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Thanks for the pictures Pez! Here's what I've been able to discern from them: -Brad's effects setup seems to be pretty much the same as it was on the MTM tour, just with the addition of the Electro-Harmonix HOG. The octave shifter effect could be something in the G-Major, or if it's another pedal, it's probably a Boss PS-5. -From the picture of Mike's rack, I can see that he at least has the following pedals in it: A Boss delay of some type (not sure if it's the DD-7), an Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail, an Electro-Harmonix HOG, an MXR Distortion III, a Boss BF-3 flanger, and an Ibanez TS-808 Tube Screamer (the backup rig on the right has a regular TS-9 in it for some reason though). I can tell there's a second row of pedals in the rack (I see at least 2 more Boss pedals back there, a white and a blue one), but I can't tell what they are. I'd imagine the blue one is a CS-3. -The pedal in question under Mike's keyboard is a Moog MP-201. I'd imagine he uses it to control his vocal effects on The Radiance, Fallout, The Catalyst, and the ending of Blackout. -Phoenix's pedals are a Dirty Boy Bass Bully, an Electro-Harmonix Holy Grail Plus, and a Z.Vex Mastotron, in addition to the Boss LS-2 (which I think is used to switch the effects out of his signal chain when he's not using them). As far as the guitars go, not surprising to see a couple previously unseen guitars in there as backups, as they rarely end up being used on stage. Also, I noticed that Rob now has yet another tambourine added to his drumset (that makes 3!), this one is mounted just to the side of his hi-hat, and he hits it in place of his snare drum during the first half of Burning in the Skies. And as versatile as the Open Labs Neko XXL is, I'm really surprised that Mike's using a keyboard that only has 61 keys on it, and one with plastic keys at that. The Korg he was using was a full 88 keys, and it had "real-feeling" keys on it too. I'd argue that the Korg was a much better quality instrument, and I think it sounded better too, particular with the standard piano tones. Mike's keyboard sound at the end of The Catalyst is really wimpy. But I guess you have to sacrifice quality for versatility sometimes, and it's not the first time they've done it either...*cough*Randall*cough*

Of those choices, Da Bloos. In terms of LP-related funny songs, I'd pick both Tools of the Trade and Barack Your World above it though.

Old thread, but I'm bumping it because I've taken the time to piece together the entire playlist of the current show that's being broadcast on LP's station. This playlist may not be exactly what you hear on any given listening, as there are several different edits of the broadcast - sometimes a few songs are skipped, and sometimes they don't go through the entire playlist before restarting it, or they'll jump from one spot in the playlist to another. I've also corrected song titles/artist info when applicable (a few of them are slightly off on iheartradio - "Black Keys" vs. "The Black Keys," stuff like that). I also have no idea where the actual "start" and "end" of this playlist is, as it just cycles constantly. Hidden Place - Bjork Where Is My Mind? - Pixies The Catalyst ("Guitarmageddon" Does It Offend You, Yeah? Remix) - Linkin Park Stadium Arcadium - Red Hot Chili Peppers Paper Planes - M.I.A. Mistaken For Strangers - The National Rome - Phoenix Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode The Messenger - Linkin Park Blackout - Linkin Park Electric Feel - MGMT White Shadows - Coldplay Hoodoo - Muse Please, Please, Please - She & Him Walking On a Dream - Empire of the Sun Bring the Noise - Anthrax/Public Enemy One Armed Scissor - At the Drive-In Slow and Low - Beastie Boys Wish (Live) - Linkin Park Sometime Around Midnight - Airborne Toxic Event I've Got Friends - Manchester Orchestra Die Slow - Health The District Sleeps Alone Tonight - The Postal Service Drunk Girls - LCD Soundsystem There Is a Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths Gobbledigook - Sigur Ros Wretches and Kings - Linkin Park Genesis - Justice Sin (Live) - Nine Inch Nails Fight the Power - Public Enemy Dope Man - N.W.A. Inertiatic Esp - Mars Volta Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd Naked As We Came - Iron & Wine Well Thought Out Twinkles - Silversun Pickups Agenda Suicide - The Faint Iridescent - Linkin Park L.E.S. Artistes - Santogold Kingdom of Rust - Doves Crystalised - The xx Mouthful of Diamonds - Phantogram Given Up - Linkin Park Keep the Car Running - Arcade Fire The Catalyst - Linkin Park Here We Go (Live at The Funhouse) - Run D.M.C. Panic Switch - Silversun Pickups Crackerman - Stone Temple Pilots Robot Boy - Linkin Park Bucky Done Gun - M.I.A. Closer - Nine Inch Nails Weekend Wars - MGMT Such Great Heights - The Postal Service Creep (Acoustic) - Radiohead How Soon Is Now? - The Smiths Pretend to Be - Linkin Park Don't Look Back In Anger - Oasis Suck My Kiss - Red Hot Chili Peppers 1901 - Phoenix Blue Monday - Orgy Dumb - Nirvana Hysteria - Muse Crawling - Linkin Park In the End - Linkin Park Mountain Song - Jane's Addiction The Metro - Berlin Intergalactic - Beastie Boys Rebel Rebel - David Bowie One Touch - LCD Soundsystem Waiting For the End - Linkin Park Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode My Little Razorblade - Get Busy Committee I Don't Care - Get Busy Committee Sleepyhead - Passion Pit Ghetto Musick - Outkast Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins Shorty Said - Das Racist Tell 'Em - Sleigh Bells Know Your Enemy - Rage Against the Machine Breaking the Habit - Linkin Park Help I'm Alive - Metric Ambling Alp - Yeasayer Animal - Miike Snow Next Girl - The Black Keys Alala - CSS Faint - Linkin Park When They Come For Me - Linkin Park Add It Up - Violent Femmes Lights Out - Santogold Death - White Lies House of Cards - Radiohead China Girl - David Bowie What I've Done - Linkin Park Fix Up, Look Sharp - Dizzee Rascal Stop! - Jane's Addiction Spraypaint & Inkpens - Fort Minor Fuck Tha Police - N.W.A. The Requiem/The Radiance - Linkin Park Burning in the Skies - Linkin Park Behind the Wheel - Depeche Mode Shout - Tears For Fears Ava Adore - Smashing Pumpkins Some great songs in there!

