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Mike appeared on the LPU VyRT Chat on July 31 to answer some of your questions. Here's a quick recap of some of his answers, in case you missed it. - No plans for a Fort Minor tour (yet). - Shoutout from Mike to LPL for our China coverage! Thanks Mike! - Mike hasn’t thought about what will be on the next LPU CD yet. - Dave knows the most about cultures, since he watches the History Channel and payed attention in History class. In China, he kept talking about historic battles in the country’s past. - Don’t expect a live debut on the next tour, since it’s hard to get all of the band together to rehearse a new song, as they have to work out every single part of it (i.e. programming, guitar layers, etc.). Mike would love to play ‘Keys To The Kingdom’ and ‘Mark The Graves’, but he doesn’t think it’ll happen this tour. He’s interested in playing them on the next tour, though. - Mike’s favorite music videos? 'Waiting For The End', 'Castle Of Glass', and 'Leave Out All The Rest'. - Dropping THP songs: 'Rebellion' dropped for China, 'Guilty All The Same' because Rob had shoulder problems playing it and Brad hurt his wrist playing it. - Mike would love to make a music video for ‘A Line In The Sand’ or ‘Wastelands’ - especially the latter! - Nothing big planned for the Hybrid Theory 15th Anniversary, but something is coming! - Mike didn’t Periscope in China because it isn’t reliable. He's been updating his Snapchat Snapchat story quite frequently, though! - In 2016, the band is planning on having an album out. They’re going into the studio at the end of this year. Lots of demos recorded by Mike! - On new Fort Minor songs: he’ll take music to the band first, if they like it, he’ll work on it and finish it. - Mike still gets nervous before Fort Minor shows, but not for Linkin Park. - Mike would love to bring back DSPs - they’re looking for a way to effectively bring them back. Pooch had to work double time on them - being a roadie, mixer, and THEN work on the show afterwards, overwhelming them. - There’s still vinyls for ‘Welcome’ left! Grab them before it’s too late! - Mike’s favorite author? His wife, Anna. - Superman or Batman? Mike’s choice: Batman. - Mike joked that they would make a handbook about what to do and what not to do when meeting a band. The universal rule: “If the person you are talking to is crying, saying goodbye to someone at an airport, throwing up, etc… DO NOT TALK TO THEM!” - LPU Meet and Greets will be available for the Fort Minor shows in Copenhagen and Berlin! The Hunting Party Tour is reaching it's end, with the band appearing for one last full tour in Europe, along with performances with Fort Minor in Copenhagen in Berlin. For updates on the chat, check back here or follow us on Twitter. Check out the rest of Linkin Park's 2015 touring schedule here.

Mike's on VyRT right now! Get the LPU Password from your vault and join in!

Join Mike in the LPU VyRT Chatroom on Friday, July 31 at 11:00 PST (convert that here) for a video chat! He'll be answering YOUR questions live. This is Mike's first chat from the new LPU Chat platform on VyRT. Both Brad and Chester have held chats on VyRT, as well as Phoenix having a text-only chat (due to dodgy internet) at the airport in Pryor, Oklahoma before the cancellation of the Rocklahoma festival. You can view Chester's and Brad's video chats from your LPU Account - they're listed under LPU-TV! For those who don't know, VyRT is Jared Leto's online ticketing company, that specializes in high quality, live broadcasts, hosting events for many artists including Thirty Seconds To Mars, Gerard Way, Greek Fire, and more. Linkin Park has begun using it as the new location to hold LPU Chats, as the previous Tinychat format wasn't holding up to the standards. The band has used it prior to that, too - the band live streamed the Q&A from the LPU Summit in Woodlands, Texas, as well as showing their acoustic performance of 'Final Masquerade', before the show in Los Angeles, California on the Carnivores Tour was also streamed! What questions will you ask Mike? Perhaps about the next Linkin Park album? If we'll see anymore live debuts on the final tour for The Hunting Party coming up in Europe? Maybe some Fort Minor questions? Be sure not to miss it! Linkin Park's The Hunting Party Tour is reaching it's end, with the band appearing for one last full tour in Europe, along with performances with Fort Minor in Copenhagen in Berlin. For updates on the chat, check back here or follow us on Twitter. Check out the rest of Linkin Park's 2015 touring schedule here.

If it's a specific performance of the song that only happened once, list the show page

So you're gonna be THAT guy here, huh?

For fuck's sake man...

Only at one of the summits, so the two is still valid. EDIT: "Shadow of The Day -Piano Version- (W/ Mike, Chester & Rob)" Phoenix and Brad definitely play during the end of it...

You're just LOOKING to be a troll, aren't you?

We're going to have to wait and see what happens. It looks like only people in Asia can view it as of right now. I'm going back to sleep, hopefully someone figures it out

He's from China, that's how

No, just the music videos. But I'm not getting the sad face screen.

