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On the flip side, Demonoid is FAR more likely to take something down due to complaints than TPB is. Then again, TPB is also one of those sites that isn't very well-policed, full of fake/mislabeled uploads and stuff like that. Overall, Demonoid is a better website, which is probably the best reason to stick with it.

Let's see...selling tickets prior to any kind of announcement or even a credible rumor of the show taking place? Check. Taking place during a time frame when the band isn't known to be touring otherwise? Check. Uber-shady website being the only source of information about the show? Check. Said website also being the place selling tickets? Check. Just the latest in a long line of non-existent shows "taking place" in China. All you're doing by buying tickets to something like this is giving some "promoter" extra cash that he'll most likely put up his nose, if you know what I mean...

Iridescent gang vocals are sampled, but the band sings over the top of them. Mostly correct. The WFTE backing vocals are sung by Mike, Phoenix, and Joe over the top of the sampled parts. I THINK the BITS backing vocals aren't sampled until the end of the last chorus (where there are 2 harmony parts), it's only one part and sung by both Mike and Phoenix, so they should be able to cover that just fine. The chorus vocals on WTCFM are 100% NOT sampled. Those are sung in unison by Chester, Brad, Phoenix, and Joe, they've been doing that the same way since they started playing it (the "hey hey" chant at the end IS sampled though), and you can hear multiple voices on just about all of the DSPs. Full list of sampled vocal parts: The Requiem (Mike sings over the album version) Burning in the Skies (backing "ohhh" vocals at end of last chorus - sung over by Mike/Phoenix) When they Come For Me ("hey hey" chant at end - occasionally Brad/Phoenix/Joe join in with them) Waiting For the End ("ohhh" backing vocals on choruses - sung over by Mike/Joe/Phoenix) Blackout (chopped up Chester vocals in breakdown) Wretches and Kings "hey hey" chant parts - sung over by everybody except Rob) Iridescent (gang vocals - sung over by Chester/Mike/Phoenix/Joe/occasionally Brad) Fallout (Mike sings over the album version)

It's not the musical composition, it's not the lyrics, it's not the melody, it's not Mike's vocal performance...it's the arrangement. It's just so...monotonous. A soft song should still have some type of climax (see: My December, Shadow of the Day, Iridescent, etc.), but In Between just maintains a rather same-y dynamic level the entire way through the song.

01. Breaking the Habit 02. Pushing Me Away 03. Iridescent 04. My December 05. Robot Boy 06. What I've Done ------------------------ 07. Leave Out All the Rest 08. The Messenger ------------------------ 09. Papercut 10. Points of Authority 11. Somewhere I Belong 12. Burning in the Skies 13. Nobody's Listening 14. Shadow of the Day 15. Numb 16. Crawling 17. In the End 18. The Little Things Give You Away The first 6 songs would be piano/vocal duets by Mike and Chester. The next 2 songs would be acoustic guitar and vocals only (Mike/Chester on LOATR, and either Brad/Chester or Chester alone on The Messenger). The last 10 songs would be with the full band. Bands that do Unplugged tend to do some unexpected stuff, so I think it would be a good time to break out that "stripped down" version of Robot Boy they've mentioned as a potential live option in the past, and bring back a few oldies (Nobody's Listening is the big one, I've always felt that a tribal-sounding acoustic version of that song would sound REALLY good).

My LPU9 membership didn't expire until April.

Judging from the live video of Iridescent, it looks like Moscow had one of the better crowds in recent memory...

Gahhhhhh...still need to rejoin LPU at some point so I can check stuff like this out.

The "remix" was strictly a single/radio/music video edit...plus it was probably made well after the movie was already finished.

Not to be derailing the topic at hand, but the Milton Keynes DSP and the Road to Revolution audio were sourced from the same audio mix and almost identical. The RTR audio just had additional work done to it to fix mistakes, and it was remastered by Brian "Big Bass" Gardner for the physical release, which resulted in a slightly louder-sounding product.

Rob's samples for his drum triggers came from an MPC for a long time (not sure what model, it probably changed over the years anyway), but I believe he switched to M-Audio gear at the same time Joe did around the start of the Minutes to Midnight touring cycle.

