Astat

There is no legal precedent on the fucking planet that would result in someone being sued for mentioning a goddamn song title. Adam practically wiped Walter Daniel off the Internet for leaking What Are You Worth, but people still talk about it all the time with no repercussions. Song titles are not legally enforceable intellectual property, there are COUNTLESS instances of multiple songs existing under the same title for this reason. Not only are you lying, you don't have a fucking clue what you're talking about either.

Further update: There are definitely two versions of Bleed It Out (not sure why, it was only ever in one game). The empty "drums 3" track referenced earlier exists because it would be the toms track, but there aren't any toms in the song. The vocals are also isolated from the backing track on that version (as mentioned). I hear nothing different about the guitar tracks in either version though.

Either the 9-track .mogg I just found is completely different from what you're talking about, or the tracks in your version are horribly named/have been combined in some other manner (I'd appreciate some clarification though - the modified date on the file I found is from 2011, so I may have something completely different). Keeping in mind that it's originally just "Linkin Park - Bleed It Out 1," "Linkin Park - Bleed It Out 2," etc. when you extract the .mogg channels, here's what they are: 1. Kick 2. Snare 3. Cymbals L 4. Cymbals R 5. Bass 6. Guitar L 7. Guitar R 8. Vocals/Additional Instruments L 9. Vocals/Additional Instruments R None of the drum tracks are blank, the cymbal tracks just have very little in them (some hi-hat during the first verse/chorus and some cymbals during the bridge). I hear no difference in the guitar at the end, either.

So how much is Sean paying you to be his puppet anyway? You've even started talking like him. (Mostly kidding, but the sooner you get the Geki treatment around here the better, tbh)

That's Mike's folder of guitar sound presets in the Axe FX. First are the LP live show sounds, then what looks like album sounds from The Hunting Party. The rest are general preset tones.

She Couldn't without the sample wouldn't be a big deal because anybody who wanted to could grab the same clip from B-Boy Document '99 and edit it into the song in like 5 minutes if they wanted to. I'm more curious about what would potentially happen with Pictureboard since we don't have a previous reference point for what it's "supposed" to sound like. I don't even see the relevance in trying to tie this to a significant date to Chester when it's an album anniversary. This was going to happen in some form this year whether Chester was still here or not. Not everything Linkin Park does from now until the end of time has to exist inside a bubble of being a memorial to Chester. I'm sure there will be some stuff that serves as a tribute to him in the package, but that's not the reason the entire project exists.

https://www.linkinparkguitar.com/apps/blog/show/47939516-3-10-new-remix-new-mike-guitar-tabs-update https://www.linkinparkguitar.com/apps/blog/show/48016429-3-27-youtube-updates-tab-updates-new-guitars- https://twitter.com/astatslpvids/status/1251358213414555651 https://twitter.com/astatslpvids/status/1255350869832470530 https://twitter.com/astatslpvids/status/1256476580869701633 https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugz5uvdHhjN9o1Dt6fd4AaABCQ Since apparently three tweets, two blog entries, a Youtube community post, and the general fact that the links on my website and in my Youtube videos have gradually been being updated over the past ~7 weeks isn't enough to get people to realize I was moving my tabs off the LPL server, I've taken the liberty of recreating the guitar and bass tabs folders on the LPL server and sticking the following text file in both of them: http://lplive.net/astat/Guitar_tabs/READ ME.txt Maybe that will finally be enough...maybe.

Damn, he got banned before I even noticed he was back this time. 😂

It's had Chester's name in the songwriting credits since it was added to the BMI database like ten years ago.

https://imgur.com/a/C1tMeV4 Hi Geki!

Generally speaking, it seemed like once they had an instrumental recording of any of those early demos, they kept that as the basic track under all subsequent versions of the song and would mostly just record new vocals as the lyrics went through revisions. They'd overdub different parts as needed, depending on when the actual song arrangements changed and stuff like that, but it was pretty rare for them to record an entirely new demo version of a song without using anything from the previous version. Like if you compare the various versions of Esaul, Super Xero, etc., they primarily use all the same beats and guitar tracks. The 9-track demo Rhinestone and the LPU 12 Forgotten demo are the exact same track as far as I can tell, although it's been a while since I compared them. I'm assuming there's an equivalent version of the LPU 11 Esaul with Mark Wakefield on vocals, which was probably recorded around the same time as the Zomba sampler version of Rhinestone. The same is probably true of stuff like Pictureboard and Slip. I think the band started the process of doing demos for an album in '98 and it carried through the whole process of Mark leaving and them auditioning new singers, then the first stuff they did with Chester was just dubbing him over tracks they already had. So realistically for any of the pre-HT demos you could have different elements within one take of a song that date between sometime in 1998 and early 2000. I think that might actually be the source of some of Mike's "1998 vs. 1999" confusion, because some of the tracks we have with Chester were probably started in 1998, he just put his vocals on them later.

Seems to be blocked worldwide. Record labels blocking material on official artist accounts is my favorite illustration of how fucking absurd the music business is these days. Curious what the WMG claim is for though, considering Papa Roach isn't on WMG.

