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Usually I am the one that oversees the moving of news from "Got News?" to "Newswire", but I was at school when this went up. LESTAT didn't check "Got News?" I guess. It's not that big of a deal honestly, but I still apologize. I'll make sure it doesn't happen again And damn Chester has one of the best voices in rock and roll. For some reason he sounds much better with this Camp Freddy shit than he does with LP. Well, I mean not MUCH better but he absolutely OWNS this shit. His voice blends with the rock songs so well. Whole Lotta Love is SICK. Full setlist isn't up on the Camp Freddy site but check this: XMAS ROXY #4 12-23-2008 LOS ANGELES, CA XMAS ROXY #3 12-16-2008 LOS ANGELES, CA Fuck yeah! I hope we see Chester again with them at these shows!

Perhaps a system like they do for the live CDs. Sell a code at the venue or something and you put it in online and they mail it to you Not through Bandmerch though!

Camden!

2000: Kottonmouth Kings 'Riding High' Tour -> Kottonmouth Kings' 'Riding High' Tour 2000: P.O.D's 'The King Of Game' Tour -> P.O.D.'s 'The King Of Game' Tour 2001: Linkin Park's European Promo Tour -> European Promo 2001: LP Supporting Deftones Tour -> Deftones' European Tour 2001: US To Europe Tour -> US-to-Europe Tour 03.02.2001 San Bernardino, CA, Dragon's Breath Festival, Street Soldiers Tour changed to: 03.02.2001 San Bernardino, CA, National Orange Show Events Center, Dragon's Breath Festival 06.03.2001 Milan -> Milano 14.04.2001 Twin Bridges, CA, Sierra-At-Tahoe Ski Arena, Boarding For Breast Cancer -> Sierra-at-Tahoe. Edited show page. 17.04.2001 Mesa, AZ, Mesa Amphitheatre -> Mesa Community Amphitheatre (Opening for Crazy Town). Edited show page. Source: http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1442105/2...razy_town.jhtml and http://www.columbiarecords.com/news/pressr...s/04032001.html 20.04.2001 Boston, MA, Roxy -> US-to-Europe Tour. LP headlined. Source: http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/events...ts/00843588.htm ("LA’s Linkin Park headline the Roxy with locals Nullset (formerly Gangsta Bitch Barbie, now signed to Grand Royal).") Source for all the US-to-Europe Tour stuff: http://web.archive.org/web/20010602133309/...npark.com/tour/ 08.05.2001 Mt. Eden, Auckland, New Zealand -> Auckland, New Zealand (Reason: You simply can't list every suburb LP has ever played in.) 23.06.2001 Irvine, CA, Verizon Amphitheatre, 9th KROQ Annual Weenie Roast -> 9th Annual KROQ Weenie Roast 30.05.2001 Copenhagen, Denmark, Pumphuset -> US-to-Europe Tour 04.06.2001 London, England, Brixton Academy -> US-to-Europe Tour 02.03.2002 Mexico City, Mexico, Foro Sol - Edited show page and added info. 23.02.2003 Milan -> Milano 03.09.2003 Prague -> Praha 17.06.2004 Wanchai -> Wan Chai 11.09.2004 Sao Paulo -> São Paulo 12.06.2007 Prague -> Praha 19.05.2007 Irvine, CA - Points of Authority -> Points Of Authority. Added show notes. 13.06.2007 Chorzów, Poland, Stadion Śląski - Opening for Pearl Jam -> (Opening For Pearl Jam) 11.06.2008 Riga -> Rīga Removed tour dates: 26.02.2001 Lisboa, Portugal, Coliseum, LP Supporting Deftones Tour 27.02.2001 Oporto, Portugal, Coliseum, LP Supporting Deftones Tour 07.03.2001 Rome, Italy, Palamarino, LP Supporting Deftones Tour Reason: Can't find any proof that LP was even scheduled to play these dates. On the Deftones Live Guide, it lists them as not playing the show. The band didn't make any issues publicly known around this time, so until we have proof, the dates have been taken down. For some reason, support acts for headlining bands don't do a full tour sometimes and we think that this is the case here.

We need to fix all city names, like Prague -> Praha, etc. Riga yes needs to be fixed, for sure. I am about to update a lot of basic shit, let me see what I can do for you guys. edit: Can you get me WID from Vilnius so I can hear it...?

lmao Geki you are hilarious. You always need mp3s or shows. I love it. Sure I can upload it all sometime soon for you man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mJ6kVDswW0 Found this on YouTube today. Looks like it's from the break before the summer Europe shows. Pretty cool! Third Encore, of course.

And Stockholm 2001?

lmao, no idea at the profanity. pretty funny though. nope. I only saw the same setlist twice, and of course every show is different even though the setlists are the same, so it was ok. I forgot to mention the epic BIO intro in Atlanta, lol. Brad missed his cue and so Rob went and had to continue the solo. Then Brad came walking out hunched over the guitar from backstage. Hilarious. He went and stood on Rob's small drum riser at the front of the stage, then here came Mike descending from the fog and red lights on top of the stage. Preston and I were like "OH LOOK AT MIKE" lol. Epic as fuck.

Nice one Wilderness. ASP opening would be soooo sick. I got bored and made 3. SET 1 01. Announcement Service Public (w/some cool ambient fade-in) 02. With You (w/kabouki drop) 03. From The Inside 04. By Myself 05. New Song 06. New Song 07. No More Sorrow (w/long intro) 08. Lying From You (w/08 intro) 09. Given Up 10. Reading My Eyes 11. Crawling 12. Forgotten 13. New Song 14. New Song 15. Hit The Floor 16. What I've Done 17. Faint (w/extended outro) --- 18. Breaking The Habit (w/new intro and Japan 06 outro) 19. Somewhere I Belong 20. One Step Closer SET 2 01. New Song 02. Papercut 03. Points Of Authority (w/Reanimated intro + There They Go outro) 04. No More Sorrow (w/long intro) 05. Given Up 06. New Song 07. New Song 08. Figure.09 09. From The Inside 10. What I've Done 11. Crawling (w/HHH Reanimated intro) 12. Pushing Me Away (album version) 13. Breaking The Habit 14. Shadow Of The Day 15. New Song 16. In The End 17. Bleed It Out (w/all extenders) --- 18. No Roads Left 19. Faint (w/extended outro) 20. One Step Closer (w/short intro, extended bridge, and outro) SET 3 01. Crawling (w/new long intro) 02. Given Up (w/new intro) 03. Faint (w/extended outro) 04. No More Sorrow (w/short intro) 05. New Song 06. Breaking The Habit 07. P5hng Me A*wy 08. New Song 09. Numb 10. QWERTY 11. Bleed It Out (album version) 12. And One 13. New Song 14. New Song 15. Shadow Of The Day 16. In The End 17. Easier To Run (w/some sort of new outro?) --- 18. What I've Done (w/extended intro) 19. A Place For My Head 20. One Step Closer

Watched the full thing today. Eh. Camera work is alright. I got really bored on LOATR/Numb/BTH/etc. Chester is really off on BTH at this show in my opinion. It's decent I guess but nothing really special. Favorite moment I guess is the hands up on the LFY intro. I like Three Days Grace's Live At The Palace DVD a little better. Live In Texas...hmm. Pretty good, I have to say. RTR is a very unique DVD, but it's just not one that wins me over entirely. Jay-Z looks and sounds terrible...the set is a tad boring, but whatever. The Crawling intro is EPIC.

