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They were pretty much the same in concept (Ozzfest bands playing shows together during non-Ozzfest dates), but the "Big Day Off" shows were always the same lineup (LP, Mudvayne, Disturbed, Slipknot, and Papa Roach, except one show that LP and Disturbed didn't play), while the Off-Fest shows had varying lineups.

Joan Baez, from the 1968 album Baptism: A Journey Through Our Time. Should be on iTunes.

I don't think it's so much a matter of them only playing what they like as it is them playing what the general public expects to hear. I wouldn't be surprised at all if on the next touring cycle, we see an all-singles setlist after a few have been released from the new album.

Yeah, the list of Machine Shop Marketing artists is something totally different, they've promoted all kinds of bands that were never signed to the record label...Staind is one of the big ones I can think of off the top of my head.

1. A lot of the festival shows LP plays are also part of the tour they happen to be doing at the time...the U.S. to Europe tour pretty much started with the Hollywood Palladium show and ended with the Brixton Academy show, and it might as well include all shows in between. It's just a standard practice on LPL to default to the name of the festival when it falls in the middle of another tour, mainly because in those cases, LP isn't putting on the show. 2. "Off-Fest" was essentially where several of the Ozzfest bands would play a show together during off days from the rest of the tour. It's kind of like the Albuquerque and Bonner Springs 2008 shows that weren't part of Projekt Revolution, but included a few of the PR bands. The lineups on the Off-Fest shows varied, I don't think LP played at all of them, but they were at most of them.

Was used as the intro at every show from June through September of 2004.

I'd have to go with Figure.09 as my first choice. It was only played on two major tours, it's rarely a song that gets mentioned, and I honestly think it's the best track on Meteora. There are a bunch of tracks from that album that have a lot less substance, but are way more popular thanks to them being released as singles. One other song that I can think of that would definitely fit in this category is Forgotten. Yeah, it was played live all the time up through 2002, but it hasn't been played at all since then, and how many current fans went to shows back then anyway? Every other song from Hybrid Theory was still played at one time or another after the end of the Hybrid Theory touring cycle, but that one wasn't, save for one performance of the remix (during a point where the band wasn't touring actively at all). I can see The Little Things Give You Away, Valentine's Day, and maybe In Pieces turning into songs like this a couple years down the road as well.

IIRC, all you did was brag about having a Walking Dead acapella, then you refused to share it and posted like a 30 second clip of this remix with little else as far as information goes. I was under the impression that you had an OFFICIAL Walking Dead acapella, and that you ripped it from a promo/vinyl/something like that which also had this remix on it. But oh well, mystery solved, several years later than it should've been. Yay?

Holly Brook isn't on Machine Shop anymore, neither is Styles of Beyond. The only act that's actually still signed to Machine Shop (other than LP's releases having the Machine Shop logo on them) is Fort Minor.

Because taking a staff member who helped build this website's word for it obviously isn't enough proof. The version of In the End from the BBC Live Lounge performance (it's on one of the In the End singles) has that ending. I think it was like that at some of the shows in 2000 as well. The only known 2004 show that Brad did the Pushing Me Away thing at was Mountain View, which there's a recording of.

Just keep in mind, IMDB said Chester was going to have a cameo in Dark Reel as well, and that turned out to be untrue.

The mixtape it appeared on was released during the Fort Minor era, regardless of when it was recorded. And I don't think it goes back that far.

Uhh, no it's not. I used the same vocal removal preset to figure out the guitar parts for this song that I use for any other song, and if you run that preset on a track with no stereo separation between the channels, you're left with nothing but silence. Didn't happen. And it makes no sense for any of the versions to be in mono - the iPhone may only have one speaker, but it has an input for stereo headphones.

In the End had an alternate ending at some shows in 2001 where Chester would sing a little bit more over the outro, and the piano at the end abruptly cut off with a scratching noise instead of finishing like it does on the album. Sometimes they used it to go straight into A Place for My Head.

Pretty sure that's not the same song.

No idea. It would've been sometime in 2006, I imagine, but it was REALLY hard to find...it took months for someone to track down a copy of it and rip the mixtape version, and they refused to share a rip of the full mixtape, just Freestyle and the tracks before and after it so you could hear how the transitions worked.

This sentence pretty much confirms that this is fake - LP and The Kooks were previously combined together for an MTV World Stage episode, and LP's portion was just the Transformers 2 premiere performance. I'm almost positive this is just a re-airing of that. I mean really, what are the odds that they'd combine the same 2 bands together for 2 different performances on the same program just a year apart?

The songs are in the same key, the parts mesh well together, and the band hadn't played the original Pushing Me Away in years at the time he started doing it?

This kind of stuff from you again, eh? Was it really necessary to mock me? It's not my fault that you fall into the same category as 90% of the rest of Linkin Park fans and your musical horizons consist of Linkin Park, Linkin Park members' side projects, bands Linkin Park has collaborated with, and bands Linkin Park has toured with. But no, I'm sorry, I guess I'll shut up since you're apparently the authority on what musical artists are and aren't significant, and if you, with all your vast knowledge, have never heard of a band, they're obviously nobodies.

