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Never said the harmony part wasn't Mike. The part that's a full octave below the melody that comes in on the second pre-chorus has Chester's more nasally tone to it though.

White Noise has Puro on drums so I'm sure it was written with Mall in mind. The end of the Mall sessions kind of coincided with part of the THP sessions so they had a lot of stuff going on for a while. And what do you know, The Last Line was mixed by Neal Avron: http://www.discogs.com/Mike-Shinoda-Joseph-Hahn-Dave-Farrell-Chester-Bennington-Alec-Puro-MALL-Music-From-The-Motion-Pictur/release/7511879 So it's either the fifth MTM b-side, or it was a fully-mixed ATS b-side (Neal mixed that album too), which seems kind of unlikely since that was the album where LP started the whole "when we have a bunch of songs that sounds like an album, we'll put out an album" philosophy, so they didn't really "finalize" anything beyond the tracks that made the album on ATS.

Kid's been hanging around the LP community starting drama for like 9 years, and still thinks he's the victim. Sad.

It's Chester doubling himself an octave down, and it's only on the second pre-chorus. Easy to tell on the acapella, 1:10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVOCGGohdBQ

The original Ammosick demo with the alternate vocal track/lyrics (which is FAR superior to the final version, IMO) very well may have been the Minutes to Midnight-era version of the song. Most of the music on the Mall soundtrack was just polished-up older demos, according to Joe. White Noise was the only full new song they wrote for it. I always assumed the 5 songs left off MTM were No Roads Left, Blackbirds, Across the Line, What We Don't Know, and Ammosick. The first 3 are confirmed, WWDK was mixed by Neal Avron which means it got to the end of the recording process so there's no reason to think it wasn't one of those songs, and Ammosick was on the studio tracking boards in between a bunch of other songs that made the album.

I'm normally pretty good about staying on top of things like this, but are the Rebellion multitracks out anywhere yet? Not asking for them, just curious.

I haven't really noticed stuff getting removed with any more frequency than usual...when you have a channel like Phoenix's or Qwerty's that basically exists solely to upload that kind of stuff, they become easy targets.

FYI the line in question in Hands Held High is actually "In my living room watching, BUT I am not laughing," not "In my living room watching it, I am not laughing."

The LPU 2.0 CD had poor sound quality issues in general (the recording of My December on there is particularly awful), so the version of Dedicated on Songs From the Underground will likely sound better (it does when A/B'ing my copies). I don't know if those issues affected all LPU 2.0 CDs or just a large batch of them. I don't think it's an actual mastering difference, though.

The puppets are Ethan's (so is the "burger phone" and a bunch of other stuff we've seen around the studio when LP's been recording in recent years). I'm pretty sure they're not in the studio yet.

You guys do realize the "Powerpuff Girls drum beat" is just a sped-up loop of the Amen Break, a.k.a. the most sampled drum break of all time, right?

Voted for Right Now because it's one of a handful of The Rising Tied songs I genuinely like, and Red to Black wouldn't be anything special when we actually got the full version on the original FM tours. IMO the last thing the Fort Minor set needs is another Linkin Park song in it, and Second to None is completely forgettable.

Good grief, would the Given Up bridge and OSC outro screams ever sound like shit without the echo on them. If you can't tell the difference between a decades-old simple echo effect and "playback," you're in no position to be complaining about authenticity from a live performer.

I'd assume RTN/Welcome will be dropped from the LP set and replaced with nothing.

I wouldn't call "Violent Lullaby" a fake song title as much as a "proposed" one. That's from the Chester's Lullaby LPTV episode from where Mike and Chester are throwing around ideas for a song title and they seemed to have latched onto "_____ Lullaby" at some point. There's an interview with Mike somewhere from when LP was shooting the music video for The Catalyst that mentions the song still not having a title though. I think that song may have been a rare case of them not coming up with a name for it at all until after it was done.

