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Most legendary emcee to ever guest on an LP song, including Jay-Z. That said, my first two thoughts: 1. How are they going to play this live? Just completely cut Rakim's part out of the song? I hate this about collaborations with outside vocalists on studio albums, it either means you end up using playback of their vocals for live performances, which comes across as super lame, or you end up cutting big chunks out of songs, which is about equally lame. 2. Great, a guest rapper on a "regular LP album" single. Now people are going to think Mike quit the band again. Song is overall pretty cool, still not a big fan of the intro but once that piano part comes in, the rest all sounds good. I think the song could honestly just start with the piano and leave that first bit out, but that's just me. Production seems extremely raw...I know this is going to be a self-produced album, but this is bordering on "sounds like a rough demo recorded at a home studio" territory. Also, Chester doesn't really sound like...himself. Also, parts of this remind me a LOT of the Beta State song on LPU 13.

I love how some people have this attitude like playing a run of European festivals where a band can literally play for over half a million people in the span of a week somehow doesn't constitute a "proper" tour, particularly when Linkin Park's festival sets typically vary VERY little, if at all, from their headline sets. You're going to hear roughly the same selection of songs at either kind of show. You might get one or two more songs at one show than the other, but the same can be said when comparing two of their headlining shows sometimes as well. And to top it off, you're trying to use Austria as an example, as if there was some sinister "fuck the fans" type of reasoning behind the shortened setlist. Yes, how DARE Linkin Park cut their set short when a storm hit the venue that was severe enough for the promoters to make all of the fans take shelter for nearly an hour. It's totally a much better idea to have the show go on and risk another Sugarland or Radiohead-like stage collapse incident taking place! Nevermind the fact that Europe has gotten a Linkin Park tour of a dozen or more shows EVERY. FUCKING. YEAR. since 2007 with the exception of 2013, while North America has been almost completely ignored in 3 different years during the same period (2009, 2010, 2013).

BMI database goes off of the names of the songwriters in most cases. Some songs are attributed to a specific artist, but most entries for Linkin Park songs on there make no mention of Linkin Park. A. How many times have I stated that I purchased Hybrid Theory in the spring of 2002, when some current members of this website were still in diapers? B. Never said I exclusively like the "soft stuff." I like music that I find interesting. The short clip heard in this preview? Not particularly interesting to me. When I can learn how to play a guitar riff without having to actually pick up a guitar, it's probably a wee bit too easy.

It also sounds like it could've been WRITTEN in about ten seconds too. Drop tune the guitar, dial in an assload of distortion, play some staccato powerchords with one finger, and have the drummer play snare/hi-hat on 1 and 3 and the bass drum on 2 and 4...WE HAVE A SONG GUYS! I'll be sure to forward your opinion to my mom back home though, she's certified in medical coding and works for an audiologist. I bet she could get you some great deals on hearing aids.

Two excellent studio bands that can't pull off their shit live. ...Opening for another excellent studio band that used to be pretty good at pulling off their shit live, but has strained their lead singer's voice to the point that he can't do 2 days of rehearsals without struggling for the next 3 consecutive shows.

They wouldn't be teasing anything that's not on the album at this point. Maybe six months ago, but not now. The single is going to be out in a matter of days.

ALTNC isn't even the worst LP-related song to come out in the year 2013.

Yep. Yay, drop-tuned powerchords over the first "thrash" beat every drummer learns by the time they've been playing for six months! It still baffles me why this is the side of Linkin Park that everyone misses. And this is coming from the "Linkin Park guitar guy." But hey, it's just an intro, there might be cooler stuff elsewhere in the song.

You can click and drag parts of the cloud images around, looks like it's basically a layered series of animated .gif images (each cloud is its own image). Hmm...this might be a puzzle.

Pretty sure that's at Laurel.

I'd imagine they'll play a pretty Hybrid Theory-heavy set throughout the summer, perhaps rotating the lesser-played songs throughout the beginning of the tour so they don't forget anything from rehearsals, but still don't TECHNICALLY play the album in full anywhere but Download. As for the album, I'm pretty confident it'll be done (and possibly out) by the time they go to Europe. I doubt they spend 6 to 7 weeks doing nothing but rehearsing, they usually only rehearse for a day or two when they're not playing new material, and a couple weeks when they are. This will probably be a more lengthy rehearsal like with Minutes to Midnight due to some new gear-related stuff they'll probably need to get acquainted with during rehearsals while simultaneously figuring out new material (this is why MTM rehearsals took so long - the guitar rigs for both Brad and Mike were completely rebuilt, in addition to having a new album's worth of songs to figure out), but I still doubt it'll take almost two full months to get everything down.

