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Is it just me, or did they shorten the Bleed it Out drum solo/"battle" on the TV/Youtube broadcast?

Here's the full setlist of the AXS TV broadcast, including the other bands, for anyone who's interested: The Filharmonic - Lupang Hinirang (Philippine National Anthem) Linkin Park - One Step Closer Bad Religion - Los Angeles is Burning Bad Religion - Infected Heart - Crazy on You (Acoustic) The Offspring - Bad Habit The Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright Linkin Park - CASTLE OF GLASS (feat. Ann and Nancy Wilson) Linkin Park - What I've Done (feat. Mike Einziger) Linkin Park - In the End (feat. Mike Einziger) Linkin Park - BURN IT DOWN Linkin Park - Bleed it Out (feat. Travis Barker)

Breaking the Habit Given Up Lies Greed Misery Ballad Medley I can barely listen to Numb without wanting to puke anymore, but I'll begrudgingly let it stay because of the great response it always gets. Also, Given Up can stay under ONE condition: It's only played as an opening song in combination with Wake. It'd be a cool MTM era throwback to open some concerts that way on this cycle, and having that song as the opener is really the best spot for it to be, in terms of Chester's voice being able to tolerate it.

Wrong. The guitars are there, and have always been there, for every performance of the "regular" version of that song. They're pretty low in the mix on the more recent DSP recordings, and Brad and Phoenix stay off the stage throughout most of the song (they still come out for the last chorus), but they're still playing the whole time. And Phoenix plays guitar on LOATR, not bass. Plexiglass drum shield. These things come in all kinds of shapes and sizes, ranging from small square ones like this to giant walls that wrap around an entire drumset. Serves two purposes, makes the drumset easier to mic since it blocks out more of the ambient sound from bleeding into the mics, and it also cuts down on the volume of the drums on stage. The cymbal behind the shield Rob uses is the larger/louder of his two crash cymbals. It's probably the loudest piece of his kit, so it makes sense that if anything on his kit would have a shield, that would be it.

Why would anyone think this is going to be webcasted when it's already been streamed via mobile devices, there's been absolutely NO indication of a webcast taking place, and furthermore, why would people even WANT a webcast at this point when a rip of the mobile stream already exists, and TV quality is going to better than any webcast would be anyway? Linkin Park fans: Inexplicably expecting webcasts of every fucking show since 2008(ish).

My least favorite member of Linkin Park is the keytar. Fucking Kenny Loggins, man.

They're also using footage of all of the performers in the promo video: We might only get like 2 songs from this, lol. They could still potentially put the whole thing up on Youtube though.

There will only be one show in that gap, probably on the 4th. The band avoids playing 3 shows in a row whenever possible these days. Hopefully they add some more shows after Download, because otherwise they're only playing 9 or 10 shows right now.

Some great information via the latest LP.com email: Following the AXS.tv broadcast on the 15th, the entire Concert For the Philippines will be uploaded to the Music For Relief Youtube channel! The TV broadcast is at 8 PM Eastern, for anyone who plans to watch it. Very happy to know I'll be able to watch the HQ version of this show whenever I want!

So the "no links to copyrighted material" rule is now "no links to places where there incidentally happen to be links to copyrighted material that were posted by other people?" Well guess what? Here's a link where you can find links to just about every piece of copyrighted material that's ever been pirated on the Internet: http://www.google.com OH NOES BETTER DELETE THAT LINK TOO

http://lplive.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=7006

They're all still on the site: http://mikeshinoda.com/category/pics/ And this is probably the specific photo gallery you're referring to: http://mikeshinoda.com/2007/01/01/minutes-...idnight-photos/

