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Ahh, true. If history were to repeat itself, the turnaround would be F to G, but it goes F to D to G instead. They really shot for the moon on that one.

Why would they? This is the same system that was in place on the European tour (and also something that was already announced 2 months ago). You still have to buy the show from downloads.linkinpark.com if you didn't go to the show, they're just including the DSP with every ticket purchase.

Another extended intro thing I just noticed, whenever Fallout opens a show, the beginning part before the vocals come in is a fair bit longer than it is otherwise.

That was his remix of the Hawaii Five-O theme song.

Bumping this...the Black Rock Shooter DVD came out on December 17th...where's Joe's remix of the theme song? Looks like everybody forgot about this.

The progression isn't anywhere near as drastic as you're making it out to be. Just about all of the music on Hybrid Theory and a good chunk of Meteora was co-written by Mike and Brad (and even in more recent years, Mike always writes more seeds/demos than anybody else in the band), and Mike's always written a lot of vocal parts that Chester ends up singing. Mike's always been about 75% of the "Linkin Park sound," whatever that may be at any given point. Also, to be nitpicky, Mike didn't start playing guitar in LP until 2001, as Pushing Me Away and Crawling weren't played live until the Street Soldiers tour.

What I've Done - Gm, Bb, F, C (Im, iii, vii, VI) New Divide - Fm, Ab, Eb, Bb (Im, iii, vii, VI) Burning in the Skies - Am, C, G, D (Im, iii, vii, VI) ?

29 total tracks available now, and according to the website, there will be new tracks added on a monthly basis.

Anybody want to re-download Canberra and A/B Crawling and New Divide to see if they changed anything?

Eww, yeah. I had only listened to New Divide, and didn't think anything abnormal was going on (Chester's been consistently bad on that song for most of this touring cycle), but that has to be the most painful rendition of Crawling I've ever heard. Weird that they'd go out of their way to try to cover it up like this though. If they don't upload "fixed" versions of those 2 songs, it'll be the first time an entire song has EVER been cut from a DSP, let alone two of them! Not to mention they've never had a problem showing Chester's vocal blemishes in the past...Oklahoma City 2008 when Chester was sick immediately comes to mind.

In the End = album version Crawling = short Reanimated intro (same way it was performed on Live in Texas, for instance)

Uhh...it's there, right in the middle of Bleed it Out, just like it was performed during the show...?

I don't see why they'd add My December in January after not playing it in December.

I've recieved a response every time I've contacted Basecamp about issues with various DSPs, actually. Usually within 48 hours. It just pisses me off that they've consistently had issues with DSPs lately, whether it be corrupted photos, songs missing/being split incorrectly, certain shows inexplicably having artwork embedded in the mp3 files that makes them not play on certain media players (although part of me thinks that might be a fan-created thing), or even nitpicky stuff like files being named wrong. You'd think they'd double-check that everything's working properly after they put it up on the server.

5 bucks says this album gets delayed again. It was originally supposed to come out what, a year ago?

No issues with New Divide on either the Canberra or Melbourne shows here. That "DNU" thing is strange though. On a completely different note, check out the setlist picture from Sydney - that piece of paper with the numbers on it above the setlist is a cheat sheet for Brad on New Divide - the numbers are the bottom notes of the octaves he plays throughout the song. Looks like someone was having trouble remembering how the song goes. *Edit* Another interesting development involving the "DNU" tracks: If you look at the setlist for Canberra on http://downloads.linkinpark.com/, Crawling and New Divide (the two "DNU" tracks) are now completely missing. Looks like they were removed for some reason...?

All you guys talking about multitracks are kidding yourselves - Every Rock Band game since Rock Band 2 has had different encryption techniques on the in-game audio, and people have either been unsuccessful in ripping multitracks from the more recent games, or have refused to share them out of fear that Harmonix will make them even harder to rip in the future if the multitracks end up on the Internet. In short: More multitracks that we're most likely never going to get. You'd be spending your time a lot more wisely keeping your fingers crossed that the multitracks of the 6 ATS songs from Guitar Hero leak sometime in the future. At least we know that it's possible to rip those.

That's all in the album version...it's the scat vocals from that one LPTV episode looped backwards.

Easily one of the most laughably ignorant comments I've seen in the entire history of this website. First of all, singing over a backing track is not "lip-syncing." If their mics weren't actually on and they weren't actually singing at all, that would be a different story. Second, you're sorely mistaken if you think this is only something pop artists do. I can literally think of DOZENS of rock artists that have used pre-recorded backing vocals during live performances at some point in their career, either in addition to backing vocals that were already being sung live, or to have the backing vocals entirely pre-recorded. Coheed and Cambria did it for a while until they started taking backing singers on tour with them. Muse does it on a few songs. Pendulum does it a lot. Red Hot Chili Peppers did it on a few songs that had a lot of layered background vocals. Same goes for The Who. Boston and Aerosmith used to do it because all the backing vocals on their studio recordings were sung by their lead singer, and nobody else in the band could sing well enough to pull them off live. A crapload of 80s bands did it because of all the gang choruses they used - Motley Crue, KISS, Guns N' Roses, Def Leppard, Van Halen, Journey, Slaughter, etc., and even such highly-regarded acts as U2, Bruce Springsteen, and Roger Waters have used this practice.

FYI: I'm still jealous. Hopefully I'll have a similar story to share sometime.

I've seen this attempted before, with not-so-great results. The picture quality is usually pretty decent, but the audio quality is terrible (it's a cellphone after all), and the stream usually gets really laggy if there are more than a handful of people watching it. Give it a couple more years, and the technology to do this kind of thing with good results will probably be commonplace, but it's not quite there yet.

That's Brazilian television for you. Totally normal stuff down there. U.S. television in general is ridiculously censored compared to a lot of South American and some European countries.

He is. But Brad's the guy in the band who's most content with just playing songs that everybody knows. Everybody in the band has songs they don't like, but it seems like Brad doesn't like anything that isn't a past single or a song off the most recent album. Don't be surprised if No More Sorrow is dropped at some point in the near future, it's the only song left in their set that doesn't meet one of those 2 criteria. Also, I'm gonna laugh so hard if they end up not rotating setlists and everybody starts bitching about how Mike "lied," even though he in no way confirmed that they'll be doing so on the upcoming tour. He said they're "working on it," which is the type of non-committal answer that the band gives to most of those kind of questions, that most fans subsequently misinterpret as "confirmation."

Tomorrow's probably the first day anybody who works on LP.com will be back at work, so assuming there are more DSPs that are already mixed and just need to be uploaded, I'd imagine something will be posted tomorrow.

They haven't been sent out yet. You don't receive an e-mail unless you're selected, and they usually aren't sent out more than a week before the show.