Finally getting around to posting some corrections... 5. At a live show in Tuscan, Arizona in 2003, Brad and Joe swapped instruments to play the song "A.06". There is a picture of the incident in the "From The Inside: Linkin Park's Meteora" book. - This one REALLY needs to be corrected. First of all, "Tuscon," not "Tuscan." Secondly, Brad and Joe DID NOT swap instruments to play A.06, they swapped instruments at one point during the show, and at another point during the show, LP played A.06 (this confusion stems from a "did you know" fact that was worded very poorly on pushmeaway.com like 7 years ago). Lastly, I have the FTI book, and to my knowledge, there is no such photo in there, but you might want to double-check on that. 8. "Session", "Somewhere I Belong", and “From The Inside” were some of the earliest Meteora demos, dating back to mid-2001. The latter were also the final two songs to be finished in the album mixing process. - SIB and FTI were actually two out of the last three songs finished, Nobody's Listening was also completed during mixing. 10. In 2003, the Linkin Park Street Team received promo stickers for Meteora without “Hit The Floor” listed as a track. The reason? Noone really knows! - It's always bugged me to no end when people write "no one" as one word. NOO-NAY FTW! 12. “One Step Closer” and “In The End” are a few of Chester’s least favorite Linkin Park songs. When they initially made them, he thought neither was good enough to include on Hybrid Theory. - Chester's also named Runaway, Hit the Floor, and Nobody's Listening as some of his other least favorites, and it seems like he's more adamant about those. OSC and ITE were mainly just songs that he didn't think were very good when they were originally written. 14. Even though the band hails from the Los Angeles, CA area and records there, they’ve actually recorded one song in another city. "My December" was recorded in Nashville, TN in 2000 for inclusion on a KROQ Christmas album. - This one is pretty out of date, LP's parts for We Made It were recorded in Taiwan, and a lot of their more recent stuff has been recorded all over the place (Portions of A Thousand Suns were recorded in Los Angeles, New York, and Berlin). 21. Chester recorded a track with DJ Lethal (of Limp Bizkit) entitled "State of the Art", originally scheduled for Lethal's now scrapped solo Project. Part of the track debuted on KROQ radio's 'Scratch-and-Sniff' program in 2004 and was released by LPLive in 2009. - This is worded really badly, it should specify that the full version was released in 2009, this makes it sound like the partial version didn't surface for 5 years. Scratch and Sniff also wasn't on KROQ, it was on 91X in the Atlanta area (which may be a KROQ affiliate, I'm not sure). 38. The band performed a partial cover of Jet's "Are You Gonna Be My Girl?" at a show in St. Paul, MN in 2004. Due to a dare, Mike came out from backstage dressed in a full tuxedo! - More specifically, he was actually wearing a suit jacket and a hat similar to the one worn by Jet's drummer in the music video for the same song. 43. A version of the song “Esual” (which later became “A Place For My Head”) was written with the band Xero. - Typo: "Esaul," not "Esual." 58. On the Summer Sanitarium Tour in 2003 with Metallica, Brad and Chester routinely smashed a guitar after "A Place For My Head" near the end of the set. - This also happened during quite a few Projekt Revolution 2004 shows. 104. The band has released several other songs from the Minutes To Midnight recording sessions. No Roads Left, Across The Line, Blackbirds and Not Alone were all worked on in 2006-2007. - You can add Pale and What We Don't Know to this list as well. Pretend to Be was also apparently started during the MTM sessions, but not finished until 2008. Due to licensing restrictions, the song 'Wisdom, Justice, & Love' can no longer be distributed though Linkin Park's DSP's. The last DSP to feature it was Tampa 2011. - I thought both Atlanta and Detroit initially had WJ&L? I know it was removed later. Though the final recording of 'Faint' is 135bpm, the original demo was only at 70bpm! - To clarify, this isn't referring to the demo found on LPU9, that one is at the same tempo as the final version. The 70bpm version was essentially just a rough guitar track that Brad put down as the early "seed" for the song, and Mike ended up writing the rest of the song at a much faster tempo. 'H! Vltg3' off of Reanimation samples a song called "All For One" by the group Brand Nubian. The members of the group are credited in the liner notes of the album. - The sample in question is the line "And I can think of many episodes I swung in Lincoln Park," which is scratched near the end of the song. H! Vltg3 also samples "Family" by Lamont Dozier (the main piano part comes from that song), which isn't credited in the liner notes, but the sample was still cleared by management.

I don't think it's an unreasonable expectation to think that if you're going to organize a flash mob around a certain song, the people doing it should actually know what the song is. Maybe not a Russia-specific fail (which I don't think was the intent of Mark's statement anyway, other than to say that it happened in Russia), but more than deserving of the "epic fail" label. In Soviet Russia, song flash mobs you!

FYI, Phoenix is now using his Z-tar on Blackout instead of playing the bassline on an MPC like he did in the past. And as for the whole "Blackout makes the set" argument, as a musician, I have to say that if people were bitching that much about my setlists and then completely changed their opinion based on the inclusion of one song, I would seriously just start going on stage, playing that one song, and leaving. Why waste the effort of putting on a full show when people apparently don't give a shit about the other 24 songs? I'm convinced that the "ideal" LP setlist to some people would be the following: 1. With You 2. Figure.09 3. Blackout 4. A Place for My Head End of show. Cue fanboy jizz-in-pants-a-thon.

