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They'll probably do one, it may be a while though. Remember, the Meteora string tribute didn't come out until like late '05/early '06.

Brad didn't mess up on ITE at Auckland, he's done that at several shows, where he stops playing during the bridge and lets the crowd sing. And Chester's mic didn't cut out on Given Up at Melbourne either. After he broke his wrist and the pain started to set in, he didn't sing parts of a bunch of songs, that's just one example of it happening. Also, the only thing different about Don't Stay is that Brad didn't play guitar for the first half of the second verse, which he has done numerous times (like the bridge on ITE).

This trailer started airing in theaters on Wednesday, and the new song was still being mixed Wednesday according to Mike's blog, so...no.

- The acoustic guitar was not tuned properly for Mike for the first part he plays on 'The Little Things Give You Away'. It was corrected after the first loop. Huh? I hear absolutely nothing wrong with the guitar on TLTGYA other than Mike playing the first couple chords a little tentatively, like he wasn't sure if he came in at the right time.

There are songs on Linkin Park albums that don't feature all the band members, so I don't think the fact that Lockjaw was just Rob and Mike should relegate it to not being a Linkin Park song.

Not necessarily, to either question. Warner has the final say in what LP does/doesn't release, so they can deny any "junk" that LP tries to put out to get out of their contract quicker. Plus it's hard to say what does and doesn't constitute an "album" since that would be defined in their contract, which we don't know the specifics of. The rights to their back catalog of music is a fairly complicated issue, as publishing, licensing, etc. of both the musical compositions AND the recordings themselves would have to be worked out with the label (i.e. LP would probably have to pay Warner for them). Almost all major label deals these days have clauses that the label, not the artist, retains the rights to their back catalog after the contract expires. The artist can always purchase said rights though, and quite a few do, at least for the songwriting portion. Warner probably won't give up the rights to LP's catalog of recordings, so they can release new Linkin Park-related compilations after the band leaves the label (common practice in the music industry).

I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be on the soundtrack. I'm sure they won't use all the different interpolations and interludes from the movie on the soundtrack, but the main song itself almost certainly will be. I wouldn't be surprised if they wound up releasing it as a video/single either, and I'm sure they'll be playing it live this summer, as their tour starts less than a month after the film comes out. I also doubt that Hans Zimmer had anything to do with the track itself, he'll just be working with the band to come up with all the different variations on it to work into the film score, because that's his area of expertise.

Only Warner has the power to terminate Linkin Park's contract.

Meh @ overhyped sequel to an overhyped, overrated movie. w00t @ New LP material coming out within 2 months.

Mike's position as the head of Machine Shop really means nothing. Warner owns Machine Shop, the execs at Warner are the ones who decide what does and does not happen with Machine Shop, and yes, Mike can make decisions, but Warner can approve or deny any of them as they please. Mike could argue with Tom Whalley for years about the SOB record if he wanted to and make whatever kind of threats he wanted, and it wouldn't do anything to sway his opinion, because Tom Whalley might as well own Mike Shinoda, as is the case with any member of Linkin Park, as was the case with Holly Brook, and as was the case with the members of SOB while they were signed to Machine Shop. It's not like Mike has much room to work with, since LP is contracted to Warner and Warner has almost total control over what they do. SOB trying to rely on Mike to get things straightened out wasn't exactly smart, because they were leaving their problem with someone who was just as helpless as they were. Prisoners should know that it's stupid to try to bribe the guards, because the guards are nothing more than the warden's bitches.

I believe that Wayne Static played guitar on the studio recording of the song. He isn't credited as a featured guest, but the tone and really choppy playing style sounds a lot like his guitar work on the Static-X albums, plus it really doesn't sound like Mike or Brad's style of playing (listen to LP play it live, Brad plays the main riff with a totally different feel). Unless one of the X-Ecutioners played the guitar part themselves, I think it's safe to say that he makes an uncredited appearance on the recording. As far as songwriting goes, the song is officially credited to Mike Shinoda, Joe Hahn, Xzibit, and Mel-Man (the latter 2 being credited because the song samples Xzibit's song "Year 2000"). None of the X-Ecutioners actually have songwriting credits on it, which essentially means Mike and Joe composed the song themselves, probably mostly Mike (all of the lyrics and most of the music, with Joe adding samples and scratches).

