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This was the fake Minutes to Midnight tracklisting with all the Tribal Ink songs: 1. Stand! 2. Bleed It Out 3. Get Through 4. What I've Done 5. In This World 6. The Little Things Give You Away 7. Hold Nothing Back 8. Over The Top 9. Promise 10. Real Life 11. Afraid This Time 12. 2 Worlds 13. Until The End 14. Collapsing The Unit 15. We Use the Pain 16. One Perfect Something Bonus Tracks 1. No Way 2. Feel (Demo '01) 3. Screaming at Space 4. QWERTY (Live Summer Sonic '06) This version started showing up on the Internet in mid-March of '07. Despite using a few legit track titles (ones that had been mentioned in interviews up to that point), NONE of them were legit, save for the live version of QWERTY, which was taken from the LPU6 CD. When the actual album leaked on May 4th, a lot of music databases had already been edited by misinformed people to use the fake tracklisting, so when you put the album in your computer, for the first few days the song titles on Windows Media Player would come up as the first 12 tracks from the fake album leak. This caused a bit of confusion for some people.

Sad, but probably true. More like "a small contingent of hardcore LP fans on the Internet have been waiting for the band to play this song." The video doesn't lie - hardly anybody at the show gave a crap. Same type of reaction that QWERTY got in '07. People wonder why LP doesn't play stuff like this live? Compare the reaction when Mike starts singing NRL to the reaction when he starts APFMH. There's your answer.

Mike Shinoda + instrumental music = guaranteed awesome. The track in the trailer sounds great, hopefully he'll do like he did with the VMA score tracks and upload them online somewhere after the movie has been out for a while.

The band didn't perform The Messenger, Chester just sang over a pre-recorded instrumental. The song was also performed in Los Angeles, so it's already made a "comeback."

The Catalyst was completely remixed as well...? They only used a small bit of the DIOYY? remix in it, the rest of it was new. Fallout was also extended with the Mario Savio speech added to the ending. Pre-show: Issho Ni Fallout (extended w/Mario Savio speech at end) The Catalyst (remix, including parts of the Does It Offend You, Yeah? remix) Blackout (remixed ending) Waiting For the End Iridescent (shortened ending, last chorus was cut out) The Messenger (Chester live vocals over pre-recorded instrumental) Post-show: Waiting For the End (Glitch Mob Remix)

The webcast of this was announced the same day that the event was originally announced. And shit, this is going to be on at 5:30 AM here. Stay up late, or get up early? Either one sucks. *Edit* Nevermind, once you sign up, you can use the "Time Shift" button to watch it later. That's pretty sweet.

They didn't add the Las Vegas/Los Angeles shows to the website until about a week before the performances, it's happened a couple times before too so it's really nothing to worry about at this point.

They use some of the same "alternate" voice samples at the beginning, but no, they are definitely not identical.

The drums on Madison are programmed, Mike just used a more "standard" drum sound than what he uses when he programs his hip-hop beats. It wouldn't have been a seed for MTM though, as LP didn't really start work on MTM until some point in '06 due to their conflicts with Warner. I think if any of those tracks were things that were being considered for the next LP album, they would've been kept under wraps instead of being thrown in as part of the VMA soundtrack.

It's Scott before he shaved off all his hair.

Most likely not Pictureboard, as Mike was asked about it in one of the LPU chats and said he didn't remember much about the song, other than "the part they showed in the video was probably the only good part." Mike's talked about Pictureboad in the past, so if it was the same song, I don't see why he wouldn't have mentioned it by name.

Been on a bit of a DBS kick the last few days, forgot how many great songs there are on the album. Fire, Too Late, Into You, End of the World, and Walking in Circles are all standout tracks to me.

MTM certainly had more variation in the different versions of songs, I was just speaking in terms of the overall number of songs they've played. Adding in the new album tracks may make it seem skewed, but then again, they played all 12 MTM songs at some point during that album's touring cycle as well, and the setlists were roughly the same length-wise, so the difference should be negligible. On the MTM cycle, they tended to do more "Set A-Set B-Set C" type rotating, but on this cycle, they seem a lot more keen on swapping individual songs in and out of their various setlists, so I'd say they're switching it up more, song-wise, than they ever have. It certainly wouldn't hurt to re-work some of the intros/outros that they've been playing to death for the last few years though. *Edit* I can even do the math and figure out how many songs they've played on the last two cycles, accounting for both songs alone and varying versions of songs, because I'm a little curious what the exact numbers are myself. I'll post my findings sometime tomorrow.

Yeah, this is something that could easily be recreated using the multitrack files. Sounds like all they did was cut out the guitar solo and paste the chorus vocals in place of the bridge ones. 99.9% sure this is fake.