It sounds to me like Pooch has been leaving the crowd mics open in a more natural manner on the more recent stuff. On the earlier DSPs, whenever the crowd would get really loud, you could tell it had been brought up in the mix because you'd hear the venue's natural ambiance bleeding back into the mix (the result of the crowd mics picking up the sound from the PA speakers), which caused some odd reverb/noise cancelling side-effects. That's been kind of smoothed over lately, but when you leave the crowd mics open all the time like that, it creates a much more open sound like what you're describing.

They've been out for months, but I still have no idea where to find all of them.

The Messenger was the first song to use "love" as a noun, as in the idea of love itself. All previous LP songs that used it were just using it as a verb.

...SEVEN of the first 13 songs from tonight's set are from A Thousand Suns. There are 8 songs from the album that get played every night, and 14 out of 15 are being played regularly in at least one of their setlists. What the fuck else do you want?

As promised, here's an audio rip of the webcast for y'all: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=F5RF05BJ (320kbps mp3s, I also have the full show as a giant .wav file if anybody's interested in that). A few observations about the show I feel I should post: -Mike's guitar tech almost surely got an earful after Given Up. His guitar was in the wrong tuning for that song, which is why it sounded so bad and he didn't play the whole song. -For the first time since the live-in-studio performances in March of 2007 (Sessions@AOL, etc.), Brad used a Fernandes Dragonfly guitar on No More Sorrow. Normally he uses a modified PRS on that song. -Chester once again screwed up the ending to No More Sorrow, he repeated the chorus again instead of singing the outro (he's done that quite a few times on this touring cycle). -Not sure what was up with Mike's microphone during Numb, but he was laughing about it constantly while his tech was trying to fix it. Either the microphone stand broke, or they forgot to set up the other mic for The Radiance prior to Numb, so they had to do it during the song. -Something was up with Chester during the middle part of this show, he was visibly in some discomfort during Numb, pulling away from the microphone without finishing lines and stuff like that, then he actually walked off stage during the last chorus of Breaking the Habit (which I'm positive is why the acapella outro wasn't performed). He seemed to get better after that though. -Fallout wasn't "dropped," it was aborted. Check out the intro to The Catalyst, the droning keyboard note at the beginning goes on for a good 30 seconds before the song starts, and you can hear Mike go "alright then..." at one point. Looks like his vocoder crapped out on him once again. The timing on the intro of The Catalyst was also off for the first few bars. -Chester almost wiped out AFTER the show! At one point while he was throwing stuff to the crowd, he jumped up on one of the platforms, and it must have had some water on it or something, because he slipped, flailed in mid-air for a second, and thankfully landed on his feet. I was expecting a Melbourne '07 repeat for a second there! Anyway, I'm not even going to bother reading most of the responses to this thread. Without even looking, I know most of them consist of copious amounts of unwarranted bitching. Sure, that was an underwhelmingly average performance, and it sounded like they pretty much phoned it in, but I can pretty much guarantee most people's criticism won't be anywhere near that constructive. "OMG NO NEW SETLIST LP SUX DEY DON'T CARE ABOUT DA FANS NO MORE." - I'd be surprised if someone hasn't posted something to that effect already.

Looks like this is the last song for the Foos, for real this time. I'm gonna set my volume levels and start recording, enjoy the show guys! I'm sure there will be a ton of posts to catch up on in an hour and a half or so.

I wouldn't be surprised if LP ends up playing a bit later, with Foo Fighters doing a surprise set.

Just an update on something I posted earlier, I will 100% for sure be recording audio of the webcast now. I should have it uploaded in a .zip file shortly after the show ends.

Transformers version = Radio/single edit. They don't play the shortened version of The Catalyst from the music video live, now do they? I guarantee they'll continue to play the album version.

I should be able to rip the audio from the webcast, like I usually do. It'll be up to someone else to grab the video though.

If your opinion is so easily swayed that a VIDEO will actually change how you feel about a SONG, you probably need to get your priorities straightened out. I honestly don't give a crap about music videos anymore. They don't serve much of a purpose, since they hardly ever get shown on TV anymore, and you can always look up a song on Youtube whether there's a music video for it or not. If the music is good, that's all that matters. If the video is cool, it's a nice little bonus. If it isn't, you don't have to watch it, and you still have the song to listen to. I think the last music video I watched more than a handful of times was Breaking the Habit.