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Astat

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  1. Thanks Pooch, always nice to hear from you!
  2. My body is ready for more demos Geki will make a new account to claim are fake.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Following up on this six months later - turns out this isn't a legit instrumental. I'm in the process of tabbing this song and there's a lot of variation in the guitar line in the album version, but this instrumental is just a continuous loop of the same 8 bars over and over. It's very cleanly done and I'm still curious where it came from (sounds way better than anything you'd usually get from DIY attempts), but regardless it isn't consistent with the real song.
  10. It is the full song, I think it's mislabeled. A TV track is basically supposed to be like a karaoke track where it has all of the instruments and backing vocals but the lead vocals are missing. It's for situations where you might have a live vocals/recorded music thing happening, like the Stock Car Crash Challenge performance DBS did of Crawl Back In for example.
  11. Correct. Which is a laughably unacceptable display of incompetence from a band attempting to market themselves at this level.
  12. Grey Daze screwing something else up. Imagine that.
  13. It changes a lot, especially during the synth solo/outro. The leak is of the version from after I fixed the swapped file names and deleted the "Backing Tracks R" and mislabeled "Pitched Countdown" stems. I tried isolating the proper "Pitched Countdown" like I did with the piano from Robot Boy, with no success.
  14. Huh. Actually admitting Mike has talent is a pretty progressive opinion coming from you, considering I can think of maybe two cases of you liking anything the man's done in the last decade.
  15. Oh, yep, there they are lol.
  16. No luck. Even if you isolate which tracks are in the "Backing Tracks" files and pan them accordingly, then invert that and combine it with the "Backing Tracks" files (which should cancel out everything but the piano), there's still a lot of stuff that doesn't drop out. Seems like the instrumental/main mix/backing tracks were done after mixing while the individual tracks weren't. I'm not seeing the other ones leaked anywhere, might have gotten taken down already.
  17. I have a feeling they had more plans for filming promo material over the next couple weeks that got put on hold with everybody quarantined. Or maybe one of their distribution warehouses is closed at the moment.
  18. You can hear it way down in the mix on the final version once you know it's there. I think they just left it in because that was the take they wanted to keep for all of Chester's improvised stuff on the outro. Maybe they couldn't get it to fade in the way they wanted if they completely muted the line.
  19. The fact that we let idiots who claim LPU demos are fake get banned every few months, register multiple accounts, and keep coming back is a fucking joke. Zach Geranios should be nothing more than a name that serves as a punchline to in-community jokes (on par with Haguem Merak or manson666rules) because we collectively decided that he wasn't welcome and ran him off for good. And it should've happened a fucking decade ago.
  20. Your memory's getting quite fuzzy there, Not-Geki. My conversation with Sean regarding "no studio time" was in reference to potential studio overdubs being done on Live in Texas. The band didn't spend any time in the studio between August and November of 2003. It's a well-established fact that Meteora was wrapped in January. Sean wasn't even working for the band yet at the time you're referring to.
  21. He doesn't have them, nor is he claiming to. This is just a dumb rumor started by one or two cancerous inhabitants of the LP subreddit who started getting pissy after posting "DOES ANY1 HAVE POA/APFMH/WITH YOU MULTIS" every few weeks for the better part of the last year and not getting the answer they wanted. Considering the guy you're talking to IS one of the owners of LPCatalog, I think he might know what he's talking about better than you do. Brennan's been around the community for 15+ years. He also happens to be currently selling his ENTIRE collection. If he had those multitracks, he would be advertising his intent to sell them just like he is with the numerous other, often more valuable, pieces of his collection (which happens to include the multitrack CDs for Runaway and By Myself). And that only assumes that he has them on CD, because his area of expertise is physical media, not buying/selling audio files. There are plenty of other people in that field who are responsible for things like What Are You Worth and the various A Thousand Suns/One More Light multitracks that have surfaced - Brennan isn't a name that comes up often in that circle, if ever. The eight tracks from Hybrid Theory that currently circulate in multitrack form have been floating around in private circles for over a decade. I could name at least half a dozen people who had the Pushing Me Away multitracks back in like 2009, for example. People have been aware of their existence for ages, it's just been within the past couple years that they've finally leaked publicly. The ones that are available now are the same ones that have been known to exist for 10+ years. They all originally came from an engineer who did the multitrack transfers for the stems that were used to make Reanimation, he was strapped for cash at one point and sold a bunch of stuff to private collectors in the late 2000's. With You, Points of Authority, A Place for My Head, and Cure for the Itch were not among the songs he sold. They're just not out there, period.
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