sex.

Yes, I agree. With a site like this, the truth is that you often reduce your opinion of a show to being based on the setlist alone. I know I did in the past. That's really a shame, because it may have been so much different than you think in your little head. Despite a bad setlist, the energy could have been awesome, or it could have sucked, even though it was a good setlist. I know this is true. I was at the Skive show in Denmark in 2008 and I was hoping to not get that exact setlist we got. And the show was great. I know you are aware of this. You all know that it's not only about the setlist. But just don't forget that it can mean a lot less than we really go around thinking sometimes.

It was When They Come For Me.

I think what Mike is doing in this song is a hybrid of rapping and singing. And it's fucking awesome. I haven't heard anything like it before. The funny thing is, the harmony Joe sings can clearly be heard in the end of the song, and he is waaaay better than Chester and Mike is at it sometimes. But I must say, the whole band improved their singing very much since last time in the new live situations, including Chester. And I am very optimistic about the new songs live, I was afraid that major parts of the songs would just be backing tracks, because the album is so electronic, but I think they've avoided that so far. Awesome.

Well, didn't any of you hear the interview from KROQ breakfest show? He joked, sitting at the keyboard, putting that exact effect over his voice, saying things that were definately not on the album haha. It's obviously an effect you can turn on and off. So it's not lip sync in my opinion.

Hmm. Everything except the gang vocals on The Catalyst was pitch perfect. I wonder how much they edited it. If it is fo realz though, hands down, they really improved a lot on the singing since the last time. No matter how good they sing, I think that the performances from ATS so far have been very solid, a pleasure to listen to.