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What they may or may not have is irrelevant, we know they have a bunch of older stuff. They're only releasing shows from 2007 onwards, period. My theory is that LP can only release stuff like this for shows that Pooch was their live sound engineer for. Either that, or it's something they gained the right to do when they renegotiated their contract with Warner, so anything before that wouldn't be their choice to release.

I don't think Brad's guitar sound is something that can be fixed with better mixing. Ever since he switched to the Randall modeling preamps for the MTM cycle, his tone has been way thinner than it used to be. Such is the dilemma of a lot of guitarists, if you want more versatility in your sound, you usually have to sacrifice some tone to get it. I'm anxious to see if he makes some changes to his rig for the new album touring cycle.

LOL @ West Coast fail. So surprised...NOT!

Fuck. I had a bunch of shit happen at home last night and forgot all about the webcast. Hopefully somebody else comes through with a good rip. Otherwise, you can all blame this one on me. =/

I wouldn't be surprised at all if this turns out to be DBS's last show in the United States.

Have the DBS music videos even been getting airplay on television? I haven't heard anybody mention seeing them on TV.

I think a lot of the lack of promotion can be blamed on the label not wanting DBS to compete with LP. There wasn't a new LP album on the horizon when Fort Minor came out, so it got a bigger push. At times, it almost seems like Warner wants to sweep DBS under the rug. I suppose some blame can be placed on the band as well for not getting the album done sooner. If the album had been released a year earlier, they could've spent a good 6 months doing hardcore DBS promotion, taken a break for the New Divide-related stuff and subsequent LP tour, then done some more shows towards the end of the year and in early 2010.

I've heard the same edit on two different Cleveland-area stations. Both stations played the full song when it first came out but switched to the edit after a few weeks.

The very beginning of it is there, but there's a really abrupt transition to where the vocals come back in after a couple seconds. It doesn't even fit in time with the song, it's like somebody just one-click highlighted and deleted most of the guitar solo in an audio editor.

The radio edit of New Divide is pretty terrible too.

I like these Q&A things. I'd be cool with doing one sometime if you want.

The DVD is great, although if you've seen the 2003 LPTV episodes, you've seen a good 80% of what's on the DVD. Both the DVD and LPTV have some material that isn't shared between the two though.

And LGBT (and the various other abbreviations of it) reminds me of BLT. Therefore, the next LPL exclusive is going to involve delicious sandwiches.

3 of Metallica's best albums only have 8 or 9 songs on them. Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets have 8, ...And Justice For All has 9.

Uhh...it says "Chali 2na" in the album credits and in every advertisement I've seen. In fact, I don't think they used the Jurassic 5 name one single time in conjunction with Reanimation. Guy needs to get his facts straight. But that's an old-ass interview, and LP has since performed with Jurassic 5 at MFR 05, so I'd imagine things were smoothed over at some point. I wouldn't be surprised if this guy's attitude and apparent jealousy toward Chali 2na had something to do with the Jurassic 5 breakup in 07 though.

Yeah. that's Kanye. I remember those pictures spawned a frenzy of "ZOMG KANYE IS GONNA COLLAB WITH LP AT LIVE 8!" right before the show.

Dead By Sunrise is playing in Las Vegas tonight. I first discovered LPL when you and I were brainstorming the idea of a comprehensive Linkin Park live guide before it even existed.

Their first full tour will be in Europe, guarantee it. They might do a couple random one-off shows in the U.S. first though...the beginning of the MTM promo tour (prior to the first full European tour in May of 07) jumped around a lot.

I say change the main site to LPL, but keep the LPLG banner on the actual live guide pages.

I'm sure that's part of it as well. We know of a handful of pre-MTM songs that the band isn't particularly fond of - Chester doesn't like Runaway, Hit the Floor, or Nobody's Listening. He's also had negative things to say about One Step Closer and In the End in the past, but those turned out to be huge hits, so I doubt he minds performing them anymore. Mike hasn't flat-out said he dislikes Easier to Run, but he's said the song "didn't turn out the way they wanted it to," so I'd imagine it isn't viewed favorably by the band.

Bamboozle 07, Rock Am Ring 07, Wantagh 07, KROQ 07, and the rest of Europe 08 PLZ? KTHXBAI! Also, you forgot Istanbul 09.

Dipset (or Dip Set, a.k.a. the Diplomats) is a rap crew based out of Harlem, NY that Juelz Santana is part of. Cam'ron and Jim Jones are the two other big names involved with it.

I'd say that's a good possibility. The band had just been playing APFMH (as well as Valentine's Day and Reading My Eyes) on the Europe tour before PR08, so I don't think it would've been a matter of them needing to rehearse the song and freshen up on it, they probably just didn't have all the necessary programming stuff with them to be able to play it properly. ...Or they could've just legitimately not wanted to play it, lol.

Right, but they didn't add different songs to any of those setlists, they just changed the order of existing songs or replaced dropped songs with songs they were already playing in other sets (Don't Stay replacing QWERTY, Cure for the Itch replacing We Made It). It's a lot easier to just swap the order around than it is to throw something entirely new into the mix...changing the order can probably be accomplished by just clicking and dragging things around on the various computer-controlled devices.

Maybe they're uhh...down for maintenance?