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That's the extended clapping intro that comes out of the end of GATS. Requiem/Catalyst, GATS, Given Up start basically confirmed.

Show was supposed to start an hour and 40 minutes ago...and not a peep from anybody, despite Comic Con being the #1 trending topic on Twitter at the moment. WTF.

I'm REALLY surprised the band/management hasn't done anything about Pellington leaking all this info about the Final Masquerade video throughout the process of making it.

Something to keep in mind: 5 songs from a new album in a live set from a band that's on their 6th album is a LOT. Typically the longer a band is around, the fewer songs they play from each new album. It's a simple logistical matter, really. They have a larger catalog of songs to choose from, there's a larger number of songs they'll consider "must-plays" for one reason or another, and you can't exactly just make your live show 30+ minutes longer every time you release an album. There are a LOT of older bands that will put out an album and only play the lead single from it live...ever. KISS's last few albums are a great example of this. They released Psycho Circus in 1998, which had 10 tracks on it. Only 4 of them were ever played live - 3 of them on the album's tour in 1998/1999, and the 2 that weren't the lead single were permanently dropped after that tour. They randomly added one more song for a few shows in 2004, but it was quickly dropped as well. Their next album Sonic Boom came out in 2009. 11 tracks on this one, but again, only 3 of them were ever played live, and only the lead single survived past that album's tour (and even that song has been played VERY sporadically since then). Their most recent album Monster came out in 2012, which had 12 tracks on it, and they actually DID play 6 songs from it live...but half of those songs were played 6 or fewer times in total, and again, only the lead single made it for more than one tour (it's been played 112 times to date, the second-highest total for any song from that album is...18). This is a trend that's only going to continue as the band gets older, guys. The days of hearing every song from the newest Linkin Park album on tour are LONG gone. Look at how many songs from A Thousand Suns and Living Things are left in the live set that haven't been shortened/altered drastically - only two (Burn It Down and Waiting For the End). Were you a fan of Victimized? Hope you got to see it on the last tour, because they'll probably never play it again. This is going to be the norm now. They simply WILL NOT drop stuff like In the End, One Step Closer, Numb, What I've Done, Bleed it Out, etc. to play stuff like Mark the Graves, I'll Be Gone, All For Nothing, etc...nor should they. With a fanbase this volatile, the big singles are probably the only common thread left that will keep putting butts in the seats.

Why is "lol Mike's trolling" the automatic response every time he says something people don't want to hear? When Mike's trolling it's usually obvious to people who actually understand trolling, and there is NOTHING to gain by trolling about something like this.

They were also only playing 2 songs from Living Things on the European Tour, then added 3 for HCT. This time they were already playing 3 and added 2. Plus we know they rarely consider intros/interludes to be "songs" so the true number could really be as much as 4 if The Summoning/Drawbar show up somehow.

Well this topic is certainly going in circles...

Yeah, all of the concerts at the State Fairgrounds go through their own ticketing agency.

Or sooner.

If there isn't a Tumblr/Reddit/something of Geki quotes, there should be. Anyway, I've pretty much given up hope of STP ever playing the other 3 songs off High Rise.

General Admission = Pit. No seats.

Personally, I think there IS something coming and management is just going into damage-control mode because Mike let something slip that he wouldn't have if he'd known he was being filmed.

I'll be there, pit. Also, advice for anybody going to this show who's never been to the Minnesota State Fair: Get there EARLY. Gates for the fair open at 6 AM. This is the largest state fair in the country. It WILL be packed, traffic WILL be crazy, and unless you get there at the asscrack of dawn, you probably WILL end up paying a total stranger $20 to park your car in their front yard a mile from the fairgrounds. It's that insane down there. Katie and I are planning on getting up at 4 AM and spending the whole day down there. You also do have to purchase State Fair admission if you're going to the show. It was mentioned on the site I bought my tickets through, but not sure if everybody's aware of it.

My biggest gripe with Living Things is that a lot of the songs on it sound like they SHOULD be solid rock songs, but the production on the album pushed everything in more of a pop-oriented direction. Just listen to how the guitars on the live version of Lost in the Echo punch you in the face, then compare it to how fizzy and weak they sound on the album. They pushed all the synths and sampled beats to the front of the mix like they did on A Thousand Suns, but Living Things wasn't nearly as progressive of an album, so the songs just came out sounding like generic pop-rock. It reminds me a lot of the production on Chris Cornell's Scream. The songs were mostly good, but Timbaland doesn't know crap about producing a rock record, so that record constantly sounds like it can't decide if it wants to be a rock album or an R&B album.

At what point do you hear it? And even if a clip from one of the movie songs is in Inside Living Things, it doesn't necessarily make it Warm Spell by default. We know Warm Spell was a Living Things demo, but we don't know if Ammosick was still in play during the Living Things sessions, or what period the track White Noise originates from. It could still be any of those 3 really.

The only one that's confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt is that the trailer song is Luna. The rest is just people making assumptions.

Harman's pushing a new line of audio equipment with "Signal Doctor" technology built into it, which they claim can "restore" the lost frequencies in compressed music (which I don't believe for a second). I wouldn't be surprised if this "documentary" is nothing more than a long-form advertisement for Signal Doctor.

I say just update the venue website links to the best of our ability and periodically check on them to see if any of them have changed. We don't get a lot of reports on outdated venue links in the Site Correction thread, so I think that's an indication that people aren't using the links much. Probably no harm in having some of the links go outdated from time to time then, maybe it's something we can review every 6 months or so. I'd be willing to help too.

The documentary is made by Harman. Harman makes high-end audio equipment. LP are the newest spokespeople for Harman. This is all about money and trying to sell a company's products. A preview of this documentary was shown before the LP Harman show in Vegas back in January, BTW. Nobody seemed to really take notice for some reason.

Releases album after album with completely brickwalled mastering and doesn't bat an eyelash. Plays major role in documentary that basically consists of a bunch of nitpicking over lossy audio bitrates, claiming that's what's ruining the quality of music these days. That's the Shinoda Way!

Nothing like that would be done without the band's input.

It'd be a plugin on his console just like anything else used on the vocal chain, so yes.

I believe the audio on the DVD is all from the Dallas show. The CD audio/LPU 3 CD tracks are a mixed bag though, there are some different takes on there than what's on the DVD (check out Don't Stay on the DVD vs. the LPU 3 version for example - different speech by Mike during the break before the bridge).

Best "show" to ever take place on two different days in two different locations! LIT isn't nearly as "touched-up" as a lot of people seem to think though. No studio overdubs whatsoever, just normal post-production work like they do at the mixing/mastering stage of any other official release. Last guitar smash was at the end of 2004. Brad tosses his guitar on the ground at the end of shows sometimes and a few of them have broken that way (and been repaired), but he doesn't do it on purpose.

Putting it on the album was an afterthought, the band probably assumed that Michael Bay would pick their song to be the movie's "main track" given their past relationship, and he threw them for a loop when he picked Imagine Dragons' submission instead. Remember that article from about 7-8 months ago where someone was hanging around the studio where LP was recording and mentioned them "mixing a song for a movie soundtrack?" That was Until It's Gone. I know the song title was on the tracking board in the THP teaser video, but that was shot so late in the process that the decision not to have it on Transformers 4 would have been made by then. So yeah, that's a big part of why UIG bugs me so much. They basically shoehorned a song that was recorded for an entirely different project into the tracklisting of their album that was recorded with a completely different mindset...and it shows. Outside of Final Masquerade (which is an infinitely better song), UIG has very little in common with anything else on the album.