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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.

I almost guarantee this is real, and that this is what today's big announcement on KROQ is about. Jas is nowhere near dumb enough to post a link to a non-existant story on LP.com. Someone probably posted it too soon and quickly removed it.

Regarding today's show, I think it would be more appropriate to list Mann's Village Theater as the venue as opposed to Wilshire Boulevard, as the theater is the specific location on Wilshire Boulevard where they're playing. Just listing the street as the venue could imply any part of the street.

That's exactly what happens for most secret shows, it's not cost-effective to have to provide transportation for people that can't get there on their own. And if they open up secret show tickets to people outside the area, they'll just wind up playing to way fewer people than the number of tickets they gave out...oh wait, that's EXACTLY what's going to happen with this show since a bunch of people who really had no business applying for tickets in the first place wound up winning a crapload of them.

Well, New Divide was last out of the 6 songs they played for the MFR/Socialvibe winners on Wednesday. It'll probably be the same setlist order on Monday's show. That makes me think it'll be near the end of their full-length sets, although I do think it'd make a nice opener. I still think they may not even do 3 rotating setlists like they did through most of the last cycle, with this being a pretty short run of 14 shows. That'd mean each set would only get played 4 or 5 times. They might do 2 sets or just have a few songs that rotate every night while keeping the core of the set the same. Also, Joe said in the LPU chat that he hasn't been working on any new intros/outros for songs for this upcoming tour, and they didn't play any at the show on Wednesday. They even used the same intro to What I've Done that they did for most of '08 and the outro to Faint that they've been doing since '07, which makes me think there won't be a whole lot of changes to songs on this run.

I'm sure if you can find a way there, they'd still let you in. They probably just said it was limited to SoCal people because they aren't doing any kind of flyaways for this.

As far as recordings go, I'm guessing the show on Monday is the one that we'll get footage from, if we get any at all. I know Fuse was there filming the rehearsal, but I don't see why there'd be a big push to get footage of a rehearsal on TV when the show on Monday will be for a lot more people. Let's see how long it takes for LP management to complain about LPLive mentioning Third Encore by name this time, even though it's a public facility that LP's mentioned by name themselves numerous times.

I think everything in Nest that's not initially from New Divide was just whatever Steve added to it. There's some guitar notes in there that aren't in New Divide, but it sounds like he just pitch-shifted the existing parts as needed (he already slowed it down substantially so there's no reason why he wouldn't do other editing to it). There's some scratching parts in there, but I think those are present in the verses of the original song and Steve just brought them up to make them more prominent. Plus, the film score is never indicative of exactly what's in the movie anyway. They always use a combination of score music and stuff from the film soundtrack, and they almost never use all of a selected piece in the movie itself. All of the film score stuff will likely be in the movie at some point, but only in small portions. New Divide is supposed to be in the movie like 16 different times, so Steve/Hans probably just pulled various samples from the song to use in different spots (think Leave Out All the Rest in CSI for example). Nest is worthy of an inclusion on the score because it's an original piece of work, it just happens to use portions of New Divide in it.

I actually like the whole thing. As a score, it's hard for me to pick it apart into individual tracks that I prefer since it mostly sounds like background music (which is really the point of a score anyway). Nest is obviously neat for how it weaves around parts of New Divide, but I like listening to the whole thing. I'm not a guy who typically listens to film scores though, so I'm not going to be the best critic.