What's your favorite LP show ever, and why? I'd say Mountain View 04 for me because of the sick setlist and the epic changes in the encore. I mean, the Japan 06 shows come close...Atlanta 07 is close... I bet Music For Relief 05 would be a great show if we ever got to see it......

Soooooo someone brought up Level 7 on the LPU the other day, and I said: "level 7 isn't going to happen anytime soon. julien-k and the dead by sunrise cds were going to go on it, but JK is doing an online format release and DBS is through warner unfortunately. something happened that is preventing it from taking place (level 7). warner possibly said HELL NO, lol." NoFace, an LPUer posted this reply. Check this shit out. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I think that Level 7 already happened for years, and its leader was actually sued in 2004 by one of its former workers. Behind this company is Henry T. Nicholas III, who is reportedly "under indictment for felony drug, conspiracy, and securities fraud. The indictment included a slew of drug and sex related allegations summed up by the The Times: "a sex cave", "fully stocked warehouse of drugs", and "a brothel’s worth of prostitutes on the payroll" In 2007, Kenji Kato, a very close administrative assistant of Henry Nicholas had filed a civil suit against this person. Source: The Los Angeles Times Linkin Park is involved or just Chester? Source: OC's Register In document "Declaration of Kenji Kato" On another note, Ryan Shuck (Orgy/ Julien-K, Dead By Sunrise) was friends with Nicholas through a campaign against Prop 66 in California. Source: LA Times Orgy was also invited to Henry's 40th birthday party. The funniest thing is Kenji Kato (mentioned above) is referred by Henry Nicholas as 'Secret Asian Man' (according to Kenji Kato's declaration). If you read Mike Shinoda's blog, you would find some similarity here. Thoughts? (Thanks Enigmatic on the LPfiction MB for the tips and some articles)

I decided to create and sticky this since I've been getting some general questions about the need/usage of this particular section of the forum. I'll put it as simple as possible - this is a forum for you, the users, to submit LP-related news. See something on LPTimes, Mike's Blog, the LPU, LP.com or anywhere else that's not on the LPLive Homepage? Post it in here and if it's something good (which it usually is), we'll move it on over to the homepage in the "Newswire" section. LPLive is for the fans, by the fans - and this is one of our attempts at getting the users involved with the site. Thanks and enjoy! I'll leave this open for any questions you might have regarding anything I've said.

In case you guys didn't know already, the Linkin Park Live Reviews section is up, of course. Anyway, I had some people asking me to add some stuff to the forums, so here we go. The list of changes includes: -Merging in the Linkin Park area of 'Album Discussion' and 'Miscellaneous' into 'General Talk'. -Renaming of the General Discussions area to The Basics. -Merging in The Basics area of 'Writer's Block' and 'Art & Design' into 'The Gallery'. -Creation of a new area entitled Other Bands, which includes more new subforums, such as 'Main Street', 'Reviews', and 'Downloads'. -Creation of a new subforum under The Basics entitled 'Techie Corner'. Enjoy! If you guys want any other areas on the forums, let me know and I can definitely create them for you.

Sick review - way better than mine. Can't wait to read your version of West Palm Beach / all the events surrounding it. LOL @ Mary Ann being livid at my 5pm arrival and lmao @ you being able to get ANYWHERE (see: Charlotte, Nashville, West Palm, Tampa, Atlanta) about 1.5 to 2 hours quicker than Google Maps's estimated time. A perfect 2nd viewpoint of the day, nice job "And look what we have here" - ahaha @ SOTD.

Yeah his voice has easily gotten worse since MTM came out. No doubt. RTR was one of the shows where his voice was weakest....ever in my opinion. MWT 04 he was off, but for the international 04/PR04 shows he was back perfect. Japan 06 he was great, but with MTM man he just...his voice got pretty bad.

Today, graveguard made it known to me that he is going to retire from the project. He has a lot going on in real life and can't complete the ACP like he planned. It's sad to see him go, especially after we had planned so much for LPLive 4. We definitely are facing a setback, but Legend and I are already talking about how to plug this hole and continue on with the development of 4.0. I will post more once I know it. I thank graveguard for the work he did and his attempt at helping the site as much as possible. For those of you who are wondering, yes, he'll remain on the staff as a general coder since he does help us with general coding issues, etc. More soon from the sad end of the LPLive world

I guess since the Tampa venue is so close to homes and shit, they have that huge sound restriction which BLOWS, and I think profanity comes along with it, lmao. That entire thing is fucked up. Why the fuck do you build homes next to an amphitheatre? Why live there if you don't like it? Get the hell away and stop complaining, you're ruining shows for us.

