Justin

Seems totally legit and above board. It's refreshing to have such a consummate professional deign us with their presence.

Mike probably thinks it would be boring for a lot of people. He might be right, actually, but I know most of us would be totally fascinated. This whole video was great and the amount of detail he went into was awesome.

Yeah this dude seems super friendly, and his hand is distracting now that you pointed that out LOL

Woah! This is fascinating and unexpected! Thanks so much for bringing this to our attention!

I mean, it's not that serious anyway. I was responding to these comments above: So I wasn't trying to create drama. I was asking about the claims made here. The "paid for" thing was my fault. I was thinking of the other festival that was selling "virtual tickets". I mixed it up.

Wait, so they just aired songs from two LP live DVD's? They took people's money to play songs that almost everyone who paid tickets to hear already owned?

Nah he definitely never had a hillbilly accent. Imagine Chester singing all the time like he did in that one video of Numb LOL

Yeah, and then Mike makes comments like he did a few weeks ago on a stream, about how they only have a certain amount of material in the vault, like almost implying they're running low on demos and stuff like that... So either they don't record nearly as much as they claim they do, or there is more in the vault than he's claiming there is. Both can't be true lol

It was a good question and an interesting answer! The questions like those, that actually make him think, are his favorite ones.

When I think of "the New Jersey accent", I just imagine everyone walking around NJ with the Sopranos accent. LOL Chester and Mike have never spoken with an accent... but yeah Mike's Compton-bravado influence comes out in his raps sometimes.

Oh I'm going all out for the HT release. Pre-ordering the biggest package available as soon as I'm able to. We don't even know the details yet, but I'm already 100% in lol.

I'll consider buying a ticket if they stream the set in full. I don't want to buy a ticket to watch a mash-up of all the performances featuring like 1-2 songs from each performer...

That's good news. Some of these jams have turned out to be really awesome.

Lmao was he really? He probably was like “So we put out this album, and the song up for an award is the only song with no vocals.... nice.”

It is different. I’m not at my home computer to compare the guitar at the end to the album version, but the newer rip has the vocals completely separated from all background instruments, and the “song” file is actually the studio party sounds and the piano mixed together.

I would think that’s correct. He and Mike have done that since HT days, where they just talk openly about their issues and come up with ideas from there. Chester may very well have provided the concept and Mike turned it into song lyrics.

I was waiting for him to say something like "Sounds like Sorry For Now" lol

It's ok to be cynical as long as you're talking about Mike being a dictator in LP and playing favorites with Brad to make OML. Don't you dare say a cross word about Grey Daze though. Money is the last thing on their mind. All they want to do is honor their friend.

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If WID wasn't on the album, I would think LOATR would be the next best choice for lead single. Also I referred to that recently. I haven't seen the DVD in a long time, but I always thought he meant "We're doing some really different, experimental stuff, nothing like the past or what people are expecting us to come out with on this album." You may be right, though, because if my memory is correct he said that while clicking through a bunch of different small demos for the band. So in that context, I could see him meaning it more in the way you said it.

You're suggesting that WBR sabotaged THP. That's the kind of thing we would have heard about by now. Concerns about lack of marketing and support is exactly what prompted LP's original dispute with WBR 15 years ago. If they were willing to stand up to it then, when nobody knew if LP would be successful with MTM, they would have definitely made noise about it in 2013... by which point they were already an established legendary act. Your last point, that OML isn't on the level of THP, is subjective. I enjoy OML as an album more than THP. THP has some good songs, but sometimes I can't shake the feeling that the opposite of what you said is true. To me, THP feels more like the forced album, and OML is the one that feels more natural. THP happened because Mike got the itch to make a heavy record, and we know Chester was down to do something heavy, but it didn't sound like a logical progression to me. That album is like an outlier to me in some ways from their discography post-Meteora. Even in the band members' interviews prior to each album, they seemed more excited and happy with OML to me than THP. With all that said, this album is probably my 2nd least favorite overall. This sounds like a first step towards a new direction, but I personally wasn't a fan of bringing in outside songwriters to actually assist with lyrics. LP didn't need help with their lyrics. I understand the band wanting to work with others to get new ideas and learn from how other people go about their songwriting, but they didn't need people to actually write LP songs with them. It's not a coincidence that SFN is one of the best songs on the album and it just so happens to be the only song written by one person.

Some people use humor to cope with awkward and/or painful subjects. He is a good person.

That's the most polite criticism of singing vocals I've ever seen lol

I guarantee you if you asked Mike to say the 12 album songs of MTM, he would need to look them up somehow. There's no way he would just be able to rattle off all the songs that specifically made the standard edition of the album, and then he would probably say something like "17? Where did you get that number? That's weird. I don't know that we had 17 tracks ready to go specifically but... For that album we did like 150 demos. So... yeah I don't know" and then move on lol

I have what must be an unpopular opinion of NMS since I haven't really seen anyone say it: I like the song but the intro is so long... The extended intro live made it feel even more interminable. The song itself and Chester's suitably angry delivery is awesome though.