WFTE charted at #2 on the Alternative Songs chart and #3 on the Rock Songs chart. Sure, it only hit #82 on the Hot 100, but the Hot 100 is almost entirely monopolized by mainstream pop artists these days. ANYTHING Linkin Park releases as a single isn't exactly going to light the world on fire these days. As long as they're still charting well on the charts that actually pertain to their style of music, I'd say their singles are doing just fine.

Yeah, I really don't hear anything different either. I've noticed the setlists with the notes written on them always seem to be in Mike's handwriting though, so I'm guessing they're notes he makes for himself. Maybe the "NoBrain thing" is just a sample that Mike needs to trigger during the outro that he forgot to do at a show or two, so he writes it on there to make sure he remembers it.

Hope somebody got video of the acoustic performances again!

Brad actually plays keys for the first part of Blackout, he's up on that riser behind Mike, same spot he stands when he plays the keyboard part at the very end of The Catalyst. You can see him at the beginning of Narc's video. BITS had a couple hiccups, Mike's guitar didn't get turned up for the first few notes of the guitar solo so you couldn't hear it, and I think it could use some more work on the backing vocals. Listen to the first few performances of WFTE and compare them with how the song sounds now, they really worked on the backing vocals on that one (although I think they might be singing over the top of a backing track too, kind of like the gang vocals on Iridescent). And as far as the rotating setlists goes, I think they're actually set up pretty nicely already. When they did rotating setlists in the past, they usually swapped a couple songs every night and changed up the order of the rest of the set. They're kind of doing the same thing now, but they're keeping the song order mostly the same. I can see the logic behind that, they're essentially doing the same thing they did in the past but now they can focus on perfecting every aspect of the current show since it's designed to flow together more than anything they've done before. I'm just hoping they eventually do play the album start to finish at some point, they're one song away from being able to do that.

Sorry for the double post, but I'm officially going now. My girlfriend and I have pit tickets, and I signed up for the LPU M&G. Hopefully I can parlay that into getting pulled up on stage to play guitar.

Nope. FRGT/10 was the first song without any guitar in it (that meets those criteria) that they played live. It's not Chester's fault if his microphone is louder than Mike's. He has no control over that.