Can't wait for the others. Jon in a kilt LOL

The time came for the last day of our PR08 Southeast Tour. We woke up really excited for the *PERFECT* day...being able to see every band at our favorite venue - Lakewood. Lakewood's sound and atmosphere is unbeatable and in my opinion it's the best venue I've ever been to. Pooch mixes the fuck out of the sound at the place and with the classic vines growing on the concrete walls, it echoes perfectly to create THE sound of the show. So we got up a tad late as always...I mean every time we plan to get up, it will always be 2 or 3 hours later than it originally is supposed to be. That goes for all of us. I was late to Charlotte and whenever we tell Preston to get up, I mean it's impossible. He's an absolute animal when it comes to sleep...even though I do the same, we are constantly waking up late, but that's fine since we all get extra rest. Well so today I decided to talk on AIM and post on LPLive...let everyone know what the deal was with the day being the last show. I headed downstairs to see what the deal was because I hadn't properly talked to Preston's mom since we left...I mean how awkward is it when some friend of your son shows up at the house at 4am after a concert, lol. I managed to say a quick hey in the morning before we left for Florida but the morning of Atlanta I explained to her more about me, etc. Well anyway the day was a BIG FUCKING DAY. Not just because of the show but it was Preston's birthday!!! The big 2-0 for him. I was really excited but also worried because I had no idea what I was going to get him. Mary Ann and I had talked all summer about getting a Meet and Greet and having a birthday card signed for him, but knowing my luck, I didn't get a fucking M&G! Darn. Well I took a glorious picture of Preston because his mom made me, haha. We all were in really good spirits for the day actually, with Preston's mom having balloons and all sorts of stuff...I mean the atmosphere was upbeat and perfect for the last show. However, I still had to figure out what to get him and later you will find out it was not an easy task. We left the house around noon to head to The Varsity in downtown Atlanta. For those of you non-Atlanta folks out there, The Varsity is THE place to be. It's the greasy, famous, epic fast food place right smack downtown that everyone in the southeast knows by name. We wanted the day to be epic so we started it off perfect there. Two chili cheese dogs, fries and a soda for me. I knew that couldn't be healthy especially after I had lost my mind the night before...sweating a ton, etc without really drinking anything more than soda and one water. No healthy food or anything, so I was sure I'd pay for it later. Anyway we got a table that Mary Ann picked for us, and after Preston and I came back with the food we enjoyed a nice lunch talking about the rest of the day. I'm glad Preston picked The Varsity that day...nice choice. Leaving The Varsity, we booked it to the famous Lakewood Amphitheatre. The location is absolutely perfect...just maybe 2-3 miles south of the city. We parked and headed right in with plenty of others, and everything was going great when the first surprise happened. We happened to see 10 Years (minus Jesse) walking outside of the gates back to the Rev Stage buses parked pretty close to our cars. Very nice! I almost said something but I don't know why I didn't. Oh well! We prayed we'd make it through security with Preston's camera. I made it in Tampa but I wanted him to handle it this time. Some people will consider it professional but it's really not since you can't remove the lenses from it. Mary Ann and I made it but he was held up a little...I'll let him tell you that story later. Anyway, straight to the Revolution Stage we went! Atlanta was a special show that was getting 3 local bands to open up the Rev Stage and it was supposed to be filmed by an MTV2 crew or something. Well obviously MTV2 wasn't there, lol, but the first band was about done when we arrived. They were decent, I have to give it to them. Anyway we worked our way to about 6th row or so when Armor For Sleep came on. I do have to fucking admit, Armor For Sleep ROCKED it. They are not what I thought they would be. I was kinda bummed I didn't see them at the other shows actually. I mean they aren't any Linkin Park or 10 Years or anything but they are a solid opening act. Very nice. I only knew Williamsburg and Hold The Door, but that was fine...I got into their set. Maurice came out and said "We were in south Florida yesterday and couldn't use any profanity...but please make some noise for us toda-" and was interrupted by some guy saying "FUCK YOU!" ahaha, epic. Well he introduced Armor For Sleep and they promptly said "YO WHAT THE FUCK IS UP YOU SMELLY MOTHERFUCKERS?" Haha. Atlanta was fucking HOT that day and that was an appropriate way to start the entire day. They were sick, I have to give it to them. There was a tiny pit behind me, etc. After they played, that's when Preston, Mary Ann and I got separated until later in the day. They wanted me to save their spot and I dunno why I didn't, but I went with them to get some water. It was really hot and I was sweating a good bit by the time the 30 min Armor For Sleep set was over. I just walked around and actually they disappeared when I turned around, but it was alright I guess. I decided to walk over to the main amphitheatre, where Street Drum Corps was going a soundcheck. It was hilarious hearing them mess around saying stuff like "Man it sure is fun to be out hear so early. I mean more people are out here right now than there are for our regular set!" Funny since of course there was NOONE in the seats since they hadn't opened so early in the day yet. I went to the left side of the venue and browsed by the Projekt 96.1 tent, and then went back to the Rev Stage area. Long, hot walk really. At this point, Hawthorne Heights was beginning to play. I was ready to check out the good ole Music For Relief tent, where I ran into ole Amanda working the booth. We greeted and said hi and talked, and it was nice to just have a moment and see what was going on over there. Street Drum Corps was going to do a signing, and some other bands were going to do one there too I think. I talked to her and Missy (MFR Chief) and we shared news and thoughts of the tour so far. I bought a Music For Relief bandanna from her (which I had wanted since they had come out) and just chilled until Hawthorne Heights were done. I heard their set from a distance and it sounded awful, so that was fine with me. Next was 10 Years. I was super pumped since they rocked it in West Palm. This is where I was planning to meet up with AJ, but it never happened...my fault. I was going to meet him after the 10 Years set but my friend Greg showed up so I just talked to him instead since he knew the 10 Years sound guy. Anyway I just propped up on the rail on the right side of the soundboard and enjoyed 10 Years. "AAAATTTTLLLLL" screamed Jesse, and Russian Roulette kicked in. It was a very solid set and I was fucking impressed. 