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October 24th.

...There were like 2 single-word mistakes in the entire booklet. Both the Hybrid Theory and Meteora booklets had more errors. And that has nothing to do with the band rushing things, incorrect lyrics in booklets are so common that they happen more often than they don't. Check the fine print in the liner notes of any CD booklet - more often than not, it says "lyrics reprinted with permission" in there somewhere. That's because the band doesn't print the lyrics themselves, they have some outside source do it for them. It's the same reason the "official" music books have a bunch of errors in them.

Album press release sometime next week maybe? *fingers crossed*

Looks like these are from the same Rally Caps show that the She Shines video is from, cool! Wonder what the full setlist was. And I wonder how many Grey Daze songs there are like Smoke Mouth that we don't know about?

Even more often, they'll just dub the studio version audio over live footage. Kind of hurts the LPTV experience, but then again, the audio from those handheld cameras that Fiore uses sounds terrible most of the time.

Just based on the size of the venues, I'd say these are anything but "warm-up" shows. Looks like they're just starting things off big this time around. I wonder if they'll do another LPU thing where they pick a few fans to go to their rehearsals before the tour starts?

Ahh. So I have every right to say this sucks then. 9 times out of 10, chopped-up vocals = fail. But at least it's a new track to add to the collection, DBS's catalog of official material is still pretty tiny.

Possibly. We know some PR04 stuff was professionally recorded because a couple song from that tour wound up on the LPU 4 CD, but there's really no way of knowing how much they recorded. I don't think there's any chance of a video though, the Figure.09 video on LPU4 was a screenshot video with raw SBD audio overdubbed, which indicates to me that the band didn't professionally film anything from that tour.

That's not an intro or outro.

The interesting thing about the way these dates fall is what it means for the first tour in the U.S. - With the Meteora and MTM cycles, they started in Europe in the spring, then came back to the U.S. for a short promo tour (the LPU tour in 2003 was essentially a series of promo shows leading up to the album release), then had a Projekt Revolution tour after that for their first full-scale U.S. tour. It's looking like they'll end up playing arenas for their first U.S. tour this time because it'll be in the winter, so I'm wondering if they'll move PR back indoors like it was in 2002-2003, or if they'll just save PR for the summer of 2011.

Whether or not LP plays the show (I'm saying HIGHLY doubtful), assuming this festival even takes place, glad to see they ditched the "Woodstock" name. Having a Woodstock in Brazil makes about as much sense as having a "Rock in Rio" in Portugal or Spain...hint hint to those European festival organizers, lol.

Nope, no recordings exist. Was done at about 3-4 shows around the middle of the tour IIRC, and I believe in at least 2 cases, Snoop Dogg's microphone didn't work.

Generally speaking, any professionally-mixed SBD recordings of the following songs (I'm not counting any kind of broadcast-sourced SBD recordings), as they've never been released in that form: And One Forgotten Cure for the Itch (from when it was used as a show intro in 2000-2001) FRGT/10 (obviously only being performed once, this would be from the MFR 2005 show) Hit the Floor Nobody's Listening My Own Summer It's Goin' Down Numb/Encore/Yesterday (why was this never released as a promo single or something?) Morning After (Chester acoustic from 2001) Jane Says (Chester acoustic from 2001) Other specific songs: Numb/Encore (MFR 2005) Hands Held High (KROQ Almost Acoustic Xmas 2008) Don't Stay (PR 2004) Figure.09/From the Inside (PR 2004) Breaking the Habit/Numb (PR 2004) Step Up/Nobody's Listening/It's Goin' Down/Gin and Juice (feat. Snoop Dogg) (PR 2004) Faint (feat. Bert McCracken) (PR 2004) Nobody's Listening/Say My Name (feat. Xzibit) (PR 2003) Nobody's Listening/Standing in the Middle (November 2003) Papercut (November 2003) Crawling (Live 8 2005 - the only song from that show not officially released) Runaway (Bamboozle 2007)

When it comes to these 3, I consider them more as interludes rather than intros to songs, they did always precede certain songs, but they don't really have any musical connection to them, the interlude just plays, and then when it's done, they play the song normally. Thanks for those, fixed. Not sure why I hadn't noted that before, fixed that too. You mean the outro? I have that marked as "most shows," I'm pretty sure there were a few other shows outside of the 2003 Asian shows that didn't have the extended outro, I just don't want to go to the trouble of checking every one. I also have that marked as "a few shows" already. That was a show intro that was used when APFMH opened shows in late 2000/early 2001, so it doesn't fit in here.

By the way, to everyone who swore up and down that there was no way they'd have the album out before the end of 2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCQ7VLoY7bQ

I'll gladly relay that message to Pooch and let him know you'd rather not have DSPs at all. There are numerous reasons they could've used the Dallas recording for the Charlotte show that have nothing to do with "picky editing."

Been living under a rock much? All remotely accurate estimates of the album's release for the last 6 months have pretty much pointed to September at the absolute earliest, with October/November much more likely. Quit bitching about something that everyone except you saw coming months ago. And I absolutely guarantee they'll have a single out prior to these tour dates. WID was released nearly a month before the first MTM show. Umm...when has LP ever been known to do that? Both the Meteora and Minutes to Midnight touring cycles started less than a month before the album came out. If the first date of the entire tour turns out to be October 20th, then I would estimate a release by mid-November...in fact, I'll throw out November 16th as a prediction right now, unless Warner decides to push it back another week to have it coincide with Black Friday.

