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From the new LPUnderground email: MESSAGE FROM MIKE - LPU EXCLUSIVE: NEW SONG DOWNLOAD As some of you may have seen on www.mikeshinoda.com, we're in the studio working on some new music. Recently, I took some time out to play around with the new ProTools 8 recording software. This is the track I came up with. I thought you guys might enjoy it...think of it as a holiday gift. Take care, and a have a happy new year. -m shinoda Note to LPLive users: This is an LPUnderground exclusive and you may NOT post links to the song here or ask for it. Mods will watch the thread accordingly...please don't act up. Join the LPUnderground to gain access to it. It's only US $15 for an "online" pass, and $25 for the regular pass. Cheap, and who knows, maybe we'll get more of this in the future! By the way, the name of this track is 'Lockjaw'. Also: SPEND THE HOLIDAYS ON ROAD TO REVOLUTION Linkin Park is treating fans to a free holiday showing of the international broadcast version of their new concert DVD Road To Revolution: Live At Milton Keynes. The footage will stream for 24 hours beginning 12:01 AM on December 24th via the Linkin Park Media Player on linkinpark.com. At the same time, Meebo will let fans discuss the new DVD in real time in the Linkin Park Meebo Room. During the broadcast, fans who purchase the Road To Revolution: Live At Milton Keynes CD/DVD via the Linkin Park media player and receive a free limited edition Linkin Park poster. "We wanted to give the fans something special for the holidays," says Chester Bennington. "The Milton Keynes show was a special concert for us and by streaming it online, we can share that experience with all of our fans around the world." Thoughts? What do you think of the song?

Holly has been working on her 2nd album since 2006. She is set to finish it in January and have it out in the spring (March?). Duncan Shiek has been helping her. http://myspace.com/hollybrook Some very cool blogs on there by her. She updates it regularly. Check out the recent one that talks about the softer songs she likes vs the commercial poppy songs she doesn't like as much and deciding between the 2 to put on her CD. The small clips of new music she has included in random videos is excellent, I can't wait for her new CD.

Nice. Added another like 20 something banners by [AndOne] and a few more by me. Taken from DSPs and Mike's blog. I think I'll some more setlist-based ones since those look cool.

Always make backups....always. You never know what could happen.

Do you guys think we'll get LPTV in 2009 for the new album? If so, will it still be on iTunes? I don't know what to think because they released some video of the tours to us as small LPTV episodes, like PR07 and all that shit, but I'm sure they have a ton of footage left that they could make 10 minute/20 minute episodes from. I'd like it if they did all the MTM tours and then did new album stuff like they did last time. However, I'm not sure. Any thoughts?

I don't think there are any Machine Shop artists left. Fort Minor would be it, right? Holly got out finally I think, I know SOB got out within the past 6 months. I don't know who else is there besides FM, which is really just Mike. Warner fucked Machine Shop up so badly, noone wants to be on it. They had some sweet talent like Rosewood Fall, etc back in the day when it was originally like 'The Shinoda Imprint' and then right when it changed to Machine Shop. Their website is really out of date: http://www.machineshoprecordings.com/artists.html SOB is completely off of Warner after Ryu told Tom Whalley that he could "suck a fart out of his ass" LOL. Holly I believe has been fighting to get off for quite some time and since she has a new CD coming out in the spring I would guess she's off but I'm not sure. EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Shop_Recordings Right now, Machine Shop Recordings has 1 known artist signed under the label: * Fort Minor Partly under label: * Linkin Park Former bands signed to the label include: * Styles of Beyond * Holly Brook * Simplistic * The Rosewood Fall (Defunct) * No Warning (Defunct) Excluding since 2008: * Styles of Beyond When LP gets the fuck off Warner finally I bet Mike will have his own sort of label like Trent Reznor has (The Null Label or something, lol). Hopefully it'll be Machine Shop and it'll grow really big with other artists too, LP as the main one, but I dunno if Warner will let it go. I mean I have no idea if Warner will still be able to hold onto it when LPs contract ends. Amanda? lol

nottingham 03 page needs samples added and broadcast needs to be broadcasted, lol.

Added like 20-30 banners from random DSP pics I decided to edit.

