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Setlist says New Divide is shortened, LPL says it's not. Also "new abridged" Crawling but we're reporting it as the same one they've been playing. Hmm...probably a couple things that will end up being corrected later after Youtube videos surface, which has been typical this touring cycle. FTI replaces POA, APFMH replaces Rebellion (if we're talking "full song for full song" replacements), shortened LITE and UIG dropped. I'm predicting that Set B will get UIG (full song) and War instead of Final Masquerade and Wastelands (Rebellion may be gone altogether). I think they'll keep With You in Set B and only play FTI in Set A. APFMH could go either way...depends on how they arrange the encore and what shortened songs they drop/move. Highly doubt they add a Set C based on Mike's pre-tour comments about keeping things relatively the same. BTW, there's still nothing in this setlist that fits the Brad rehearsal picture, regardless of how much Joze keeps trying to antagonize me. There are G5-shaped chords at the 3rd fret in the chorus of APFMH, but it's definitely not a Strat song, plus it's tuned down half a step.

Just DTA.

Look, I can't say with 100% certainty that they *WILL* play War. I'm not in the band, and we all know that weird shit can happen. But I AM 100% confident that the Instagram picture shows Brad playing War, and I highly doubt they would have posted that picture and teased a new song if they weren't sure it was being played on the upcoming tour. If they end up not playing it, it must have been a last-minute decision. Or maybe the "new song" is a cover of all nine parts of Shine On You Crazy Diamond, complete with Joe Hahn on saxophone. This will take up approximately half of the setlist, so the remainder of the show will consist of every other song in the LP discography shortened to 15 seconds.

Well, the new song they're debuting can't be Keys to the Kingdom, All for Nothing, Mark the Graves, or A Line in the Sand based on that one picture of Brad, so... Not the first time they've re-tuned guitars for multiple purposes (although odd that it's being done with the primary Strat as opposed to the backup). When they play Somewhere I Belong in Set B, Mike and Brad are using their C# backup guitars re-tuned to Eb, since they don't have a dedicated Eb guitar in their rigs at present. When When They Come for Me (which is in standard tuning on a PRS) was in the set, Brad was using one of his Drop D PRS's with the low D tuned up. Maybe he's just using the primary Strat during rehearsals because he prefers it, and you don't have to deal with the pacing of a live show's guitar changes during rehearsals. Wouldn't be surprised at all to see the Rory Gallagher Strat make a return for War during the actual shows. An F9 chord in Drop D wouldn't be using the ring finger on the 5th fret like that, it'd be 3-3-5, not 3-5-5, which is clearly what Brad's playing. If it's in Drop D, he's playing the notes F, D, and G from low to high, which is an incredibly bizarre triad of notes that doesn't really fit any chord voicing in traditional music theory...the closest thing would be like an "upside-down" Gm7 chord, but even that's a stretch because the root note would be the top note of the chord, which basically never happens with a 3-or-more-note voicing. If you can find a Linkin Park song with a chord that bizarre in it, I'll give you a cookie... I'm really surprised by the amount of backlash I'm getting for knowing what the fuck I'm talking about.

Yep, because they'd totally be rehearsing a song they have no intention of playing during a 3-day cram session for a tour, and purposely take a picture of that specific song and post it on their Instagram with the caption "Brad rehearsing a new song for the upcoming tour." You think they go into rehearsals without their setlists already prepared, and just figure out what songs they're playing on the spot? Mike was doing the Ableton Live sequencing for the Carnivores Tour setlists 3 MONTHS in advance. If they're rehearsing War (which I've already proven they are), they intend to play it on this tour, and have for quite some time. Also, note the presence and placement of the word "almost" in the post you just quoted...

War is literally the only song in the entire Linkin Park discography that's played in standard tuning on a Strat that uses a 3rd fret G5 chord. Unless it's a cover or a song that's entirely unknown to us, the only thing Brad could possibly be playing in that picture is War. He wouldn't have been "just messing around" either because the guitar he's playing on is normally drop-tuned, so he wouldn't have tuned it up to standard unless it was required for something.

KT Tape. Commonly used for all sorts of repetitive strain injuries, probably related to carpal tunnel syndrome or some kind of tendinitis in Brad's case.

A few things... 1. Yes, it's possible to play War in standard, there aren't any D chords anywhere in the song. Main riff is E5-C5-G5, turnaround is F#5-B5-C5. War is a Chester-written song, and Chester typically writes in standard tuning. I know War is one of 2 songs from THP that I haven't tabbed yet, but this doesn't come as any surprise to me, I've been under the assumption that it was played in standard tuning from the day the album leaked. 2. Every other song from The Hunting Party that hasn't been played live can be ruled out from this one picture. KTTK requires Drop D. All for Nothing requires Drop D for the rhythm parts, Brad could feasibly play the lead parts in standard but that's simply not something that's going to happen, as Drop D is Brad's "default tuning" on his Strat and he's not going to change to another tuning if he doesn't need to. Mark the Graves requires Drop D. Drawbar is in standard, but the whole song is E minor arpeggios, and why would they play THAT of all things anyway? ALITS requires Drop D. Unless this is a complete curveball and "new song" means something "new" that's not from THP, it HAS to be War. 3. There is *NOTHING* in the Carnivores sets that's played in standard tuning, much less on a Strat. Every song Brad's played on a Strat to date (that actually made it into the live set) is in Drop D with the exception of Jornada del Muerto, which is in standard. They're obviously not bringing that one back, and that one doesn't have any powerchords in it anyway, it's all octaves. The only other "Strat songs" that are in standard tuning are I'll Be Gone and Roads Untraveled, neither of which have G5 chords in them, and neither of which stand a snowball's chance in hell of being added to the live set at this point. TL;DR - There is no reason Brad's Strat would be in standard tuning for anything they've previously played on this touring cycle, and nothing else that could be added from the LP discography fits. Unless it's a cover or a COMPLETELY new song, it *has* to be War.

