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Have all of the LPU Meetups to date been done at Hard Rock Cafe locations? I know at least some of them have, but if that's the only place they've had them, it'd help me get an idea of where they may have them in the future. Unfortunately there isn't a Hard Rock location anywhere between here and Chicago...if I couldn't make it to Chicago for the HCT show, there's no way in hell I'm driving that far just to meet some LPU members. This is one of the rare times I wish I still lived near Cleveland.

Joe being Joe, pretty sure he did that for all SOTD performances on the ATS tour. He forgets/changes how he plays stuff all the time, seems like it affects different songs every album cycle. He's been playing the bridge to Faint wrong since Minutes to Midnight came out, he routinely screwed up the intro to Numb at the beginning of the Living Things tour (it happened so frequently that Mike started pointing at him when the song started, like "you BETTER get it right this time!"), he didn't do the scratching in the bridge of One Step Closer for most of the Minutes to Midnight tour...

I still log on every day to see what's up, but I don't play much at the moment. I'm the only person on my friend list who's even played the Sector 2 levels, and I was ranked like #17 worldwide last time I checked. I play the daily missions occasionally, but they've only released six of them, so they get mind-numbingly repetitive after a while. I'm basically just waiting for them to release the next sector, because right now I've pretty much done everything I can do, save for grinding/leveling up/buying more shop items.

Yeah, I'd be willing to bet that a lot of the demos we've gotten from LPUX onwards had scat vocals that they removed. A lot of people have forgotten by now, but Fear and Drum Song received overwhelmingly negative criticism when they were released - "Those aren't the versions I wanted! I wanted TLTGYA with Mike on lead vocals from the LPU Referral Contest video and Fear with the "sun was still sinking" lyrics from Making of MTM! These scat vocals are stupid! The Fear demo is borderline embarrassing!" NOBODY liked the scat vocals. Wouldn't surprise me one bit if the band's response amounted to "Fine, you don't get scat vocals on any demos we release in the future then." As for the LPU9 edits, I don't mind them one bit. Sad was just a minor "let's cut one repeat out" thing, and Across the Line sounded stupid as hell with the bridge instrumental at the beginning. The Faint one was kind of interesting, but the song still sounds better with the strings arranged in their more "familiar" fashion.

That remix is actually by twoloud. There's going to be a remix contest for ALTNC at some point through Dell's "Surface Remix" project.

Yeah, definitely a one-off show. Unless the band randomly decides to take a break from the studio with a half-finished album, they won't be back on tour until next summer.

I'm sure Rick will end up getting a production credit on the new album. The whole reason the band likes him is because working with Rick Rubin really doesn't fit in the classic definition of "working with" a producer. Rick leaves the band to their own devices 95% of the time, and only chimes in on things that he believes are REALLY critical. And even when he does chime in, he ultimately leaves the final decision on things up to the band. With that said, it also begs the question of why they even NEED Rick Rubin at this point, if they're going to be doing everything themselves for the most part anyway. Rick's a good guy to go to when you need to open up new doors (i.e. working with someone like Don Gilmore on your first two albums and not knowing any kind of work ethic other than his), but once those doors are open, you probably don't need to keep leaning on Rick like a crutch either. Maybe they just like paying him tons of money so they can have a big-name producer on their album credits, I dunno.

That is 100% NOT the same song. Song in question starts at 2:08 in the You're a Legend video, and none of what is heard is found anywhere in Mike's remix. There's a small little clip of the COG vocals in it, so it's definitely a remix of that song, but it's not Mike's. Did we just automatically assume once the Recharged tracklisting came out that since there was a COG remix on it, that it'd be the same one? *EDIT* The part that starts fading in at 3:05 IS Mike's remix, but the instrumental immediately before it (2:08 up to the point Chester starts talking) is something different. Hmm...

Okay, my honest opinion of this is that the album gets off to a great start with the first 6 tracks, but from Roads Untraveled through the first Until it Breaks remix, it's a train wreck. Skin to Bone, the second Until it Breaks remix, and the ALTNC reboot are all good (don't really care for the second I'll Be Gone remix). Great beginning, solid end, terrible middle.

The end of Ryu's verse on Skin to Bone straight-up acknowledges the possibility of a Fort Minor reunion. Cool. Mike's verse on that track is SICK too.

I love how some people are either too lazy to spend the 30 seconds it would take to find something like this and just expect everything to fall into their laps, or apparently don't know where to look. This isn't hidden in some dark corner of the Internet guys, it's literally in the first place 90% of people look for album leaks... Also, LMFAO @ the intros to Powerless and the Tom Swoon remix of Burn it Down being almost EXACTLY the same. Play the first 5 seconds of one track, then switch to the other. HILARIOUS. And people wonder why EDM gets criticized for every song sounding the same?