10 Years won me over at Proj Rev. They brought a ton of energy. Prey and Beautiful were great. They had some pits going for them for sure. Then came my favorite song later on in the set...Actions & Motives. Hands up clapping with everyone and I was rocking to it. The band was really on and I was having a really good time. After they tore me up with Actions & Motives, they slowed it down with the song So Long, Good-Bye which I love, and then Waking Up followed by the almighty...Wasteland! The place went nuts on Wasteland, man....it was sick as fuck. Everyone's hands were up, everyone's heads were bobbing. They really do have a good fanbase in Atlanta it seems. Anyway after we sang that, they launched into the SICK outro and rocked us like no other band had that day. 10 Years was very impressive, and their Atlanta show was a big factor in why Preston and I went to Buzzfest in September in the almighty Nashville. Well 10 Years finished and Greg came to talk to the sound guy for 10 Years and we had a nice little chat together. Greg and I decided to go walk around, etc. After the first few songs from Atreyu didn't look very promising (not NEARLY as good as West Palm), we went to sit at a bench and talk about some other shows and such. We went back to the MFR booth and grabbed a few waters courtesy of Amanda and just roamed. Atreyu finally finished, so Greg went to grab some pizza. I found Preston and Mary Ann at the merch booth, where we all got a shirt (and they got the show poster). They went to grab their seats, so I followed. Even though my seat was in another section, I found them and just stayed there. Street Drum Corps...eh. Decent. I liked them in Tampa better. Atlanta wasn't really anything special to be honest. I was going to use the time to meet up with AJ, but he was already in the pit according to his text messages. ASHES dIVIDE came on and holy their their bass was ROCKIN'. Their mixer cranked them loud as hell because Preston and I both looked at each other right when they opened with The Stone. The bass was vibrating my entire body, but I loved it and it reminded me just why Lakewood was such a good amphitheatre. I'm sure Preston was thinking the same thing because we both just laughed, leaned back and soaked it all in. During the break, Greg found me and he sat down next to us...saying he had enjoyed ASHES dIVIDE from the lawn. The Bravery came on and they weren't anything special either really. I didn't enjoy them that much in Atlanta as much as I did in Florida. Atlanta was mainly about Chris and Linkin Park. After all of that, Chris came on. Finally I was pumped again. Cochise led that shit off and everyone stood up in appreciation. What pissed me off in Atlanta was these dumbass girls behind us that sat through the entire Cornell set. They didn't get into LP either...what a bunch of fools. I was rocking along with Chris for mostly his entire set. I made sure to film Hunger Strike at this show. I never told you guys that I tried to film it in Tampa either, haha. I shot it and had it nicely but when Chester came out I absolutely broke down and screamed and everything, LOL. What a loser. In Atlanta I was definitely going to get it, so that I did. I think I got a pretty good video, so go check that out on Preston's YouTube... http://www.youtube.com/zuben7o7 I recorded Be Yourself since that one was great too. Part of Long Gone also. Chris really did well performing Long Gone and Watch Out off the new album....I really enjoyed them. Both of them are excellent live. What the treat was for us was after Like A Stone (Acoustic) he started talking about how Atlanta was special to him and stuff, and then went into Fell On Black Days (Acoustic)!! That is the only time on the tour he did it, so it was really special. Black Hole Sun rocked. Rusty Cage rocked. Chris Cornell got a fucking great crowd in Atlanta for that show and I'm glad...he deserved it. He is a great rockstar and his live sets are excellent. Then it was time for the main attraction. The main act. The thing we all came for. Linkin motherfuckin' Park. I was so excited because it was all 3 of us together at this show and we were just going to lose it. I moved down to the left past Preston so I could have a lot of room, and I was set. The lights went down and it was fuckin' go time. We were ready for LP to rock our faces off again. SDC walks out and starts bangin' away as I sway from side to side and get ready for some epic LP'ness. After all the "HA's" and "HUH's" from them we finally got it....CLICK CLICK....BOOOOM. The OSC sample ripped through our skulls as the intro sample started over purple and white lights. Tap tap tap tap, and Brad comes right in with the guitar. We are definitely getting into it....banging our heads to the intro, and finally the song kicks in...Chester runs out across the stage, the pit jumps, the crowd jumps, we jump, and everyone's going fucking crazy. Hell yeah, One Step Closer to start it off again. The crowd is loving it. Awesome as hell bridge and ending, and then it was time for the outro, which I let loose on again. They finish it up and Atlanta lets them know what's up. I already had my hand up as soon as the LFY intro started, well before Mike asked for it, and soon after he asked if we were ready to rock tonight, everyone else joined in. Rob built up the drums and they kicked in some Lying From You. Both LFY and SIB were epic. Tonight was not a night about critiquing the songs...it was about just letting off any energy we still had from the last few shows and just having a good time. And that's what we did. After I rocked it to the SIB ending drums, the lights cut out and here came No More Sorrow. I was going to film it this time, so I pulled the camera out. This is the funny moment Preston always refers to me with, because you know me...I don't pay attention to the specifics on the guitars and stuff, but during the intro I was like "Is this Mike?", hah. Anyway yeah that was him doing the intro of course, and so I put the camera up deciding not to film the rest of the intro and instead clap along with the rest of the crowd. The blue lights and fog on the intro is really epic. Brad did something I've been wanting to hear from him too...the part where he does kind of a countdown with the ebow sound. Dun, dun DUNNNNNN as he starts his part. Pretty cool. No More Sorrow rocked. Chester tore the fucking micstand up AGAIN as always lol, and we sang with him on the bridge as he usually wants us to. Next came Papercut. Mike didn't really say anything except to make noise for Hahn and did ask for the oldschool fans at the end. We fucking kicked it and I was giving it everything I had on Papercut. It's such a good song with Mike all over the place and Chester screaming the random backing vocals. Great performance. Points with the Petrified verse 2 intro just like the night before, and off we went. Hands up and everything. The outro was very nice...I enjoy seeing Mike do There They Go over it. Next came Wake 2.0 which of course I like too...and then Given Up, with me of course having the hands up ASAP. Sick as fuck bridge and outro, and after that we got some epic From The Inside lights. Those are really great to see. Preston and I had a moment and just both took it in as we watched the cool