Not sure how many this will work for, but if you're using Chrome try using Firefox instead. That's working for me. At least to get past the preview video.

If you're having trouble watching the stream due to logistics, try using a Free VPN called Hola.

Ignore the countdown in the main post, it messed up. The stream is supposed to start any minute now.

http://lplive.net/shows/db/mrhahn/20150509H Mike showed some stuff on Snapchat from the Shanghai show but I wasn't able to identify the songs :\

Linkin Park will be having another after-party after their show in Beijing on Sunday, July 26, 2015 at the Boombar, like they did in Shanghai. Joe will be performing another DJ set at this event! The band members (well, at least Mike) was in attendance at the last event, so if you're going, keep on the lookout! This makes it Joe's third DJ set of the month, the most he's ever done in such a compact amount of time. The first was in Tokyo, for the Toon Workshop Tokyo Launch Party and the second was in Shanghai for a previous Linkin Park afterparty. This is the very last performance on The Hunting Party Chinese Tour, and will take place after the band's show in Beijing, which will be livestreamed. Check out the rest of Linkin Park's 2015 touring schedule here.

Because there's literally nothing else to write about. Trust me, I've TRIED to keep them short but every time I go with that mentality they get longer lol. Not everyone reads every post, so I'd rather include as much info as possible for those new readers who haven't seen previous posts.

