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The messages themselves were probably planned. Pretty sure that's actually the sound of Mike's answering machine at the beginning of [Chali] though.

Glad this is finally official. I've actually known about this since late August and had to keep my mouth shut. Here's another picture: http://s8.postimg.org/3mlt7pzad/85f2d6840c...00a1fb30f_7.jpg

The red STP logo is actually the logo for STP motor oil. That goes all the way back to the band's inception, they wanted that to be the abbreviation for their name before they actually had a name (as legend has it, they also considered calling themselves "Shirley Temple's Pussy"). They likely covered that up for the TV performance since it's a trademark of another company, as opposed to it being something related to Scott.

Daily missions/Base camp missions are free and you earn crystals for completing them. You also get crystal rewards for playing every day.

Sector 2 has been unlocked on LP Recharge as of today!

That's just what we called Blackbirds for years because we knew they recorded strings for 6 songs and 5 of them were released (Leave Out All the Rest, Shadow of the Day, Hands Held High, The Little Things Give You Away, No Roads Left), and there was that little clip of the 6th one (Blackbirds) on LPTV.

Yeah, even though Black Heart is the more recently-released song, Out of Time is still getting a ton of radio airplay. I'd be surprised if they DIDN'T play OOT.

Leno performances are nearly always one song, IIRC. Same with Letterman.

It blows my mind that people still take this seriously 6 and a half years later. I have never, and will never consider "Refuckingwrite" a legitimate working title for Bleed it Out because it's VERY well-established how frustrated Mike was with the number of times he had to re-write the lyrics to that song. The fact that "Accident," the ACTUAL working title, is still on the same piece of paper pretty much confirms that it's nothing more than Mike being funny/frustrated. I absolutely GUARANTEE that Bleed it Out was never referred to as "Refuckingwrite" in a Pro Tools session, a band meeting, a provisional album tracklisting, or anything other than this one piece of paper. These are all fake.

Yeah, can't find that anywhere either. CD Japan would normally have that info by this point, and their entry for the album doesn't mention it. If there's a Japan bonus track, I'd assume it would be the Paul Van Dyk remix of Burn it Down, since that was the preorder bonus track for everyone else.

That show in general was really cool from a historical standpoint. System of a Down was still a local/regional band (although a pretty well-established one) in 1997, in fact the period they were playing shows at places like the Whisky and the Viper Room was around the time they started getting major label attention (they were ultimately signed by none other than Rick Rubin that year), and SX-10 would have just formed not long before this show as well, it may have even been THEIR first show too!

Vaguely remember the story but no clue when it was said. I thought it was just something from an interview with Mike, not a live show.

I think so, yeah. I remember Mike mentioning opening for SX10 and System of a Down in one of the interviews leading up to SSMF, and I'm pretty sure he mentioned it being their first show.

The only actual music video from Collision Course is Numb/Encore (and even that used the live audio with a montage of behind the scenes footage). Everything else was just the live videos from the DVD.

Yep, fake. Victimized is m_macdonald's remix from Reliving Things.

Hardcore version of Victimized? MY BODY IS READY.

Looks like they've already made the stems available to other artists for remixes! They're apparently going to do a remix contest for this song on Microsoft Surface, so I guess it makes sense that the stems would've gotten sent to "professionals" first.

Making Of ALTNC Part 2: http://216.151.1.135/videos/xvideo-play.as...D=2695159106001

I could've written that in 5 minutes. Song sounds good, but come on.

You're probably used to hearing the radio edit where the song starts with the main riff immediately. That little "soft part" at the beginning is part of the studio version. - This is one of the shows that the show page lists "extended intro" for. Compare it to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUoEMFYbxiI Same thing, minus the acoustic guitar from the studio version.

The "JH Mix" of ALTNC is likely just the altered version of the song that plays in the background throughout most of the video. Based on the whole "Joe played around on the Surface Music Kit for a few minutes" vibe of the video, I'd be very surprised if it was actually a "finished" remix or anything remotely close to it.

...As I said before: How is this overproduced? Is it auto-tuned? Probably, but EVERY SINGLE LINKIN PARK SONG SINCE HYBRID THEORY (except for MAYBE The Messenger) has had auto-tuned vocals. It's an industry standard. It has been for a decade and a half. In terms of the use of more OBVIOUS pitch correction/vocal effects, Out of Ashes' vocals aren't any more "over-produced" than the vocals on the last two Linkin Park albums (although there are certainly more layered harmonies than the typical LP song has), and this STP stuff is SIGNIFICANTLY more raw-sounding than any of those 3 records. I'm honestly BAFFLED by this. STP is a pretty straightforward rock band, no keyboards, no DJ, no need for any crazy electronic vocal effects. Meanwhile, Linkin Park has been employing the use of vocoders, flanger effects, tons of echo, vocal scratching/"chopping," etc. for the last several years...but somehow the vocals on LP records hardly get criticized at all, yet THIS is "overproduced?" Do people seriously think Chester should sound like he's singing in the fucking Ramones when he's not on a Linkin Park record or what?

iTunes quality of Black Heart has been out for at least 2 days now.

Love how some people think any song with vocal harmonies = "overproduced vocals."

1. If it's on Youtube, it's not a "very rare show." 2. I've maintained all along that this was a cover band (and a very bad one at that - their guitarist isn't playing anything close to correct in half of these songs). Not sure where Skipees got that I said something different, unless he's getting this show confused with something else I brought up at some point.