What????? Explain. I don't understand, lol. Mike has sang OHHH OHHH, etc on the bridge plenty of times. BIO Auburn destroys BIO MK.

Disagree on several points. Leave Out All The Rest in 2007 when they first started playing it on that big European Tour was excellent. Example, LOATR in Hamburg in May 2007: Chester sounds 10x better on that than he does in 2008 on the song. Overall, in fact the entire song is mixed better if you ask me. LOATR on PR08 would be the most boring song of the entire set if you asked me. Sure, Chester might sound a tad hoarse on Hamburg, but it shows he's giving it "a lot" and is quite into the song. In Pieces, yeah, IP blew at first. I do give you that. The first two shows it was played at was an absolute mess as far as Chester's voice goes, but by the time they hit Atlanta I saw no problem with it and they pulled it off flawlessly. Noone's perfect at first. Shadow Of The Day? I'm probably one of the only ones here on this, but I think the Auburn 07 performance is one of the best ones ever. As the tour went on, Chester added that "Yes it will" and "Oh yeah" and stuff that he said softly after the choruses, which made the song more interesting. The 2008 version is good, but in 2007 I think he performed it better vocally. Auburn is not mixed poorly. It's definitely my favorite mix of all. If so many people love it, it's obviously not a bad mix, lmao. Europe and PR07 had energy. I wasn't in Australia or Asia, so I can't speak for them, but they had much more energy on the 2 tours I mentioned than from what I've seen of the 2008 shows. Obviously it's not the same energy as they used to have because like Mike has changed roles in the band, going from a rapper to like playing guitar and keys all the time now. Phoenix gets into it pretty well still if you ask me, but the rest of them, eh. Joe and Brad, LOL, what a mess. The 08 SBDs have the guitar mixed not nearly as well as 2007 if you ask me. In Auburn, it was all perfect. I honestly don't see how you can compare Auburn to a PR08 SBD. Disagree again. Chester sounds fine to me...way better than RTR / MK. Everything else is mixed so flawlessly. It's like the crowd is not only in your face, but you have this perfect combination of the other elements of the band that just mix together seamlessly. I like how it's one of the recordings you can really hear the crowd banging on the seats at between the songs. The individual instruments stand out pretty well versus 2008 where it's just all bland sounding mix. Mediocre show? I mean LP was fucking ON that night. First show of your main USA tour since you release MTM, and you're hyped as hell. They are obviously feeding off the crowd really well. That place is going absolutely nuts between songs, smashing the seats with their fists, etc...LP is all over it. They extend Bleed It Out like a fucking anthem and the crowd participation is excellent. The outro, I mean I don't understand how you can say they've done a better outro than at Auburn. That's just pure slow -> fast jamming, having a lot of fun, etc. For TLTGYA being the worst song ever to start an encore, I really like it from Auburn. Mike's keyboard sound is ridiculous...I'm a really big fan of that deep, low sound of the keyboard intro to TLTGYA. Once it changed to the higher pitched piano sound in 2008, it got REALLY boring in my opinion. Overall, the show was quite impressive for me. It's definitely my favorite Set C show that they've done. I absolutely prefer the Auburn sound to the 2008 shows.

In West Palm it was a clusterfuck trying to get thousands of fans squeezed out of the one Rev Stage exit and to the Main Stage in an orderly and timely fashion. In Tampa I skipped Atreyu and saw SDC because I knew I'd miss them if I went to the Rev Stage. In Atlanta I had the same situation as West Palm. In fact I don't recall ever seeing SDC in Atlanta besides the soundcheck. When I showed up at my seats now that I think about it, I am pretty sure they had already finished. Don't quote me on that because I might be mistaken but I don't ever think I saw SDC's set in Atlanta.... (I did, however get to hear their soundcheck, lol). Interesting that you had time to see them. I don't think they had enough time in the schedule to allow for a smooth transition, but I dunno.

No I actually screwed it up this time, I apologize, lol. It usually appears with your name on it and this time it didn't because I clicked a wrong button and had to go back and fix some stuff. Sorry you got hit by us making a mistake, won't happen again.

