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Ah yeah there's a Mike chat coming up, we should ask him if they really did go back and finish it. That'd be sweet because that means we'd have an LP studio song from more recent times. Also hoping someone asks Mike about the old concerts being released - if they're planning on anything pre-2007.

That's a question I have too. "In response to fan feedback, the band decided to finish the song and make it available as a highlight of LPU9. " The band finished the song later on (2008-2009)? Or that might mean they saw feedback on Japan from what we saw on the MTM DVD (fans going LOL COOL or something) and LP was like "Hmm maybe we should finish it". I guess it could mean either. From all indications, the song was done in 2007 but that quote is a bit misleading if they didn't go back and finish it later on.

Hopefully not...not a big fan of iTunes.

Big post here, but this is the official LPU 9 press release and since I've never posted one before, I thought I'd give it a shot. The full package picture can be found here. It's also important to note that the only shirt at Best Buy that you can find this year is a LARGE - Best Buy is not doing any other sizes for those of you who were looking for them. Thanks Adam! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: LINKIN PARK TO RELEASE SPECIAL RARITIES ALBUM WITH FAN CLUB PACKAGE Los Angeles, CA (November 30, 2009) – Two-time Grammy winning rock band LINKIN PARK has announced a December 3rd release date for LPU9: DEMOS, a special rarities album available with a membership to the band's fan club, the Linkin Park Underground. The album and membership package can be purchased together at www.lpunderground.com and at select Best Buy locations and includes a t-shirt, patch, and other exclusive merchandise items. LPU9: DEMOS features nine unreleased demo versions of some of the band's biggest hits, including "Faint," "Breaking The Habit," and "Leave Out All The Rest." Also included is "Across The Line," a previously unreleased song recorded during the Minutes To Midnight studio sessions. Fans also get "Morning After (acoustic)," from frontman Chester Bennington’s side project, Dead By Sunrise (as an exclusive download). "Songs change constantly over the course of the creative process, so we thought it’d be cool to share early versions of familiar tracks," says Linkin Park vocalist Mike Shinoda. "The versions in this collection represent important moments in the evolution of each song: different vocals, music variations, and missing parts. They're snapshots of our works-in-progress." Since its formation in 2001, the LPU’s reach has extended worldwide to form a tight global community. The band has maintained a strong direct bond throughout, and every year they design special merchandise and release music exclusively to LPU members. Fans first heard the new song, "Across The Line," during online video episodes ("LPTV"). Originally entitled "Japan," fans sought out the song for years, but the band had never released it. In response to fan feedback, the band decided to finish the song and make it available as a highlight of LPU9. "The LPU is a movement," says guitarist Brad Delson. "Their support of the band is inspiring. So we try to give back to them whenever we can. When we heard that they had been talking about 'Across The Line,' we knew we had to make it available for them." The LPU has enabled fans worldwide to interact with members of the band, meeting them at exclusive LP Underground meet & greet signings (held at almost every Linkin Park show), or chatting with them online at exclusive chats through the fan club members-only website, www.lpunderground.com. In past years, the band has offered free concert tickets to fan club members, cast them as extras in a music video ("Faint"), and flown them out for rehearsal sessions. The site also provides fans with exclusive news, presales, contests, photos, video, and more. The fan club consistently strives to offer more to its members through website innovations, creative content, and engaging contests and giveaways. For more information, please go to www.lpunderground.com. The full track listing for LPU9: DEMOS is as follows: 1 – "A-Six" (Original Long Version 2002) 2 – "Faint" (Demo 2002) 3 – "Sad" ("By Myself" Demo 1999) 4 – "Fear" ("Leave Out All the Rest" Demo 2006) 5 – "Figure.09" (Demo 2002) 6 – "Stick And Move" ("Runaway" Demo 1998) 7 – "Across The Line" (Unreleased Demo 2007) 8 – "Drawing" ("Breaking The Habit" Demo 2002) 9 – "Drum Song" ("Little Things Give You Away" Demo 2006) Linkin Park is currently in the studio preparing a new album for release in 2010. Looks good - only thing I disagree with is: "Fans first heard the new song, "Across The Line," during online video episodes ("LPTV")." Didn't we hear it on the Minutes To Midnight DVD first?

I was rendered speechless when shown the latest "demo" version of the site...DAMN. This is just exquisite - I am loving how it's coming along so far. We are in some damn business now...Amanda has worked her ass off on this design and then we've got Jonas and Mike...ehh I'll hush 4.0 is rockin' and rollin'.

