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That actually might be where I saw it. My first thought was it was on Mike's blog, but I looked and didn't see it there, so my next assumption was that it was on Chester's Twitter page. That interview is probably it though. I just don't get why, if Mike was still the producer, they'd change gears and try to make people wonder who it is, since they were pretty open about him being the producer earlier on in the process. Benson was my first guess. I'd really like to see them work with Bob Ezrin, especially if they're still planning on doing a concept album.

It won't be Mike. The band recently said that they've found a new producer, I think it was Chester on his Twitter page. He said something like "we've lined up a producer for the album but we're keeping that a secret for now." If it was still Mike, he wouldn't say something like that. They've been saying all along that "it'll be Mike unless we find someone else." Mike was just their default producer for the album if they couldn't find anybody else they were interested in working with, just like he was in the early stages of the MTM process.

Reprise Records is a division of Warner.

That's the score, not the CD/DVD... http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_m?url=se...e+of+the+fallen The CD/DVD doesn't even have a release date listed now, just the standard edition of the soundtrack and the score.

*facepalm* Why would an LPA staff member post a fake interview from a magazine that they have themselves and then be stupid enough to name the specific magazine, when anybody could just go out, buy a copy themselves, and call bullshit on them? It's not like somebody else told them about it and they were dumb enough to post it on their website without verifying it. Anybody can run out and buy a copy of Rolling Stone and see it for themselves. I would do it myself and send you a scan, but... 1) I hate Rolling Stone magazine and everything they stand for. 2) I don't feel like appeasing you. Let me fix that quote to sum up your attitude more accurately: Why you still waste your time on Linkin Park-related websites is beyond me.

Cool. I figured from the beginning that this might be an acoustic performance, since the inside of Club Tattoo probably isn't really set up for a full-blown stage show. I wonder if this will be similar to the ReAct Now performance with just Chester, Ryan, and Amir?

Site advertises "free membership" but requires paid activation in order to download anything. No thanks. If anybody else wants to try it, go ahead.

Well crap, I just lost some money... Congrats Mark.

If it was some kind of retrospective on the last 10 years of Summer Sonic, I can only imagine that it'll be re-broadcasted numerous times leading up to this year's festival... Too bad it's damn near impossible to get in touch with anybody in Japan. I've never understood why there's such a lack of communication between Japanese people and English-speaking websites.

"Recorded at The Loft in Nashville" - from the One Step Closer single.

Slipknot is a band that you can't really say loves or hates LP one way or another since there's 9 people in that band who have expressed vastly different opinions about them. Mr. Hahn is friends with Sid Wilson, for example. And I think Mick may have been a little tongue-in-cheek with that comment, considering how he ended the sentence - "my bus is the white one with the stupid gay stuff on the side of it."

Let Down, Morning After, and Walking in Circles are all fairly long songs. Granted, we haven't heard the album versions, but I can't imagine they'd be too different length-wise than what we've already heard. Plus, there's always the possibility that Chester isn't including any potential intros/outros/interludes in the 10-song count. It'll probably be about as long as a typical LP album. And I like the idea of DBS doing unannounced, surprise performances. It'll keep us on our toes, lol.

NO IT IS NOT.

Since people were requesting it, here's the original radio rip of State of the Art with the ads in it (I also stuck the LPA shoutouts at the beginning): http://www.megaupload.com/?d=F4DOGR5J This hasn't been touched on my hard drive since the night I ripped it, lol. And the videogame it was supposed to be in was Greg Hastings' Tournament Paintball MAX'D.

I don't think Lethal's solo album will ever be released. If this track ever comes out, it'll probably be on some kind of outtakes/rarities compilation years down the line. FYI, it was recorded even earlier than 2002, there's an interview with LP from sometime in the fall of '01 where Mike talks about how he had just done a track with the X-Ecutioners, and Chester had done a track with DJ Lethal. I had the link a few months ago but I've forgotten it. I really wish it wouldn't have gotten cut from that videogame soundtrack it was supposed to be released on a couple years ago.

