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He's specifically referring to his bandmates in Linkin Park vs. the original line being in reference to Styles of Beyond.

There was an official campaign with a couple fansites (it may have even just been LPA, I definitely know they were involved) during the ATS era to make lyric videos for several songs. Same reason Keaton's Blackout lyric video is in that playlist.

Not sure what you mean, he always starts with the chorus. Started in exactly the same spot and same way he always does when the Invisible > RTN > WFTE transition happens, he just stopped after one repeat of the chorus, right about at the point where the RTN/WFTE mashup instrumental would normally start to come in.

Hell, just tune everything from MTM onwards down half a step like HT/Meteora. Chester didn't REALLY start straining his voice until stuff like Given Up came out anyway. RTN outro to Invisible sounds like Mike just momentarily forgot WFTE wasn't in the setlist, lol.

2 biggest setlist questions at this point: -Was Sharp Edges a one-off for Berlin? -Has Battle Symphony been dropped completely in favor of Nobody Can Save Me?

I hear it now. Weird though that when the camera pulls back at 2:05, Mike's mic is nowhere near his face...

You can clearly see that Mike isn't singing anything at that point...

inb4 LP talks more about how this album was written with lyrics first, only for us to mysteriously end up with 3 or 4 "instrumental" tracks from the OML sessions on the next LPU CD, lol.

Yeah, Invisible is set to be a single and is getting more of a subtle push with the James Corden airing just taking place and whatnot. Makes sense to go back to the initial festival set but keep Invisible and drop Battle Symphony instead. I like the idea of having one consistent set with rotating song slots in it, personally.

If the logistics of rescheduling a full show this late are too crazy, I'd hope they'll at least do a stripped-down show like the NYC subway performance somewhere. Full band for a few songs/Mike and Chester (and maybe Brad) could do some more. They could at least pull off a 45-60 minute set I'm sure.

No different than the usual live version. Gang vocals for the repeated "invisible" refrain are on a track, and harmonies in the last chorus are on a track because Chester switches to the "ohh" part. Not a full vocal backing track.

The OML acapella intro honestly seems like a random one-off thing in conjunction with the Mercedes AMG promo thing being used as an intro video. I don't think it's a "regular" part of the set... Today was also the one-year anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, maybe it was a tribute thing?

I stand corrected on this - no Phoenix. There's definitely some hi-hat and/or tambourine in there though.

With HT relatively well-represented in the set and FTI being one of the best Meteora tracks, I'd surprisingly vote against APFMH in this situation.

Sharp Edges isn't just Chester/Brad. Percussion clearly audible in the second half of the song and there's a shot of Phoenix playing bass on the big screen in the video at one point. I feel like that extended guitar duet intro to Sharp Edges is a cover of something, I swear I've heard it before.

Yeah, I know I said the same thing about the reunion shows, which appear to actually be happening, but...I'll believe it when I see it. Sean has attempted to release a remastered version of that album about three different times over the years and has run into trouble with Warner every time.

This is quite possibly the dumbest forum comment I've ever seen in my 14 years in the Linkin Park community. Congratulations!

I also think that, for as much hype there is about this footage within the LP community, it just isn't worth anywhere near what he's asking for it. The problem is that he ended up having a pretty successful TV production career later on, so he's inflating the price purely because his name is on it. $3-5k range, sure, but $10k+ is just absurd. Plus the bevy of lawyers he'd inevitably sick on us if we actually tried to do anything with the footage after we bought it...hell, wasn't there some legal drama over MTV using some of his footage in that The Ride documentary?

With You/Runaway guitars are still in the rigs, presumably because there just happens to be plenty of space for them even though those songs aren't in the set at present. I want to say Brad's got space for 11 or 12 guitars in each rack but he's only using 5 during each show (he has backups for 3 of those 5, so that puts him at 8 guitars "needed" for the show).

Lol, why would Julien-K release Dead By Sunrise music on a compilation with Julien-K's name on it, particularly when the DBS catalog is still controlled by Warner and Julien-K's been an indie band for several years now? They couldn't do it if they wanted to. If people would just take a second and think about their expectations...

Or literally anything that he sings backups/harmonies on... And AFN and MTG have no keyboards.

Based on this photo of Brad playing an acoustic guitar with a capo, which doesn't correspond to anything in the live set from the last run, my best guess would be that they're at least rehearsing Sharp Edges. I wouldn't necessarily think that's what Mike's playing in his photo, though. In "LP speak," "new song" = "any song from our latest album." He could easily be playing One More Light or something here. I'd never expect them to refer to anything from a previous album as "new" though, regardless of whether it's ever been played before or not.

Whoever has the domain now has their robots.txt file set to deny access to web crawlers.

The train station connected to the arena reopened today, the arena itself probably won't be far behind. Still subject to change, but as of now the Kings of Leon gig on June 9th is expected to go on as planned.

THP sold around 10,000 more copies its first week than it looks like OML will have (once the exact numbers come in), and debuted during a week that happened to end up being the first week in all of 2014 to have three albums sell over 100,000 copies. Damn near any other week that year, 110,000 copies would have been an easy #1. OML will not make them any more money than any other album they've done in recent years (possibly even less), Heavy never cracked the top 50 and none of the subsequent singles will do nearly as well because nothing else on the record has quite as much crossover pop radio appearl (and lead singles nearly always perform better regardless), and the album is largely being viewed as flop by the press. I guarantee they knew all of this would transpire long before the record came out. They're not stupid.