production on the intro. Chester unfortunately didn't do a good scream this time, ehh. Mike took a moment and said that we had some big ass bugs and Chester told a story about seeing a bug in Tampa that was so big that he shit his pants, haha. Ok what happened next was pretty cool. In 2007 they wanted lights up for Shadow Of The Day, but the shows I had seen so far they really hadn't took a moment for us to pull the lights out. Well, on Leave Out All The Rest, they did, and I spent some time just checking out the thousands of lights that were all up at once. Very very nice. That's a cool part of the show. I guess you can thank LOATR for that...I guess there's no purpose for it other than that LOL. Numb, which wasn't anything special (I think they should put it only in 1 setlist) and then the piano outro, which I took the camera back out for. I filmed the intro to Little Things as well as the entire song, so that gave me something to do. I tried to get Phoenix singing, Brad's guitar solo, etc...the camera on everyone at the right time but it was really hard because of the douchebags in front of me. Speaking of douchebags, does anyone know how to shut their fucking mouths on the intro? Seriously, please shut the fuck up when I'm trying to listen to Mike play the TLTGYA intro. People in Atlanta in 2007 knew how to do it but in 2008 it was like the IQ of the crowd was similar to a rock. Anyway, BTH came on and I was going to film Mike again. This time I had enough space to film the whole show since we unloaded the camera before the show, but as I was going from Chester to Mike on the bridge, I forgot where Mike was! It was almost like his keyboard moved halfway across the stage because I was really late on filming him during the bridge, and therefore missed his headbanging. That was alright though since I got it in Tampa. The outro was nice as always, and off we were into Shadow. Nothing special, I just filmed it all really...getting Chester on guitar, etc. Crawling was nice. I filmed the intro but I think I accidentally deleted it, lmao. I sang the regular part of the song with Chester, and then filmed Chris coming back out. Cool as usual. I fucking love the intro, let me just say that again for the 4th review in a row, hah. During In The End, they didn't cut the guitar for us, but shit we gave it everything we had and I bet they sure wished they had cut the guitar! We were very very loud and I was proud of the crowd. Encore time. We hammered the seats with everything we had, and then here came the familiar opening sound of the What I've Done intro. That thing is still sick as fucking hell, and I LOVE hearing it live. The ambience is cool and everything, and it's nice seeing the lights and everything build up to the epic Mike Shinoda keyboard piece. The crowd erupted of course, and the song was pretty much normal. I think both Preston and I were kind of both on the same page when we realized the songs that night weren't TOP notch. I mean LP was performing normally, but not EXCEPTIONALLY. We planned to go fucking crazy on Faint, and I think we both knew it when the intro started too. All three of us just started jumping with everything we had and going nuts on the entire song. The choruses, the bridge, everything. It was hilarious because we both did what I did in Tampa during the outro - we grabbed the seats in front of us and just slung ourselves back to front, front to back to the instrumental. Hell yeah. We were using everything we had left to go as fucking insane as possible at the end of Faint. It was really a nice way to end things on the road trip....losing our minds to LP jam out on the end of Faint. Now I should take the time and tell you about these girls behind us. I am pretty sure they got all this shit on footage since they had their camera out on the Faint intro. I sure wish they would have uploaded it to YouTube, lol. They must have thought we were NUTS on Faint, but who the fuck cares, it's Linkin Park. Speaking of who the fuck cares, there was this like 45-50 year old lady next to me. During one of my jump-fests, I landed on her feet once but she didn't care. I mean this lady was going ballistic to LP. How awesome, I thought. She lost it on Faint too. I guess LP just has that effect on people. It was so funny seeing her go as wild as us when these 20-something year old girls behind us didn't even fucking move during the show. lmao! Encore break 2 and Rob's drum solo. Everyone came running back of course as Preston said, and the song was a very normal performance. I rapped and sang and everything, and then just headbanged it out to LP jamming the outro. It's fun to just give all you have left on the ending to Bleed It Out....I thought it was fun. Unfortunately LP couldn't even come CLOSE to their performance in Atlanta in 2007. I mean 07 blows their 08 performance the fuck away, but one thing was for sure...Faint in 08 was great. It was a good way to end the shows and celebrate the end of the last one. I met up with Pooch after the show, thanked him for everything the last 3 shows and everything. One thing that saved my day, check this out. It was Preston's birthday, remember!? Well after we took a picture of all 3 of us, I went to Pooch and since Pooch knew it was his birthday, he gave me a guitar pick to give to Preston. How badass!!! That was very nice of him. I didn't ask for it or anything...I wouldn't ASK Pooch for anything that I wanted to keep in my possession, but he offered it and I mean that was pretty sincere of him. Great guy. As we were leaving, we got into the car and started driving off, but wait. Of course there were black people all over the sides of the parking lot selling the illegal ripoff shirts. As we were waiting to get out of the parking lot, holy SHIT this motherfucking cop comes out of NOWHERE and just absolutely 50mph tackles this black guy INTO THE CAR IN FRONT OF US. Absolutely hilarious. We flipped and were laughing really hard. I mean I've never heard the words "Holy shit" from 3 people so much in my life...we thought it was a riot. This black guy was laying there and the cop was yelling "GET THE FUCK UP OR YOU'RE GOING TO JAIL" and all this crap at him. It was soooo great. I'm sure these guys in front of us were like WTF when some cop tackles a guy into their car and leaves a dent in the side. I mean that was some epic stuff. The cop just absolutely assraped this guy so badly and it was HILARIOUS. Right before he got tackled, the black guy threw all the fake shirts under our car and the car in front of us, but that didn't stop the cop. Amazing. We yelled at all the other ones when we left, saying "YOU BETTER RUN NOW BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE", etc, and all that crap, but man that was fucking FUNNY. I have never seen a cop bust the fuck out of nowhere so quickly before in my life. It was like a sped up film or something, but that black guy got hit so hard he had NO idea what was going on. So great. What a way to end it. And that's the way I'll end it with you guys. A great run of shows for all 3 of us...good times with all of us...Mary Ann and Preston and I had a blast and can't wait to do it again at the next show!