Not really a fan of any type of music with religious lyrical content, but instrumentally they were pretty good. I've always liked the punk/ska genre and they did it pretty well. Phoenix also played some really cool bass parts back then, I wish he'd incorporate slap bass into an LP song sometime because he used it to great effect in some of the Snax songs.

I love the Grey Daze material. I still think some of Chester's best vocal performances come from those 2 albums, he really pushed his range both as high and as low as it could go back then. Wake Me is also an amazingly well-produced album, considering how unknown of a band they were and how limited their budget was.

Brad tends to be pretty nice in the chats, but he's not as talkative as Mike or Chester. He's fairly good about answering questions, but he usually doesn't go into much detail.

I wasn't even aware that Dolla was a person. o.O

I'm sorry, but this is absolute bullshit. ANYONE can make an unauthorized biography and obtain the rights to sell it commercially. Are you saying we should pay money to people who are deliberately putting out inferior products to cash in on Linkin Park's fame? Paying for one of these is just as bad as paying for a B O O T L E G. The people who make these are nothing more than glorified B O O T L E G G E R S who can get away with selling their products because of a legal loophole. *Edit* Oh, and nice use of the censored words list. You can't say B O O T L E G or any form of it on this website, it automatically gets changed. NEWSFLASH: There is a fucking difference between a B O O T L E G G E R and a "live audio/video archivist," and there is a time and a place when using that word and its derivative forms are perfectly acceptable. Good to see the Communist China LPL making a return.

Cool stuff, nice to see an album title, and I was kind of anticipating that DBS might make an appearance at the opening of the new Club Tattoo in Vegas. I'm just wondering how they're going to schedule DBS tour dates, since Julien-K is already doing a pretty extensive tour this fall.

I can see them opening shows with New Divide, the intro has the kind of buildup in it that goes along with the beginning of a show. If not, it could be the first song after the encore break.

There's only one guitar part in this song, I'm 99.9% sure that it'll just be Brad on guitar when/if they play it live. There are a TON of keyboards/synths buried in the mix, plus the bass part has some distortion on it, so that's where the "rhythm guitar" type of sound comes from. FYI the thing at the very beginning and end of the song is synth, not guitar. ...There is not a SHRED of punk in this, or any other Linkin Park, song. And Linkin Park has been a band with pop characteristics since 2000. Get with the times much? Papercut ending - 2 harmonized vocal parts that are both doubled, plus the rap part = 5 vocal parts One Step Closer chorus - Chester singing part (doubled), Chester screaming/rapping part (doubled) = 4 vocal parts With You chorus - Doubled Chester lead vocal part + background harmony + Mike = 4 vocal parts I think you get the idea. 1. I don't give a fuck what country you're from, learn to speak English at least semi-coherently or don't bother posting your bullshit on an English-speaking website. 2. Mr. Hahn is ALL OVER this song. You're clearly one of those people who thinks that all Joe does is scratch. He will have a TON of stuff to do when they play this one live, there are all kinds of sampled parts, chopped-up guitar stuff in the breakdown, synth loops, etc. 3. MIKE SHINODA IS NOT JUST A RAPPER. And finally... "Is not LP" - Who the hell do you think you are, that YOU have the ability to determine what is and is not Linkin Park? Linkin Park music is whatever kind of music Linkin Park wants to make, not what people like you think they should make. If Linkin Park listened to people you, they would be about as popular as fucking Limp Bizkit right now.

You will be disappointed with everything this band does until the day they break up or the day you die, whichever comes first. Guaranteed. They're never going to make Hybrid Theory Part 3/Meteora Part 2 like you want them to. I don't think it's the greatest song either. The difference is, I have an open mind. You, on the other hand, think that anything that doesn't sound like One Step Closer or Somewhere I Belong is "disappointing."

Working on it right now. Yes, it's easy, the guitar part is all octaves, except I have no idea what the hell happens during the breakdown. Lots of chopped-up and pitch-shifted weirdness going on there. Working on that too.