This isn't surprising to me.

Burn it Down was released before the rest of the album was done. They shot the music video the same day they mixed the song, and released the song to the public only 2 weeks later. The rest of the album was still being mixed at that point.

I guess you could say he's into...MATH ROCK. *rimshot* Or actually, if it's math rock, it'd be more like some crazy 7/4 Chris Pennie drum fill, THEN a rimshot.

Hmm...

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Not sure about Mike. Rob's mom did date Joey Kramer at one point, he's mentioned that before. I've never heard anything regarding him teaching Rob to play drums though, which I find pretty doubtful. You'd think Rob would have mentioned it at some point, plus it's not like Joey is his dad or anything. I doubt Rob and Joey saw each other an awful lot. He has cited him as an influence though.

I would imagine Steve will play this song at just about every performance he does for quite a while, it's basically the biggest song of his career.

Nope! That one's news to me. Also very surprised to see Andy Wallace in the studio with them (and DAMN does he look old these days!). Kind of interested to see how he and Manny are each involved this time around (it's already been confirmed that Manny's in the studio with LP from that interview that mentions them recording a song for a movie). Maybe one is mixing the new album and the other is mixing the Mall soundtrack music?

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I'll say that Larrabee is ONE of the places the new album is being recorded...but it wasn't the location I was referring to. I don't know how much of the album is being recorded in each specific location (Mike and Joe's home studios, Larrabee, and...??? ), so Larrabee might be the "main" location, it might not be. And again, they're not recording at NRG at all this time around. Whether that's intentional or just the way things happened to work out, we'll probably never know. Also, the fact that they're recording at Larrabee means that (probably bursting a lot of people's bubbles here...) Manny Marroquin will likely be mixing the album again. Larrabee is kind of his "home studio" where he does mixing for a lot of the pop artists he's worked with. He actually mixed Living Things there as well. This is a totally different situation though, with the band actually recording there. It could mean one of two things: Manny's more involved in the recording process this time around instead of being "just the mixing guy," OR it could mean that the band wants to work more closely with him on this album, as having him around during tracking may give him a better reference point for the final mix, which hopefully would result in a better production than Living Things. Speaking of Manny on a kind of unrelated note, I know we were just talking about Victorious being the working title for ALTNC, and lo and behold, Manny's discography section on his website confirms it outright: http://www.mannymarroquin.com/Discography.php "LINKIN PARK Single "Victorious (A Light That Never Comes)" on "Recharged" album" I believe this is also the first confirmation that Manny actually mixed ALTNC to begin with.

I think the most accurate thing for Wake Me Up would be "Guitar Production by Mike Shinoda." Executive producer kind of implies that he had some overall influence on the entire track, which isn't really accurate. He just engineered one specific part of the song, but it's probably more accurate to call him a producer than an engineer since he also handled the Pro Tools recording.

I'd be interested, if for no other reason than not having to watch it on Youtube anymore.

Reanimation was about 50/50. VERY little of Collision Course was re-recorded. The first LP verses of Dirt Off Your Shoulder/Lying From You and Jigga What/Faint, the LP vocals in Big Pimpin'/Papercut and Izzo/In the End, and Mike taking the second verse on 99 Problems...I think that was it. A lot of the footage of them recording vocals on the Collision Course DVD was just staged for the sake of filming - Chester definitely didn't re-record any vocals on One Step Closer as shown on the DVD, and I don't think ANY of Jay-Z's vocals were redone.

Yes, it was the same one from the SIB single. I thought for a long time that it was the KROQ 2000 performance because I randomly had a higher-quality version of that song than any other songs from that show, but it turns out I just had a crappy rip of the webcast. Wretches and Kings was in EA Sports MMA, not sure if it was an alternate mix though: Here are Youtube links for the other 2 tracks: - Blackout - The Catalyst (starts at 7:30)