bloodbath

The idea is great, and we should make noise to make something happen... And now is when I become that BUT guy. If it would solely depend on the band, I'm pretty sure that they would have release it for us, maybe commercially, maybe for free, like the Chester tribute show. And I think they also believe that those shows were great. The band, specially Mike, have been pretty adamant of not releasing something that they consider band or mediocre (I have the theory that the band was tired of releasing the LPU demos on a yearly basis, but they felt they had a debt with fans), so we can rule out as the reason behind it. I hate to use the cheap argument of "blame the label", but I think that it is appropriate in this case. We're talking about a professionally filmed and mixed show, not a raw SBD. That's too valuable to give it up for free. They haven't even gave us the Summer 2008 DSP, which have zero commercial value, don't even think about a LP show in their prime with the best quality possible. They are very protective of the LP vault, as it's very valuable and I can respect that. As for the debate if the show should be included on the MTM20 because is part of the cycle, no and no. The show has no songs from that record, Qwerty didn't made the cut and isn't representative of what MTM would become. It's more of a Meteora song cocaine-infused. Speaking of which, setlist and aesthetically wise, the show seems more of a Meteora extension rather than the sign of things to come. For me, it make sense to save that space in the boxset for an actual MTM show. We have two years worth of great shows, I'll be happy with anything. It deserves to be a stand-alone release. As for the argument of "it's a MTM concert because they were working on it by that time", following that logic PR02 should be considered a Meteora show. What would be the solution? Perhaps the Trent Reznor way. You know, perhaps a random day next year, a mysterious leak of a raw SBD of the show finds it's way on YouTube or LP bits...

Well, I think this is very similar to The Hunting Party situation. LP aren't that big in the US anymore and I think a tour like that, with not so big cities, would fit them.

Man! I thought getting that version back in the day, happy to see that I have plenty of time 🤣. Besides, I'm not a vinyl guy, so I don't have that anxiety for getting the "limited splatter luminiscent glow in the dark" edition 😂

Thanks for the heads up! I thought that there was only gonna be one version. It's a small difference in the booklet, I hope that it doesn't sell out now that I'm short of money...

Exclusive? Does this mean that the 2CD version isn't gonna be available everywhere?

Fuck, I shouldn't have bought the Physical edition in September

Fuck, I shouldn't have bought the physical edition back in September.

The Deluxe edition with 3 bonus tracks is for real or just your imagination?

MTM should had one real expanded edition. I still don't like tht we don't have songs like Blackbirds in physical format

They were even thanked on the Meteors boxset, that's the level of respect they have. They keep going this way 30 more years

Any idea if it's a song from the FZ sessions reworked (like Blackbirds) or brand new?

Not in this era, but you have the Mike & Chester promo tour back in 2017. They played Heavy and a couple of tracks acoustically a few times

Too short to review anything. But the fact that they deliberately put the snippet as a "post credit" scene, definitely confirm us that there's more music coming, whether is a new EP or an expanded edition (I'd prefer the former). It's not like your classical Fiore tactic of release some b-side on the background of the video to fuck up with hardcore fans for something that might never see the light of day

Why do you hate yourself?

2DVDs: one with the full show, another with the extras. I can see it happening

Unpopular opinion here: I didn't like when in 2012 the band started their "legacy era". I knew the leiv motiv of Living Things, but for me was like telling people "you were right, our old stuff was better, forgive us, here's what you want". And this band has always taken risk even though sometimes I didn't like the result. They want to make room for new songs replacing old ones? That's perfect for me. This is the From Zero era, it won't be another one.

I guess they will cut some song for the theatrical release but please, we want the full show UNCUT, we don't need another Road To Revolution situation. Fuck, they could have recorded some extra songs at another stop of that tour if they really wanted to give us real bonus tracks... #AngrySince2008

I don't know why they scrapped it, besides the GATS fiasco, the show was pretty rad (yes, I know about the DJ set). I guess that Warner said to them: "We're not gonna to release that DVD from your worst selling record." The 2017 O2 arena show would probably been the opposite but we all know what happened...

YES. When they were planning the release of Meteora 20 they'd probably guess that the hype would be big, perhaps a little bit more than in Hybrid Theory 20, since they weren't grieving at that time and the world had just assumed that Chester was gone for good. But Lost makes a massive impact and the hype completely explodes in a way no one could have predicted. So yeah, the Already Over single was a way to cool down the ambience and makes us believe that Mike is keeping up with the 2020/22 route and nothing interesting is going to happen soon. We wouldn't turn our attention to LP and let them work in the shadows.

To be honest, this is quite the Saudi Arabia show, a "bonus" show where I don't expect anything really interesting but looking forward to the next tour length

Perhaps Emily has some troubles with it (even Chester had them!) or she isn't a big fan of the song. I like the song being played so soon and sung by majority of the crown. That's refreshing for me

If Friendly Fire got its shot early just because of Papercuts, THIS is the place to debut Qwerty. Mike can't play fool this time, he knows we really want it

So he was the main archivist of the band when basically nobody would care about LP's recordings? Truly amazing

Didn't knew of his existence before but... What a bummer

Great post. Hope you have fun today!!