The intros/outros of some tracks are a little different because of the CD sequencing - the fade-out at the end of Castle of Glass crossfades with the intro to Lost in the Echo, for example.

Hmm...most of the previously-released remixes are a few seconds shorter according to this. The Powerless remix is like 12 seconds shorter!

Yep.

Road tripping to shows is fun...if you can afford it and don't have obligations that prevent it. My household makes roughly $35,000 a year. We spend about $25,000 a year on bills, gas, and groceries. Then there are always unexpected bills like hospital/doctor visits since my insurance doesn't cover jack shit, or car repairs because I drive a piece of shit. On top of that, I'm getting married next year, which is probably going to cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $11,000 when all is said and done, and we're still like $4,000 short on that money...so yeah, I'm LUCKY if I get to go to ONE concert a year. The only reason I got to see Muse earlier this year was because a friend bought Katie and I tickets as a Christmas present, and even then we had to find people to carpool with because our car probably wouldn't have made it down to St. Paul and back. I also BARELY get 4 days worth of time off from work a year, and that's if I really bust my ass and put in overtime. My paid time off also doesn't roll over from year to year, so I will NEVER be able to take an extended vacation for any reason whatsoever as long as I'm working where I'm working. I'm not even going to be able to go on a fucking honeymoon after my wedding, let alone drive halfway across the goddamn country for a Linkin Park show. tl;dr version: Traveling more than a few hours for a show isn't something I can do very often. I'm not "lazy," and fuck you if you think I am.

It's happened a few times, but generally no. The theme song for the PPV shows is usually just used in a lot of the promotional videos leading up to the event, and during the intro to the show itself.

The only way a "full band" performance of ALTNC will ever happen will be if Steve comes out as a special guest during a Linkin Park set. Absolutely will not happen the other way around. Steve travels with so little gear, the extra mics for Mike and Chester are probably even a stretch.

Steve Aoki just announced that he will be playing at The Shrine in Los Angeles on November 15th, and that the show will feature "tons of awesome special guests." "Aoki's hometown is Los Angeles and he hasn’t played Los Angeles in a year - which makes his announcement that he’s playing The Shrine on November 15th even more important. Tickets go on sale Friday at AokifyAmerica.com and the DJ says there will be tons of awesome special guests on hand." Steve also mentions later in the article that 'A LIGHT THAT NEVER COMES' came about after he was asked to do a remix for Linkin Park. Maybe there will be more remixes coming in addition to RECHARGED? The band and Steve have also hinted at other new songs existing that they worked on together.

Mike said it was from a verse he had written "years ago." Might have even been a pre-Xero thing, Mike's mentioned he was a big "keystyler" as a teenager.

Already 3 pages of mindless speculation on something we're going to know NOTHING about for at least 6 months.

Lyrics were posted by Mike on the old Fort Minor forums: ''Me and Rakka haven't begun to hit you yet when i get you open / your insides will make you wet you bet / hostile when i'm rapping to you got you asking God how he let this happen to you bringing on the fat lady / and the fat man too and shoot em both out of a cannon over Kathmandu if ya sleepin / i'm knocking out the sandman too i'll beat the yellow out of you until you're black and blue laugh at you / and any MC who wants to scuffle turn a Challenger emcee into Challenger space shuttle got Emcees so mixed-up, their bones are pulling muscles And their bladders are leaking out and down their leg into a puddle what's that / laying you flat survival tatic-ly you wanna battle me you better start thinkin practicly line after line casually rapping this rapidly and ending this / you never get a chance to bust back at me''

Maybe they're blocked in Germany for some reason? Here's the video link for Iridescent from Red Square: The 3 Red Square videos are between "LPTV - Iridescent Rehearsals" and "Iridescent featured in Transformers Dark of the Moon," if you view their uploads chronologically.

1. You've seen 2 screenshots and a 5-second clip recorded on a camera phone. 2. These CGI videos may be "directed" by Joe, but Ghost Town Media does like 90% of the work. See: Waiting For the End. Once they're done with the basic on-set shots, Joe's out of the picture.

Probably referring to a standalone recorder, not an 8-track tape (those went out of style by the early 80s and disappeared entirely long before Xero even formed). Plus I'm pretty sure it was a 4-track. His exact quote was something along the lines of "Having the Pro Tools rig is nice, when we did Hybrid Theory I had a 4-track taped to the ceiling!" He was probably using a Tascam Portastudio or something like that back then. Also, the "not recording anything in analog" quote is false, as the Xero demos were done on a 4-track recorder that recorded straight to cassette.