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Oh wow, that was cool to hear. I assume after nearly 20 years she's in much better terms with the band, especially Mike.

14 hours ago, lpliveusername said:

The Cambridge dictionary defines impostor as:

 

Their definition of deception is:

 

The Merriam-Webster defines it as:

 

For them, deception is:

 

Now let's take a look at what Hybrid Theory and other cover bands are doing:

 

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. I hope you have learned something today.

Ha! I needed to smile today, thanks.

Mike seems not to be a huge fan and it's totally fine, it's more like "Oh okay, they're a thing and they're not hurting anyone, they can have fun" because I wonder how charging money for it affects the tribute band in the sense of the label possibly getting involved legally (as an ignorant person myself about it). The major negative for me about this whole thing are the people who see these bands either live or online and react with the "Oh man, this person nails and sounds like Chester, the real band should contact them, it's disrespecting that LP wants to continue without a singer, shame on them!" type of absolute immature take. Aside for that, I'm not big on these either, but it would be kinda fun to help a local band if they wanted to cover a song giving them or even playing with them using official stems of the samples.

2 hours ago, Stewe said:

Is possible to have the acoustic show uploaded here, since I don't buy vinyl and it seems that is not available on streaming?

The only links you'd see here are the ones that are technically 'legally' fine to be shared. I'm no law/music expert so yeah.

On 4/12/2024 at 7:46 PM, LPLStaff said:

They for sure know if they've paid this close attention to forums/social media/fan requests for the Projekt Revolution 2002 DVD, "thoughts that take away my pride", Pictureboard, She Couldn't, etc. They are doing everything right with the box sets. 10/10. 

Didn't the company who owned the Smoke Out 2003 footage say the band was looking to get a lot of old shows (including that one) for 'historic reasons'? Let's cross fingers big time if means they're trying to get all the available high quality shows out there.

Sigh. Also, why cheap sleeves and not proper jewel boxes? They did the same with HT20 and M20. I get they wanna avoid using plastic but goddamn, my M20 vinyls suffered a bit without any sleeves at all inside the main sleeve itself.

17 hours ago, LPLStaff said:

We need a rip of every single physical format release of this. Knowing the label, they could have put different versions on different formats of physical releases. We need the cassette, every vinyl (every pressing of those vinyls), and every CD pressing. Goodness.

I might get the CD version next week if that helps.

On 4/1/2024 at 6:30 PM, LPLStaff said:

 

Well they weren't made for public release is why you have the mixing differences and missing songs. They are just internal CDs for different purposes.

Yeah I'm aware of those being used for multiple reasons and that's why they feel and felt unfinished, but it still bothers me a bit lol

We will likely get the LPU6/Songs from the Underground version. Personally the most that I'm looking forward is possibly having never before seen footage from that era that isn't the LPTV's or MTM DVD. 🤞

Awesome! Most of the instrumental/acapellas are already out there, and I'm still glad the leaked ones were made available years later. Like @Qwerty18 said, still kinda frustrated about certain 'official' songs, either released or leaked, that sound off (SOTD, OSC and some instrumental versions from Reanimation had a different mixing 😌) or weren't included for whatever reason (My December, X-Ecutioner Style and With You are completely absent from the Reanimation instrumentals even though there's explicit evidence of them existing as they can be heard on many old LPTV's).

I have my pet peeves about the topic but I will never complain about having these or let alone getting a link from the artist itself for free including stems/track/explicit/censored/etc.

HT20 and M20 were extremely successful, even when Mike was very vocal about being against releasing some type of 'Greatest Hits'. Well, this was what I fear it would eventually happen, and I blame mostly on the label, even if the band had a lot of freedom to pretty much put whatever they wanted since the MTM/ATS days, Warner is a massive company, I truly hope the band finally goes independent one day. Having nothing from THP sounds like a dick move from the label, not the band, as allegedly they weren't big fans of that record.

Still can't believe Mike was able to make better music with a laptop during touring than some of his more 'professional' material at the time.

Great movie indeed btw, much, much, much better than John Wick.

Slightly disappointed it’s not an unheard song and it’s just a track that has been officially and technically available for nearly 18 years. Also yeah wtf, no THP involvement? As much as I still have many gripes with that album, it is important to acknowledge its existence on a release like this.

If we get an LPU type of album outside the LPU itself with actual unreleased (not leaked) but finished songs I’d be extremely happy. Not hugely into greatest hits kind of album, as Mike said he wasn’t a fan either, so I expect the first option.

