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So...anybody recording this?

DBS only played at one Sonisphere show, the one at Knebworth... the audio track for the proshot Crawl Back In video from Knebworth was probably edited like crazy just like New Divide from the Transformers premiere, and this mp3 is the more "raw" version. Either that, or the mp3 isn't from Sonisphere like it says it is on the website.

DBS opening a festival show won't be any kind of indicator whatsoever of what their setlists will be like when they're doing their own tour. Julien-K played before DBS at Club Tattoo so I'm pretty sure the same will happen on the tour. DBS isn't BOW, but Ryan and Chester being in both bands is more than enough reason to think they'll play a cover. Both of them absolutely love playing covers. Orgy's biggest hit was a cover, Julien-K has a cover on their album, Chester plays covers all the time when he makes guest appearances...at the very least, I expect them to do a new take on a Grey Daze or Linkin Park song. Mike played It's Goin' Down and a couple LP songs in his Fort Minor shows, so I don't see why DBS wouldn't do the same.

That's one of Mike's mixtapes...the audio section on his site automatically starts the next song when one ends.

Probably a show announcement, maybe for the mtVU Ulalume Festival.

I'm in assuming a couple things... 1) The album doesn't totally suck (which I don't think it will). 2) They don't pull a Fort Minor and not play anywhere closer to me than fucking Detroit. As for songs they'll play...I don't see any reason why they wouldn't play any of the songs they've already done live to this point - Crawl Back In, Fire, My Suffering, Let Down, Morning After, In the Darkness, Walking in Circles. I'd also put money on them playing at LEAST one cover of some type, whether it be a Chester-related song (LP/Grey Daze material) or just a straight-up cover. And they'll probably throw in another song or two from the album that we haven't heard yet.

This song completely blows away Crawl Back In in just about every way imaginable.

No.

I like your #1 choice. I have a few that I'm partial to... Astoria '07 was great. Rock Am Ring '07 looked phenomenal from the clips I've seen of it, I would absolutely kill for the full proshot of that show. KROQ Almost Acoustic Xmas '07 was cool, one of the more unique shows from the touring cycle. The first few shows of '08 are where I think the band sounded their best of the whole 07-08 period, particularly Basel and Paris. Madison Square Garden wasn't a particularly good performance in my opinion, but memorable for being the first time the band played there and the crowd being absolutely incredible. Edgefest was memorable for obvious reasons, with the piano version of BTH and the circumstances surrounding the show. I haven't seen/heard enough good recordings from the '09 shows to add any to the list yet, but I probably will once the DSPs come out.

If they have versions without all the static, I'd seriously be cool with an upgraded version of the 8-track demo as the LPU9 CD. I know most people would disagree with me on that, but I think it'd be cool of them to put forth the effort to release an upgraded version of something that the fans worked to get released in the first place. However, given that they couldn't get the sample clearance to release She Couldn't on two separate occasions 10 years apart, I highly doubt that they'd magically be able to do it this time. Plus I still fully believe that Warner has a vicegrip on She Couldn't and other tracks like it, and won't even consider releasing it. Also, something else to ponder, take a look at this post: http://forums.linkinpark.com/showthread.ph...7233#post517233 Mike's wording there really intrigues me. If Pictureboard had never been recorded, as has been speculated, he wouldn't "think" that all the versions of it he's found online are fake, he'd know for sure that they are. That seems to indicate that not only was Pictureboard recorded at some point, but it must have been sent to people outside the band in some manner, to enough of an extent that Mike thinks it could possibly surface on the Internet. Again, as with She Couldn't, I can't see Warner allowing Pictureboard to be released, but I think it's safe to say that the band at least recorded it and that it does exist somewhere.

That's a good question, particularly given the fact that Step Up was labeled as a "demo" on the In the End single release even though it was the same recording from the HTEP, which generally isn't considered a demo recording. LP's definition of "demo" has always seemed pretty broad. I think any type of unreleased studio recording is a possibility. I have a hunch that we're either getting a New Divide demo or one of the other 3 unused Transformers 2 songs.