LPU and LPLive members have been reporting receiving Google Alerts today about Warner videos/music being pulled from YouTube because they haven't been able to reach an agreement... (YouTube & Warner). Source is here. Quote from article: "In theory, the new development means that YouTube users cannot view music videos by Warner artists, including Led Zeppelin, Aretha Franklin and Linkin Park. It also means that any video -- even one that is homemade -- that features music by a Warner artist, or written by a songwriter published by Warner/Chappell Music Publishing, won't be available, either." Hopefully they won't go after live material...? Some users have received some messages from WMG (Warner Music Group) already though, like "Pinkwater3", who says, "I personally received a copyright notice from WMG for a video (a tv interview ) in which we can see a small part of the What I've Done video. They didn't remove my vid, but whatever." I also received a message for my "What I've Done [Live @ TV Total 2007] video I've got up, but it also wasn't removed. Songs removed from the LP official YouTube account include What I've Done, In The End, Bleed It Out, Given Up, Leave Out All The Rest, Numb, Faint, and Somewhere I Belong. For example, if you click the What I've Done video link , you will see this message: "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by a third party." EDIT: YouTube has issued a statement itself, here. Thoughts? Comments? Discussion!

American leg of Proj Rev (aka the REAL PR08), here we go: 9. Hawthorne Heights. Pitiful. From what I managed to watch, they were terrible. The only song I knew of theirs, This Is Who We Are, sounded awful live. I was not impressed. Really bad sound live, boring to watch. Like Preston said, they didn't even fucking show in West Palm, lmao. I should have saved and framed the poster they put up saying "Sorry, Hawthorne Heights will not be performing today". 8. Street Drum Corps. Far too short of a set to be on Proj Rev in my opinion. They didn't do the march from the Rev -> Main Stage like the press releases for the tour said they would. Once Atreyu finished, it was a clusterfuck to get to the main stage and by the time you got there, they were already like 2-3 songs in! I'm glad in Tampa I skipped the Rev Stage because I was actually able to see SDC. They had a song I liked called Crazy. I think they'd be better with a longer set, etc. The drum opening to the LP set was interesting but I prefer the kabouki or something else. Not the type of band I'd like to see on PR, but whatever. They were cool on BIO I guess. 7. ASHES dIVIDE. Talk about boring. I couldn't get into them at all. The Stone was decent...I liked their fog and lights for their set, but that was about it. I spent their set time in Tampa looking through Preston's camera at Alex on the keyboards, haha. Not my type of music. They did have loud bass in Atlanta but that was it. Not entertaining for me. 6. Armor For Sleep. Excellent Rev Stage opening band. Nothing but compliments for these guys. They got the crowd into it, they were very fun to watch. Williamsburg was kickass live. I liked it when they came out in Atlanta and said "WHAT'S UP YOU SMELLY MOTHERFUCKERS", haha. I got into their music. Perhaps they'd be a better Main Stage opening act but then again, it's mostly seats so I dunno. They were good though. 5. The Bravery. Good ole Bravery. They said the same shit every show, aka "So this is Projekt Revolution, how ya feel about that?", but besides that they were cool. I had downloaded some of their material before going to the shows and I liked it, so I mean they weren't bad. I think in Tampa this other girl halfway back and I were the only 2 standing for their set. Believe, Honest Mistake, Fearless, Swollen Summer, and Time Won't Let Me Go were all good. I found them alright to watch...I'd pay to see them again (if it was a cheap price) I guess if they came with another good band. Not a bad band to have on the bill, and definitely better than The Killers. The only song that sucked was Every Word Is A Knife In My Ear. That was absolutely obnoxious with the "OHH OH OH OH OH OHHHOHHH" with the song title repeated after it like 20 times throughout the song. I will still say that that is the worst song ever written. But yeah Honest Mistake and Believe were great...not a bad band in my opinion. Maybe work a tad on stage presence but they are a B+ in my book. Good position in the lineup. 