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  1. 5 hours ago, TheVeryLastDinosaur said:

    Ok, so I finally found the picture and date is 11/15/2000 so I was absolutely wrong on that bootleg performance. I definitely misremembered what Mike said.

    Can you provide this picture?

     

    5 hours ago, TheVeryLastDinosaur said:

    But having  re-listened to Mike and Chester's comments throughout the performance just now I feel very strongly that the July 24, 2000 show at The Sapphire in Orlando, Florida is most likely the bootleg performance. Mike's comment about the "album being released a week before Halloween" means this performance is 2000 and the only time they played in Orlando before the album release (according to what info is on the list provided) is The Sapphire.

    https://lplive.net/shows/2000andearlier/20000916

  2. 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.

  3. 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"

  4. 8 minutes ago, RYG4R said:

    Is this an unreleased reanimation track from 2002? or just remixed recently and slapped with Reanimation in the title just to sound cool?

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

  5. 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.

  6. On 12/20/2020 at 6:36 PM, SFNL14 said:

    I know there is a separate section for suggestions, but since this is here, might as well. Can you make the track lists collapsible? It will make the page shorter and easier to explore.

    On 12/26/2020 at 3:46 PM, Buzz90 said:

    Can you add Ammosick (the free one Mike put on his YouTube) not the Mall one? I would like it in best quality possible if you guys could.

    Done.

  7. 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

     

  8. 56 minutes ago, ChesterPortalTM said:

    Does anyone know how to access the Lying From You ProShot from Jimmy Kimmel 2003? The full show on YouTube contains all the songs from the set except for OSC & LFY. But I found a tweet from LPLive in 2014 announcing the ProShot release of LFY along with a YT link that’s been blocked by Disney.(http://youtu.be/Riq_SXd5jLI)

    Anyone still have it?

    You can download it here:

    http://lp-bits.com/details.php?id=494

     

    Jimmy Kimmel Live performances aren't allowed on YouTube.

  9. 3 hours ago, bojevnim said:

    Hey man, I found the audio file from summer sonnic 06. For now I only found reading my eyes in good quality. It's on youtube

    Linkin Park officially released 4 songs from the Chiba show on the LPU 6.0 CD and two more on the What I've Done single. We can't provide download links for them because it's against the rules. You can purchase LPU 6.0 from the LPU store and the What I've Done single from iTunes or any other digital store of your choice. Check our show page for more information:

    https://lplive.net/shows/2006/20060813

  10. 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/

  11. 1 hour ago, Rasputin 93 said:

    It's not like they couldn't have re-titled it only to scrap it again... other demos changed their names frequently as well. I mean the band themselves changed names even, lol.

    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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. Here's a full list of demos from the book up to page 189:

     

    Xero - 1997 Mike Shinoda (from photo):

    https://i.ibb.co/1qmLNnm/oscbook-dreamer-and-weigt.png

    01. Fuse

    02. Reading My Eyes

    03. Stick N Move

     

    First Xero demo he heard:

    01. Fuse

    02. [Untitled Track]

    03. Stick And Move

    04. Reading My Eyes

     

    November 1997, baby cover:

    01. Rhinestone

    02. Reading My Eyes

    03. Fuse

    04. Stick N Move

     

    Xero (from photo):

    https://i.ibb.co/1qmLNnm/oscbook-dreamer-and-weigt.png

    01. Rhinestone

    02. Dreamer

    03. Weight

     

    August 25, 1998 demo produced by Darryl Swan at Paramount Recording Studios (Studio C)

    [Fiends from Rapology 14 likely from this demo]

     

    November 17, 1998 demo CD:

    01. Rhinestone

    02. Esaul

    03. Pictureboard

    04. Fiends

    05. Stick N Move

    06. Carousel

    07. Slip

    08. Step Up

    09. Pointillism

     

    Chester rehearsing the Xero audition tape with Size 5 on March 19, 1999:

    https://i.ibb.co/yk6VGWN/photo5082852027268180657.jpg

    https://i.ibb.co/cg0rQHQ/photo5082852027268180658.jpg

     

    [March 24, 1999 they found out Rhinestone would be on The Crow: Stairway To Heaven]

     

    First demo CD with Chester [early May 1999]:

    01. Over To Me (Blue)

    02. Could Have Been

    03. Rhinestone

    04. Esaul

    05. Part Of Me

    06. Turn To Grey

    07. Pictureboard

    08. Ashes (Unfinished)

     

    Studio time with Mudrock in June 1999 for about a week [Hybrid Theory EP]

     

    9-track demo CD, week of August 16, 1999:

    xx. Untitled

    xx. Points Of Authority

    xx. Super Xero

    xx. I Hate You/Crawling

     

    Random mentions:

    It Doesn't Matter [Untitled]

    Flower [early She Couldn't]

     

    Brad and Mike flew to New York to work with the Dust Brothers in September/October 1999 and did an early version of With You with only rap vocals. The demo was called Dust Brothers because it was meant for the Dust Brothers album.