1. Saturday, Montreal, Hype, Madison, and 100 Degrees. The VMA score version of 100 Degrees is a short instrumental that was later turned into a full song on We Major. 2. There were at least 4 songs considered for Reanimation that didn't make the cut...Marilyn Manson's remix of By Myself and Crystal Method's remix of Points of Authority were both eventually released elsewhere. Team Sleep's remix of My December is still unreleased, and Ryu from Styles of Beyond did a verse for an unreleased remix of With You. There are probably more but that's all I can think of. 3. DJ Vice made a remix of In the End and posted the unfinished version of it (the "demo") on his Myspace. That's all it is, LP had nothing to do with it.

LPU 8 was better than at least 2, probably 3 of the past CDs, IMO. 3, 5, and 7 all sucked. The only redeeming quality that makes LPU5 questionably better is that it's a far superior mix of the Live 8 show than any of the TV/webcast recordings. 1>2>4>6>8>5>3>7, IMO. But I'll also believe it when I see it. That's always my attitude with anything this band does.

The wording of Mike's post clearly indicates that he thought they meant it was a Xero song. He wouldn't use "us" in regards to a Mark Wakefield solo song.

100 Degrees IS Mike's own instrumental work.

It's not even like that for me. I remember hearing Molly's Chambers and The Bucket from their first 2 albums quite a bit on music video stations and the radio (before they ever became very popular), and I thought they were both boring, borderline annoying songs.

Meh...never understood all the hype surrounding Kings of Leon. I've yet to hear anything by them that impresses me. But I suppose if I can tolerate Good Charlotte enough to give Joe's remix of Young and the Hopeless a few listens, I'll be able to handle this.

What do you mean by "not remixed" exactly? Like, without the rewinds, Green Lantern talking over them, and transitions to/from other songs, stuff like that?

It was sold through Green Lantern's website, and he's the one who did the mixtape, so...

The LPU chat mods will let a bunch of stupid questions through and pass on a bunch of good ones anyway. You should be used to it by now. HQ is ridiculously biased towards the mainstream audience and the type of questions they ask when it comes to Q&A sessions, that goes for both the chats and the LPU newsletters.

I wish I would have had Internet while I was on vacation so I didn't have to reply to a week-old post like this, but whatever. Do you work for Rapidshare or something? I can't believe you actually expect people to pay money for the same kind of service they can get from Megaupload or 4shared completely free. I don't have anything personal against Rapidshare, but I still don't see any benefit of using it over any other public download/filesharing service of its type. And in terms of the free version of Rapidshare's service, it's hands down at the bottom of the barrel compared to its competitors because of the ridiculous limit of 10 downloads per file. No other service of its type has anything remotely close to that kind of restriction on its free service, so why bother with it? You don't get anything good out of Rapidshare without spending money on it, but you can get good results from some of its competitors without spending a dime, is the point I'm trying to make.

Latest additions to my collection are the Transformers 2 soundtrack and the special edition of Death to Analog... Question: How rare is Frat Party in a CD-style jewel case as opposed to the DVD case? I was visiting a friend out of state last week, and she had a copy like that, I had never seen one before. Apparently the Best Buy store where she lives sells them.

No reason to believe that it's not real - All copies of We Major came in clear slimline cases like that with the red FM logo and the cover art sticker 2-sided inlay, and nothing else. The type of cases also varied slightly, the copies I got from the street team came in slightly different cases than the one that came with my FMM membership package. The only odd thing about your copy is the barcode sticker on the back, but that looks like it was put on there by a used CD store that someone sold it to at one point.

Somebody who has a copy of The Seed handy, is that one of Joe's instrumental songs from it? That was my first thought but I don't have the video handy to check.

...Not even close. Like, more than 15 years not even close.