As far as STUDIO work, I know for a fact Mike played on the recordings of the following songs: P5HNG ME A*WY (guitar work is credited to both Mike and Brad) WTH>YOU Drawing (Mike mentioned in an interview that he recorded the original guitar part on the demo, which was reused on the final recording, but there was also a different part added for the chorus and bridge, so the final recording of Breaking the Habit may be a combination of Mike/Brad or just Mike) Sold My Soul to Yo Mama Standing in the Middle The Little Things Give You Away (the acoustic part) What I've Done (Distorted Remix) Leave Out All the Rest (M.S. Remix) Lockjaw All Fort Minor recordings (excluding Brad's remix of Where'd You Go and We Major songs that sample guitar parts from other songs such as S.C.O.M. and Dolla) 2005 VMA score songs MMM...Cookies songs (these were a combination of both Mike and Chester, not sure who did guitar on which ones) Carry Me Away Enjoy the Silence '04 Rock and Roll (Could Never Hip Hop Like This) Part 2 Death to Analog (Mike Shinoda Remix) Shoot First Second to None Barack Your World I think that's all that we know he played on for sure, studio-wise (I may be missing a couple outside collaborations but I think I got them all). Obviously he probably played on more MTM-era stuff, but there isn't much documentation of how the studio work was divided up. Live, here's the full list: One Step Closer (2007 and onwards) Crawling Pushing Me Away P5HNG ME A*WY Somewhere I Belong Easier to Run Faint From the Inside Wake Wake 2.0 Given Up Bleed it Out What I've Done No More Sorrow Valentine's Day In Pieces The Little Things Give You Away A.06 Wish There was one occasion on the U.S. arena tour in early '08 where he picked up his guitar during the Points of Authority outro and played along with it instead of rapping the verse from There They Go like he usually did. The pre-PR07 setlists from rehearsals (seen in the LPTV video from rehearsals) also had QWERTY highlighted as a song Mike would play guitar on, but that didn't end up happening.

The second one is dead anyway.

Which was resolved nearly a year ago anyway.

Favorite moment - LP filling in for Slipknot at Rock Im Park in 2001, after already playing a show earlier in the day. It proved that they had the stamina to play 2 shows within a few hours of each other, and more importantly, that they had the chops to win over a crowd of people who weren't there to see them, most of which probably didn't even LIKE them.

Err...how many bands have you seen live? I'm guessing two or less. LP is tighter on stage than probably 98% of other touring acts out there right now. Other than Chester's frequent vocal issues that I've been rather critical of in recent years, they don't make mistakes on stage that any other band hasn't made multiple times. I've heard Brad mess up the entrance on Faint like...twice. Whoop de fucking do. That one instance is enough to class him as "horrible?" Well shit, I've heard Matt Bellamy hit a wrong note in Knights of Cydonia once or twice, I guess he's horrible live as well. Mike sings in tune FAR better than Chester does. He's rarely off-key. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I've heard Rob Bourdon make a noticeable mistake on stage in the last 10 years. The man is also practically a robot when it comes to keeping time, you'd be amazed how many professional drummers can't play to a click track to save their life. Phoenix's bass is plugged in, and it's completely out of his control how it's mixed anyway. But I can always pick it out of the mix just fine...I think you just don't know how to listen for it, or you have shitty speakers. Christ, name nearly any major touring band right now. Creed with their much-hyped reunion tour and new album? They sound like shit live. AC/DC? Brian Johnson sounds like fucking Donald Duck these days. Nickelback? Even if their music didn't suck, their live performance is nothing to write home about, their drummer is the only guy in that band who excels on stage. KISS? Gene Simmons is fat, lazy, and forgets the words to his own songs half the time, and Paul Stanley's voice is shot. Blink-182? Tom Delonge is off in his own little world during live performances, and that world clearly doesn't have anything in it that reminds him how to sing in tune or play his guitar parts correctly. Even Roger Waters of the almighty Pink Floyd, with his massive upcoming The Wall tour, his voice has degraded to the point that he actually lip-syncs numerous songs. The only reason Linkin Park isn't in the upper echelons of live acts is because they aren't a theatrical act with big stage productions like U2, Muse, etc...but even a perfectionist who's as obsessive as me knows that it's foolish to call them "sloppy." You want sloppy? Go see just about any band on the Victory Records or Fueled By Ramen rosters. You obviously need to get out and see more shows if you think LP is sloppy.

I guarantee they won't release DSPs of anything prior to 2007. Between those shows being recorded by a different FOH engineer and Warner likely owning the rights to all of the master tracks of their live performances prior to the beginning of the DSP releases, there's too much legal red tape involved.

Fake. The LPU8 CD wasn't enhanced.

As far as professional quality goes, almost half of the second day of Summer Sonic is available from various sources... 03. Numb - MTV Japan broadcast 04. From The Inside - MTV Japan broadcast/What I've Done CD single 06. QWERTY - LPU 6 CD 11. Reading My Eyes - LPU 6 CD 12. Faint - MTV Japan broadcast/What I've Done CD single ------------------------------ 16. Pushing Me Away (Piano Version) - Japanese TV broadcast/LPU 6 CD 17. Breaking The Habit - MTV Japan broadcast/LPU 6 CD Kind of a pain to piece it all together and Numb would sound a bit different since it's the only one of those 7 that wasn't released as audio, but it hits on most of the highlights of that setlist. There are full audience audio recordings of 3 of the 4 shows (Zepp being the exception).