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There aren't really "deadlines" per se, but labels do put upcoming releases by their artists on a tentative schedule way ahead of time so they at least have an idea of their overall marketing strategy for the future, what albums to give the biggest push to and when, things of that nature. They certainly pressure their artists to submit new material by a certain date, but the bottom line is, you can't just force somebody to put something out at a certain date if they don't have anything ready yet. This is a big part of why the turnaround time for a lot of albums is so slow - Minutes to Midnight was pretty much finished by January of '07, but wasn't released until May, because it took Warner that long to get all their marketing strategies straightened out. I'm sure there's a Warner marketing sheet somewhere that lists upcoming releases and probably has something like "Linkin Park - TBA 2Q 2010" which tentatively means the album should be out in the second quarter (this is just a guess on my part), but that can always be changed if things get pushed back.

Re: "Halfway done" Being halfway done working on a record and being at the halfway point of the process of making said record time-wise are two entirely different things. As you get farther into the process, everything moves faster, because you have fewer songs to work with and your ideas of what to do with the songs that are still in the mix become more finalized. Mike said Minutes to Midnight was "halfway done" in August of 2006. However, the recording process lasted from February of 2006 to January of 2007, meaning that they were "halfway done" with the album when they were 60% of the way through the recording process, and that doesn't even include the pre-production/writing phase that they were in prior to February of 2006. I would be absolutely SHOCKED if the album isn't out next year.

It's not like Chester is only capable of writing material for one band at a time. Remember, a lot of the songs on Out of Ashes were written at the same time as material he was working on with LP for MTM.

I wouldn't really call it a "tour," but yeah, I think that's all we're going to get, at least until LP is on another break.

I'd honestly be very surprised if there are any more DBS tour dates after this tour is over. By March, the LP album should be getting pretty close to finished, and that'll be when they need Chester the most, for vocal tracking.

In a lot of cases, it was. Other times, it could be pretty unpleasant. I know a lot of people think I have an attitude problem and act superior to others at times...trust me, I'm nowhere near as bad as a few of the traders I've dealt with over the years. I'm sure Jonas and Nick can attest to this as well.

He and Jeff were the 2 guys who acquired it from the original taper, I believe. It didn't circulate beyond them for a while. Anybody else remember the-untitled.tk? Jeff, Josh, and I started that site, it was pretty much the first live-oriented LP fan site, I remember Mark posting there before Chestersings was around. A few shows originated from that site...I know one of the Budokan 2003 shows was one of them.

Yeah I know...I got like 4 billion event invites from him when I was still his friend on Facebook...which is pretty much why I'm not his friend on Facebook anymore. A couple things to point out...my name/status finally changed to reflect that I'm a staff member the day after I did this interview, and the exclusive I mentioned is probably going to be up tomorrow.

11.12.2009 Las Vegas, NV, The Joint @ Hard Rock Hotel, Holiday Havoc '09 - Still no show page for this one, even though the setlist was posted here almost a week ago: http://lplive.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=3189

Waterface was the band Sean Dowdell started after Grey Daze broke up. They released one album in 2001, I believe.

Technically, Sessions@AOL, Stripped, Walmart Soundcheck, etc. were all part of the "Third Encore Sessions." LP just had the various film crews come in and film some of their rehearsals at Third Encore, it was just the ones they recorded themselves that were released as "Third Encore Session" songs on singles/the MTM MVI disc. All of those performances were probably within a few days of each other in mid-March of '07.

I find it absolutely hilarious that people still get their panties in such a wad over where bands play. Get over it. I'm sure this is just the beginning of a substantial European tour that has many unnanounced shows to come. Dead By Sunrise has played one real show in Germany up to this point. Tagging along on a tour and playing 3 songs in the middle of Linkin Park's set isn't a "DBS show." A one-song "live" performance (as in, live vocals and pre-recorded music) on a random TV show isn't a "DBS show." I have 100% confidence that the new LP album will be out in 2010. Also, I'm calling right now that the only setlist addition for the 2010 shows will be Into You, if they change the set at all.

He's friends with Ryan, Chester, and Talinda...I think he might be Ryan's roommate.

Church is HILARIOUS. Guy does so much crazy shit that has no logical explanation, haha.

Hmm...I don't think the order is quite the way I'd rank them, but for the most part, I agree with the songs on this list (although Seether has had far bigger hits than "Fine Again").

Any Muse set that includes the Man With a Harmonica intro to Knights of Cydonia is epic.

That's clearly not the acoustic version...listen to the clip.

There's also a persisting rumor that Chester's vocals were either removed from the final mix due to legal reasons or wound up not being used, so even if this does come out, there's no guarantee that Chester's going to be on the song.

I have all of them...I typically listen to the first few from a tour all the way through, then for the remaining ones I'll skim around to the various highlights of a show. My favorites are the first few 2008 shows - Hannover, Amneville, Basel, Frankfurt, Koln, and Paris. In terms of both the band and the DSPs themselves being at their best, I think those shows are the peak of the MTM touring cycle. I don't really listen to any of the DSPs a lot, but I never watch/listen to live shows "a lot" anyway. As big of a fan of LP's live performances as I am, I don't find that recordings of them have a whole lot of replay value. I haven't watched Live in Texas in over 2 years, and I think I've watched Road to Revolution maybe half a dozen times total. That's just how I am with live shows, I'll listen to them all the way through a few times, then I hardly listen to them again after that. The only DSP I really don't like is Nottingham 2008. 160 kbps = FAIL. Highlights I find myself listening to a lot are Rob's drum solos, Mike's piano solo spots, the intros/outros to Points of Authority, and the extended/remixed intros/outros to a bunch of other songs. One thing I would do with the DSPs is make sure there's ALWAYS a photo of the setlist included. There was for most 2008 shows, but they didn't do it in 2009. They should also be more uniform with the photos they include, I think there should be one really good shot of each band member, a crowd shot, and a setlist picture. It seems like they try to get pics of all the members at each show, but they often miss some of them. And bring back the .pdf tour booklets! As far as the mixing goes, I may be in the minority, but I stand firm in my belief that Pooch and Dylan's work has only gotten better with time. I still hate the sound of the guitars, but that's just a product of the equipment Brad's using these days more than anything.

Unless he's thinking of Detroit...because we're not Detroit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzgAjjuqZM (If that video works for anybody, let me know, because it's saying it's not available in my country...?)

Acoustic version: 4:05. Also, the live version from Ulalume is like 4:54 on the rip I have, so it's pretty much guaranteed that the live version on the single will be a full electric version.

I don't see how anybody can prefer the live version of ANY DBS song over the studio version (Let Down being the only possible exception with the awesome live ending compared to the stupid fade-out on the studio version). They suck ass live...and Fire is easily one of the 3 best songs on the album. Anyway, there are digital releases of non-singles that come with artwork. The iTunes release of Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying From You comes to mind.

Highly doubt it will happen. Korn has been giving that same answer to the question of when/if Korn Kovers is going to be released for years. It's always "yeah we're still working on it...it'll be out next year/before the next Korn album, for sure!" In addition to the performance royalties that would be owed to Welch and Silveria, Korn Kovers was started while Korn was still under contract with Sony. I don't see how Korn would be able to obtain the rights to release it, as Sony owns it.

Geki's going to try to tell me I'm wrong no matter what I say. I'm used to it by now.

Funny, I was just at an independent record store in Cleveland the other day that has a stock of over 10,000 CDs, and I'd say a good 90% of them were in jewel cases.