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I'm a big fan of Gutt, I wish them nothing but success with him. STP has been through so much tragedy it's unbelievable. Gutt sounding so good with them at the Troubadour really gave me new insight to LP. I want them to continue as 5 but if they feel they need a singer to help them, I won't be against it. It's Chester's music, he wrote the songs with LP and the new singer would just be honoring him on tour. Meadow is a good song. It's really crazy how all of this is going down with STP because Weiland was Chester's idol, then Chester joined STP, and now Gutt actually knew Chester. Damn. And of course Robert was one of his best friends...

I love the Roads Untraveled intro, I'm glad it's on there.... I was worried they'd cut it. Good stuff. As far as what songs are from which shows, I am planning on asking their management for that info around the release time. I don't think they'd have a problem with giving that info (so we can mark which shows have an official release (it's been a while! Rock on the Range 2015?). OML Tour was technically all the 2017 shows, I hope some are from South America too. My fear when they do compilation releases is they will just randomly select a few headlining, non-festival shows and just grab songs from them. I would hope they'd analyze the performances and truly pick some highlights. For example: Bleed It Out in 2017 had Machine Gun Kelly in Krakow, Reading My Eyes in Monza and Sopron, and probably most importantly - Strangelove by Depeche Mode in Las Vegas. Chester's favorite band. Numb in Norrokoping had a Remember the Name chorus before it.

Just adding to the discussion of the mixes. Yep Monterrey 2012 is great. What a crowd at that show. Pooch's yes are a result of him mixing on tour, etc. The 2007 ones are probably the best, but there are some great ones after that. 2012 is pretty damn good.

Ethan over mixed the hell out of Download 2014, I hope that didn't happen here. Would love to see them go with someone else instead of using Ethan for so many years. I get it. His mixes aren't as realistic as the good ones from Pooch in my opinion.

If you've been watching Linkin Park's legendary performance/tribute to Chester from October 27th, over and over, you might have noticed that the webcast feed has been upgraded significantly. With so many guests, extra gear, etc... it inevitably was a monumental task getting everything mixed perfectly on the live feed in real-time. Thankfully, the band has gone back and edited/cleaned up the broadcast for fans. Several of the biggest glaring issues have been fixed: - Oli Sykes's vocal track issue. During the broadcast, Oli's actual in ear monitor playback track was used instead of his live vocal. The live vocal was indeed live at the show, but those viewing the webcast accused him of lipsyncing, etc... which was clearly not the case. - Audio mix overhaul. The crowd was about .5 seconds behind on the feed, which was quite noticeable on songs like Numb, In The End, the bridge of A Place For My Head, etc. The crowd is actually in sync now. - Video angle edits. Along with removing 15 minutes of blank space before the video (so it now starts on time), new video angles are used in a few parts of the show (The Messenger, Faint, Numb, etc). The video quality overall is improved, with some color correction, etc being edited. We know you have all watched it a thousand times... but the updates provide a much better experience watching it. Check it out! Thanks to Thomas for the heads up!

Completely revamped it. Numb doesn't sound out of sync anymore. Nice find. Removed 15 mins of blank space at the start of the video too. New mix.

I could give a fuck about that, ha. The hardcore fans on the fansites seem to be reacting to this very positively. I do think they will do demos down the road for LPU, no doubt. I was going to see 4 shows on the OML tour, literally two weeks after Chester passed. And this is a great way for them to "make it up" (don't take that the wrong way because I'm not saying they owe us anything) to those of us who were going to see them on the OML tour but didn't get a chance to. And it's a present for those that DID get to see it. In terms of what they were planning before Chester passed... they filmed London O2 Arena (I think now that's the longest show in the band's career with Chester. Someone correct me if I'm wrong) in blu-ray. That's the OML footage you see up close on the OML music video. That would have probably been a release. But they have also filmed (and Pooch confirmed he fully mixed) Beijing 2015 and Berlin 2014 for possible release. You never know what they are going to do or not do, but at least LP prepares and films full shows each touring cycle. NOW I bet they are damn glad they recorded every live show in audio 2007-now (literally one full decade of LP + a LOT of stuff before 2007), and filmed/mixed quite a few shows in that span of time. Plus they've collected all the proshot footage from the festivals that LP didn't film themselves. Their vault must be insanely big. Aaaaaand as time goes on I bet they really start releasing stuff to us. Because why not? The fans want more of Chester, we will gladly pay for it. Best singer of our generation, in my opinion. And of course casual fans or non LP fans will see it as a cash grab. I really don't care as I'd rather pay $20 for a DVD of Chester in great form live than for LP to not release anything to us. Release as much as possible, there's a huge fanbase/audience for this stuff that wants it. It's also good they have all of this stuff in case LP takes a year or two break to recover and heal, before they make new music. Then they have just truckloads of live stuff they can give us (and maybe they start with Chester demos, song demos, etc). tl/dr: I like it, I want as much as they are willing to give us, I'll buy the stuff no problem at all. As Geki said, them continually releasing stuff really honors Chester and helps the fanbase out in dealing with the loss IMO. The FLIP SIDE to this is Linkin Park takes a huge hiatus, goes off the map entirely, does zero social media, zero releases, zero posting, zero news, zero anything. Nothing at all. Kind of like Soundgarden. Now how miserable would that be? Instead, we get a great live CD for Christmas from one of the best tours they ever did.