There has literally been no recent news from the LP camp...so I'm tempted to ask - what do you think is next? Will Dead By Sunrise tour until March? Or maybe just until February? When will the LP album come out? When do you see the first tour dates popping up for LP? How about a new LP single? Any predictions or guesses on what you all think will happen? According to this interview, DBS has some plans up their sleeves... "The band is playing upcoming dates, but are there any plans in the works for a full-on tour? We're working on it. Oh really? Will it be nationwide? I would like to think so. I mean, I'm working on a new Linkin Park record, so it's not like I can be like 'oh, I have eight months to 12 months to tour this record.' It's like, 'okay, I'm making a record for Linkin Park.' I need to balance playing shows for Dead By Sunrise as well as being in the studio with Linkin Park, which is the priority. It's difficult for me to say that because they're both really important to me. We're figuring that out. It's the biggest hurdle facing us right now, to manage to build Dead by Sunrise around Linkin Park."

Why not both? SOTD is cool.

Should've been the MTM tracklisting: Wake Given Up Bleed It Out No Roads Left Leave Out All The Rest Hands Held High No More Sorrow Across The Line Shadow Of The Day What I've Done Valentine's Day In Pieces In Between The Little Things Give You Away

Points Of Authority - Stuttgart

Very opinionated and totally incorrect, especially about U2. Also wrong about LP's crowd sizes and Chester's voice. Incorrect again. They didn't stop playing older songs. No. LP also sold out the O2 2 nights in a row.

Stadium tour in the winter? Are you crazy? It's fucking below 40 right now, if LP played it'd be fucking cold as HELL at the show. Why not arenas? And this sucks - I was planning on going to Rock am Ring - Ana was organizing a big LP campsite for the festival and everything due to Mike & Phi talking at the Grafen M&G. I still don't believe this 100% though. Regardless, I still bet there will be June/July European shows and regardless I'll still be at the German shows and surrounding countries.

2010 Setlist for the Hybrid Theory Tour: -Some sort of new show intro- 01. Papercut 02. One Step Closer (Reanimated) 03. With You (New intro) 04. Points Of Authority (2009 version) 05. Crawling 06. Runaway 07. By Myself 08. In The End 09. A Place For My Head (All extenders) 10. Forgotten 11. Cure For The Itch 12. Pushing Me Away - 13. What I've Done (AMBO intro) 14. Leave Out All The Rest 15. Breaking The Habit (PR04 transition) 16. Numb 17. New Divide (2009 intro) 18. Somewhere I Belong 19. Across The Line 20. Given Up 21. Bleed It Out - 22. No More Sorrow (Long intro) 23. Faint Throw in 3-5 new songs, replacing SIB, Given Up, LOATR, and Numb.

Seconded. HT is fucking incredible.

For the 100th time, it's Morning After acoustic from the Vegas show. Hope LPU 10 is b-sides. ATL and NRL are fucking sick. Kinda disappoints me though when I hear them and know they didn't make the cut for the CD. I think they are far superior than songs like In Between and Valentine's Day. I can only wonder what the other fully completed MTM songs (there's 2 for MTM) and even Meteora sound like. Hybrid Theory too...I mean you never know. I bet LP, in the vault, has some badass b-sides that would rock our world if we heard. And I'm sure there's bad ones too. I think a full 9-10 song release of those would be sick - it'd just be like a new album almost.

Great update. Hope the new CD has more than 12 tracks.

Interesting that you'd like LP demos, lol.

Nowhere near as heavy as The Used in my opinion. Sounds like MTM-worthy shit to me...I love the track. I think I might be the only one that loves the donna don nana lyrics too on Fear & Drum Song.

A-Six - Sounds like LP took a full instrumental idea for a song but couldn't come up with lyrics for it so they threw it on LPU 2. Good choice. Interesting to see how the whole thing panned out. Faint - Reanimated intro guitar all chopped up 'n shit, yo. Mike Shinoda rapping ftw. Reminds me of a newer Reading My Eyes...the rapping is fast as hell...Mike destroys it up and down. Great display of talent...cool demo. Would've liked to hear the David Campbell original strings demo but this works too. Sad - Maybe should've had Papercut here. The instrumental is cool but yeah there's no lyrics, kinda short. I mean don't get me wrong, I like the instrumental a lot but I think the space could've been utilized a bit better for this track. Fear - God damn incredible. Period. Mike singing is fucking insanely good...I love this track. Mike sounds way better than Chester on it in my opinion even. Wow, he just tears it apart. I really like the Donnanana vocals on there too - that gives us a great insight into the Rick Rubin situation with MTM. 2nd fav track on the CD - Epic win on this track. Fear owns. Figure.09 - Cool. Would've liked Mike on vocals though. Bridge is badass. Chorus is ehh. I prefer the Donnanana method Rubin used versus the old LP method of writing random shit until you come up with the right vocals. Interesting track but nothing I'd listen to repeatedly. Stick N Move - Hate to say it but definitely the low point of the CD. Waste of space almost. It's like they took 30 seconds of the instrumental of the Stick N Move we had (but in higher quality) and threw it on there. I thought this would help bridge the gap between Stick N Move and Runaway but I guess not, lol. Would've liked vocals or a longer track or something for sure. Across The Line - How in the hell was this not on MTM? This is AWESOME. Lyrics, instrumental, bridge, structure, EVERYTHING. What a song, fav on the CD for sure. Fuck this is great. I hope they play it live. Great great track...excellent material right here. Drawing - It's alright. Intro is cool and how the guitar comes in and all but they get a little sample-heavy near the end. It's like an LP remixer trying to Reanimate the end of the instrumental lol. Cool I guess but not a big fan of how much shit starts going on at the end. Drum Song - Love it. I like the how the structure is different - there's piano everywhere and the drum piece is at the beginning. I bet there's a lot of demos of this song - the ebow demo of it and I'm sure there's more vocal demos and such. I like this one a lot, Mike singing is always a win. Badass demo.