Cypress Hill's new album just came out a week ago and has a song produced by/featuring Mike on it (Carry Me Away). Other than that, there's nothing DEFINITE coming up, but there are a couple things that might see the light of day before the new LP album does - Chester is apparently going to be a guest on Travis Barker's solo album, and there was supposed to be an LP-related remix that was submitted for a Kings of Leon remix album, although there really isn't much information about the latter project. There's also that Uncle Kracker/Joe Hahn song "Vegas Baby" that didn't make Uncle Kracker's last album, but it's anybody's guess when/if that will ever see the light of day. On topic, for anybody who's interested, I have a guitar tab for Blackbirds done now: http://www.4shared.com/document/w6QGDasd/Blackbirds.html

Dude, Dinosaur Jr. is legendary!

Mike's parts aren't even close. Listening to the original clip from the MTM DVD, I don't hear anything different - the same guitar part is there, and you can hear Chester singing "...what I gave" at the very end. I'm starting to think the band isn't aware that there was a clip of this song on the DVD and they're trying to spin it as something entirely new.

Drop, like get up, take to the streets ? When they hock that spit up, pace to the beat ? Speak from the gut, like a rush of blood Paint red on the street to the ones you love Lay the sick ones down, and the bells will ring Put pennies on the eyes, let the dead men sing I shiver and shake through warm or cold I'm alone, on my own In every mistake, I dig this hole Through my skin and bones It's harder starting over Than never to have changed With blackbirds following me I'm digging out my grave They close in, swallowing me The pain, it comes in waves I'm getting back what I gave I sweat through the sheet as daylight fades As I waste away It traps me inside mistakes I made That's the price I pay It's harder starting over Than never to have changed With blackbirds following me I'm digging out my grave They close in, swallowing me The pain, it comes in waves (yeah) I'm getting back what I gave I drop to the floor, like I did before Stop watching, I'm coughing, I can't be more What I want and what I need are a constant war Like a well full of poison, a rotten core The blood goes thin, the fever stings And I shake from the hell that the habits bring Lay the sick ones down, the bells will ring Put pennies on the eyes, let the dead men sing Blackbirds following me I'm digging out my grave They close in, swallowing me The pain, it comes in waves I'm getting back what I gave I'm getting back what I gave I'm getting back what I gave Pretty sure that's 100% correct outside of the intro - a couple corrections in the second verse and I filled in all the blanks in Mike's rap in the bridge. I think what I have so far for the intro is correct or close to it, but I'm really not sure about the 2 lines I haven't filled in.

Across the Line New Divide Not Alone Lockjaw Blackbirds I've probably given reviews of all of these songs with the exception of Blackbirds at one time or another, so I'll just throw my Blackbirds review in here: I really don't understand the purpose of the intro. It's interesting and different, sure, but it doesn't really add to the song, nor does it have any relevance to what comes after it. I think the song would honestly be better if they just cut that part off and had it begin with the synth part that precedes Chester's vocal entrance. It would increase the impact of Mike's rap part later in the song too, because it would be more unexpected. It kind of just sounds like they were like "Hey let's try this...oh we don't really have a place to put it...eh, let's just tack it on the beginning of this song." It's really detatched. As for the rest of the song, it has a good melody and the lyrical content is a bit different than usual, but the whole thing just seems very unrefined, particularly in the instrumental department. Out of all the released songs from the MTM era that didn't make the CD (QWERTY, Announcement Service Public, No Roads Left, Across the Line, Not Alone, Blackbirds), Blackbirds definitely sounds the most unfinished. It's an interesting song with enough replay value to make it worth having, but I can definitely see why this one didn't make the album. I'd give it about a 6 out of 10.

Another story I can recall off the top of my head: When KISS toured Brazil for the first time in 1983, they were puzzled why so much of the venue's in-house equipment had "Earth, Wind, and Fire" logos all over it. Then after they flew back to the U.S. after the tour, they quickly found out why: Earth, Wind, and Fire had toured down there and never got any of their equipment back, the promoters stole all of it and used it for other shows they put on later. Every time an American band would play this promoter's shows down there, the promoter would never send their equipment back, and they'd just keep adding more and more to their stockpile of stolen music gear. KISS wound up having to sue and deal with almost 2 years worth of legal red tape just to get SOME of their stuff back - they never got all of it. Also, this isn't a music-related story, but a similar situation: During the mid-90s, one of the Bigfoot monster trucks was shipped down to Brazil to be part of a big monster truck show there. The promoters lied about what kind of paperwork the owners of the truck had to fill out, and as a result, customs agents would not allow the truck to be shipped back to the U.S. after the show was over. To this day, that truck is still stuck in Brazil and unable to return to the country.