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Absolutely zero possibility that it was anyone in LP. Ryan says right there that they needed to be there for their friend, meaning NOT going on the tour, meaning that the friend was someone at home. The friend was probably either Kenji Kato or Henry Nicholas. I'm still clueless as to why the tie-up with Level 7 would legally prevent Julien-K from touring in Europe but not the United States though...

As someone who actually saw QWERTY live in '07, it really wasn't anything special, in fact it was probably the weakest song in the set when I saw them. The band members weren't all on the same page as far as how many times each part repeats, and the song sounded really sloppy as a result. Unless they can nail down a solid arrangement of it like they had in '06 (which would be hard since 3 of them like the live version better and 3 of them like the studio version better), I'd rather not see it come back. P5HNG ME A*WY. Ditch the piano version, it's boring as hell. Or at least rotate all 3 versions, one per set. I'd also like to see them try some more Reanimation material live.

I would be very surprised if Knebworth isn't taped, it's just a matter of who tapes it and how likely they are to share it...

I was wrong, it was actually on the European Headline Tour: http://onstagemag.com/ar/performance_linki...magic/index.htm Dated January 2002: "I caught up with Shinoda, Hahn, and Delson just as Linkin Park was about to embark on a headlining tour of England, France, Germany, Holland, and Austria." Delson: We'll be using sound checks on the headline tour to work out some new and old material to incorporate into the set, songs like “My December” and “Carousel.” There's actually a LOT of interesting info in this interview. Mike says there are 2,000 copies of the original HTEP, not 1,000, collaborations with Z-Trip and Team Sleep for Reanimation are mentioned, as are Chester collaborating with DJ Lethal and Mike/Joe collaborating with the Visionaries (keep in mind this is back in the summer of 2001).

People HAVE asked the band if they've played Part of Me/Carousel live before, numerous times in fact. The majority of the answers have basically been "I don't remember," and Phoenix said that they played Carousel once. It's also known from an interview with Brad that they rehearsed Carousel during soundchecks on the Family Values Tour in '01.

The United States has pretty specific laws against there being a monopoly with any type of business, which this would pretty much turn into if Live Nation and Ticketmaster merged. The government has sure been pretty lazy about enforcing said laws in recent years though.

Almost positive that it's confused with And One. And One is even mislabled as Part of Me on some filesharing networks.

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.