4. Atreyu. Oh yes, Atreyu. Really creative intro...nice buildup to let them come on stage. Opening with Doomsday, they got things started right away. They were quite entertaining to watch in West Palm. Alex throwing the baseball at the guy in the crowd like three or four times was hilarious...then they released all these beach balls with the Monster Energy logo on them that were fun to hit around. A+ stage presence. People were jumping, crowdsurfing, everything. They had a big circle pit and everything. Falling Down and Becoming The Bull were sick....Blow was good too. The highlight was the last song where yeah as you've heard by now the whole crowd gets down on one knee, jumps up on the count of three, and proceeds to fucking lose it. Like I said in the PR review I wrote, Preston started his own little pit so it was a riot. I really enjoyed their set and can't wait to see them again (in the pit of course, no doubt). I almost had a drumstick at the end too. This girl caught it on the end with one hand, then I stuck my hand in the middle, and some dumbass guy proceeded to yank the girls hand off, put his other hand on the opposite end, and attempted to turn my wrist every which way so he could get it. Once I gave up because I didn't want a fucked wrist, he got pissed and pushed me for no reason, but whatever, I mean I guess there are dumbfucks at every show. Anyway Atreyu was excellent. Quite impressive. They were loud, in your face, and got everyone into it. 3. 10 Years. My boys in 10 Years We walked up in West Palm right as they got their set going and listening to it all, I was impressed. They were very good....the sound was A+ and Jesse's voice was right on. We got into our spots at the Rev Stage as they finished Actions & Motives, then they moved into So Long Good Bye, Waking Up and Wasteland. The acoustic song was pretty good, then he got the crowd into it on Waking Up by yelling "ARE YOU THERE" on the bridge quite loudly. Of course the entire place went off on Wasteland, especially when he went into the crowd in the end. The outro was SICK...that's the first time I was able to hear their excellent outro to it. We missed 'em in Tampa but in Atlanta they were top notch. Russian Roulette is an excellent opener. Yelling "ATL" right when he came out, you could tell there were quite a few 10 Years fans in the house. Throughout the set the band was not only sounding good, they were entertaining and interacted with the crowd nicely. Actions & Motives with the whole crowd clapping was good. On Wasteland he went into the crowd again but I saw him spill his beer all over the place on the people up front...pretty funny. Anyway I was into their entire set and really enjoyed them. Can't wait to see them again. This exact performance was a huge factor in us deciding to go and see them in Nashville. A+ overall. I ranked them in front of Atreyu because I knew more of their songs, their music appeals more to my tastes, and overall they sounded just a tad bit better than Atreyu. 2. Chris Cornell. When they announced him for the Aussie Tour in 07, I was like "Damn, that's amazing....too bad he'll never play the USA with them now". Well I was proven wrong. I knew Chris would really appeal to me and he did. Cochise started it off and it was excellent. He did Long Gone and Watch Out from the new album...both were A+. Long Gone live has such a nice slow rock ballad feel, and Watch Out has a heavy rock crowd-appeasing mood to it. I loved Be Yourself...one of my favorite Audioslave songs. Show Me How To Live, Black Hole Sun, Rusty Cage, etc, it was all very nice. A highlight was in Atlanta when he did Fell On Black Days acoustically for the ONLY time on the ENTIRE tour. Awesome! He has some ties to Atlanta so he treated us nicely that day. And Hunger Strike. Holy shit. Absolutely amazing. I doubt Chester can guest appear on another song I see live and do as well as he did on Hunger Strike. I was very impressed, and obviously the rest of the crowd was too as everyone went nuts when he came out. Besides me missing CC in Charlotte (except for the last 3 songs) and the security fucking with me in West Palm, I enjoyed him a lot (especially Tampa/Atlanta). Chris had an awesome setlist and I can't wait to see him again as well. 1. Linkin Park. Self explanatory. Epic on all proportions. A+ from every aspect really. The sound is ridiculous for LP...the whole crowd loves them, etc. Had an absolute awesome time at all the shows. Atlanta was really cool too...Faint's outro was sick. Anyway yeah I mean what else can you say, it's LP

Why the fuck is Machine Shop using Gmail? LOL

Why in the world would you put this as news roflmao

Yeah man when I post an interview article as bland as this, you know we have absolutely NOTHING else to post, lmfao.