Would you rather they not do the harmonies live that are present on the album? The first verse in BITS is sung in octave intervals the whole way through (same goes for the outro), and the 2nd verse has an additional harmony part added to it. At no point does Mike sing completely "solo" on the studio recording, there are at least 2 vocal parts at all times in that song. Rob = Drums = live Mike = Keyboards = live Chester = vocals/drums = live Brad = Keyboards/drums = live The only 2 people doing "non-live" instruments are Phoenix and Joe, and I guess you could argue the same for the trigger part Chester plays during the glitch breakdown. Yes he did. It's entirely possible that the guitar solo on BITS is Mike on the studio version too, Brad's said that most of the guitar work on ATS was recorded by Mike. I'd imagine the fingerpicked stuff is Brad on the studio version though. It's not like this is the first time members of the band have left the stage for songs or parts of songs. Brad and Phoenix don't come on stage until the last chorus of LOATR. Brad left the stage for Izzo/In the End, Big Pimpin/Papercut, and the first half of Jigga What/Faint when they played them live. Joe leaves the stage for TLTGYA. Rob leaves the stage for In Between. None of you are completely correct. Here's the arrangement of vocals on the studio version of Blackout: 3:01-3:29 - Mike 3:29-3:58 - Mike and Chester (Mike is the louder of the two, but Chester becomes more prominent as this section goes on) 3:58-4:26 - Chester, layered in 3-part harmonies (on the live version, Chester sings the high part, Phoenix sings the middle part, and Mike sings the low part) 4:26-4:34 - Chester (This is the lowest of the 3 harmony parts from the previous section by itself, which is why Mike sings it live - makes more sense for him to sing one more repeat of what he's been singing than for Chester to have to drop down a full octave from the previous line)

For the first time in the 7 years I've been an LPU member (yay for my LPU9 membership not expiring for several more months, because there's no way I'm paying $60 for an LPUX "membership" that doesn't even feature a log in button on the website), I've actually signed up for a M&G. I don't have tickets for the St. Paul show yet, but that should be fixed shortly. I'll have just over $100 left to my name once I buy tickets, but if I can get a M&G and parlay that into getting up on stage to play guitar, it'll totally be worth being broke.

I'd totally make the 7(ish)-hour drive to Chicago for this if it was on a weekend, but as it is, it's just not feasible, as I'd probably have to request 2 or 3 days off from work to do it. It's very tempting, but I think I'm going to stick with the St. Paul show.

If I had a dollar for every time a song got played on the radio and somebody jumped to the conclusion that it must be the next single because of the ancient (and totally incorrect) belief that only singles get played on the radio, I'd probably be able to take the entire LPL staff out to dinner. Not to be a jerk or anything, but this really means nothing.

http://www.encycmet.com/live/1342.shtml The show happened, but it was just Metallica and Mudvayne that played it. Deftones had a headlining show scheduled in Boise, Idaho that day (which was subsequently cancelled). No idea what LP/Limp Bizkit were up to that day that prevented them from playing this show though. And that's the only "odd" Summer Sanitarium show that I can find. Some sources (like Wikipedia) don't list the Seattle show the following day for some reason, but we know that definitely happened, as there are 2 different sources from it.

We've been over this several times already: The list of shows on downloads.linkinpark.com hasn't been updated since the Australian tour was first announced. The shows that were added after the initial tour announcement just aren't listed there yet because somebody hasn't gotten around to adding them, same goes for all the 2011 U.S. tour dates. There WILL be DSPs of those shows. And the situation with South America isn't anything like the situation with Australia 2007. Those DSPs were never "promised" to be released, they just happened to end up getting released later on. It's not going to take Pooch and Dylan 2 years to mix 3 shows, especially when the band has over a month off after the end of the Australia tour.

If the funds are there, I'll be there. That's looking less and less likely by the day though.

I think now that we know what it is, the best avenue to pursue to get Tampa Finals might be one that I don't always suggest, which is to ask Mike about it. It worked for the VMA score tracks, I don't see why it wouldn't for something like this. He'd probably throw it up on his Soundcloud page if he noticed people talking about it. Just because it's registered doesn't necessarily mean it's out there anywhere ("Vegas Baby" on Joe's entry is a good example of that). There are a lot of songs that get registered and don't get released for a long time afterwards, if they get released at all. And yeah, "Nest" is the track on the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen film score that uses parts of the instrumental of New Divide. That would make sense, especially considering there aren't a whole lot of results that turn up when you Google "Tampa Finals" along with things like "Mike Shinoda" and "Street Dreams soundtrack."