I'm not putting a lot of faith into some of what's being said here, or at least not in the way a lot of people will probably interpret it: 1. The whole "jamming" thing. They might get a usable guitar riff or drum break or something to that effect out of a free-form jam session that's subsequently refined into a song later, but it's no secret that the guys in Linkin Park aren't particularly improvisational musicians. Their live shows and their often ill-fated attempts at doing something unrehearsed are a testament to that. 2. The album being self-produced. It was reported back in December of 2012 that Rick Rubin would be involved with this album. Since then, Mike's posted a photo from a session he did at Rick's house, and Rick's done a remix of ALTNC. I'd be shocked if Rick's name doesn't end up on the final product (perhaps as an "executive producer" rather than a traditional production credit), and I have a hunch one of LP's longtime studio collaborators may also be getting a bit of a "promotion" of sorts when the liner notes for this album are revealed. 3. Tracking to tape. This IS something that still exists in 2014, but not in the sense most people think of. If you're tracking to tape these days, it's purely for the sound that tape produces. Nobody WANTS to edit/mix/master a record in analog anymore, it's a nightmare. They're probably using a machine that tracks simultaneously to tape and Pro Tools, allowing them to do their usual editing process while capturing the sound of an analog recording. If you were to go off of the old SPARS codes, this kind of recording would use the ADD abbreviation - analogue recording, digital mixing, digital mastering. Anyway, I suppose I'll provide a little more information: This album is being recorded in multiple locations, kind of like how Living Things was, except the "central" location is no longer NRG. For the sake of keeping information confidential that's probably supposed to stay that way for the time being, I won't say what the new location is, but it's pretty easy to figure out if you cross-reference social media posts from the LP members with those of some of their longtime crew members. (Side note: Nobody straight-up TOLD me where the album's being recorded, I just did some digging and figured it out myself.) They've also been doing recording at Mike and Joe's houses, like usual.

Let me guess, I'm gonna watch this, and the guy's going to sound nothing like Chester. *Edit* Video won't work for me anyway.

Hahahaha. I didn't catch where it said this show is on the 5th in the first post, so I was confused how people were coming to the conclusion that LP's Rock Am Ring date is on the 7th.

"We'll Never Play Half of This Stuff Live Anyway, Volume 2."

*Edit* Nevermind.

1. Pretty sure the "album recording" situation mentioned in the announcement strictly refers to LP's current situation. STP recording a full-length album is nothing more than a "we're planning on it" type thing at this point, as far as I'm aware. This is probably a situation like when the Grey Daze reunion show was cancelled in 2002 due to the Meteora recording schedule being dictated by WB (not that WB is necessarily behind it THIS time, but there are still deadlines involved in any label-backed recording project, and LP's last couple albums haven't really fared well enough compared to other WB releases for the label to be lenient with giving them extensions). 2. Re: Chester having more fun with STP vs. LP - Chester always has fun on stage, provided he's not feeling like crap for one reason or another. However, it's not hard to objectively watch the progression of Linkin Park's live performances over the last few years and figure out that they're completely phoning it in the majority of the time for a while now. That's been going on since like the middle of the ATS period. 3. Anyone who says that this cancelled tour is a good thing needs a serious reality check (or punch in the face, that would probably suffice as well). Forget calling yourself an LP and/or STP fan, you don't even deserve to call yourself a MUSIC fan if you're so far removed from reality that you think it's a good thing that thousands of fans bought tickets to these shows and now don't get to see STP play.

The "original" version of The Battle ended with the line "either you ignorant or you isn't." So it was just a second or two longer than what was released on TRT. Celph Titled took that "full" version and then added another verse to it for The Gatalog.

Also, those are Joe's notes. Joe is the same guy who described Mike's remix of Victimized as "hardcore." I doubt my definition of "thrash" is in the same realm as his.

Not sure how I missed that before, lol. That's definitely the working title. They used the working titles for LT songs in LPTV episodes too.

Chester doing 4 shows in 4 days? Is he trying to kill himself? LOL. LP hardly ever does 3 shows in a row anymore, and I don't know if they've EVER done 4.

I'm REALLY hoping they play in East Troy or Somerset this time (they haven't played those venues since 2008 and 2004, respectively). Somerset is like an hour and 45 minutes from me, but I'd probably be able to do East Troy too. I couldn't swing the 7-8 hour drive to Alpine Valley for the HCT show, and even though East Troy is still around 6 hours from me, not having to drive through Chicago makes the trip a LOT easier.

The Palace is still open... http://www.palace.com.au/

People still don't know he can play guitar. You can watch just about any Iridescent/Shadow of the Day video on Youtube, and find a "OMG Chaz playin da geetar" comment within the first handful of replies.