I knew when you saw the WID and LOATR you'd get it, ha. They could easily cut those too from the release. Those are two of the best versions of those songs that they've ever played too...wish we had gotten to see them live in the USA http://linkinpark.warnerbrosrecords.com/one-more-light-live-cd-1.html?intcmp=171114/lpark/wbr/spl/s_pr/but/bdy/ww/one-more-light-live-pre-order-cd Works for me with this link.

They like, bundled on these DVDs with international CD releases of albums. Not global releases, only in certain markets. Madrid 2010 (ATS+) Berlin 2012 (LT+) Monterrey 2012 (THP Best Buy) http://lplive.net/wiki/db/releases/a-thousand-suns-plus http://lplive.net/wiki/db/releases/living-things-plus http://lplive.net/wiki/db/releases/thp-live-in-monterrey

Audio quality on Crawling is huge. Sounds really great.

The true highlights of this release. I agree.

Prediction: OML live album serves as the "November annual release" of sorts for the fanbase and they don't do an actual LPU CD this year. Still think they keep the LPU since the band will continue but I bet Mike & co can't sit through hours of demos yet. With a live release they can just have others in the management, etc do it.

I can imagine it's live audio because they might release the Hollywood Bowl show on video next year. It has all eight live OML songs and we have a million live releases of every other song played on that tour, so they thankfully put the most important stuff in. The new intros to WID and LOATR also get releases. Looks good to me. Nice statement by the band too.

Here's another interview from after the show at the Hollywood Bowl: "Mike Shinoda, Joe Hahn, and Dave Farrell sit down with Brendan Annakin from Triple M radio station after the Hollywood Bowl show on October 27th."

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/julien-k-time-capsule-a-future-retrospective#/updates/all "Thanks to all who came out last weekend for our 3rd annual sold out acoustic show! It was a huge success! Skype calls and studio visits were all mostly completed this past week as well. All the masters are now complete for the Time Capsule and we’re working hard to finish the liner notes for the package. Once that’s done it will be sent off to our graphic designer Tom Dolan to do the layout & then on to manufacturing. Thanks for being patient on this project, this has been a huge undertaking for our small team! We’re very excited to get this into your hands as soon as possible. Also, know that every package that we can fit a Transformers game score CD in will have one included when we do all the final shipping. The T shirts, Time Capsule, stencils etc., will all come with a RotF game score disc as promised! - Amir & Julien-K"

I meant that Mike/LP are classy people and will play it for her out of respect. Talinda is a classy person who is going to work well with LP/WBR, I'm positive. She isn't some Courtney Love character. They'll for sure release Chester stuff down the road. You can't blame them for not loading up on Chester songs for LPU17, it's only been four months.

They will definitely do an LPU.

LPU will for sure continue. They make the fans a priority and have since day one. It might be too soon for Mike to sit and go through hours and hours of demos, b-sides, etc in a tribute to Chester. And then to play it for Talinda, etc. Might be a lot for them to do. I could see them doing a live compilation or something of the OML songs, and then maybe down the road (next LPU) doing demos. Idk, just thinking out loud. I'd be surprised if they tossed out 12 Chester demos right now only because they are emotionally still recovering. All of the live OML songs + a few other cool songs from Europe 2017/Kimmel/Subway Show would be cool to me, I'd buy that.