You guys do know that just because someone works for WMG doesn't mean they're privy to all kinds of insider information, right? This is in no way confirmation that Iridescent and Wretches and Kings are the next 2 singles. This guy honestly said nothing that nobody else couldn't have concluded on their own through some simple logic. -Iridescent and Wretches and Kings as the next 2 singles: Iridescent was listed on the sticker on the ATS cover, and W&K was the second full song the band released from the album before it came out. -WTCFM not likely as a single "but you never know": Since Iridescent and W&K are already more likely to be singles because of the previous question, that means there will probably only be one more single from the album, if they even do another one, and the band hasn't been giving any kind of additional promotion to any of the other songs on the album, so WTCFM isn't any more or less likely of a single than Burning in the Skies or The Messenger or any other full-length track on the album. -Wanting to play as much new material as possible on the US tour: ...It's not called the "A Thousand Suns World Tour" because they're going to come out and play a set chock-full of rarities. Derp. -DBS not doing anything new until at least 2012: You don't even have to factor in Julien-K to reach this conclusion. We all know LP's going to be touring for ATS at least until the end of 2011. -Nothing on Orgy: Orgy hasn't been signed with Warner for years...they severed ties with Warner/Reprise in like 2003. Punk Statik Paranoia was released on an independent label called D1 Records. -"Not 100% sure" on EP/new album/live DVD etc. type plans: You'd get this same non-answer from anybody you ask, including the band themselves. -No 20 Eyes: LMAO. Read what this guy said again: "If it's not officially released or leaked somewhere, nobody will ever hear it!" ...An official release or a leak are the only two methods by which music is EVER heard. Once again, derp. -No new DBS stuff until they decide to record: Derp for the third time. Why would they release a live CD/DVD for a band that doesn't have any kind of promotion going on right now and is effectively on hiatus at least until LP is done with their A Thousand Suns promotion? -No clue about LPUX: Not even the LPU has a clue what's going on with LPUX from what I can tell, so I'm not surprised he doesn't know anything either. Warner should hire me to do PR work for them, I can give non-committal answers too.

I actually just discovered this, apparently "Tampa Finals" is a track that Mike wrote for the soundtrack to Rob Dyrdek's film, Street Dreams: http://www.skatevideosite.com/skatevideos/...eams/soundtrack We knew ages ago that Lying From You (as well as Second to None) was on the soundtrack for this movie, but I never knew Mike did anything else for it. And knowing the plot of the movie, I'm guessing the track serves as background music during the finals in the competition in Tampa that takes place near the end of the movie. I'll try to track down more info/possibly a rip of the song. As for the Xero credits on NBA Inside Stuff, there's always the possibility that it could have been one of the Xero demo tape tracks used in a video montage on the show or as commercial bumpers or something. Remember, the Xero tracks themselves don't have entries on the BMI catalog since the band wasn't signed to a publishing deal at the time they were recorded, only the subsequent versions of them are found on there (Runaway and Forgotten, although the latter is still listed under the title "Rhinestone"). Any kind of musical piece used in a TV broadcast that isn't already listed under another entry has a generic "BG Cues" on the catalog, like Mike's VMA score tracks for example.

Anything I don't already have is cool with me.

I'm not hearing any samples of that song in I Have Not Begun...the beat is kind of similar and they're at about the same tempo, but the samples are clearly different.

The instrumentals sound fairly well-done, but the vocals are awful, as is the case with most LP tribute albums. And yes, Big Eye Music is the same label that the majority of the past LP tribute albums have been released on.

It essentially depends on when the band was signed. Warner owns the rights to every piece of music, released or unreleased, that LP has recorded since the day they signed with them. So the HT demos are out, all that really leaves is the Xero demo, the HTEP, and the 2-track By Myself/A Place for My Head demo that was self-released. Warner also retroactively acquires the rights to anything they re-release at a later date, so that rules out the HTEP, Reading My Eyes (even though it was a live version released on LPU 6, Warner would still obtain the rights to the musical composition), and probably the 2-track demo, Rhinestone, and Stick N' Move (since those songs were later revamped and released on Hybrid Theory). I seriously think the only existing track that might be "free and clear" to use would probably be Fuse. Are they going to enforce licensing on tracks like that? Probably not. That's why they've been freely available all over the Internet for so many years. But if you really want to get technical, Warner probably still owns almost everything.

PTS.OF.ATHRTY destroys Points of Authority in every way imaginable. Other than By Myself, Points of Authority is probably the most uninteresting song on Hybrid Theory from an instrumental standpoint.

The solo in The Catalyst is Joe. Mike plays the long sustained chords (like what you hear during the intro) throughout the entire first part of the song until the piano part comes in.