Hola amigos. I just got in from a long day...traveled from Atlanta to Nashville and back....but on the way I did pick up LPU 9 at Best Buy in Tennessee and was able to jam out to the tracks in the car! My question to you is - what do you think of the CD? Maybe give a song by song review? Interested in hearing what some of you think. I'll do one as well shortly. Few things to keep in mind: - No download links - No posts requesting "please PM me a copy of the CD". That = spam. Spam = sux. No we aren't any forum-Nazi's, but we don't need a repeat of the Dead By Sunrise CD release with 200+ posts just requesting a PM for the CD. It's the LPU - either join the site on Dec 4 or go to Best Buy. Thanks and have a nice day. Oh yeah, "Across The Line" is fucking sweet. My last statement of the day is: What the hell was LP smoking when they didn't put both "Across The Line" and "No Roads Left" on the album but put "In Between" on it? That might not be appropriate to say, but I thought I'd throw it out there anyway for discussion. LPU 9 chat, go go go! Thanks to Nick and Wilderness for keeping the site in line and to Adam for the heads up on everything today.

Can't wait to take a CD player (2001 ftw) into Best Buy on Friday...open the package on the shelf, put the CD in and listen to it going through the store and waiting to check out in the massive Black Friday lines. LPU 9 CD FTW. So excited...should have the damn thing at 12am Friday I hope. I'm praying for it then. Having it early would be even better so I don't have to go to Best Buy with a massive crowd, but hey who's complaining.

Yeah I agree, that'd be useful. Could add Head Up w/Deftones in 2001, add this show, add the PR07 stuff, etc.

2007-2009 there are 63 total shows that LP hasn't released. Astat is likely right, with no "older" shows being released with this. Our interview with Pooch: > Q: Was LP recording their concerts prior to offering them for download (i.e. were the May/June 2007 shows in Europe recorded)? A lot of people seem to think that there's a "Linkin Park vault" somewhere with a crapload of archived, unreleased live recordings. "Prior to Projekt Revolution 2007 we recorded some things sporadically. I believe there is some B-sides on some imports, etc. from our rehearsals and club shows in March/April 2007. But prior to January 2007, when Dylan and I came onto the scene, there is not any regular recordings of LP. There is a "Linkin Park Vault" somewhere, but it only contains recordings from January 2007 and onwards. And NOT every show. We started recording EVERY single show in June 2007 - Projekt Revolution - and onwards." Before Jan 07 there's not any regular recordings. That makes me think that they have a FEW, but then he says there's an LP vault but it has only 2007+ in it. Fuck.

The LPSpain website with my friend David has put out the newest issue of their Linkin Park Spain Magazine - the October edition. This edition features the "- Reportaje central – "Linkin Park en Directo. Entrevista a 'Hahninator'""...yes, I did an interview with them for the magazine. David said, "I don't know why, but the links in the actual edition don't work and for that reason the supplement is in the other link. Also I put in this email the interview with you in English to be read by anyone." You can find all other issues of the magazine (which is really nicely put together...it's a professional looking, informative magazine that I've been following for a little while now) on their website. He cut out the interview I did, made a little PDF of it in English and provided a download link for that since we all don't speak Spanish of course. The magazine: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ONNHL8A5 The supplement: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UEC168TK Interview in English: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=F3SU1ZK2 It's a really nice magazine in my opinion...I'm always excited to see what cool things fans are doing, and I think this idea was pretty sweet. Check it out! Also, thanks to David and LP Spain for the opportunity to be featured in the magazine and participate in the newest issue.

Berlin 01: -Chester threw up in the middle of Forgotten.

2 things from Projekt Revolution 2003's LPTV episode. I've been rewatching the episodes to find stuff I've missed (such as at the end Mike & LP sabotage the Limp Bizkit show sometime during their performance with water guns and Bizkit gets back at them backstage by showering them in champagne, etc). First thing: 11.04.2003 Evansville, IN, Robert's Stadium There is a clip of the M&G from this show (or that's what it says) where they pull the M&G "traffic jam". I thought this show was canceled? Second thing: Phoenix in the recap says "16 shows in 15 states - we rescheduled 3 shows". The tour was actually planned to be 17 shows long. They canceled 5, making 2 shows played and 3 out of the 5 rescheduled. Wonder where 16 came from? Interesting.