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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.

I'm confused how the Xero (4-track) tape would be "after the band started coming together" when Rhinestone is the only track that features anyone other than Mike and Mark. Maybe they just did Reading My Eyes/Stick N Move/Fuse as the first batch of 3 songs, then added Rhinestone later, and that's what they're thinking of?

The last time I brought up the fact that DVDs still account for an overwhelming majority of physical video media sales, people tried to argue that it doesn't matter lol.

Full Roxy 2004 performance (LP-only songs + both run-throughs of the Collision Course set) Full Detroit 2003/MTV $2 Bill set Smokeout Festival 2003 Full Live 8 2005 set Full Summer Sonic 2006 set There's a LOT more proshot stuff to choose from for the Meteora era than for HT. They have an abundance of shows that were never released in complete form from that tour, so I leaned in that direction. Stuff like Rock Am Ring 2004 and a Projekt Revolution 2004 show are pretty much guaranteed to be on there if they do a Meteora set though.

High Voltage on LPU 2.0 is UNcensored. It was an odd exception.

I'm confident that it's Mark on vocals on Rhinestone as well and Mike either forgot about it or was thinking of the LPU demo version.

PTS.OF.ATHRTY and PLC.4 MIE HAED were remixed by other artists, while KRWLNG and BY_MYSLF were done in-house by Mike, yet we have Crawling/By Myself multitracks and not POA/APFMH. I don't think that has anything to do with it.

I know this is mostly just her making up the accompaniment on the spot and she flubs the lyrics quite a bit, but if she polished this up it'd have a hell of a lot of potential as a properly recorded cover. Also, I've seen her use them plenty of times by now, but the Mimu Gloves are by far the coolest piece of music technology I've seen invented in my lifetime.

The second one is fake for sure. I wouldn't necessarily write the other one off based on slight jewel case variations, just because those things break so often people are bound to have replaced them (I think about one out of every 10 CDs in my collection has at least had the front half of the jewel case replaced, easy to break the hinges). It's also not unheard of for LPU merch to swap manufacturers in the middle of a run either, so they may have had a different jewel case supplier at some point.

I HIGHLY doubt that instrumental was made "for the lols," because that would mean the instrumental would have been written with the vocal in mind. That's not how their songwriting process worked back then. That instrumental was probably made months before Chester ever sang over it.

I mean, he just spent about six comments going off about me in a Facebook group I'm not even in today, so...

This is basically me, with the added wrinkle that I went to college with their drummer and he's a really good guy, so I can't say anything TOO bad about them publicly, lmao.

If it's not functioning as a vocal part in the mix, it should be in the instrumental. The opening line to Nobody Can Save Me is "I'm dancing with my demons," not "WEHH YA HEE EEE EH THE EHH," for instance.

Please just have a consistent production team for the entire album this time. Preferably Esjay and Lucas.

I thought I pointed this out years ago, but this isn't a typo. The text in question is "Additional Pro Tools by Joe Hand" in reference to My December, which was recorded in Nashville. Joe Hand is a Nashville-area producer. https://joehand.com/producer

Really love the mix on the Family Values 2001 CD.

Mike's rap verse incorporates parts of Vivaldi's Four Seasons just like the majority of the rest of the track does, so that was almost definitely recorded specifically for the song. Chester's section (which Mike plays guitar and does the "breathe, breathe" backing vocals on) certainly sounds like it's basically an unfinished Linkin Park demo. It's the only part of the song that doesn't use anything from Four Seasons.