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Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's actually doors 6:00/show 6:30. My tickets have a 6:30 start time printed on them. No specific mention of when doors open, but the event site says 30 minutes before the show.

I didn't think of this before, but could this potentially be a co-headlining tour? Maybe LP won't be playing last every night...

That was the only one Mike used on the album, according to interviews from when it came out.

Pooch.

This is exactly the same as any other live performance of Valentine's Day as far as I can tell...?

I HIGHLY doubt that a combination of pedals that produces such a trippy filtered/oscillating tremolo sound as the one heard on the outro solo on GATS would be used on more than one song. That's not a combination of pedals you just hook together for standard guitar tracks, that's something you come up with through a lot of experimentation trying to find a specific sound that you want to use on a specific part.

For all you guitarists out there, I'm pretty sure this photo Ethan Mates posted on his Instagram shows the pedals used for the solo at the end of GATS: http://instagram.com/p/kTMBTgiO0Z/ Photo is captioned "My trademark is my solos," and the pedals pictured would produce a very similar sound to the GATS end solo depending on the settings. Those pedals are a Devi Ever Truly Beautiful Disaster, an Earthquaker Devices Hummingbird, a Moogerfooger MURF, a Strymon BigSky, and a Strymon Mobius. That's over $1,800 of pedals for the solo on one song!

Typical so-called Linkin Park "fan" thought process: Heavy guitars = Hybrid Theory/Meteora = NU METAL ROXXX! Not-as-prominent guitars = Everything else = "New shitty techno LP," OMFG WHERE ARE DA GUITARZ BRAD DIDN'T DO ANYTHING ON THIS ALBUM

I hear it more commonly than any other post-Minutes to Midnight track. It's on at least a couple times a week up here, probably gets more airplay than any other Meteora song except for Somewhere I Belong. In fact, I should try and do a list of all the LP-related tracks I've heard on the radio... LP songs: Papercut One Step Closer Points of Authority Crawling Runaway In the End My December Enth e Nd My<Dsmbr Somewhere I Belong Lying From You Faint Breaking the Habit Numb Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying From You Numb/Encore Given Up Leave Out All the Rest Bleed it Out Shadow of the Day What I've Done New Divide Waiting For the End Iridescent (Transformers version) The Catalyst Lost in the Echo Burn it Down Lies Greed Misery A Light That Never Comes Guilty All the Same Other: Fort Minor - Remember the Name, Petrified, Where'd You Go Dead By Sunrise - Fire, Crawl Back In, Too Late, Let Down Z-Trip - Walking Dead X-Ecutioners - It's Goin' Down Motley Crue feat. Chester - Home Sweet Home The only actual singles I've never heard on the radio are Pts.Of.Athrty, From the Inside, We Made It, Burning in the Skies, and Castle of Glass. And as you can see, I've heard quite a few non-singles too.

If they play in Mexico, I hope they stay the hell away from the people who "organized" the Heaven & Hell festival.

Am I the only one who thinks there won't be any collabs on this tour?

Given the subject matter of The Mall, I'm kind of wondering if it hasn't been quietly cancelled due to the recent mall shooting in New Jersey. Time will tell, I suppose.

Purely speaking in terms of BPM, yes (unless there's something faster on the album that isn't listed on the paper). But again, BPM isn't exactly a good indicator of a song's style, or even how fast it "feels" at times. One of the fastest tracks in the LP catalog (also at 200 BPM) is none other than...Breaking the Habit. The softest song released on either of LP's first two albums was also the fastest.

The one in D Minor at 200 BPM. The only instance of an LP song changing tempo and/or key between demo and final version was Three Band Terror > Until it Breaks. Considering how much of LP's music is created (or at least "started") on a computer, plus the fact that they record all of their songs as demos before entering the final phase of recording (Rob has to either play along with an existing recording or a click track, after all), that kind of stuff is usually "locked in" very early in the process.

The chorus on OSC is all Chester on the studio version. I was pointing that out (along with Breaking the Habit) as an example of an "all-Chester song" back in 2007 when the entire LP community was losing their shit over how Mike didn't have a lot of vocals on Minutes to Midnight and therefore must be quitting the band.

Both of these are absolutely Chester. The vocal makeup of Hybrid Theory/Meteora-era Linkin Park was that Chester was the singer, and Mike was the rapper. No need to have Mike sing backup vocals in the studio, because Chester was the lead singer, and as anyone who's ever recorded harmonies knows, there's no voice in the world that you blend with better than your own. Mike only sang harmonies live for the sake of not leaving out vocal parts that were present on the albums. Chester even talks about this on LPTV 2007 or the Making of Minutes to Midnight (maybe both) when mentioning Mike singing on No Roads Left/In Between - "You've been singing harmonies live for years, why not try doing some singing in the studio?" It was a completely new thing at that point, save for So Far Away being a random anomaly from the pre-Hybrid Theory period (Mike also sang the ending of the non-Xero Forgotten demo, but that part is so low, I doubt Chester was capable of producing the notes, so Mike probably just sang that out of necessity).

Scott Koziol (Kottonmouth Kings) - bass on One Step Closer Ian Hornbeck - bass on Papercut, A Place for My Head, and Forgotten Kyle Christner (NoseDive) - bass on at least some of the Hybrid Theory EP (both he and Brad are credited with playing bass on the original pressing, but it doesn't specify who played on which songs) John 5 (Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie) - Guitar on Buy Myself Remix Mudrock - production on Carousel, And One, and Part of Me

Mike didn't do any actual singing vocals on Hybrid Theory or Meteora, they just credited him in the booklets the same way they credited the other 4 guys for backing vocals (despite none of them actually recording them).

Could have easily been the gang vocals on GATS, just saying.

...The exact same thing was said about What I've Done, The Catalyst, and Burn it Down. None of those tracks were album openers.

I saw Mark mention it on here a while back. Figured he's usually pretty good with his sources, hadn't heard anything from mine.

It's probably just a matter of logistics delaying the album release. In both cases, there was a European tour that preceded the album release date (I'm assuming the album release for LP6 will be after Europe, so they can do their usual promotional stuff without being busy with a bunch of live shows). They're apparently doing a MUCH more extensive series of rehearsals this time around though, starting in early April. They probably could release the album a month or so earlier than they are, but they'll be busy with other stuff.

The bridge only has one guitar part in it anyway. It's basically the second half of the intro, the choruses, the part between the first chorus and second verse, and the outro that have more than one part.

Missed it, the official lyrics were edited into the news post on LPA. Here's Rakim's verse according to those, although I think he may have changed a couple words here and there from what was written down: Can y'all explain What kind of land is this When a man has plans of being rich But the bosses plans are wealthy Dirty money scheme A clean split is nonsense It's insane Even corporate hands is filthy They talk team and take the paper route All they think about is bank accounts Assets and realty At anybody’s expense No shame with a clear conscience No regrets and guilt free They claim that ain't the way that they built me The smoke screen before the flame Knowin’ as soon as the dough or the deal peak They say it's time for things to change Rearrange like good product rebuilt cheap Anything if it's more to gain Drained, manipulated like artists, it's real deep Until no more remains But I'm still me Like authentic hip-hop and rock Til’ pop and radio and record companies killed me Try to force me to stray and obey And got the gall to say how real can real be You feel me, we'll see That green could be to blame Or greedy for the fame TV or a name The media, the game To me you're all the same You're guilty