It is taking so long to write LOL. Notice the others went up 2 nights ago. Tampa took a long time. Atlanta will be MASSIVE. And then I need Preston to write one too because his opinion of the show is different and he might catch some details I missed. I especially would like you all to hear his stolen camera story. He also had pit in Tampa so I mean of course he will have an entirely new perspective.

Nope, sure didn't LOL. I applied for all 5 shows and got NOTHING. But that's ok. I had a really good time at this show. If you attend another show in the south, let me know and we can say hi.

Sweet pics!!!! You and I need to be on the front row for a show. I'll come up to the northeastern neck of the woods for the best big US tour and I'll see what the deal is up there, lol. Every show you go to has some epic shit done, so I think you're a good luck charm.

We woke up the next morning in Tampa...well pretty late, haha. My neck was really sore from destroying it the previous night in West Palm. Anyway so we hit the beach again, which was great, then packed everything up at the hotel and began the drive that afternoon to Tampa. After some gas and some Subway from a gas station (lol), we continued the drive in the rain across mid-Florida to good ole Tampa. We arrived during Atreyu, and we had this monster walk from the car to the venue that was a little odd. It was a fairgrounds area so what do you expect. We walked by quite a few tour buses (I wish I knew which ones), and by the backstage of the venue. It was interesting to see Pooch's mixing trailers back there too. I'm sure Linkin Park was in that area somewhere since it had security guards blocking every possible entrance. I almost went to say hi to Pooch but I decided against it. Well, I have to say, the Ford Amphitheatre looks pretty cool. One thing I didn't like was how it was all set up. From what I was looking at, they had opened only one side of the venue at first as well as the Rev Stage. Well, the Rev Stage was completely soaked from the rain so I decided to bail on the end of Atreyu. I introduced myself to Missy, head of MFR, and said I was Mark from LPLive, etc. She seemed absolutely clueless, so I said to myself well so much for trying to meet new people LOL. Anyway so then I decided to go talk to a girl named Natalie during this clusterfuck. I mean they had packed thousands of people into this little space. It was VERY crowded...they needed to open the other side of the venue. Plus they had this absolutely fucking UGLY ass concrete wall behind the concourse. I was like WTF is that bullshit for, and they told me it was so the people at the Hard Rock Cafe couldn't film the shows LOL. Hilarious. What people will do to stop others from having fun. Well yeah so Natalie was with another LPU'er, it was cool talking to them for a while in the shade. I went and tore down some Stone Temple Pilots poster and made an LPLive little poster that I was going to hold up for LP, lol. When they finally opened the main stage, Natalie and I went to our seats. Let me tell you the deal with Natalie. She scored FRONT ROW seats to this thing. When I thought of front row, I thought maybe like, the first row of seats in the place. No, not really, lmao. Front row as in, there's a front row of seats in the place and there's a walkway in front of that and our seats are portable chairs IN FRONT OF THAT. Now how fucking cool is that? Oh man I was excited. She was super nice, so we sat through Street Drum Corps and ASHES dIVIDE and talked. Preston and Mary Ann had pit for this show, so we didn't see much of them. I actually stood up since I was front row and didn't give a flying FUCK about anyone behind me and had a blast during The Bravery's set. I think I was only 1 of 2 people in the entire place standing for them LOL. Some hardcore Bravery fan was a few sections over but that was it, ahaha. Afterwards, they threw a drumstick in the crowd and they caught it So they brought it to us to hold. The funny thing is that when Mary Ann came looking for me, I was over actually talking to Pooch at FOH, and I heard someone screaming "MARK! MARK!", rofl. When I turned around it's her and I'm like "what the hell are you doing here, I thought you had pit, lol". Well it turns out she wanted me to hold her drumstick. That's fine, I thought. I went back to Natalie and she had a great idea to put it inside the huge round cardboard holder they gave her for her Projekt Rev poster. Nice!!! Oh yes, I forgot to mention a big thing. Huge. Epic. A big thing, lol. You see, after Charlotte, Preston told me he had this massive-ass expensive as hell epic camera. Yeah and it had some crazy zoom and stuff on it. Well, I made sure he took it to the West Palm show. He took some video on it of The Bravery and LP, and took some pictures. Well, for this show since he had pit, he wasn't going to take it. I asked him if I could use it and he said "Can I trust you with the mother of all cameras?" lol. I said yeah, but I knew he was a little wary because actually in West Palm, his camera got stolen!!! Yea I know, it's crazy. I'm sure when he puts his review up he'll mention it because he can tell the story 10 times better than me...but it was wack. Anyway, yeah he let me use the camera with some AWESOME zoom. I sat there with Natalie and got pics of ASHES dIVIDE and The Bravery, etc. After The Bravery ended, I had to go get $80 from an ATM since she was nice enough to give me the front seat for face value. What a cool gal. We had a pretty good time talking about life and stuff...music...LP...everything. Great seats...so I mean it was interesting to chill there so close to the stage. So then Chris Cornell came on and man I rocked out to him....I really had a good time. Cochise started it off, and the place got rowdy. I mean Chris even had his own pit going below us. By the way, the Tampa pit is MASSIVE as hell so at the back right in front of us they had it going for like 3/4 of the Cornell set. Badass. Well Chris did Be Yourself, Like A Stone (Acoustic) and a lot of my other favorite songs. Rusty Cage rocked that place. On Black Hole Sun he fell into the crowd and crowdsurfed for a while. I was actually waiting on that with the camera, so I had it zoomed in on him the entire song and I hit record when he started to fall into the pit. I got it on video, and coincidentally, Mary Ann told me after the show that he held his hand! She was pretty pumped I got it on video. I mean that's really damn cool to be able to hold up Chris Cornell and grab his hand during Black Hole Sun, so I was definitely jealous, haha. After Chris tore it down very nicely, I went and said hey to Pooch again during the usual time. Then I went back and waited with Natalie as I observed all the "SCREAM FOR NO ROADS LEFT TO BE PLAYED!!!!" texts going up on the Verizon screens as well as the crew setting up the stage for LP. Too bad none of the LPLive texts ever got up there.....bastards, lol! Well anyway it was time for LP to do their thing! I was front row and I was expecting to fully lose it this show. The lights cut down, we went fucking crazy, and here came SDC. I bounced and rocked during their sweet drum intro, and then here came the NMS intro to start us off. I prefer it in the middle of the set since they actually cut all the lights for it then, and when it opens the real show, there's actually more white lights and stuff going on, etc. Anyway I noticed the sound wasn't that loud, and damn if I was right...I mean the sound at Ford was cranked really low. I found out later that it's a huge noise restriction thing that's on the venue, so they have to keep it low. That's ok, it didn't stop us. I clapped and threw the hands up for the intro and faked the air guitar shit as some of the hardcore fools do that see them live (me included, lol). That little machine gun kinda sample that kicks in when Rob starts the bass drum is sick...I love that. Then came LP slowly walking out...Brad doing the ebow parts and everything. The hands in the pit were in sync to the NMS drum pattern, and I knew the place was about to get crazy. We jumped and went ballistic when the song kicked in and Chester came out going fucking NUTS on that micstand. Mike and Phoenix were all over the place, and I held my LPLive sign up for Mike. He came over and actually looked that way and smiled...I dunno if it was me, but I mean it was cool to think it was anyway hah. I moved the folding chair back a lot and we just proceeded to have a damn good time. The pit was jumping and the place was loving it. We sang the bridge with Chester and just rocked out. Lying From You was next. Mike didn't ask for the hands up this time, but that was alright. The crowd was pretty good so far in my opinion - the place was packed and everyone I saw was loving LP so far. Somewhere I Belong's ending was great, like I said the drums at the end are cool. Then came Wake 2.0, which I already said I liked a lot. Great lights and watching Mike and Brad on the guitar is interesting. Hands up on Given Up and everything. Sick as hell bridge and ending...we were losing it. It was again hot as fuck but we were giving it everything we had. And then for my favorite! Papercut! They didn't do it in West Palm in Set Y so I had already gotten sad at the fact I hadn't heard Papercut at a show, lol. I love hearing Mike talk on the intro, and this would be the