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Yeah, they may have been ON TOUR for close to 300 days out of the year in 2001, but they didn't play anywhere near that many shows.

Yeah, that has to be the single biggest lie that's ever come out of the Linkin Park camp. Even if you include the cancelled 2001 shows, going by the live guide, they played about 170. I'm sure we could possibly be missing a couple random dates here and there, but there's no way they even played 200, let alone over 300. The only thing I can think of is maybe they played that many shows for the entire Hybrid Theory touring cycle, and that information somehow got skewed to "we played this many shows in a year." As for 1998 vs. 1999, the main reason I've always been sure about 1999 is that it wasn't until the last few years that the 1998 date even came into question. If you went on any LP-related website prior to like, 2009, the information was always "Chester joined in 1999 and the band changed their name to Hybrid Theory." There was never even a hint of doubt about it, and there are interviews going all the way back to like 2001 that are consistent about that information. I'm a lot more inclined to believe Linkin Park saying Chester joined the band 3 years ago in 2002 than saying he joined 15 years ago in 2013.

HAHA. New signature!

I remembered it being the other way around, that Painted Pictures was around for a while before the other two tracks were. Then again, I might just be getting it confused with that old Stone Sour track that was going around labeled as Painted Pictures for a while before the real SDAHF demo popped up.

It isn't specifically stated anywhere, but I'd assume there will be 2 grand prize winners but the band will probably only pick one song to put on LPU13.

Did a quick check and every version I've found (regardless of length/band name) sounds the same to me. This is the first time I've even heard it suggested that there was a second recording of that song...

Ahh, hadn't noticed that. Yeah, they do that sometimes with the "alternate titles" if the songwriting credits aren't any different. There's no entry for PTS.OF.ATHRTY either, it's just listed as an alternate title under the regular Points of Authority entry.

Is the voting restricted to LPU members only? If so, I think that should cut down on the vote manipulation a fair bit. It'll also make the competition a lot closer... And an update: Song picked, working out arrangement ideas tonight and starting recording tomorrow.

Forgotten is registered under its demo title, Rhinestone. And yes, Pictureboard has been mentioned post-She Couldn't: "Pictureboard has samples in it. Can't give to LPU" - 11/19/2011 LPU chat with Mike. Considering he mentioned She Couldn't by name on his blog in 2009, which was between the original 2005-ish chat mention of Pictureboard and the 2011 chat, I doubt they're the same song, or at the very least, he would've started referring to it as She Couldn't from the time the song leaked.

What? An LPU contest involving LPU members collaborating with Linkin Park on original music? What? Anthony's been working on his own original material for the last several months, has a bunch of instrumental songs written that just need to be fleshed out with vocals and proper production, and just needs to pick which one he feels is the strongest and record it sometime within the next 13 days? Don't mind if I do, Linkin Park. Don't mind if I do.

Yes, and it probably appears in other LP songs too. There's an isolated scratching noise at the 3:36 mark of that song that served as one of Joe's "main" scratching samples during the Hybrid Theory/Meteora era.

I doubt they're stopping, they still record every show. The Australia/New Zealand shows may very well end up being released down the line like the 2007 ones were. I'd be surprised if the Sunset Strip show gets released because they usually don't bother releasing one-off shows, but the Asian shows have a pretty good track record.

Or it could just be the VERY likely explanation that Xero played more than 3 shows throughout their entire existence and we just don't know about all of them...

HA! Love how I replied to that one 9-ish years ago. Yeah, go ahead and add that one, I compared them and it sounds like the same sample, they just put some effects on it on Kyur 4 th Ich. On another note, I guess you could add Name of the Game as a reference in Remember the Name. Don't know how we all forgot that one, haha.

Isn't the "Rockafeller Skank" sample in Rock and Roll Part 2 actually a reference/"replayed" sample? I don't think that's the original vocal track. Also, Something I Can Never Have was used on the U.S. leg of the Meteora World Tour in early 2004 in addition to the Europe/Asia shows, and the Violent Femmes "Intro" sample was used as part of the show intro for some 2000 shows (it was inserted right between the end of Cure For the Itch and the intro to Papercut). One other sample that I haven't been able to track down is the "Break it down...turn it up!" break in Kyur 4 the Ich. I KNOW I've seen the original song that comes from mentioned somewhere, but I can't find it anywhere now. I think I recall it being something from a Crystal Method song? Could be wrong though.

inb4 the idiotic "STPLive.net" comments...

"U.S. tour" = New England + southern half of the country. Boo.

Wait, this is rare? I've had a physical copy of this poster for like 5 years, lol. Or at least a roughly 8x10" flyer version of it...not sure if there was a full-size poster.

Excellent news! One of my all-time favorite live DVDs (Coheed and Cambria circa 2004 - before all the lineup changes and Claudio's voice going to crap) was filmed there.

Pictureboard was written during the period Mark was in the band, but it's registered in Linkin Park's BMI catalog and includes Chester's name in the songwriting credits, so the recording of it was obviously done later on. Warner owns it and it's registered under the Linkin Park name.

http://web.archive.org/web/20000408172608/...bridtheory.com/

They had the multitracks for Sad and Faint from LPU9, because there were parts cut out from the acetate versions. They also have multitracks for the HTEP, as instrumental versions of those songs are all over LPTV episodes, including one instance of High Voltage having a different guitar part than the one found on the EP itself, along with some sound effects that are absent from the "released" version.

The Kings College intro (also used towards the end of 2000) is the one that samples Love Ridden by Fiona Apple, if i recall correctly.

Piano from Waiting for the End, lyrics from The Catalyst, "submarine" sound effect from Jornada Del Muerto, misc. sound effects from the intro to Burning in the Skies, droning keyboard sounds from Blackout, Chester screaming from the end of Robot Boy, flanger effect from the guitar breakdown of Iridescent...not sure if they're ALL in there, but most of them are at least. A lot of it is stuff that's way in the background of the "main" songs they're found in, so it's kind of hard to pick up on.

Wouldn't change anything as a producer that I can think of...but for the love of god, give me the session files for the last 2 albums so I can mix/master them in a way that doesn't sound atrocious and actually allows you to hear half the shit they put in the songs.