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  1. All things considered, I'm VERY impressed with how Benjamin's played tonight. He not only knows the material, he knows the majority of the little variations Brad throws into the live versions as well, even down to Brad playing an add9 variation on the F# chord in the chorus of In the End when it's normally just a regular F#. He played about as well as Brad typically does these days, to be honest. The keyboard issues and the clusterfuck that was BID were much bigger issues. Hopefully Brad's alright.
  2. That performance was literally exactly the same as how they performed it on Carnivores in every way. No screwups.
  3. Haha, the band forgot whether they were playing the full or shortened version of BID, that was a trainwreck.
  4. Now Mike's keyboards are playing back at the wrong pitch on BID. What a mess this show's been.
  5. 100% confirmed that it's Benjamin on guitar - the solo at the end of Faint was played the way Benjamin plays it at soundcheck (Benjamin actually knows his scales and can come up with a solo that fits the end of Faint, unlike the garbage Brad's been playing for years).
  6. I highly doubt that. You probably saw Benjamin playing Brad's guitar. No video of Kurt on SOTD. Only happened at one show, confirmed by fans in attendance and addressed by Mike following the song (check the DSP). Mike on guitar at the end of ITE again, that's random.
  7. I doubt that they aren't letting him. Ted was on stage when he filled in for Phoenix, Kurt was on stage when he filled in for Chester on Shadow of the Day, Jeremy was on stage when he filled in for Brad in Japan.
  8. The guitar didn't have any problems whatsoever on Final Masquerade. Mike's keyboard was playing the wrong sounds.
  9. Ted filled in for Phoenix for a full show in Asia a few years ago,
  10. Bleh, got it working but the connection on this stream is SHIT. Getting about 5 seconds of playback, then about 20 seconds of buffering. Repeat ad nausea.
  11. Can't get Hola to work on Firefox...stuck in an endless loop that tells me to uninstall the version I currently have and install the current version...the version I have IS the current version. If my only other alternative is downloading Chrome, looks like I'm not watching this show.
  12. Coming from the guy who called Guilty All the Same bubblegum pop... This song gets a C- at best from me. The music box thing is cool, Chester sounds...alright...and I guess the drums are kind of neat although they're mostly just a rehash of the electro drums from The Catalyst, played on real drums. Terrible lyrics, mind-numbingly boring main guitar riff (the bridge is decent), arrangement sounds about 75% finished at best, and in general it just sounds like an incredibly forced attempt to write a heavy song with ATS-like electronics. Everything on THP beats this except for maybe UIG.
  13. Yep, it was initially reported that Joe would be directing Mall in the spring of 2011. I also don't get why people don't realize it's based on Eric Bogosian's book, as the very first news story that broke about it specifically said it was "a film adaptation of the Eric Bogosian novel of the same name." It's like the LP community latched on to "OMG Joe is directing a movie" and promptly forgot about everything else.
  14. Ammosick was an MTM/ATS demo that got rejected twice, Luna was one of the songs with samples included in Stagelight (meaning it's definitely LT or earlier), and Warm Spell was a demo title seen on a studio board during the LT sessions. Only White Noise was a previously-unknown track, and it still may date back a while. Ethan Mates' website mentions recording sessions for Mall as far back as October of 2012.
  15. 10 months in advance is WAY early for concert dates to be announced (or even leaked) under normal circumstances. With it being a big festival that requires more planning, I guess it's possible...but I'm extremely skeptical at this point.
  16. Shame it's not the full song.
  17. The specifics of this are way beyond my level of comprehension, but there's a LOT of stuff you can do with coding on Apple devices to adjust latency levels. I highly doubt the software OR hardware LP uses for their more tech-heavy stuff is just stock stuff that the general public can purchase. Mike is apparently a genius when it comes to computers, and Joe is into all kinds of crazy shit like circuit bending, so I'm sure between the two of them they have enough brain power to figure out how to make their devices do what they want. Joe's DJ tech Warren is really good with this kind of stuff too.
  18. You really can't try to cram this kind of documentary into 45 minutes and expect to adequately touch on everything. I'd love to see something styled like this documentary expanded into the ~2 hour range.
  19. The only thing I could think to ask Marc is for a general description of the footage he has (total run time, whether or not he filmed a live performance as well like has been speculated, how much rehearsal footage he has, etc.), and what ever became of the "Lockout" program the footage was originally intended for.
  20. I'm kind of surprised that for as many U.S. arena tours they've done, they've never played the Fargo Dome in North Dakota. It holds 19,000 people. I guess it's a tricky market when you've got Minneapolis/St. Paul less than 4 hours away, but lots of other big bands play there. It's not like Minnesota people are above driving up to Fargo for a concert...thanks to the movie Fargo, our state basically claims ownership of that city anyway.
  21. Based on the date of the Relative Degree show and the first Xero show not being until late 1997, I'm starting to think the assumed 1996 release date for the Xero tape is wrong. I doubt that in a span of 6 months, Relative Degree would have broken up, reformed as a new band with the addition of Mike/Joe/Phoenix, changed their name, written new songs, and recorded a demo. I bet the tape came out sometime in the middle of 1997.
  22. I think it's pretty likely that they were working on material they had previously started though. ALTNC was worked on in bits and pieces over the course of like a year, so I'd assume the rest of that batch of songs (however many there ultimately were) would have been done the same way.
  23. Mike brought it up in an online chat years ago (either LPU or Fort Minor), all he really said at the time was that they recorded it at the same time they were working on Enth e Nd. This is literally the first time I've ever seen any mention of it being recorded for an album, no idea where that came from. Calling it "warmup/preparation" for Reanimation really isn't correct either, they were just working on 2 songs during the same time period.
  24. To be fair, having worked in the non-profit fundraising industry and seen more numbers on this than I care to remember, an 80/20 split between how much goes to the cause and how much goes to the company itself is relatively good, in fact it's actually better than MFR's ratio of administrative costs vs. how much is spent on their causes - roughly 70-75% goes to the causes when you donate to them directly, based on their annual reports from the last few years. With that said, that means that if you donate to Chideo, 80% is going to MFR, and 70-75% of THAT is ultimately going to the charity. Why introduce a middleman that's only going to take another cut out of the money you're donating? It makes much more sense to just donate to MFR directly.
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