10 hours ago, JZLP-NaughtyNottingham said:

 

Styles of Beyond did a numetak track and it's actually good

 

https://youtu.be/kRrOq4NipQQ

Such a 2000s song but it’s very decent, I quite like some of Celldweller's stuff myself, and SOB of course. 
 

5 hours ago, bloodbath said:

Not a big fan of vinyl, TBH, I've never liked any Linkin Park related RSD since they're always just a reissue with some absurd colors and that's it. 

 

This one though is different, it has exclusive and unreleased material. It's worth having.

I get why many like vinyl over CD or digital, I own a couple of original pressing releases and nothing beats that organic sound, but each to his own. Very excited over this and hopefully I can get one, never got the chance to own the original 2009 vinyl release (allegedly a bit expensive). I assume it will be updated on digital platforms.

They keep milking this and Lost itself, while something like the 2002 Mix of Lost, for whatever stupid corporate reason, hasn't been re-released in any other form. Lol

Blown away with this one, might be biased but so far, no complains, don't care if it wasn't an LP song, I dig IMH quite a bit so this was really fun. Interesting that the german verse on AO seems like complete new lyrics and not a translation, first time ever using a different language(?) Neat.

3 hours ago, vinifeijo said:

These session were such a great marketing idea, an almost genius strategy i would say, but it didn't brought the amount of result i bet they thought it would.
Pairing up with big influencers of different medias (youtube, tiktok, instagram), knowing all of them would make lots of content about the session. Amazing potentially viral idea.

The session are getting no more than 200k on youtube and AO on spotify hasn't even crossed the 10 million mark. Weird. They're probably releasing all of them faster now just to get it over and done.

I'm 99,9% sure Mike doesn't care about the numbers and he's just having fun with those kids.

8 hours ago, RYG4R said:

LINKIN PARK - PRIME era! 

So until 2017? Checks out.

I truly hope when they make the video public again the annoying AI bullshit is gone and they post the actual raw unedited footage.

12 hours ago, bloodbath said:

Unpopular opinion here: I've never understood the mighty aura that has this show. Yeah, the first time playing BTH... So what? That might just me, but I've never understood the charm of debut performance of songs, usually are far from being the best version of them. And while I haven't watched the footage yet, seems like it was an ok performance.

That's literally the point of first time evers, regardless of the quality, it will never not be bad to have these out, especially if they're old.

OH. MY. GOD.

Whatever the real story is and even if it's not the whole thing, I still take it, so fucking glad to finally have it public.

Thanks for the work gentlemen! Even if I got used to the original design, I hope I can figure out the new one.

On 12/29/2023 at 12:44 AM, Justin said:

Also, Mike didn't say "If enough people want it, maybe I could put it out there". He said he wouldn't mind it being out, but it's Warner that would need to see the demand for it in order for it to be released.

I swear he did say something similar to what I said w/ the context of the label also agreeing to putting it out there. For damn sure the label still has the ultimate control on the bigger releases, I assume. 

3/3 so far, the harmonies here were absolutely fantastic, really loved the bit where it showed Mike playing Chester's vocal stems to them, man, don't make me tear up that easily.

13 hours ago, thigolpbr said:

Mike could release an official stems of the LP as well.

 

Isn't the usual excuse "Hey if enough people want this then maybe I could put it out there"? Like how on HT20/M20 they didn't release the instrumentals? LT/THP and OML (only instrumentals but they were leaked) were the exception, for some reason, I wonder what's the big deal about not releasing them.

On 12/14/2023 at 4:25 PM, Stranger said:

well, there’s tons of ppl out there love it so much. the world doesnt resolve around you, buddy.

5 hours ago, Andrei said:

There are people who paying 10 times more for image of boobs and asses with tons of photoshop.

Nobody's makes them (also me and you) to pay for this.

Doesn't make it right. It's like people who say "No one is forcing you to buy video game microtransactions". Just because it's there and you can ignore it doesn't make it any less bad.

Of all things, I didn't expect Mike go full on tech bro. Yes, the band has always been looking forward technologically speaking, but this is just.. so damn stupid.

Huh. I definitely didn't had in mind Closer to God when listening to it but, knowing Mike is a huge NIN fan (at least the older stuff as he usually says, wonder what he thinks of anything after The Fragile if someone asked him on Twitch someday) so it wouldn't be out of field for him to do that.

On 12/6/2023 at 1:14 AM, Frahho said:

any news on this?

 

The fact that some are still waiting for Jeff to release anything without the band's or Warner's consent is very silly. The book was probably as far as we will get, besides those interviews about the book. Don't get your hopes too high.