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Literally the first time I've seen a microphone in front of him all tour. Actually, looking at the setlist, that's the only song in there that he would sing backups on anyway, so I guess it's not too big of a deal. I just definitely remember not seeing him do that the first few shows. Yeah, Brad hasn't been doing the keyboard parts since he hurt his back. I think it's because he doesn't want to climb the stairs up to where Mike's keyboard is (he's been staying on the lowest level of the stage at all times the last few shows). I noticed that Rob's ride cymbal looks a little smaller than what I remember, I know he had a 21" ride at one point but it looks like he may have gone down to the more "standard" 20" one. Some more guitar stuff: -Brad's playing guitar on Blackout now, which is funny because there isn't actually guitar in it (he used to play keys/drums on it)! He just strums an E octave at an eighth note rhythm during the last part of the song. -During the encore, Brad's playing a PRS on several songs that he typically would play a Strat on: Until It's Gone, A Light That Never Comes, and Lost in the Echo. He played these songs on a Strat for the first couple shows of the tour, but switched at one of the Russia shows. I'm guessing it's related to the issues he was having with the EBow on the No More Sorrow intro to UIG - an EBow works a lot easier on a guitar with humbucking pickups. Still, that doesn't explain why he wouldn't switch to the Strat after UIG, he has plenty of time to...might be another back injury-related thing, he may want to minimize his guitar changes.

*Edit* Nevermind, not worth potentially going to jail for what I WANT to say to you. But let's just put it this way, I've never attacked someone's personal life just because I was butthurt that they called me out on something stupid I said. You, on the other hand...well, the post is quoted now. And you're apparently in the minority because a LOT of people have pointed out how much I've toned it down over the last couple years. I used to go on tirades almost every day. Maybe that's just because the LP fanbase is older on average now and there aren't as many idiots around though.

Someone with 2 million Twitter followers is "looking for attention" by retweeting an account with 30,000 followers. Yeah, okay.

Ahh, so they're re-airing other performances in between bands. I see.

Are you guys sure about the stream times? Kaiser Chiefs aren't even on yet and LP's supposed to be starting in an hour according to what's posted here.

Aaaaand the whole "Auto Tune pulling Chester's voice to the wrong notes" issue in GATS is back, after it was fixed for the Russia shows. That's a head-scratcher...

2 album cycles in a row? Really? Dick move.

ATS Arena tour had a playlist of a bunch of songs pre-show. A lot of them were songs that were also in rotation on LP's iHeartRadio station at the time. I don't remember what the last one before the show every night was though. Song after the show ended was the Bluegrass Tribute to Linkin Park version of One Step Closer, which was also used as the post-show music on the Dead By Sunrise tour. The only other pre-show music I can recall for sure is Something I Can Never Have by Nine Inch Nails, which was used throughout 2004.

LP's contract with Warner Bros. was redone in 2006, that's a big part of why Minutes to Midnight took so long. It hasn't been re-structured again since then. It wouldn't have any influence on why the webcasts mostly stopped in 2007 and seem to be returning this year.

Great, so all that hype about Recharge being an LP Facebook game that you didn't have to have a stupid smartphone/tablet to play is out the window now. Should've seen this coming when they went months without updating the game, but it's bullshit that all the time/potentially money Facebook players invested in the game was all for nothing. Probably just LP sucking up to Apple because they're pissed about them using Microsoft-powered gear on stage lately.

Pretty sure it's just one performance.

Could easily just be a one-off show with no STP touring plans. Doesn't necessarily impact LP.

Knew about that the day after the Tucson show. It's on the Tucson show page.

http://www.guitarworld.com/interview-linkin-park-guitarist-brad-delson-talks-new-album-hunting-party#slide-3 Interview with Brad about the new album, goes over a lot of stuff that we've heard before, but at the very end, there's an interesting quote regarding the band's touring plans: Does this mean the band will be doing a second U.S. tour shortly after Carnivores? Perhaps a fall/winter arena tour?

Guitar and bass on Rebellion were both done by Daron.

Brad's in time with Rob just fine on GATS. It's Chester who loses the rhythm.

Like most 20-something Americans at 3 in the afternoon on a Tuesday, I was at work. Sound-wise, this song sounds about like what I expected it to. LP vocals over a SOAD-ish instrumental. Not a bad thing, just the predictable outcome of having Daron involved. Rob once again drums his ass off on this one. Very well-produced song for as heavy as the instrumental is, but not in an overproduced, "Avenged Sevenfold-esque" manner (I'll probably get some crap for saying that, but c'mon, A7X has more polished production than half of the pop artists out there these days...). Vocals are solid all around. What REALLY pushes this song over the edge and makes it my favorite of the four released so far though, is the lyrics. These are by FAR the best lyrics on the songs we've heard. Nice to hear a meaningful social commentary-type song from the band that isn't over a soft Hands Held High kind of instrumental for a change.

Given past history with this festival, I'll believe LP is being streamed when I see it.

Absolutely no way in hell.

The lyric change happened in St. Petersburg, not Moscow. Figured they'd keep it that way, but I guess not. Texted Mark that it happened in St. Petersburg, posted about it in the St. Petersburg thread...and he somehow thought I was talking about Moscow?

GATS is too long, it'd eat up their entire time slot. They'll probably play it but it won't be one of the two songs that are aired.

Guessing they'll be playing UIG and Wastelands. Glad we'll have another proshot of a couple of the new songs.

Another note: Starting with this show, Mike changed the lyrics to Encore from "cookin' raw with the Brooklyn boy" to "cookin' raw with the L.A. boys." Makes sense since Jay-Z isn't playing the song with them.

I've never been 100% sure that the part at the end of Robot Boy is guitar or not. I'd say this confirms that it's not, but then again, Robot Boy definitely DOES have bass and drums in it, and Phoenix/Rob don't take part in the live version either. The whole track is a straight playback of the album instrumental except for Mike's piano part and the synth solo.

Some updates to this show: -None of Joe's samples in A Light That Never Comes were working. -Chester came in too early during the What I've Done extended bridge and threw the whole song off for a moment, but the band recovered.