I think I've said this before, but I'll say it again: I can't help but laugh my ass off at the amount of bitching about setlist variety on this touring cycle, when LP has played a greater number of different songs on this touring cycle than they have on any other. Oh well, they'll get around to playing Blackout at some point in Asia, and all the bitching will cease at that point and their show will instantly have the "best setlist ever" again.

As someone who raises funds for non-profit organizations for a living, I feel the need to clarify this misconception: People who raised the $500 for the tickets didn't technically "pay $500" for them. It's just like when you see a pledge drive on your local PBS station and they're all like "donate at the $120 level and you'll receive this Celtic Thunder CD as a thank-you gift!" The key phrase there is "thank-you gift," as no brand-new CD in the world is actually worth $120 (plus if the CD actually cost $120, the organization wouldn't be making any profit from your donation!). Offering thank-you gifts at certain levels just gives people more incentive to give more money. And since donations to charitable organizations like PBS and Music For Relief are tax-deductible (at least in the U.S.), you can write them off on your tax returns and get money back at the end of the year, but you can't include the value of any gifts you received for doing so. If you give $120 to PBS and get that CD, they'll send you an invoice that tells you what the fair market value of the CD is, so when you put it down on your tax return, instead of writing it off for $120, it'll be $120 minus the fair market value of the CD (which will probably be $14.95 or something like that). I'm sure that people who raised money for MFR and got tickets will receive similar information on what the fair market value of the tickets are, and it'll be quite a bit less than $500. Again, if that's what the tickets really cost, your $500 would go entirely toward the overhead cost of the tickets, as opposed to going to relief efforts in Japan.

I'm predicting that this show will open with The Requiem and include Blackout, as well as WJ&L into Iridescent. Probably just a slightly modified version of one of the other Europe setlists, like the Vegas show was.

They clearly say at the beginning of the post that that's what they WANT to be played. Show hasn't even started yet.

Mike's already said they don't plan on playing Rolling in the Deep again. Blackout is the only one of those songs that stands a realistic chance. Figure.09, By Myself, and QWERTY most likely will never be played again at any point, and With You only has a small chance because it seems like the band regularly uses that song as an example when they talk about songs they haven't played in a while. I doubt they do, that song was easily one of Chester's worst during live performances. Brad usually wasn't particularly good at the solo either.

You do realize that's not Phoenix's official website, right? In addition to Phoenix's presence in the picture (his first show back with the band wasn't until November of 2000), they're also signing a Hybrid Theory album cover in that picture. Hybrid Theory didn't come out until 3 months after that show took place. 100% not the Orlando show.

Okay, seriously? You've been around here for a long time, and I know you used to be capable of making intelligent posts. What the fuck happened? It's ONE show. No more. Ryan clearly says so (and that's IF this show even happens - stuff relating to Julien-K/DBS, particularly stuff that Ryan talks about happening, is notoriously tentative/subject to change). They'll probably rehearse for a day or two, play the show, and then Chester will go right back into the studio and work on the LP album some more. OMG U GUISE 3 DAYS WITHOUT CHESTER IS TOTALLY GONNA DELAY THE ALBUM FOR ANOTHER 6 MONTHS.

If Oh No dated from the Xero days, Mark Wakefield would have a songwriting credit on Points of Authority. I think the lack of a date on that track is just a space-saving measure on the CD case, lol. It's probably from 1999, around the same time Sad on LPU9 was recorded.

I'm not getting my hopes up, haha.

From what I've heard, Cheez is a total douchebag who threatens you with legal action if you attempt to contact him for anything other than business-related matters.

A few more to add: -Did you know that an unreleased recording of "Rhinestone" by Xero (not the same version that'son the Xero demo tape) was featured in episode #20 ("Brothers Keeper") of the TV series The Crow: Stairway to Heaven? (This is recent news, obviously, but I figured it would be a good idea to post it in here so it gets added at some point). -Did you know that the intro sample to "Fuse" by Xero ("Of course, you know what a fuse is. It's a long piece of cord, impregnated with gunpowder. When you strike a match and light it, it burns, fitfully, sputteringly, to its end...at which there is a little surprise.") was taken from a record called "Chilling, Thrilling Sounds of the Haunted House" that was released on Disneyland records? Proof/more info: and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling,_Thr...e_Haunted_House -Did you know that "RNW@Y" uses a sample of "Nursery Rhyme/Breather" by Unkle? More precisely, 818 is one of the area codes for the San Fernando Valley area, which is where LP is from. That's also the origin of the line "testing the 818th battalion" in Stick N' Move. As far as being a band name, I find it much more likely that Brad's either joking or just doesn't have the greatest memory, because every other documentation of the band's history suggests that Chester joined Xero, who then changed their name to Hybrid Theory. "Xero 818" might be a proposed band name that they never ended up using or something like that.