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This.

I don't have much to add, but I totally understand the point of view of @Soeffingnaive92 or @Fleur de Lys. On the other hand, I get the point of view of the band too - starting from scratch with a clean slate, not brooding on the past too much. However, it feels weird that they don't mention Chester at all during the shows now. It's the first Linkin Park tour after he died, c'mon! I think long speeches about him like the ones that Mike made during PT tour would be misplaced - they have new music that is not about Chester, they have new band members who were not the bandmates of Chester, and first and foremost, it would be really emotionally demanding for Mike to make tributes like this forever. They finally want to move on. I just don't understand why they don't say one sentence about him or something like that - I liked what Mike said during the first two shows - a line like this on every concert would be ideal and would be something in between not making any tributes at all and long speeches/huge tributes. We could probably avoid discussions like this then.

This is why they've been my favourite band. Down-to-earth humble people. Thank you for sharing the story!

Great show! Chester sounded amazing. I'm glad to see TLTGYA here too. It's been one of my favourite LP songs recently

Never! I don't even smoke cigarettes.

I'm attending! My second Linkin Park show. The previous one was 13 years ago, in Warsaw, 2012. Different Linkin Park but the same excitement as 13 years ago. I can't wait to hear all these beautiful songs live! The only problem is that Linkin Park set starts at midnight. I expected something like 10PM, but of course will wait for them no matter the hour. I'm having my own concert tomorrow - I will come back home around 3AM, I guess... so that's not the best scenario I could imagine, but whatever... what can I do?

Thank you for all these videos @JZLP-Benningstrong! Crazy discoveries. I was sure that "Faint" sample is original - meaning that it was taken from the orchestra studio recording sessions for "Meteora". Very interesting

What a great performance! It was awesome to watch it. Great crossover between my two passions too. I prefer the old line-up of the band but I am really grateful that Linkin Park is back and we can experience moments like this. Such a show was out of a question just a year ago and here we are today!

I am not sure if it's Teddy Swims on the left because at 1:29 we can hear Emily's laugh. So... either both Emily and Teddy were working together in the studio at that time or it's not him.

I've just listened to Let You Fade a few times. What a great track! I don't know, maybe it's just because it's fresh, but it might be one of the best songs from From Zero era. It feels that it has much more soul than some other tracks from the album. The lyrics seem honest and they definitely come from a much more sincere place than some of the lyrics from the album. I don't want to speculate on whether the song is about Chester. I think it might be, at least partially, but perhaps it's more about the transition from the old era of the band to the new one than specifically only about Chester. Musically it's very interesting. It sounds like it could be on a hypotehtical 2023 Mike's solo album that would also include Already Over. Similar vibe! And that's why I probably like Let You Fade so much because I like Already Over very much too. I think it's something new for the band but also very Linkin Parkish at the same time. The guitars sound great. The drums have an intriguing garage/grungy sound, like from a Meteora demo. In general - a very good song!

I've been to Open'er two times and honestly, they've never had many proshots available. I was on Open'er in 2022, when Twenty One Pilots were the headliner, and they didn't even publish a single video from their performance. Sometimes they publish one song from a concert, but that's not always the case. However, this year supposedly they have an official partnership with the Polish national TV so it might be different this time round.

I'm attending Open'er too! I hope they'll play the full set, but wouldn't count on that.

Is it possible that they'll play longer sets on other festivals or it's probably this 90-minute set on every festival? I know that nobody really knows, I'm just wondering. I'm going to the festival in July and LP is the headliner. 90 minutes is fine, of course, but the longer, the better, obviously 😅I hope we'll get some rotation spots in festival setlists too because I'd like some surprises.

It seems that they had a lot of fun creating Casualty. You can sense the party atmosphere when they were making the first demo of the song. So cool to observe!

It seems that Over Each Other was an OML demo and that's why Jon Green is credited for this song. At the beginning of this LPTV video they say "it's still the same" so I guess it was being worked on during OML sessions because they already know the song. It sounds like Dave and Joe certainly heard this song way earlier than December 2022. Same with Brad at the end of the video. This makes me think that maybe even Chester heard Over Each Other in this demo version, interesting... Probably there's no version with Chester vocals - Mike sang on a lot of demos first and then Chester recorded his vocals after picking the right songs. I am wondering why they blurred parts of Joe's notes in the video. There's something about "live setting" there, I suppose? Were they thinking about live shows back in 2022 already? Intriguing. Something doesn't add up here because they said that at first they were just hanging out without thinking about working on a specific serious project. Maybe it was just a thought while working on one of the songs. I'd love to hear Mike's demo versions of songs from FZ. They sound great! Emily's voice is awesome, don't get me wrong, but Mike's demos give more classic LP vibes. I also agree with @demoncarnotaur - the final version seems slightly overproduced - in the demo version we can hear some more raw instruments. Brad joined very late in the process, it seems. Probably only a few months before the release of the album. In this part with Brad talking, Over Each Other sounds almost the same as on the album.