No official explanation was ever given. Chester flat-out refused to discuss it when asked, and the only thing anyone else said about it was Mike saying "Chester felt terrible" when talking about the show in one of the Linkin Logs.

Wind-Up wanted Amy to ask Mike because they were recording Fallen at NRG at the same time LP was recording Meteora. Amy didn't think the song needed rap vocals in the first place and didn't want to ask him, because it was basically just a case of Wind-Up trying to make Evanescence's first single sound like LP since they were the "big thing" at the time. Amy talked to Chester about it and asked him for advice, he told her to do what she wanted and not listen to the label, so she never asked Mike. Then the label gave Amy a big "fuck you" and brought in Paul McCoy from 12 Stones (another Wind-Up band) to do the vocals she didn't want them to force into the song in the first place.

The Mark Wakefield credit on OSC is flat-out a mistake. OSC was one of the last songs written for Hybrid Theory and wasn't even conceived until after Chester had been in the band for close to a year (the song was written as an angry response to the band's frustration with trying to re-arrange Stick N' Move into the song that became Runaway). I doubt Emilie Haynie was involved with ALITS. Most of his writing credits that aren't his own music are on songs that he produced, and per the THP booklet he only produced Final Masquerade. Weirder things have happened though.

Step 1: Export the samples you want to use (or just pull them out of the Open Labs folder, a lot of them are in regular audio formats to begin with) Step 2: Load said samples into a DAW that's actually functional and intuitive Step 3: ??? Step 4: PROFIT!!!

If you're referring to live performances, yes. Joe's backing vocals are clearly audible during the last chorus of WFTE on most performances, for example (he does the higher harmony that doubles Mike's vocal line). There are numerous instances on ATS/Living Things songs where they're singing ALONG with a backing track, but they're never lip syncing. Studio-wise, most of the vocals are layers of Mike and Chester. Other members (including Rob, who doesn't do any vocals live) sing studio backing vocals for the gang vocal sections of Hands Held High, Iridescent, The Catalyst, The Messenger, In My Remains, Lies Greed Misery, All for Nothing, and Guilty All the Same. Not all gang vocal sections include all 6 members, but there are at least 4 of them any time they do them.

For the third time in this thread, and second time I've said it, Rocksmith does not use multitracks. They physically do not exist within the game's coding. They do this on purpose to make licensing easier to acquire - they would have never gotten permission to do things like the Jimi Hendrix pack if they required multitracks to do it. I almost, ALMOST wonder if someone at Ubisoft used my tabs as a reference when charting these songs. When I first tabbed GATS, I actually had that chord at the first fret instead of the second because the guitar is a little more in the background in that section of the song, plus it's a pretty quick series of chord changes, so I wasn't totally sure. Once the multitracks from Project Spark came out, I immediately noticed my mistake and corrected it. Maybe they were looking at an older version of my tabs... I know me saying this sounds kind of conceited, but it wouldn't be the first time a major company has "borrowed" from my LP-related resources without asking me (I'm looking at you, Premier Guitar...).

Yeah, I'd LOVE to hear the original acoustic demo of Skin to Bone.

Giving credit where it's due, these charts are actually VERY accurate. Other than the bass on In the End being transcribed for a 4-string, I don't see anything that looks noticeably "off."

Correct, Rocksmith doesn't use any type of multitracked audio whatsoever, your guitar part just "plays along" with the studio track. Essentially the same thing I do with my Youtube videos (except Rocksmith;s charts probably won't be as accurate as mine).

Everything the band has ever released in an official format (including the DSP/"LP Archive" shows you speak of) is ultimately under Warner...

I'd say so, Fat wasn't very big and probably didn't play there more than once, being from the UK and all. The fact that it fits in with Grey Daze's most "active" period makes it pretty solid too. It's a lot more to go on than we have for some other shows that are already in the live guide.

I believe it was in one of the between-song interviews at the Kevin and Bean Breakfast show: http://lplive.net/shows/db/2010/20100907

Mike used the "vocoder" (in quotes because I'm not sure what the exact effect used is, it may or may not technically be a vocoder) on The Requiem (from offstage save for the first ATS show in New York) and the Numb outro on the ATS tours. He also used a vocoder for the album recording of Fallout, but when they performed it live I'm pretty sure the vocoder parts were a backing track and he just sang over them with his normal microphone.

LP Recharge: Wastelands was released for Android earlier this month (it was previously only available for iPad). There are probably 3 people on the planet who still remember that this game exists, but I figured it was worth mentioning.

Not sure if that's ever happened, but I'm sure the Ableton Live automation is largely to blame for the increase in "false starts" with songs over the past few years.

The Stockroom is Mike's home studio. First stuff I'm aware of being recorded there was a bunch of Reanimation material.

I have both versions of Given Up, but I've still never been able to find the "version 2" of OSC, even though I know it's out there. I think "version 1" is actually just an improperly ripped version of "version 2," because the drums are mixed all weird, the bass drum is on one side of the mix and the snare is on the other, which is completely wrong.