It would make sense and clear things up nicely, but as said, Phoenix is in the NPA video and didn't rejoin the band until October. Plus the venue doesn't really look like the Roxy (compare it to the Collision Course DVD). I actually remember finding an old MTV article from late 2000/early 2001 that linked to a live video of One Step Closer, but the link was dead. I have a feeling it was the video from this Roxy show, and it was probably posted on LP.com when it was still under construction, or perhaps even on the old Hybrid Theory site.

Show me one that isn't then, because in the 7 years since it's come out, I've never seen one.

It's actually one guitar note in the verses that's different, not the choruses. The intro and verses have a lot of mixing differences to the final version in general.

Uhh...all copies of In the End: Live and Rare come in a jewel case...?

Why should it be added to a list of all demos that are available, when it's not available anywhere?

Also: http://lplive.net/shows/20030317.php - "MTV2 broadcast did not include 'From The Inside'." This recording must have been from a re-broadcast of the show that was edited down for more commercials, because I clearly remember watching the first MTV broadcast of the $2 Bill show and From the Inside being shown. I even wrote down the list of songs while watching because it was the first time I'd heard anything from Meteora other than SIB. I didn't watch any re-airings of the show on either MTV or MTV2, but I know for a fact that the original MTV airing included FTI.

They play APFMH (Esaul) at another point in that same video, Scott probably thought that's what they were referring to.

Greg Waterman was LP's official photographer for a while, I don't know if he still is. Mark Fiore is their videographer, but I'd imagine he takes photos from time to time as well (most of LP's crew does).

http://lplive.net/shows/Chester/20080819.php Setlist is incorrect. It should be: 01. Cochise 02. No Such Thing 03. Outshined 04. Spoonman (with Street Drum Corps) 05. Hunger Strike (with Chester Bennington) 06. Watch Out 07. Like A Stone (Acoustic) 08. Be Yourself 09. Show Me How to Live 10. Burden in My Hand 11. Scream 12. Black Hole Sun 13. Rusty Cage

Somebody got me the Given Up vinyl as an early birthday present. Wee... Probably going to add an LPU8 Best Buy pack (holy crap, it's April and I still haven't bought the new LPU package?) and the Julien-K album to my collection next.

Wilderness is the only one who's gotten it right, regarding the live version. Chester sings the "Ohh-ohh" part the whole time. Mike sings the "Little things give you away" part at first. When the "All you ever wanted" part comes in, Mike switches to that, and Phoenix starts singing the "Little things give you away" part. Phoenix stops singing when the instruments stop, so it's just Mike and Chester at the very end. That's how it is, period. And there are actually FOUR vocal parts at the end of the studio version, the "Little things give you away" part is harmonized. The lower of the two harmony parts is not sung live. Phoenix does not sing AT ALL on the studio version, ALL of the vocal parts at the end are Mike, except for the "Ohh-ohh" part, which is Chester.

Brad has done the Pushing Me Away guitar part during the second verse of In the End at tons of shows since 2004. He's done it so many times that I really don't think it's worth mentioning every time that he did.

All this really means is the guy phished musicians' Myspace pages to send out spam, the wording is pretty clear that the only artist he did more than that to was Miley Cyrus.

I also think it's not really a matter of LP/crowds lacking energy compared to a few years ago, but security at concerts getting a lot more strict. People were moshing on the lawn like crazy at PR04, whereas on PR07/08 security guards would break up any moshing on the lawns immediately. Hell, they even arrested like 2 dozen people for doing it at one show. Sprayed them with pepper spray, beat the shit out of them, the whole nine yards.