An Artisan News clip of Mike since the news is trickling in really slow this month for us all. "As far as doing this show with Jay in England I'm going to be completely self-serving -- and I think Jay would have a good laugh if he ever sees this -- but he opened for us, just to be really clear about that. That to me, that's always a fun fact to throw out there for my friends. Living in the U.S. we're both multi-platinum artists. That's in the U.S. though. You start to go to other territories, and it's a different story. Just like with any band. There are some areas where we're in Germany, and some band you've never heard of, we open for them there because we do really well in Germany but they've been there for ten, fifteen years. It was exciting for me, personally, when I was able to call my friends and be like (in a fake conceited voice), 'Yeah, you know Jay's opening for us in Milton Keynes, you know, because we're just so huge.' (Laughs at self). I can laugh about these things because I don't take our band too... I take our music seriously to the degree that I put a lot of effort into it, and all of us do, and it's important to us, but as far as the stature, celebrity of our band, like, 'whatever.'"

Straight from the awesome blog, Mike gives us this update: Back in 1991, I saw Cypress Hill's "How I Could Just Kill A Man" on YO! MTV Raps, and was instantly hooked. I asked for the CD for Xmas, but my mom saw the song titles ("Pigs," "Hole In The Head," "Light Another") and decided that I shouldn't be listening to lyrics like those. This meant, of course, that I was dead-set on getting it and listening to it 24 hours a day. Fast forwarding to today, I recently got word back from B-Real, Sen, and their management: a track I did for them is going to be on their next record. I didn't do a verse on it, just music / production. It's a slightly darker, laid-back track, but has a great vibe. I wanted to get back to the mood from their first three albums, without trying to sound like Muggs (not that I could, that dude has made some classics). I made a track from guitar, bass, mellotron, and drums (and even played a little harmonica) to give it a vintage sound, then sampled my own performance. It sounds like I sampled it off of vinyl, but it's actually all original music. Pretty fun. Anyway, it's probably going to be a while before their new record comes out, but I figure I'd give you the early heads-up here. Cypress Hill's website can be found here. Don't you just love the fact he has a blog? What an awesome way to communicate with the fans and give us cool info. I'm very grateful that he takes time out of his day to blog and keep us updated with all this cool stuff. Anyone else besides me like Mike's blogging a lot?

I know we're a little late with this one, but for those of you who haven't seen the LPU 8 video, it's up on the LPU homepage (http://www.lpunderground.com/join). Impressive job as usual by Mark Fiore. The news is a little slow this week! What in the world is up with you guys? Anyone renew for LPU 8? When do you expect the album to drop? Will they play the summer European festivals like Phoenix hinted at? The two makeup dates as well? A US tour...when? November/December? What do you guys think they'll do month by month for the next 12 months....?

Fixed some stuff.

22.07.2000 Saint Petersburg, FL -> St. Petersburg 02.08.2000 Saint Paul, MN -> St. Paul 15.09.2000 Saint Petersburg, FL -> St. Petersburg 08.12.2000 Saint Paul, MN -> St. Paul Official Live Page: -FTI single: Numb, added Hamburg date http://lplive.net/forum/index.php?showtopi...ost&p=11622 fixed everything in that post 06.03.2003 London, England, BBC Studios, Top of the Pops -> Top Of The Pops

its much better live. the less robot, the better. his voice needs some training but wow its way better live

Yeah they had a delay since they were running 5 minutes late, then Kanye decided to show up and do an 18 minute set before Paramore, rofl.

I don't often post about other bands here, but I thought I'd post an update about Chi from the Deftones. Please keep him in your prayers. The latest announcement from the Deftones says: Hello, Chi remains in a coma, and as of this morning there's been no significant change in his condition. Last week he was moved out of the Intensive Care Unit and transferred to a brain rehabilitation hospital in Northern California. The hospital specializes in the care and management of traumatic and non-trauma related brain injuries with a team of highly skilled therapists, nurses and consultants. He's in great hands. Please continue to pray for our brother, and thank you all for your love and support. -deftones "The 38-year-old Cheng has been hospitalized since a November car accident in Santa Clara County left him in a coma and on life-support." -http://deftonesinstudio.blogspot.com/ Hope things come out for the best for him.