first time in 08 that I could yell and shit to the stuff he said. He had a good speech and people responded really well. What got me was at the end he said what I had been wanting to hear forever. "You know who else this shit is for? Everybody who's been down with Linkin Park since day one." Great. Then he did it. Hell yeah, Mike Shinoda did it. While I was at the show. "It goes three...two...one...GET THE FUCK UP." I had been wanting to hear it and I finally did, and man they kicked it on Papercut. Singing the whole song and everything, I was really fucking into Papercut. Even after the great verses and choruses, the bridge still rocks it really nicely. After bashing my skull to the end, I was waiting to see what verse Mike would do over Points this time. Petrified verse 2! Awesome! I like it better than part 1, mainly because of the "Machine Shop" reference. "Hands up like this yall!" Again I threw the hand up and waved it side to side with the pit. That's such a great part of the show, turning around and seeing THOUSANDS with their hands up to Mike. He surprised me at the end when Mike asked him to speed the outro up. I think Mike realized the pit at this show was QUITE bigger than the other shows (the floor space they give the pit in Tampa is huge) and he wanted to do it special for them. There They Go tore through us as I was the only one I saw that knew the verse, lol. That's usually the case for the POA intro and outro, but that's fine with me. Even Natalie wondered after it was over how I knew that Mike repeated "Don't mistake it everybody" three times at the end. Funny. After it was over I guess the crowd liked it because they started hammering the seats. I hadn't seen this at LP before at any other point during the show except the encore so I thought it was a bit odd. Plus I felt left out since I only had that metal bar that starts the pit in front of me, and no seat! Anyway so Chester again talked about Mike LOL, and this time he was like "Make some noise for Mike Shinoda...etc" but Mike said "AH FUCK OFF" hahaha! Really funny. Mike said he could play a Rock Band drumset, and we all laughed. I saw them wheel the keyboard out as POA is usually the ending point for the main set before they head into the slower stuff. Well even as I am on LPLive staff, I forget the setlists at the shows because I'm going so crazy to the songs and stuff. The In Pieces intro started and I was like "Aha, sweet". Even though Chester hangs at the micstand, that's fine in my opinion for this song since he makes some nice hand gestures. Watching Rob was cool on this song for me. Then came the sick as hell guitar solo by Brad again and I was again headbanging for the end of the song. A last repeat of the chorus followed by the awesome line..."Don't lie....to me" and In Pieces was done - the last time I'd get to see it on this cycle (and possibly for a very long time). Numb was next, so I decided to whip the camera out and take some video. Oh man I was bummed because it barely had any space left! We didn't clear it out after West Palm and after my pics/video of the earlier bands in the day, I didn't have much room. I decided to get the end of Numb with Chester singing the bridge as that's my favorite part of the song. What AWESOME zoom, I said to myself. I always wonder when I use that camera if the people behind me are freaked out/amazed at how close you can zoom in on the band (especially from the front row in Tampa). Mike did the piano outro and I was wondering about Show Me for a minute, but I knew it wouldn't be in this setlist. Then I thought about the Camden 7/19 show and if Mike would get up from the piano quick enough for Pushing Me Away. The intro started and he was still sitting there, so as the fool of a fan I am, I panicked. I thought he was going to screw up the intro again. However, a roadie walked out with Mike's guitar right on time and Mike got it on just as the song kicked in. I made sure to take video of this song. The cool thing was seeing the studio version being played for the first time for me...I liked Mike rocking out on guitar. The bad part? Chester was at the micstand! What on earth? I mean c'mon it's PMA studio! That almost actually ruined the song for me, I was upset at the fact he just stood there for a great portion of the song. I put the camera away after the first chorus and sang with Chester and Mike as I enjoyed the studio version for the first time. Great song! Singing with them on the bridge and last chorus was very nice. I nailed the end with Chester and definitely yelled quite loudly in my support of the song. Mike IMMEDIATELY hit the keyboard again even before the very end of the song was over so that he could get ready for Breaking The Habit. I mean damn, he was there before Brad even finished the end of the PMA. I was surprised. Anyway, I didn't mention the fact that I only had a tiny portion of video space left. I had to cut PMA short (I planned on getting the whole song honestly) so I had room for BTH. This time I was CERTAINLY going to get Mike on the bridge. I was fucking set. Chester nailed the verse, chorus and next verse very nicely and I sang along with him as loud as I could since I think BTH live is amazing. By the time the 2nd chorus came around, I had the camera ready and I zoomed in on Mike. Here's what got me next. I mean right when Chester started singing the chorus, it looked like Mike was looking RIGHT at me. I was like "Holy shit!" and was very surprised. I had 14 seconds of video space left and I really wanted to get him on the bridge, so near the end of the chorus, I hit record right as Mike was looking in my direction (perfect for my video!!). And you know what? I fucking GOT THAT SHIT. Right as the chorus ended Mike did exactly what I was expecting, as he grabbed the micstand that was attached to his keyboard and pushed it forward to the side out of his way. And god damnit he proceeded to slam his entire body down and headbang to the bridge just as I was expecting. Awesome! I was so happy that even with 14 seconds of video space left, I got the moment I was wanting to capture on film since I had seen them in Charlotte 3 days earlier. Damn I was happy. I couldn't wait to show Preston and Mary Ann, even though it was such a short clip. However, I had bragged about it so much after seeing Mike do it in Charlotte (aka holy shit Mike on the bridge of BTH was EPIC AS HELL), I had wanted to get it on video to show everyone quite badly. I did. And that rocks. Watching Chester end the regular part of the song was great. I watched through the zoom on the camera and I love how he just screams "TONIGHT" with everything he has and slowly moves the microphone away. The ending was sweet...everyone around me started singing with him. As soon as he finished it, the crowd ERUPTED and started killing the seats again in support of the song. Very nice. Shadow was next and everyone threw their hands up to clap along. Unfortunately, I mean I won't go into detail but Preston doesn't really like Shadow Of The Day, LOL. Oh if you only knew the conversations we've had on long car rides (to Nashville and the PR showS) about his distaste for it. Anyway, after the "YES IT WILL" near the end, I zoomed in on Chester playing guitar and I thought it was pretty cool. I put the camera away ASAP because I was afraid Crawling would be next. And it was! Mike started that epic Hands Held High intro and it was just as good as the previous 2 times. He did it a little fast, well the beginning was a bit fast that night, but he got enthusiastic as he usually does as it progressed, and chills went down my spine again. That is such an awesome intro...it was definitely a major highlight of the set for me (as well as Points in West Palm). Joe nailed the intro and I just let it loose singing along. It was very nice seeing the pit in front of me jump and throw their hands up for it. I jumped up on the lower ring of the rail in front of me and pointed to the side of the stage and out came Chris Cornell as if it was cued, haha. Everyone went nuts. The end is very nice with Chris in my opinion. Chris is really funny because as soon as Chester complimented him with "CHRIS CORNELL!" he just immediately screamed "LINKIN PARK!" right at him. Kinda funny to me being there seeing it. Chester had us give it up for Chris again, and then the seats were hammered on again. He asked if we were ready to sing with them, so I was expecting In The End. Little did I know that this was the set where LOATR was thrown in after Crawling, so that is what we got. In Charlotte and West Palm I focused mainly on Mike and Chester but this time I was watching the sides of the stage when Brad/Phoenix came out. This song just doesn't do it for me with that micstand. There's no energy...only 4 members are on stage...etc. "Senor Hahn" laughed Mike, and here came In The End. I was excited to see it this time. Even though it's in every setlist, you do have to admit that In The End is a fucking good song. Mike walking across the stage is very cool to watch. The crowd this time was SO into it and I think on the live audio you can even hear them start it off with Chester. I had a really good feeling about this performance since I mean everyone I saw was totally into it. The energy wasn't quite what Atlanta 07 was (that place was fucking CRAZY), but it was different and pretty cool. I had