In no particular order: 1. Releasing Live in Texas as a DVD instead of any of their headlining tours during the Meteora era. Yeah it was the first time they played stadiums, but that really didn't mean much when they were only half full when LP (the third band out of five on the bill) took the stage. *BONUS: The "cutting 5 songs from the Live in Texas CD tracklisting and releasing them as the LPU 3 CD" debacle was downright insulting to their fan club. 2. Doing Hybrid Theory in its entirety as a one-off at Download Festival instead of the originally-planned Hybrid Theory-themed club tour (and by extension, not playing several songs from HT more than once on the THP cycle, even though they spent significant time rehearsing them). 3. Cutting the Living Things touring cycle so short. 4. Discontinuing the DSP program/not bothering to go back and release shows that they had previously recorded (stuff like Wantagh 2007 when they worked things out to release the show from the same venue in 2008, for example). *BONUS: Running a "what was your favorite song from Projekt Revolution" poll on LP.com without telling anyone what they intended to use that information for, and then using the top 10 results for the LPU 7 CD, which consisted entirely of material pulled from DSPs that everyone already exchanged online at a time when the band encouraged it...that was an even bigger insult to the LPU than the LPU 3 situation. BTW, I correctly predicted what the poll was being used for the same day it went up, and nobody believed me... 5. Rebooting the LP.com/LPU community every few years with different hosting companies after bailing on Sparkart in 2009. Even to this day, their online community has never recovered to being anything close to what it was during the pre-2009 era.

I mean, with Mike being the primary songwriter for LP, haven't they always largely sounded like "Mike's stuff" anyway? It's just that "Mike's stuff" can cover such a wide array of things that it isn't a specific enough phrase to even begin to narrow down what something's actually going to sound like. But for example you could take Running from My Shadow and put Chester on it instead of Grandson and nobody would ever question it being anything but a Linkin Park song. The two biggest variables in the band's sound moving forward are going to be whether they continue to work with outside songwriters like they did on One More Light or not, and whether they choose to work with additional vocalist(s) to continue having a multi-singer dynamic in the band or move to Mike being the primary vocalist on his own. Random thought: I expect that if they bring in a new singer it will be presented in the same way "Queen + Paul Rodgers/Adam Lambert" is, where they purposely keep the new singer's name separate to symbolize the fact that they can't ever truly "replace" Chester. They even already kind of did that by using the "Linkin Park and Friends" name for the tribute show.

Potential lead on another Xero/Hybrid Theory show date, this article on Lee Cadena's death mentions that the band played at The Mint in Hollywood at some point. We currently have no shows listed at that location. https://www.hometownstation.com/santa-clarita-news/community-news/music-industry-veteran-frank-lee-cadena-dies-245680

Thanks Pooch, always nice to hear from you!

Thanks!

Congratulations.

My body is ready for more demos Geki will make a new account to claim are fake.

Ugh, I hope the rock media doesn't jump to conclusions and run with this as "FEVER 333 FRONTMAN TO REPLACE CHESTER BENNINGTON?!" like I'm expecting them to.

Only if you don't consider pop music to be a valid art form. In the End was as much a reflection of the contemporary pop music landscape in 2001-2002 as a song like Hello or See You Again is of the contemporary pop music landscape over the past few years, and there were people saying the same thing about Linkin Park having top 40 success back then too. 🤷‍♂️ Anyway, if ITE keeps up its current rate it will hit a billion around the end of June.

And people are still trying to argue that this is no different than how LP did album releases. LP would have like, 3 or 4 actual different editions of the album, plus a few merch bundles. This isn't even on the same planet, lol. Also their album leak response is reminding me of the time Adam had a Twitter meltdown over the Dead By Sunrise album "leaking"...on the day it was officially released in Japan. Lol.

Sean's got way more money than me, clearly thinks he knows more than me (or anybody else for that matter), and rewrites history as he sees fit. He doesn't need my help to promote an album. And considering I've deleted all but like 3 members of my own family off of Facebook and mostly cut them off from seeing my daughter for being far less ideologically insufferable than he is, I wouldn't particularly want to. There are certain people you couldn't pay me enough to associate with, and he's one of them. My thoughts on Sean Dowdell as a person predate the promo for Amends, Chester's death, or Tattooed Millionaire, by the way. People need to get this straight: I would have zero interest in giving this man my money even if Chester was alive today and enthusiastically promoting this album alongside him. My mind was made up long ago, the drama surrounding Amends has only served to reinforce my opinion.

I think the whole braggadocio, "tough guy" rapping thing has always come across as kind of insincere from Mike because we all know what a giant teddy bear he is, lol. I'm sure it's coming from a sincere place on his end, having the clout and success to clap back at his naysayers, stuff like that. I just also would put Mike very close to the bottom of a list of people whose personalities would lead me to believe they'd actually "crack you over the head with a bottle of beer" or "burn this motherfucker down," lol.

I think the confusion here might derive from Apple Music/iTunes's tendency to label single releases with more than 1 track as "EPs." Someone involved with the process probably saw that terminology somewhere along the way and got mixed up.