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I agree. No telling what else he said on this tour, lmao. There's a Rolling Stone interview from Chester in Italy before this tour, I believe it is from the time period between the Portugal and Asia shows in 2004 but maybe was published later. Chester is essentially saying he feels like a complete outsider to the band and doesn't fit in or something. Let me see if I can dig it up. That's no secret from the earlier years but I think based on later comments by Mike and Chester, Chester really had a strained relationship with them at the end of the Meteora era. Hence the "come to Jesus meeting" LP had with him during the Making of MTM. Geki has talked about this topic a lot in the past, when he's discussed the 2005 era. Great show, wow. Never thought we'd see something like this. This could be one of the best Wish performances I've heard. Have to love all the intros and outros of the songs too. It's funny we consider this one of the best setlists LP has ever played but it's in hindsight so much shorter time-wise than many setlists from eras after this, lol. But there's no doubt they were on fire at this time and they were really dominating the live stage. Hell of an act.

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I disagree but I will explain why. LPLive, in the past, has taken a stance of being very... "pro-leak". We leaked a lot of stuff ourselves, a substantial amount of that being studio demos and professionally recorded stuff. The band and label looked the other way on most of that stuff until Chester passed. The conversations I had with them after I posted the Chester Dead By Sunrise demos indicated that their position has changed, RIGHTFULLY so since Chester is no longer here and the "vault" of stuff is now limited with no future additions by Chester being possible. They have been nothing but courteous to us in the past when we posted things like the Reanimation demos, etc. Mike wasn't against us sharing Xero demos, stuff like that. WBR knows this song leaked. The band knows this song leaked. If they wanted to make a statement on it, they would. They are in an extremely vulnerable situation right now. Mike's world tour is over, there is complete silence from LP, etc. They are obviously trying to figure out if they can go on as a group, and if so, how. And on top of all of those difficult discussions, now a full song from the OML era leaks out of nowhere meaning they probably are unsure of how it even happened. So what else is compromised? Imagine being in the band and that happens. If Mike wanted us to have it, share it, and talk all about it, he'd have addressed it like he has addressed leaks before. Warner is going to bat 110% for LP right now because of those reasons. Sure, they can look the other way on stuff, but that's a dick move to leak a full Linkin Park song when the band is in such a terrible spot. I don't blame them at all for going after the song. They obviously don't want to promote the song as it has no business being out there. If it was intended to be released, it would be released. Their first "promoted release" after OML Live isn't going to be some early OML demo. This typically wouldn't be a big deal. Mike would probably be like "lol, you guys found something cool", but it's all about the timing, it's all about this happening so soon (in real terms for the band) after Chester's passing, and it happening by someone not affiliated with the band. For those reasons, I'm on their side on this one.

I feel like Geki and I could really nominate some awesome performances from DSPs. Let me think about it.

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Request it in the video forum for now. We will try to do this project next but it will take a long time due to how many video recordings there are. LMAO

Two setlists for the Living Things World Tour, with Roads Untraveled, Powerless, I'll Be Gone, Castle Of Glass, and Until It Breaks. Plus you get normal staples like Burn It Down, Victimized, and Lost In The Echo, as well as In My Remains. That's what the album deserved live. Both have enough rarities to entice you to see multiple shows. My goal was to just include as many Living Things songs as possible (minus Lies Greed Misery) but with all of the normal songs they were playing on the world tour at the time. Lost In The Echo Faint Papercut Given Up In My Remains Points Of Authority When They Come For Me Somewhere I Belong What I've Done Waiting For The End Breaking The Habit Castle Of Glass The Catalyst Burn It Down Numb I'll Be Gone In The End One Step Closer ------------ New Divide Tinfoil Powerless Bleed It Out A Place For My Head Papercut With You Victimized Points Of Authority Lying From You Lost In The Echo New Divide Castle Of Glass Numb What I've Done Roads Untraveled Waiting For The End Breaking The Habit Burn It Down The Catalyst Until It Breaks Crawling Bleed It Out --------- One Step Closer In The End Faint

Chester said something on Twitter last year about Until It's Gone being some sort of political move the band had to do, like WBR maybe wanted it on the album or something. Or maybe that is why they felt like they had to play it live. Who knows.

I think that's exactly what will happen here in the next year or two. A new album, plenty of old songs in the show but new songs as well which will be helpful for Mike vocally, and a release of LFAA. They are very smart with marketing and commercial success, they know they can write 1-2 solid singles for the comeback and the band will be just fine when they roll out on the world tour.

I don't know if OML is worse than THP. Really hard to decide on that. I like OML a lot more now than when it first came out.

Maybe THP would have been a better album if LP had gone with the style of Final Masquerade and wrote semi-heavy songs, but not the super heavy attempts at rock. I really like Final Masq a lot.

That's great. They probably just didn't credit him anywhere since he executive produced the album and taught Ryan how to sing the songs, and CB is all over the album way down in the mixes. Really cool.

100% agreed with both of you. Mike's world tour has made it very evident Linkin Park is going to be just fine with 5 members and Mike on lead vocals. Mike's vocals live have improved tenfold from just May and that solely has to do with him singing so much on stage each night. Well, he may have hired a vocal coach too, secretly, but I don't know that for sure. It wouldn't have surprised me, though, because he REALLY stepped it up. Compare the first Sorry For Now and Roads Untraveled to the ones now. Garret is right, they don't need to play all the heavy songs. There are enough he can do now like Rebellion (with a rap verse bridge), etc. Lots of small adjustments can be made to a few of the heavier songs to get those in the set, like Papercut. Songs like New Divide, Crawling, etc are gone. However, hell, Mike has been playing a fantastic piano version of Heavy that he could easily do with New Divide - LPTV has a great clip of one like that when he was writing New Divide. Mike can do most of the vocals on OML. Whatever he and LP decide to do for a setlist, it's going to be good. He's playing so much Linkin Park right now. When They Come For Me, Castle Of Glass, Until It Breaks, Roads Untraveled, Iridescent, some version of Waiting For The End (totally fine if WYG stays with it, because Mike tells epic stories about Chester with WFTE when he does that), Papercut, In The End, Heavy, Burn It Down, Sorry For Now, It's Goin' Down, Robot Boy. That isn't even getting into songs he hasn't done but can easily handle vocally like Nobody Can Save Me, Battle Symphony, One More Light, Burning In The Skies, In Between, most of Little Things, most of The Catalyst, and interludes like Wisdom Justice Love, Fallout, etc. They can adapt enough singles in the set to make it work and I think they know that now.

It appears labels are screwing up and pushing the releases out early. Not sure why. Official release for this single is next month. Would be nice if they filmed enough material in the studio to have a music video. Each member playing their parts, some clips of Chester singing. Some clips of them talking or writing down lyrics. Would be cool.

Just message Ryan on Facebook and he will reply if you want to know. I think, yes, Chester is on Technical Difficulties.

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