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I doubt Warner would really be inclined to veto any ideas involving releasing unheard music with Chester on it, because they'd stand to make a lot of money from it. The only scenario I see that happening is if the label feels like the band is under-selling something that they think would be worth more on a different type of release. For example there could be songs that were left off the HT:20 box set because Warner felt like they'd have more success as part of a release with a smaller number of songs on it. Whether Sam/Talinda have veto power over releases depends on what's written into the business contracts regarding the people that make up Linkin Park as a business. If they have to get everyone in unanimous agreement on something before they release it, obviously they could. If it's more of a committee vote, they could be overruled. Also keep in mind that Sam and Talinda each have half of what was Chester's share, so they each effectively make up 1/12th of the group while the remaining band members each make up 1/6th, so their voting power would be diminished in a majority-wins situation. I don't think that matters much though, the band seems like they want everybody to be happy with stuff before they release it regardless of the legal aspects.

So...5 songs, you get one when you pre-order, and 3 of the remaining 4 are ones that were already released? 🤨 Nice to have the three bonus tracks in one place though. Can't wait for them to announce half a dozen different-colored limited edition vinyls for this! 😂

I think if we knew, we would tell you. 😉

Nah, Mike mentioned that he used to dress really embarrassingly at the early Xero shows because he thought he had to "get in character" or whatever, and that's why he doesn't want to release any video. Like the first Xero show at the Whisky he was wearing white gloves, a white beanie, and blue goggles. Jeff Blue's book says he looked like a Smurf lol. I've honestly reached the point where I think the guy doesn't actually have the footage anymore and doesn't want to admit it, so he just keeps raising the price to a more unreasonable level every time we ask him about it.

I remember it being discussed a while back that there may be some live footage Marc Ostrick shot around the same time he filmed the Lockout rehearsal. Mike Shinoda confirmed he has Xero live footage in some capacity, but doesn't want to release it.

A royal flush is the best hand you can possibly get in a game of poker. I'm sure that's what he's referencing and it's just a coincidence.

All music copyrighted in the United States exists under what's known as a "compulsory license law." Basically if you sign all the paperwork and agree to pay the licensing fees and royalty rates that are set by the statute of the law, you're not required to get any kind of permission to record/release/sell a cover song. A lot of covers are released without the artist or anyone outside their label's licensing department even knowing about them.

It's also been reported that these releases use the newer masters from 2013 for all of the pre-Living Things albums (from when they did the iTunes remasters), which would presumably mean all new physical pressings of Minutes to Midnight have the alternate (wrong) version of Shadow of the Day on them. I'll try to confirm this, but if so that would pretty much mean the original version of the song is "out of print" at this point.

It also doesn't help that Genius apparently never bothers going through their corrections queue on any song that isn't super popular. Source: "The Hiram Abiff of this rap shit" line in Ryu's verse on the Skin to Bone remix that I submitted months ago, which still hasn't been accepted nor denied.

Yeah and really poor cassette quality at that. Very muffled and the speed/pitch drifts all over the place.

Both of my copies from the Super Deluxe and vinyl sets have the "!" marking on them as well.

Zomba sampler version instrumental.

No, it's the one from the 7/8/9-track demo CDs. That's the only version with the whisper at the beginning and the extra drum beat in the bridge.

HTEP was most likely meant to showcase new material written with Chester rather than re-hashing anything they had done before that. When they got signed to do a whole album, they pulled from their entire backlog of songs for potential album material. HTEP was before the Carousel/Part of Me demos (the version of And One on the demos CD is the same recording as the HTEP). Song arrangements changed, stuff was re-recorded. No different than something like the Xero Stick N Move getting deconstructed and made into LP Stick N Move and then getting deconstructed again and made into Runaway. The only reason the HTEP sounds better is they threw more money at it than the demos, half of it was done in a professional studio with a proper producer (Mudrock). The majority of the other pre-HT demos were done in their little rehearsal studio. I don't even think the HTEP sounds THAT much better than the demos, listen to how pretty much the entire backing track to High Voltage is programmed and Step Up clearly doesn't have real drums on it. The bump in quality is really only evident on Carousel, And One, and Part of Me, and those are the tracks they did with Mudrock.

Same 2 rack tom + 2 crash + ride basic kit setup Rob's always used, looks pretty much the same as he does here:

Xero demo - Mark LP demo - Mike

I'm 100% confident these are real.

Xero version. Chester's singing is better of course, but I don't really like his take on the chorus melody. Mike's performance is way better on the Xero version too, and I don't like the overlapping vocals on the bridge of the LP version.

Sounds to me like the Hybrid Party versions are just the versions on which the LPU9 and Forgotten Demos ones are based. They obviously edited the LPU9 one significantly when they released it. A lot of the Hybrid Party tracks aren't necessarily standalone demos, they're just the building blocks they put live instruments and vocals on top of when they made complete songs.

It's exactly what the title says it is. It's a sex education record from the early 1970's.

It's in the background in Mike's vocal tracks in the By Myself multitracks. It's the sound of the music playing in his headphones being picked up by the mic he was singing into.

Nah. This is the same way the stems for lots of the album songs were previewed on Youtube, they'd pull out a few layers here and there but rarely play anything completely isolated. You can't just reverse engineer something like pulling the melody guitar out of What We Don't Know but leaving the harmony line completely untouched. My optimism that these newer multitracks are going to obtainable is pretty low though.

I mean, probably, but the more likely explanation is that a question about the Goop sample was one of several that LPLive submitted for the Q&A that's airing tomorrow, and Mike didn't answer it then but it was fresh in his mind.

Live Q&A's online are a terrible idea lol. Look at what a shitshow Mike's livestream chat turned into, that's why he mostly stopped taking questions.