Linkin Park's The Hunting Party Chinese Tour is finally coming to an end after just over a week long trek across the country. After performing strong shows in Nanjing, Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Chongqing, the band will be ending the tour with a bang in Beijing, at the Banging Workers' Stadium this Sunday, July 26, 2015. Also, if you're not in China to watch the show, or if you ARE in China and just can't make it, don't worry, because there's a livestream, too. Let's quickly gloss over Linkin Park's history in China. The band has performed there three times: 2007, and twice in 2009. When the band performed in Shanghai in 2007, their first show in China, they became the first international rock band to hold a major concert in the country. Pretty awesome! The band performed then-new Minutes To Midnight tracks like 'The Little Things Give You Away' and 'No More Sorrow' at the show. The band returned for two shows in Shanghai and Macao in 2009, with some interesting results. The show in Shanghai required 'Hands Held High' and 'Given Up' be dropped from the setlists due to China's strict censorship rules (which have been more lenient, in a sense, this tour). This resulted in some interesting happenings, though; namely a rare opener of 'Session' into 'From The Inside', which is pretty damn awesome, also making it the only show where 'From The Inside' had opened a show. The next show in Macao did not have the same restrictions, and even had a special performance of 'Bleed It Out', where Mike rapped the first verse of 'Papercut' over the extended intro of 'Bleed It Out' and even sang the chorus of 'Papercut' over the extended bridge. Two big stadium shows in China were planned on the A Thousand Suns Asian Tour in 2011, that ended up being cancelled during their negotiations by the Chinese government due to the band's association with the Dalai Lama. That association ended up getting the band banned from China... though, thanks to Mercedes-Benz, it appears that things have changed since 2011! Now, let's talk about this tour. To be honest, each show on the tour seemed to be fairly average in terms of variety. Nothing major truly changed throughout the tour, despite some hints that the band wanted to change things up. The band's first show of the tour, in Nanjing, was probably the most interesting when considering the "special" elements of the show. For one, the band had a rare soundcheck before the show as a warmup, as there had been no rehearsals for the tour prior. There, the band practiced some songs (the only two confirmed are 'Given Up' and 'Remember The Name'), perhaps looking for ways to censor them - the "censorship" element the government had the band do for this tour. The four censored songs are 'Given Up', 'Remember The Name', 'Welcome', and 'Bleed It Out' - a bit ineffective, as the crowd chants "FUCK!" about as loud as the band would normally do. At the show itself, 'Crawling', which was originally on the setlist as the opener of the encore, was dropped, in a similar scenario to the Honda Civic Tour in 2012, where the band dropped the song from all three sets (despite it appearing in all of them) simply because they did not want to play it. From that show forward, 'Crawling' was dropped from even the physical setlists, after only two performances of it back in Mexico. The next show in Shenzhen went off normally, with a few twists: Chester messed up the lyrics to 'Final Masquerade', and Mike played guitar on the bridge and ending of 'In The End'. The next shows in Shanghai and Chongqing went off normally, nothing really being changed. That brings us to Beijing! Something special happening at this show, or, rather, after it will be the official Linkin Park after party at the Boombar in Beijing. Like at the after party in Shanghai, Joe will be doing a DJ Set at the event! We don't know if the entire band will be there - at the last one, we only know Joe and Mike were there. If you don't get a chance to attend the Mercedes M&G, this might be your chance to meet at least Joe and Mike! There HAS been indications that the band wanted to change things up this tour, though. For one, a leaked document shows a list of songs the band had to get approved from the Chinese government to perform, which featured all of the songs performed on The Hunting Party Tour barring the rarities from Hybrid Theory - this includes 'A Place For My Head', 'Somewhere I Belong', 'Blackout', 'Rebellion'... and, most surprisingly of all, 'Keys To The Kingdom', which has not been performed live yet. It's highly unlikely we'll see this song be performed at this show, but maybe the band will bring it out on their next tour in Europe in August. Another thing, that's less "official" than the document, is that on the livestream website, a poll for songs the fans in China want to hear live at the Beijing show had 'Don't Stay' leading the poll for a good while! It's highly unlikely the band will perform the song (Brad doesn't even own the guitars needed for the song anymore). We can always dream, though! YouTube is banned in China, so videos are hard to come by. Luckily, here's a pretty solid video of the Ballad Medley from Shenzhen! Seeing the crowd hold up their phones is always a beautiful sight during the song. Despite the shows going off without a hitch, there have been some questionable moves outside of the Linkin Park crew going on that effect the shows. For one, the Chinese S.W.A.T. team has been present at almost every show, demanding the concert-goers sit down before the show starts. As soon as the band takes the stage, the crowd jumps to their feet, so there's not much effect in doing that. Another thing? Seats. Every show has had the pit filled with plastic chairs, not allowing for much movement. Pretty inconvenient! Another big problem this tour has been the LPU Meet and Greets. Perhaps by the terms of their sponsorship with Mercedes-Benz, the pre-show meet and greets are only available to Mercedes-Benz owners and VIPs. The LPU has not been able to get into these events (unless they qualify by one of the aforementioned requirements). The LPU has tried to reconcile by holding two LPU Meetups, one in Shenzhen and one in Chongqing. The band did attend, but they did not partake in the same events that would normally occur at a meet and greet. Beijing will unfortunately not have an LPU Meetup. For the live collectors of Linkin Park, this tour may have been surprising to some. In a surprising move, we've actually gotten quite a few sources from the shows on the tour! These shows are Shenzhen and Shanghai. For Shenzhen, we have both an audio and a video source, and for Shanghai, we have an audio source. Head over to our Live Audio Download & Requests and Live Video Download & Requests subforums for a download! Speaking of sources, as I mentioned before, Beijing will have a livestream accompanying it! That's right, you can watch this show live from the comfort of your home! The stream is hosted by Mercedes-Benz (shocking, I know), and will begin at 7:30 PM Beijing time. Time-wise, it's not very convenient for North American and South American viewers (that's 7:30 AM EST and 4:30 AM PST), but everywhere else in the world has a pretty good time for viewing! Check below for a countdown to the stream and a link to the website - don't miss it! Livestream Info Who's heading to the show? Who'll be watching the livestream with us? After this show, the band has about a month off before the last tour of The Hunting Party cycle begins in Europe on August 20 in Belgium at the Pukkelpop festival. During that tour, Fort Minor is making two appearance: in Copenhagen and Berlin. Don't miss it if you have the opportunity to go! After that, the band has one more show for the year, in Tempe, Arizona at the Monster Mash. Stone Temple Pilots is expected to release an album in the fall, and we might even see some more Fort Minor material coming out! STP will also be touring the east coast of the USA in the fall, don't miss out! While you wait for the livestream, why not take part in some discussions? We have some interesting talks going on right now about certain topics: 15 years of LPU (and its future), Linkin Park as a brand, and the band's live attitude as of late. Definitely be sure to pitch in your two cents! For updates on everything Linkin Park, be sure to follow us on social media! Like our Facebook page for quick updates. Follow us on Instagram for some awesome pictures of the band, too! And if you're from China, follow us on Weibo! For updates on the show, check back here or follow us on Twitter. Check out the rest of Linkin Park's 2015 touring schedule here.

That's true, but I don't really see them going back to that any time soon. Drop B/Drop A stuff is typically like, sludge metal to, like, nu-metal. Look at Slipknot, AFAIK most of their heavier stuff is Drop A (especially on their latest album). I don't really see LP taking that direction.

Well, to be fair there's not much use for the baritone guitars anymore. He only songs that used those guitars were Don't Stay and Nobody's Listening, both of which I foubt we'll ever hear again live. Theoretically, they COULD tune their guitars done to Drop B, but the baritone gives the strings extra tension so they don't become loose and spaghetti like (thats what happens to them as you tune lower and lower). Because of that loss of tension the chords will become more and more muddy, making the whole performance sloppy.

why you gotta do dis

That's a lot of demos...

That was one of the shittiest reactions I've seen LOL I'm not really a fan of the song he put together, though props to him for winning, it's definitely well thought out and executed. Though I personally hope it's not on the next LPU. Maybe every other LPU CD from now on will have these collaboration type things?