     

    Don Gilmore received the first demo from the band in November 1999:

    xx. Untitled

    xx. Crawling

    xx. Dust Brothers

    xx. Points Of Authority

     

    Early March [first week] demo CD:

    01. Plaster [no bridge]

    02. Papercut [guitar/beat instrumental demo]

     

    Recording at NRG started on March 7, 2000 and was scheduled for a month and a half. Rob's drum recording schedule for Hybrid Theory:

     

    March 14, 2000:
    Harmonic Song
    Pictureboard
    By Myself
    Plaster
    Papercut
    Rhinestone (Forgotten)
    And One

     

    March 15, 2000:
    Untitled
    Esaul (A Place For My Head)
    Dust Bros.
    Stick N Move

     

    March 16, 2000:
    Stick N Move (continued from 3/15)
    Slip
    A Place For My Head

     

    March 17, 2000:
    Points Of Authority
    Pushing Me Away
    Now I See

  15. The Glitch Mob has released an official visualizer for their remix of 'Waiting For The End.' The track was originally released in 2010 as a b-side on the CD single for the song. The video was created by Lake Hills and was made available on digital stores worldwide on December 4, 2020, however, it was only published on YouTube on December 7. Watch it below.

     

     

  16. With the release of Jeff Blue's book today, we became aware of two new Xero songs. This comes only 2 months after Linkin Park released the previously unknown Xero song 'Dialate' and Mike Shinoda dropped the previously unknown name 'Deftest' on Twitch. The book includes a photo of 3 DAT tapes, two of them credited to Xero and other to Xero 818. See the picture here.

     

    The first tape features the songs 'Fuse,' 'Reading My Eyes' and 'Stick N Move;' three songs that are credited solely to Mike Shinoda and Mark Wakefield. Joe Hahn has talked a couple of times about a 3-track demo the duo had recorded under the name Xero and sent to a record label whose A&R executive encourage them to put a band together. In a 2008 post on his blog, Mike explained 'Reading My Eyes' was both in the demo they would send to record companies and the demos they passed out to fans. It is quite possible this 3-track demo on the photo is the very demo that started it all for Linkin Park.

     

    The second Xero tape features 3 songs as well, this time with two previously unknown titles. The tracklist reads: 'Rhinestone,' 'Dreamer' and 'Weight.' 'Rhinestone' was one of the tracks written after Mike and Mark put a full band together. The song is credited to "Delson/Hahn/Shinoda/Wakefield." This means this is a later demo and the other two tracks were likely written by these four members too since they were the main songwriters in that era as evidenced in the credits of other Xero songs on the 20th anniversary edition of Hybrid Theory. There's a chance either 'Dreamer' or 'Weight' is the infamous "Xero Reborn" song that was later recorded with Chester Bennington and worked on with producer Don Gilmore for Hybrid Theory.

     

     

    Another possibility is the song 'Spark Marker' that was once mentioned by Brad Delson during a LPU chat. The title, however, is mostly regarded by fans as a joke and was never mentioned by any other band member.

     

    In the book, Jeff Blue describes the very first cassette demo Brad played to him. The artwork was a Xerox photo of what appeared to be a mountain and the inside featured a faded photo of four band members and a close-up photo of Mike Shinoda. The tracklist featured 'Fuse,' an untitled track, 'Stick And Move' and 'Reading My Eyes.' The second track was his favorite, but Brad told him it was the band's least favorite track and it was eventually replaced by 'Rhinestone' on the second Xero demo he heard, the one with the baby cover. He described the untitled track:

     

    "The second song, with no title, incorporated a lot of hip hop. I loved the beat, the rapping was old school, and it had a simplistic guitar line with tasty harmonics that was instantly memorable. The song transitioned into an Alice In Chains-style chorus followed by a Rage Against the Machine-style guitar breakdown, with a hard-edged bridge that really impressed me."

     

    The third demo in the picture doesn't have a tracklist. It is credited to Xero 818, which Brad recently explained was a name they chose because there were already other bands called "Xero." The name was used on the flyer of their June 1998 show at The Roxy Theatre. It's likely this is the most recent tape from the 3 and it's possibly the source of the full band recordings of 'Rhinestone,' 'Esaul' and 'Pictureboard' from 1998. Obviously this is only speculation and shouldn't be taken as a fact. All 3 songs were on the tape they later sent to new singers auditioning for the band.

     

    The discovery of two new Xero titles leaves us at a total of 15 (or 16) known Xero songs:

    01. Dialate

    02. Deftest

    03. Reading My Eyes

    04. Fuse

    05. Stick N Move

    06. Coal

    07. Rhinestone

    08. Dreamer

    09. Weight

    10. Esaul

    11. Pictureboard

    12. Slip

    13. Closing

    14. Drop

    15. Fiends

    16. Spark Marker(?)

     

    Edit (December 9):

    The book confirms Carousel and Step Up as Xero demos! It also reveals the titles of three unreleased songs recorded with Chester: Turn To Grey, Ashes and Harmonic Song. Full list here.

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