I really don't understand why people have such a hard-on for KTTK when it comes to being added to the live set, people seem to think of it as that one song that somehow turns a shitty setlist into a good one based on whether or not it gets played (just like APFMH). It's a great song, but between Chester's screaming ability these days (particularly when the song opens with damn-near a capella screaming...), Mike's questionable singing ability in a live setting, Brad inevitably butchering the guitar solo, Rob apparently not being able to play songs with fast drum parts without hurting himself, and the overall jarring arrangement of the song that jumps back and forth from live instruments to a shitload of sampled stuff that they'd never be able to replicate perfectly...the song would probably flat-out suck live.

It's the chorus of Wastelands. He's playing the 15th fret on the top 2 strings, and his index finger is at the 13th fret on the B string in preparation for the following chord. He doesn't get that high up the neck on the Devil's Drop intro. (cue someone saying I don't know what the fuck I'm talking about...)

2010 - Michael Bublé Feat. Mike Shinoda - Unknown Title As far as I'm aware, this collaboration turned out to be the original version of "Damn" from the Reseda Beach sessions. This came from when the album was still tentatively called Rocket Surgery and Mike's level of involvement in the production wasn't fully known. Buble's vocals ended up not being used on the final version because of some record label crap. I still stand by my previous comments regarding Slip Out the Back's "strings version" and an alternate mix of the HTEP High Voltage, by the way.

Kind of pointless considering things change and band member's opinions differ. Chester said the same thing about Runaway during the ATS period, and they've played that song (or at least part of it) during the last two album cycles, even though the very idea of performing it is enough to make Chester violently angry because he literally hates the song THAT much.

He definitely drops down to the 3rd fret for the left hand part over the F5 chords on the studio recording: ALITS solo clip.mp3

Some sample they had laying around and decided to stick in the Figure.09 demo for whatever reason? I don't know, do you think there's some detailed origin story for every obscure sample in a Linkin Park song, particularly ones they've never talked about in interviews? These guys use some INSANELY obscure samples, the intro to Fuse comes from a Disney haunted house sound effects vinyl from the 1960s for crying out loud. Sounds like a bunch of school kids yelling to me, by the way. Probably one of Joe's random vinyl samples.

Xero. They were never called Super Xero at any point. They were called Xero 818 for a brief period, though (there's one show poster that referred to them by that name, and Brad mentions it during his UCLA commencement speech).

I can see GATS being physically demanding on drummers. A lot of the right hand parts throughout that one are just CRASH CRASH CRASH CRASH repeatedly for long periods of time, so I guess that could be rough on your shoulder. Plus we already knew Rob threw out his back recording that one in the first place. Guitar-wise, I can see the solo being a little bit of a strain on your fretting hand's wrist because there are a couple stretches that span 5 frets in there, but Brad's right wrist is the one that's been giving him problems, based on the KT Tape that he's been wearing a lot. All I can chalk that up to is his poor tremolo picking technique, he "flails" way too much with his right hand. Also probably part of why his solos at the end of Faint are so bad...

"It can count even if the member is on stage but he's not playing anything." - There are probably a LOT of 2007-present songs where this is true of Joe, lol. Given Up (Without Joe?) - I believe Joe occasionally left the stage for this one towards the end of the MTM period, but he doesn't typically do so. Shadow of The Day -Piano Version- (W/ Mike, Chester & Rob) - Assuming this is referring to the Shadow of the Day portion of the Ballad Medley, this is incorrect. Brad and Phoenix both come in with guitar and bass during the Shadow of the Day chorus part. Additions: Blackout (Instrumental) - Rob/Joe/Phoenix/Brad/Mike FRGT/10 - No Brad Big Pimpin'/Papercut - No Brad Izzo/In the End - No Brad My December (KROQ 2000) - Chester/Mike/Brad My December (Europe 2001 performances) - Chester/Mike/Brad/Joe

Changing guitars...? *Edit* Actually no, something more was going on there, looks like it was specifically with Mike/Chester. Maybe figuring out the in-ear monitor issue Chester seemed to be experiencing during Papercut. That's how Chester's screams usually sound these days. Also, can we please just start auto-banning anyone who says something to the effect of "lol what a shitty crowd" when there's a live stream? It happens EVERY FUCKING TIME one takes place, and I'm sick and fucking tired of explaining the crowd isn't mic'd over and over. Also, I love how the on-screen lyrics are uncensored, but the government makes the band censor themselves on stage. China's government is hilariously dumb.