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Why do you comment on every thread related to Linkin Park's early days just to say you don't see the appeal of Xero / Hybrid Theory demos?

Jeff Blue is online right now on Reddit answering fan questions. If you have anything to ask him, head over to r/Music and leave a commentary!

You guys can download the MPC software as a free trial and open the Stick N Move projects from the "MIKE MPC" folder to see where in the song those samples are used. I can't do it because my license has expired. https://www.akaipro.com/mpc-software

Wax//Wane just announced the release date of his track from the #ShinodaProduceMe project. The track, titled 'The Way Down,' was produced by Mike Shinoda live on Twitch on January 21, 2021 and is coming out on March 5th. Pre-save it on Spotify here.

No, they weren't exclusive to Japan. They were all released in the US and at least 2 out of the 3 acoustic tracks were released in Europe and Japan too. Grey Daze just didn't sell them in the official stores. The reason for that is they wanted to make as many versions of the album as possible so crazy collectors and completists would buy more. That's how the business work. Then not long after the album came out they released an EP (3 more vinyls, mind you) with those tracks that were supposed to be exclusives to certain stores. That's a really dick move at minimum. To answer your earlier question in this thread, The Down Syndrome, Shouting Out and Sometimes already existed in acoustic versions in the 90s. The other two were made entirely (I mean, except for the vocals, obviously) for Amends.

Chris Kelly announced yesterday that his song 'Bittersweet' will be released on February 26th. The song was produced live on Twitch by Mike Shinoda as part of his #ShinodaProduceMe initiative. Chris Kelly is one half of the pop duo Velavox from Vancouver, BC. A version of 'Bittersweet' was released November last year as part of his "New Beginnings" solo EP.

We're lazy. 😐

Can you provide this picture? https://lplive.net/shows/2000andearlier/20000916

The second clip probably cae from Mike's Instagram stories or Snapchat (I don't remember which one). They were very active on social media during the recording of One More Light. Mike posted a teaser of the song right before it came out. Where did you get the first clip? Sounds like a remix, a bunch of random words thrown together, but I have no idea where the vocals might have come from.

Linkin Park just uploaded their 2001 performance of 'One Step Closer' at Late Night with Conan O'Brien to their official YouTube channel! This was the band's first television appearance in the United States. From Twitter: "We asked @joehahnLP and @phoenixlp what they remember from playing Conan:" "The day after the Conan appearance, @therulernyc (Slick Rick) was on our flight. He made a point to say hi and that he liked our performance. -@joehahnLP" "I remember being nervous & concerned about what I should wear. After much deliberation, I settled on a t-shirt & oversized green pants. The black Project 86 t-shirt I would wear today if I still had it, but the choice in pants gets me teased by my daughters 😜 -@phoenixlp"

Done Geki.

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I wonder if this will be one of the remixes: https://twitter.com/geoffkeighley/status/1334979810116870144

It's recent hyperpop and 100 gecs didn't exist back when Linkin Park did Reanimation. All upcoming remixes should be very recent.

It looks like the celebration of the 20th anniversary of Hybrid Theory isn't over yet. Linkin Park has just unleashed a brand new remix of their debut single 'One Step Closer.' The track was reinterpreted by Dylan Brady and Laura Les of hyper pop duo 100 gecs. Mike Shinoda said: “Part of the spirit of Reanimation was to take the Hybrid Theory songs that people knew so well, and let innovative artists flip them in ways nobody expected… I think 100 gecs did exactly that.” Mike remixed a 100 gecs track live on Twitch on January 6, so we should expect a second collaboration in the future. Wall Of Sound reports this 'One Step Closer' remix is only the first in a series of remixes from different artists to come. On September 9th last year, our staff member PeppePark noted Mike Shinoda was working on a remix of 'Papercut' which is yet to be released.

Done.

The main post was wrong for some reason. The DVDs are Frat Party and the 2001 shows: http://linkinpedia.com/index.php?title=Hybrid_Theory_(20th_Anniversary_Edition)#Pressing_Errors

Yesterday blackbear started teasing a new song coming on midnight titled 'I'm Still Fucking Here.' This is the same track Mike Shinoda worked live on Twitch back on May 11, 2019. Mike sent a preview to fans via the Community app with the following text: "Earlier this year, I worked on a track for Blackbear on my Twitch live stream. In 20 minutes, Bear and I are gonna post the whole track on his Soundcloud; here's a preview." Listen to the song here: https://soundcloud.com/beartrapsound/imstillfuckinghere

You can download it here: http://lp-bits.com/details.php?id=494 Jimmy Kimmel Live performances aren't allowed on YouTube.

