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As far as I know, nobody ever succeeded in fully ripping the Rock Revolution tracks for Given Up. I know they managed to get the bass, drums, full instrumental, and vocals/samples, but they never got the guitar by itself. And before anyone asks, I don't have a clue what 3 of the 4 exclusives are, so I'm just as excited as the rest of you.

I'll be dedicating my band's show today to him.

That's actually the album title.

That voice at 4:30 sounds vaguely like Chester, but there's no way the one at 2:26 is Mike. What's your source for this collaboration happening anyway, that some idiot labeled the wrong song as Head Up? And listening again, that voice at 4:30 sounds a lot like Stephen Richards, and Taproot was on that tour with them and LP.

Uhh...first of all, Head Up only happened once, and Mike and Chester just ran out on stage, they didn't have microphones. Second of all, that download link you posted is incredibly misleading, the description and filename both say it's Head Up, but the song is Boys Republic. And neither Mike nor Chester is anywhere on that song. All I hear at 2:01 is Chino screaming, and the voice at 2:26 sounds absolutely nothing like Mike.

It can be a legitimate excuse at times. As a singer, not being able to hear yourself on stage is about the lonliest feeling there is. If your monitors go out (in Chester's case, his in-ear monitors), it's hard to hear yourself, because the PA system hangs in front of the stage, pointed away from you. All you can really hear on stage without monitors is sound that comes from behind you - the guitar/bass amplifiers and the drums. So if something happened that caused Chester's IEM's to go out, I can imagine it would cause him to go flat, but then again, Chester's always pulling them out of his ears in the middle of shows anyway so he can hear the crowd better, so I can't imagine he'd need them THAT badly to find his pitches.

Even if they do wind up working with Rick again, it's not like that means the next album is automatically going to be another MTM and that they won't do any heavy stuff. Rick's always been a guy that lets the band decide what direction they're going for, he just helps them capture it in the best way possible. He's produced some extremely heavy albums (Death Magnetic, most of System of a Down's stuff), and he's also produced stuff that's far softer than Minutes to Midnight.

Jeez, listen at 3:35, it's that blatantly obvious "2 Chesters singing at once" editing job that's found all over the Road to Revolution DVD. I dunno how they think people won't notice that. I really shouldn't knock it so much I guess, I'd much rather watch/listen to this proshot than any of the audience videos. I just think if you're going to do editing to something, you should make it as discreet as possible.

They did a TON of editing to his vocals for the televised performance. They fixed almost all of the out-of-tune notes.

Brad doesn't play anything on the bridge, that's all sampled.

Terrible quality, and still cuts off the intro. Meh. And as far as New Divide goes, they really edited the hell out of Chester's vocals, but I'm not surprised that they did.

They didn't show the WID intro, the video started when the piano did. No, Bleed it Out cut off after the second chorus on the '07 Jimmy Kimmel video. Whoops, meant to edit that into my last post.

3-way screen = epic win. How can you complain about a multi-cam mix of anything? The EXACT same thing happened the last time they were on Kimmel, and almost always happens with all Kimmel performances. Because I'm sure you'd rather have no proshot video of New Divide at all. Most of those camera angles were identical to what the camera crew shot on the big screens at the show itself, watch the audience videos on Youtube when people filmed the screens. Your speaker system must not be very good, because the mix sounded just fine on my TV.

- 3:49. It's not Brad, the breakdown is just sampled.

Still Standing was one of a bunch of fake song titles from a tracklist that somebody made up for Shock Value 2.

I totally forgot about that Lt. Cornbread song! I heard it like once back whenever it came out but it totally escaped me since then. I'm not sure if Mike produced that many tracks for SOB though, I thought he only did the remix of Hard and that someone from SOB said You Cannot Fuck With This wasn't done by him. Also to add to that: Mike's producing a track on the new Cypress Hill album, and there's a song featuring him coming out on Kenna's MSTSMF Outtakes EP.

Being out of tune has absolutely nothing to do with video quality. A better video isn't magically going to fix Chester singing the wrong notes.

Chester sounds much better on these than he did on New Divide. Guess he just has to get used to singing a new song live, the first performances of songs like Shadow of the Day and In Pieces were pretty bad too. Also, I'd like to remind everyone that Linkin Park nearly ALWAYS has cameras at their shows projecting stuff onto big screens. They mean absolutely nothing in regards to proshot video recordings.

Surely such an abomination would never take place. Hollywood Undead is the only band on that lineup that absolutely sucks. I can't even tolerate them for 10 seconds.

Alright, I understand that this was the first time they'd ever played New Divide in front of any kind of public audience, and they've had some time off and probably haven't rehearsed a whole lot yet...but that had to be the most horribly out-of-tune I've EVER heard Chester sing. I hope the other songs weren't that bad. Also, looking at the setlist, the rehearsal set probably had Faint 2nd and Numb 3rd too and whoever reported it just mixed them up. WID > Faint is something they did a bunch in '08, makes more sense.

Probably because the setlist was confirmed ahead of time.

I was just talking about that with a friend last night actually! I knew the original keyboardist and drummer were gone, but I wasn't sure if Andrew had decided to keep going with the Wolfmother name or not, because the new lineup was playing under the name "White Feather" last I heard.

The show doesn't even start for like, another 9 hours...

There have been promoters in South America saying they've booked Linkin Park shows almost every year since the show in '04. I wouldn't hold my breath.

That's a REALLY strong lineup of bands. Also, this is the first time to my knowledge that LP's ever co-headlined a show.