Astat

I can't even imagine how much work goes into shooting something this elaborate in one night. My band did a music video last year that was a combination of green screen and miniature models, and that took us two 12-hour days to film. Also, get you someone who looks at you the way Joe Hahn looks at his stick.

Alex has been playing WID (the entire song) on the neck pickup, for reasons I really don't understand.

Holy shit guys. I can't even put tonight into words. I'm also supposed to be up in like 5 hours lmao, send thoughts and prayers

There's a lot to consider about why Brad did this. He dealt with a lot of injuries, especially in the last few years prior to 2017. He hurt his back on the THP tour, and he spent a significant portion of the THP and OML tours wearing KT Tape on his right arm on stage because of chronic wrist problems. He also had the ever-present issue of ear sensitivity, which is why he always wore headphones, and it resulted in concerts being cancelled a few times when he developed ear infections. He's also always been heavily invested in the business side of the band. Remember, Brad's dad was the head of their original merch team (he founded Bandmerch), and Brad by extension had a lot to do with that, and many other business projects since. He's one of Mike's most valued partners when it comes to songwriting/arrangments/production, and apparently he also had a lot of input on the live show production for this run. He wears a LOT of hats, possibly even more than Mike does. I think when you couple 7 years of aging with a previous history of issues that affected his ability to play/tour, plus the numerous other things he does behind the scenes, it's not surprising that the grind of touring might not be the best thing for him. Also, he already set the precedent for this a little bit by missing a few shows here and there starting in 2014 and having Ben fill in for him.

Heyyyyyyy friend how you doing today LOL Still waiting on all that sweet label plant money though. Daddy Astat has concert tickets to buy.

Let me get this straight: Mike "hates us" over stuff we allegedly said/did when Chester was still alive, yet we were consulted for archive material for both HT20 and Meteora20 and thanked in their respective album liner notes? The math ain't mathing, lmao. Please show me the hurtful stuff we supposedly said about OML. I'll wait. Not all of us liked it, but I will happily dig up numerous examples of myself and other staff members coming to Chester/the band's defense in response to stuff other people said that was actually hurtful. Let me guess, your entire belief that Chester got "sick of us" is based on this? Congratulations on not understanding how Twitter works just like every other person who's brought this up lately. That was Chester replying to someone else under one of our Tweets, whose account was deleted sometime between then and when Twitter became X. That's how any reply to a pre-X deleted account looks these days, which you would have figured out in about five seconds by scrolling through Chester's Replies tab and seeing the numerous other Tweets that appear to be replying to nobody. Not to mention any other time he replied to us has the "replying to LPLive" tag on it when that Tweet doesn't. Yeah, Chester TOTALLY decided he hated us in May of 2017, then continued replying to, retweeting, and liking our posts throughout June and July. 🙄 The ambassadors program doesn't exist anymore, lmfao. Grey Daze used the ambassadors email list to try to rope people into doing promotion for them, but outside of that, the program has been completely nonexistent for years. Hard to feel guilt when there's nothing to feel guilty about. 🤷‍♂️ ...We didn't "leak" MIUAG. We released the live video for it. Because Mike literally CHOSE US TO BE THE ONES WHO RELEASED IT LMFAO. Yeah, sure sounds like a guy who's "unhappy" with us, huh? 😂 There isn't a day that goes by that people don't talk about Rob's absence. WTF are you even talking about? If by "spewing hate" on Mike during his COVID streams, you mean "provided ongoing coverage of them and promoted all three Dropped Frames releases that came from them," you'd be correct. Sorry some of us don't like NFTs. Some My Chemical Romance fans don't like comic books. Some Offspring fans don't give a shit about microbiology. Some 30 Seconds to Mars fans don't care about Jared's movies. To any reasonable person (a.k.a. not you), that's fine. You know nothing of our relationship with Mike and the LP team. That's generally how professionalism goes in the music business, everything's on a need-to-know basis. There's a lot of stuff we don't know because we don't need to know, and there's even more stuff that you don't know because you don't need to know (which is clearly for the best, as you've demonstrated about half a dozen times here that you can't behave rationally with the information you already DO have). With all due respect, please go embarrass yourself somewhere else.

Yeah, how dare musicians get paid for gigs? 🤡

It's not a different vocal take as far as I can tell, but there's absolutely a different treatment on Chester's vocal when it comes to pitch correction on the Papercuts version. He kind of slides up into the word "light" on the original album version, on the Papercuts version the pitch jumps to the "final" note he lands on a lot more quickly. We've got some kind of Shadow of the Day alternate mix crap going on with WFTE on this version, ladies and gentlemen. Bravo, Warner, bravo.

5 bucks says he got a call from the band's lawyers lol

Didn't have "LPLive community devolves to the point of complaining about getting official instrumentals/acapellas" on my 2024 bingo card, but here we are I guess.

LET'S FUGGIN GOOOOOO Also LP take note and release the other Roxy show tracks for Collision Course 20 PLZ

There were only 13 songs left when the band entered mixing, per a studio update from Mike in December of 2002. "we also cut the number of songs down to thirteen, and we'll be cutting one more, i think." The one that got cut was Lost.

...Yikes.

Hearing Mike sing acapella with no processing on his voice whatsoever is a trip.

So FYI, this definitely wasn't Jeff. Same person has been repeatedly trying to contact him and being just as weird about it.