As some of you know, we've been having problems with the host we were using for our live show downloads. Today we've set up a new host for our files, but we need to do a test run on it before we start making everything available again. We'll be starting with our Downloads page and if everything works out, the live shows will be added gradually over the next few months. We took this opportunity to add some free downloads and recent exclusives that were missing from the page. All old links have been replaced with links from our new host. Keep in mind we don't provide links to officially released material. Visit our Downloads page here: https://lplive.net/downloads.php/

According to the book: Xero -> Xero 818 -> Hybrid Theory -> Platinum Lotus Foundation -> Plear -> Lincoln Park -> Linkin Park. The August and November 1998 demos were likely under the name Xero 818. They had been using that name since at least June. Platinum Lotus Foundation was very quickly in late April. Plear was in early May for around 12 days. They pressed a CD under this name as mentioned here. Just wanted to post this information here.

Talinda and Samantha too.

Back in October, during the promotion of the 20th anniversary edition of Hybrid Theory, Mike Shinoda surprised fans with a photo from a previously unknown Xero performance at Backside Records Burbank. Now, thanks to Jeff Blue's book, released a couple days ago, we became aware of many new shows and were able to add many notes to already existing show pages. Two frat party shows are mentioned in the book, a Halloween 1998 show in Long Beach with Danny Goodwin of Virgin Records in audience and a UCLA show in November. The fact that Xero played at many frat parties was previously told by Mike Giangreco (Brad's boss at The Roxy and Whisky A Go Go) in the 2004 unauthorized documentary "Conspiracy Theory", but this is the first time we hear about specific shows. The two other new Xero dates are 1998 label showcases for Warner/Reprise on November 14 and November 22. On the second date they were rejected by none other than David Kahne, who would eventually become Jeff Blue's boss at Warner Bros. Records. Three showcases with Chester are described in the book. The first one is a big showcase for various record labels at the band's rehearsal studio while the others are specific showcases for Radioactive/MCA and Warner. This Warner showcase is the one that finally landed the band on the label. Jeff Blue provides a big list of labels that rejected the band prior to this, which includes Red Ant, Capricorn, Epitaph, DV8, Lava, Radioactive, DreamWorks, Elektra, Atlantic, Warner (3 times), Reprise, Arista, RCA, Interscope, Flawless, Universal, Universal/Republic, Capitol (3 times), Virgin, Disney, Hollywood Records, A&M, MCA, Island/Def Jam, Mercury, American Recordings and Columbia. Thanks to the book, we now have confirmation that Phoenix was in the band since Xero's very first show and left soon after Mark. Kyle Christener was the band's bass player when they started auditions for a new singer and stayed in the band until they were signed to Warner in late 1999. Phoenix rejoined Linkin Park for P.O.D's Kings Of The Game Tour in November 2000. An interesting note is that the tour almost didn't happen because P.O.D.'s management wanted Linkin Park to pay to be on the tour. They got around that by having Linkin Park's management help doing marketing for P.O.D. Another interesting story is that Papa Roach had already heard a Xero demo back in 1998 and was impressed with the music and decided on playing some shows with them. The two bands wouldn't meet until 99X's Big Day Out in 2000, when Papa Roach invited Linkin Park to their Master Bay Tour. New notes have been added to Xero's debut show in 1997 at the Whisky A Go Go and the band's final show with Mark Wakefield, in December 1998, which was actually a public label showcase. The Coconut Teaszer show in June 2000 was a Warner showcase to celebrate Hybrid Theory being finished. Jeff claims The Roxy show in September only happened due to the success of 'One Step Closer' on KROQ and the Best Buy show promoted by the radio station had a much larger audience than anticipated. The band sent out 'My December' to KROQ the exact day of their Nashville show and the song was debuted the following day. The reason behind the cancelation of the Columbus 2000 show is also revealed. The book features two photos of Chester's rehearsal with Size 5 for the Xero audition tape, courtesy of his ex-wife Samantha; various photos of the Big Fish Pub show from 1999, a flyer for the Mill Avenue Sport Rock Cafe show in 2000 and photos of the Gold Album presentation in Sacramento at the end of the year.

The last demo mentioned in the book is an unmastered copy of the album from May 9, 2000 under the name Plear (after "Hybrid Theory" and before "Linkin Park"): 01. Papercut 02. (Now I See) With You 03. Points Of Authority 04. Plaster 05. Crawling 06. Run Away 07. The Untitled 08. By Myself 09. The Cure For Mr. Hahn's Itch 10. Pushing Me Away 11. A Place For My Head 12. Forgotten Also, Don Gilmore mixed 4 songs from the album before David Kahne gave it a shot. He took a week, starting on May 15. The David Kahne mix of Plaster was done at Quad Studios in New York over Memorial Day weekend. The band met with Andy Wallace in New York on June 18 to mix the record and finished on June 27.