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Rehearsal video of Welcome: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10153661102761788 Interesting to note that at about 1:18 you can see the touch screen on Mike's keyboard which lists a bunch of songs/tempos, and I'll Be Gone is among them...I really doubt it's being played at this point but the fact that it's in there means they must have at least rehearsed it at some point.

As far as I can tell Phoenix exclusively plays root notes on ALITS. Take the bottom note of Mike's guitar parts and you've pretty much got it.

It's literally been at least half a decade since I've heard of even the slightest indication that LP isn't happy with WBR. Once Rob Cavallo took over the company after Tom Whalley retired, it was pretty much settled. LP and Rob have gotten along great over the years, hell Rob was one of the co-founders of the failed Level 7 project that Chester was also involved in way back in like 2005. The issues LP had with WBR during the lead-up to Minutes to Midnight had everything to do with Tom Whalley and his horrendously outdated business models. Once he was out of the picture, those issues went away immediately.

Not sure about sizes, but Chester had 2 rack toms and 2 floor toms, while Brad had 2 floor toms and a snare. I don't know exactly what Rob ended up playing on WTCFM but I know the other two drum parts, so I could probably figure it out by process of elimination with some work...

Yeah, BlizzCon offers a bunch of in-game perks to people who buy virtual tickets. I know there's been an exclusive Hearthstone cardback in the past, for example.

Fake, the tracklisting on Discogs doesn't even match the actual tracklisting. There's no song called "Looking in Your Eyes" anywhere on there. The last track "We Crashed Breathing" does have vocals on it, clearly not Chester though. Cool EP anyway though.

The live recording comes from a concert by the full band that those two guys play with. Not sure where or when it was recorded exactly. There's a clip of the two of them playing on the music video set on Frat Party though.

Pretend to Be wasn't recorded (or at least finished) until 2008.

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...)