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If you ordered from LP’s website, it’s not on back order according to Adam. Those emails were sent by mistake.

Oh that’s very much a real thing. That’s literally the reason a lot of people hate on LP. There are people who will love a band, but then as soon as they get heavy radio play they say “they sold out, so mainstream” and will literally stop listening to them and go find something else lol

"My original verses were ok, but our A&R guy at the time was really an insecure guy all around" Lmao I love how Mike takes a shot at him every time he comes up in conversation.

I don't think that was ever confirmed. It was inferred from the way the songs are labeled in the tracklisting.

Thank God! We almost got through a whole discussion without anyone bringing up the Grey Daze drama, I was getting worried. To respond, are we implying this is a cash grab... by Amazon Music? They're just doing something to try and get more subscribers away from Apple Music and Spotify. It sounds like a novelty thing, a gimmick. I'll stick with Apple. I'm more curious about what lpliveusername asked. Does this mean we'll potentially be able to have separate channel rips of the songs in the way we have the Reanimation channel rips? If so, that's something cool to look forward to.

There's a chance that it simply doesn't exist. I doubt Chester re-recorded over every single Xero song they made with Mark.

RME was originally on the setlist for Road to Revolution. I'm still sad we missed out on that song being performed for the DVD.

Haha I totally misread the original question as saying “High Voltage on LPU 2 is censored”. That definitely is an odd exception. I wonder if it could have just been an oversight before the album went to print.

I’m not sure about that song specifically, but I’m pretty sure that was still during their “no cursing on official releases” time period. I don’t think there were any uncensored curse words on official LP releases, live or otherwise, before Collision Course and then MTM. I could be wrong, though.

Nobody knows, and Mike doesn’t mention it by name. Given that he specifically singled out which tracks have Mark on vocals, and he DIDN’T include Could Have Been, it’s safe to say it’s a demo with Chester on vocals.

Are they really going be the exact same versions though? Just straight up duplicates with a slightly different title?

It kind of already is their Sgt. Pepper’s. Both albums have recurring motifs that create a sense of flow and cohesion throughout. Both albums were huge departures, stylistically, from the bands’ previous and future works. Both albums have been seen more and more favorably by critics and casual music fans with the passing of time. Personally, I would call both albums the magnum opus of both bands by a mile. Both bands have a GREAT catalogue, obviously. I mean it’s The Beatles and Linkin Park. Two amazing bands, but Sgt. Pepper’s and ATS are just on a different level.

"I can sing "Nobody Can Save Me" and "Battle Symphony" from the new Linkin Park record, and I can sing them because I wrote them, it was me and my friend Jon Green. And I sang the demos and they're written in a way that I can sing those pretty well. But lyrically, a little too hard. I just feel like I know that in the long run, if I put that in the set, it's only going to be a show or two before I go, "I don't want to sing that. I don't want to sing those words." Of course nobody knows for sure, but it's possible that Mike just didn't want to make a pun based off of Battle Symphony's title because of how much that song means to him personally. Then again I could be reaching and the answer could be that he literally just forgot about that suggestion altogether lol

A colloquialism that refers to instrumental pieces of music.

They're not saying anything. The answer is here. "What are you using on that unique manipulated vocal featured throughout the song? That’s one of my favorite sounds on the album. It was one of our scratch vocal tracks which we cut up and made the melody out of. There’s some basic low-pass filtering here with the Waves Linear Phase EQ, a little distortion, and a reverb with very short decay time. The filter is opened up in different sections, to make those sections feel bigger."

Yeah basically lol. Some casual fans will be like "Woah! It's In The End with totally different lyrics! This is awesome!" and meanwhile most hardcore fans heard this demo a million years ago lol

I had a feeling if they released something else before the actual release date that it would be something hardcore fans know very well, but casual fans probably don't. Releasing a demo of ITE is a cool way to hype up a lot of casual fans.

Super thorough fact check, thank you for that! I love LPL lol

The first issue is that no one will believe it with just a picture of the wave form and you saying "I can guarantee it's 100% real". The second issue is that, even if it's totally legit, you're asking Michalangelo to not only betray someone's trust, but also put them in a bad legal spot. Even for a legit Xero demo, that would be a pretty bad precedent to set for anyone considering sharing/trading with him. Moral issues of doing that to someone aside, which is still a big part of it, who would share anything with him in confidence ever again? I would imagine that reputation is a huge part of what he does.

It’s not going to happen unless the original owner of the promo CD gives their permission to share that song, which they’ve made clear that they won’t.

She Couldn’t could have been a single honestly. Yes it’s a very 90’s sounding song, but it sounds great with the mix they gave it and it’s been getting some radio play anyway in some places.

You're probably right, since this is such a unique release, but usually for most albums there would be another track released to keep the hype going. If that did happen, though, I would think it would be something like High Voltage or My December. MAYBE one of the HT EP songs or something random like Dedicated. Definitely nothing from the Forgotten Demos CD.

I would love for them to get permission to release the full Download 2014 show!

I see no reason to pretend like Sean isn't a dick. I listened to Amends for Chester, and I'll listen to any future releases for Chester. What I'm not going to do is pretend like it's ok for Sean to respond the way he has to fans online. He wasn't even being attacked. He was asked questions and chose to go completely off. It's the same type of shit Tak pulled back in the day when he cursed Mark out, and I still can't hear his music the same. I'll say it like this: If anybody in LP ever went full on Trapt, as Sean has, and started calling people "douchebags" and saying "fuck you", it would get called out just the same. We would never excuse it, because there is no excuse that's acceptable. I would lose interest in future LP music if that's how they started acting. When Chester was calling people pussies and saying he would punch people in the mouth in 2017, during the period that it became cool to completely bash OML, even that was called out. It's just not the appropriate response. That's why he eventually composed himself and apologized for it.

I never understood Chester saying "It doesn't exist" when asked if the band would ever release it on an LPU or something. Obviously it exists, and one thing we all know about LP is that they never truly trash their demos or unfinished stuff. They keep everything in case they want to revisit an idea or take parts from it in the future or whatever. We know Mike literally has hard drives in storage with old LP stuff on it that we've never heard. So the Wizard Song is definitely somewhere.