a thought that they MIGHT cut the guitar in the chorus, and damn they really did when the crowd just screamed "I PUT MY TRUST" as loud as they could. You have to understand that with how low the volume was that night (much lower than a regular LP show...you could hear yourself singing over the music...seriously), it was badass hearing everyone sing that chorus. That place was LOUD. Joe started to extend the intro, and I thought he'd pull an Atlanta 07 but no, he quickly ended it. The highlight of ITE for me was Brad doing the Pushing Me Away guitar part on it. I had been wanting to hear that since I had first known about it in 2004, and I got my wish! Thanks BBB. I had forgotten what they'd do next, whether it was an encore break or Bleed It Out or something, but as the guitar faded in, I knew it was One Step Closer. Hell yes! The song I had completely LOST my mind to the previous night was being played again. Mike wanted us to get up, and here we went again. I fucking lost it as always for OSC. Jumping, singing, everything. That song has more energy live than any song I've ever seen from any band live. Even more than Everlong by Foo Fighters. The place just fucking ERUPTS. "JUST LIKE BEFORE" the crowd sang even without a cue from the band! I was impressed. Mike knew it the second time and he let us sing that part just by ourselves. The bridge came and I mean the pit was one massive ass trampoline it seemed with everyone jumping. I was jumping. Everyone behind me was jumping. Everyone in front of me was jumping. Linkin Park was jumping. The entire fucking city of Tampa seemed like it was jumping. I really love One Step Closer live man. "and I'm about tooooo" dundundundun *pause* BREAK, and off I fucking went again with the insane headbanging and everything. What an amazing outro. Chester rocked the outro and we lost it. The crowd roared in massive appreciation for the song, and the band thanked them and left. OSC is awesome. It is best when closing, but hell you could play that song in between Pushing Me Away (Piano Version) and My December (Piano Version) and the crowd would lose it. Oh yeah. Encore break time. I had no idea what was in the encore as the band had changed up Set Z while I was on vacation. I didn't know what we would be getting. I grabbed the chair and banged it on the ground and then yelled "LIN-KIN PARK" with the crowd. That was actually the first time in an encore I had heard the crowd do that. I had started it unsuccessfully in Atlanta in 2007 but it got going pretty well in Tampa. I heard the familiar fade-in and it was Cure For The Itch! The crowd yelled and I yelled, haha. Joe stepped up there and did his thing as we bounced from side to side. The remixed version is really cool live...I hope they keep playing it in the future. Even when the song was done the crowd screamed really loudly as the rest of the band walked back out. Mike came and sat at the keyboard, and I actually didn't know what was next. What I've Done! I recognized the buildup sample and then Mike took it away. The pit started jumping and everything was going great once again as LP was playing the encore. Chester's vocals couldn't compare to the Atlanta 07 version, but one thing I like about WID live now is that on the bridge Chester goes "Whaaat I'vvveee Doooone...YEAH". I don't think he did it in West Palm but I noticed it in Tampa. Anyway they brought it back into the ending of the song and we all jumped and sang again. The second it ended, here came Faint! Rob took it away as Brad ran out, did his awesome dance on the triangle-step at the front of the stage, and got EVERYONE jumping. Everyone in the seats, everyone in the pit, and myself included let it loose. The regular song kicked ass and we were going crazy. Then here came the outro that I love and I mean I was just rocking it. I had my Club Tattoo shirt tied around my head again since it was hot and I was killing it with everyone near me. Chester screamed nicely at the end and let us know that "you guys have been the best fucking crowd on this tour, thank you very much!". I knew it, really. I mean Tampa was not joking around...the place was PACKED...like 20,000 people man. I didn't see how it was a sell-out. Especially on Faint, I bet it was a real sight to see from the stage with everyone going insane. As I think I mentioned before, Preston said to watch the crowd after Faint because a ton of people leave, thinking it's the end of the show. They certainly did and it was funny again to watch them bolt back on Rob's BIO drum intro. Well anyway after Faint something special happened. Some guy came by me and jumped into the pit and was promptly taken away by security. I turned and the people next to me had left, but I noticed some other guy and what appeared to be his girlfriend come up. He said to me "Is it ok if we stay here for the last song?" I was like sure man! Then I told him it was Bleed It Out, but he said he knew since he saw the setlists online. I was like "hmm, that's cool, I actually have a site that I have all the setlists on" and I held up my LPLive poster that I made earlier. Funny enough he said "OH MY GOD DUDE IS THAT YOU???" lmao! I replied yes and he said "What's up Mark!?", haha. I was very surprised. And then something even funnier happened! He said "Hey man I'm Sanjay!". Well I immediately recognized that name and I was FLOORED because Sanjay was the one that called me after the Virginia show giving me the setlist! Holy shit, that's awesome! I was like "What the HELL are you doing here in Tampa!?" and h told me, etc. Wow, now that was awesome. Anyway so we saw them carry Rob's small drumset out and I was excited. Sanjay must have thought I was crazy because I was air drumming the first part of the drum solo since I had heard it so much already, lol. Rob went into the main part and I rocked my head forward, etc. He did that nice pause in the intro which let us voice our thoughts (aka scream as loud as possible) on the solo so far. He ended it nicely as always as Brad took it away for the regular song. Sanjay, Natalie and I sang every word with Mike and Chester and were having a blast. Street Drum Corps came out and I was ready again for them to tear it up. They took it away as Rob got back up to his regular drumset. Rob when he comes back in with SDC shreds some major ass in my opinion. I mean the drumming isn't anything special or anything but when you hear it live it adds so much depth to the drums. It sounds like there's really like 10 people out there drumming when it's only like 4 or 5. That's my favorite part of BIO though, when Rob comes back in with them. Thankfully Chester didn't do like he did on the Winter Tour and try and sing the BIO chorus right off the last note of the drum solo because I honestly think it sounds terrible that way. He did, however, do something that really made me happy. All of a sudden he said "Say OHH OHHH". FUCK YES! And I mean as happy as I was, I thought the crowd must have been happy too because that was the loudest I had heard a crowd yet sing with Chester on the bridge of Bleed It Out. They killed it! I sang OHH OHH with everything I had, especially since it was the first time on the whole tour he had done that singalong. Chester probably thought our crowd rocked, haha. We sang the chorus again and then I put the Club Tattoo shirt back around my head (yeah the one from Atlanta 07). I guess it's becoming the staple icon of wiping the sweat off my face at the show, and that's fine. SDC started up, Mike and Brad jammed, Chester started going "ohh waaa ohhh" all over the ending, etc. They just jammed out at the end and I loved it. Massive headbanging ensued and ka-blam LP was finished. I said thanks a billion times to Natalie, I said bye to Sanjay after he told me to call him later, and then I waited for Preston and Mary Ann. When they found me, we headed on up to FOH to say bye to Pooch, and then we got out of there. Tampa treated us nicely. Good city, good amphitheatre (beautiful, even though the sound is too quiet), GREAT crowd. I'll tell you what happened after the show. We walked out of the right side of the amphitheatre when we came in on the left, and holy shit we had a very hard time finding the car (aka what Mary Ann named it: Vanessa, haha). I was under the impression it was on the entire other side of the amphitheatre, but it really wasn't. We argued, we looked, and we walked for like 20 minutes. Maybe it was longer, but I'm not sure. I was so fucking hot and tired, and it was unbelievable to me that we couldn't find this thing. FINALLY Preston actually found it himself, which I thought was heroic haha, and we drove off. What sucked is that we had the all night drive back to Atlanta left. After picking up some McDonalds, Preston hit the passenger seat, I collapsed in the back after calling some folks, and we began the trek back to Preston's house. What a drive. Whatever time we got in (I am pretty damn sure it was after 6 or 7am) we just collapsed. I mean after Charlotte we were tired, but after Tampa we were exhausted. The power was actually out for some reason, meaning I couldn't check LPLive, but I was way too tired to do it anyway. I found my familiar spot on his floor and slept really well, as I'm sure both of them did. Aaaand more in the Atlanta review about the final day of our Projekt Revolution 2008 Southeast Roadtripping Tour