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Well it's confirmed now that LP's playing shows in July/August, and Chester and Mike have both said within the past couple weeks that the DBS album will probably be out in September. I think this just proves my point, or perhaps the Europe festivals will be like Summer Sonic was in '06 and just be a break from recording.

LP could release the album before DBS comes out, do PR09, then take a break for DBS.

Crawl Back In, not C'mon Back In. *Edit* Mark beat me to it.

Copyrighted material by a band that never sold a single album is just as valid and will stand up in court just as well as copyrighted material by a band that's sold 50 million albums worldwide.

Scream performed live is 23985743985170436975066 times better than Scream on the album.

Sounds pretty good. I've always liked Guitar Pro tabs, I'm just too lazy to make them.

People make songs that sound like other songs a lot...I think Shadow of the Day and Starlight by Muse are more blatantly similar than this (in parts). Those 2 songs both use the same chord progression in the same key, and are at similar tempos.

Why on earth WOULDN'T there be any piano?

When you have a tour/show promoter commenting on "rumors," it usually means that they haven't booked any bands yet and that they're just trying to get the bands they mentioned to play at their show(s). I really wouldn't be surprised if this wound up not happening.

Bullshit. You're just covering your ass because someone decided to let the cat out of the bag too soon (not that I'm saying YOU in particular know that LP's doing a PR this year). Sodahead quite obviously does represent Linkin Park, as they have done official contests in conjunction with the band in the past. They wouldn't post something that wasn't legit. Projekt Revolution 2009 contests have already been posted on Ticketmaster and KROQ as well. Are you saying THOSE aren't legit either?

Translation: "Oops, we let the cat out of the bag before Warner wanted us too." Projekt Revolution 2009 is happening, 100%.

I think A.06 is too heavy right off the bat to use as the show intro, the intro needs to build excitement from the crowd. Maybe if they used something else to lead into A.06 it would work, but otherwise, no. That'd pretty much be like playing Wake but starting where the guitar part comes in right away.

Oh god, not Flobots. As if their fans don't spam the crap out of LP-related messageboards enough already.

Why not? It's not like it's never happened before. Staff members even used to post full transcripts of LPU chats on the LP.com messageboards.

Nope. It's been played on the radio 3 times (that we know of), but only one of the broadcasts (the 2nd one) was recorded by anybody, and that's what we have. DJ Ravok made a mix of it that removed the radio advertisements during the song, which is commonly mislabeled as the "album version," but that's the only other version that exists.

This pretty much reinforces something I've been suspecting for a little while now...I think LP is going to surprise us and have the new album out a lot sooner than most people expect. I thought for a long time that the album would be out Fall '09 at the earliest, probably not even until 2010. Over the past week or so though, I've been hearing little bits of info from various reliable sources that seem to indicate that the album is a lot closer to coming out than that. I think we might hear an announcement about the album in as soon as a couple months, and it'll probably be out by summer.

I'm curious, where'd you find this information?

Your links don't work. The Kick the Bass music video leaked almost a full year ago. There's a lot of nudity in it. That's why it was deleted from Myspace/Youtube/pretty much anywhere people tried to post it.

Probably not, I mean there are a few random samples floating around out there that are usable, but there's really no way of isolating them from the songs. Even the songs that are on games like Guitar Hero don't have the samples isolated from the rest of the track in the multitrack files.

Joe uses Scratch Live, he's been using that on stage since MTM came out. It allows him to store all his scratch samples on his laptop in the Scratch Live program, bank up/down from sample to sample during the set and use the Scratch Live control record to scratch them, which is a lot easier than having to switch vinyls all the time. LP creates all of their samples themselves and loads them into their samplers. The M-Audio pads that they've been using since MTM came out don't even come with any samples on them, I'm pretty sure. Rob uses the same kind of samplers that Joe does, he has 5 triggers on his drumset (the 3 Pintech pads, a digital kick pedal next to his regular bass drum pedal, and a trigger on his snare drum) that each have different samples routed to them. I think his sampler might actually be part of Joe's rig and Joe switches the samples for him, I've never seen a sampler anywhere around his drum kit.

Easier to Run was not performed at that show either. The last time ETR was performed was April of 2003, Reading/Leeds was in August. Furthermore, the b-side to the BTH single was Crawling from the Reading festival. Your Russian mp3 site quite clearly has no idea what the fuck they're talking about.

And he said a million fucking times during the last couple years that he was going to release it between the end of the MTM touring cycle and the next LP album. He owes it to his fans to release it before the next LP album if he doesn't want people like me to think he's been lying to us for the last year and a half. I think that's a perfectly legitimate question to ask, because I've always held the opinion that if DBS doesn't come out before the next LP album, it will never come out, period.

A lot of Chester's parts are different, specifically. He sings in some spots that he doesn't sing on the album version, and vice versa.

FM, SOB, and Holly Brook were the only 3 artists left that were signed to Machine Shop, right? I'm wondering if this might finally allow Holly to get out of the mess she's in with Warner, because last I heard she was still stuck with them. I'm sure the current economy probably factored into Machine Shop going on hiatus too.

Easier to Run is from Worcester 2003, that song was not even played at the Reading Festival. All the live bonus tracks on LP's iTunes releases are songs that were already released as single b-sides in the past.