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"It Feels Familiar" is NOT a song title, it says "Jay - it feels familiar" as a comment Jay-Z made on the track above it. That's why the number 15 is crossed out next to that line and then re-written below it.

6/8. It's a fast 6/8, but that's what Mike refers to it as in the Rising Tied audio commentary for that song.

That's clearly a misprint issue on that particular demo CD. Why the hell would "The Cure for Mr. Hahn's Itch" be the working title for Pushing Me Away and not CFTI? Am I like the only person who still gets WHY Cure for the Itch has that title? What do you do to cure an itch? YOU SCRATCH. CFTI is Joe's instrumental track...WHERE HE SCRATCHES BECAUSE HE'S THE DJ. It's a play on words. Jesus christ.

Second one is "Cover + Duck." I seem to remember checking this out once before and not coming up with anything new.

TOTAL opposite opinion here. I don't think The Messenger has EVER sounded good in any key they've tried it in. Taking it down that low sucks all of the emotion out of it and turns it into a sleepy campfire singalong/lullaby-sounding snoozefest that sounds like it was written in 5 minutes.

Looks and sounds right to me. It's the same as this setlist from the same tour, except with No Roads Left instead of PMA Piano. By mid-2008, most fans were agreeing that PMA Piano was getting stale, and the band had seemingly begun phasing it out during the U.S. arena tour earlier in the year, by playing songs like My December and In Between far more often than PMA during the "piano encore." I always thought it seemed strange that they switched gears and made it a regular again during the summer tours, particularly when one of the other setlists had the STUDIO version of the same song in it! I have a feeling they intended to drop PMA Piano at that point and only play the studio version as one of the rotating songs, but swapped it back in as a last-minute substitute once they figured out Mike couldn't pull of No Roads Left during rehearsals.

China's a total shithole anyway. The only reason they're going through an industrial revolution/economic boom is because the U.S. was dumb enough to start outsourcing all of our labor there 15-20 years ago. ...LPLive will probably get banned from the Chinese Internet (if it hasn't been already) because of me saying that.

Studio version is in the key of G, LP live version is in the key of E flat. Chester's done solo renditions in both the key of D and the key of C (this one's in C).

As a footnote, this same guy also once claimed that he arranged Mike's keyboard parts for the live version of Breaking the Habit (as in figuring out how to transpose the string parts to keys). Of all the things that make me question this guy's legitimacy, that one takes the cake. Mike is a classically trained pianist, wrote the BTH string parts on keyboard in the first place that Dave Campbell subsequently arranged for live strings, and the BTH live keyboard part isn't really THAT difficult...but he had to rely on someone else to figure it out for him? None of the LP band members or crew personnel have ever mentioned this guy by name as far as I'm aware, and he's never been thanked in the liner notes of any of their albums, yet he's apparently important enough to help them arrange some of their music? We DO know for sure that he's some type of music producer from the LA area...but I honestly can't recall any of his meetings with Linkin Park ever being verified by anyone other than him, lol. Back on topic, I'm pretty sure No Roads Left was also rehearsed prior to PR07. Remember that picture from the "secret show" with the one LPU member holding a full show setlist that was different from any of the final A/B/C sets? Pretty sure NRL was on there (shame the picture was so low-resolution...still curious what that full set was).

*Shoutbox copy-paste* Not counting the in-studio performances in early 2007, 3 times: Selma 2007, Columbus 2008, Montreal 2008. Also attempted it on Melbourne 2007 night 2 (same show he broke his wrist) but didn't quite make it. Always loved the Montreal one in particular, because the crowd actually reacts to it.

Chester had an offer to be the lead singer of the Michael Schenker Group prior to joining Xero/Hybrid Theory, but turned it down. Source: Radio Alice interview w/Chester and Ryan Shuck.

Slip is actually credited to Mark Wakefield, so we know that one was written prior to Chester joining. I find it hard to believe that songs like that would essentially be Xero demos that Chester just put his vocals on later though, because all of the Hybrid Theory-era demos with Chester are pretty uniform in their sound quality, like they were all done at the same location with the same gear. Anything Xero recorded would have been way before they got a record deal, so it probably would've been done on Mike's 4-track cassette recorder at home like the Xero tape was. I know Coal sounds way better than the Xero demos, but that's also a song that could've easily been made entirely with a computer/sampler and wouldn't have needed to be tracked "live."

Yeah, the LPU as a whole now is way better than it was during the Sparkart days, the forums just suck.

I've got a hunch who Adam's replacement is going to be, but I'm not going to say anything at this point.

All the Young Dudes is a Mott the Hoople song, not David Bowie. Bowie wrote it, but never recorded it, nor did he ever intend to. He was strictly employed as a songwriter for that one.

Interactive Marketing department at WMG, eh? Somebody got a big promotion! Forget asking Adam about tour dates, maybe I'll start asking him for money.

The big screen problems were at the end of the show during Jigga What/Faint. Wouldn't have affected the bonus tracks. The 3 tracks at the end are supposed to be "bonus content." People complained about how there was no bonus content on Live in Texas for like 2 years straight after it was released, so this was probably their way of either 1. Effectively giving them a big middle finger, or 2. Legitimately trying to figure out a way to put bonus content on the DVD without having anything "extra" available for the release.

Since when does "heavy" only apply to what you're basically describing as death metal?

http://lplive.net/forum/index.php?showtopi...0&pid=20338

The original 91X radio premiere of State of the Art was promoted by DJ Lethal as being a track from his upcoming solo album, so I'm pretty sure, at least in his eyes, the track was finished...

Actually, I just remembered where Mark heard about By Myself in '09, and it was from a source I've always found questionable at best (basically someone who has claimed on numerous occasions over the years to be involved with the band, but he's never been credited/thanked in album booklets or listed as one of their touring personnel...hmm...). They said they were at rehearsals for the '09 tour, but who knows how much truth there is to that.

I'm not exactly an art expert, but that really doesn't look like Joe's style to me.

Carousel was actually rehearsed during the 2001 European Headline Tour, not Family Values. They rehearsed both that and My December during soundchecks on that tour...they wound up adding My December to the set, but not Carousel. I think I remember Mark saying they rehearsed By Myself at one point in 2009? Can't remember exactly.

I have 2 things to add here: 1. I don't think the HTEP came out on May 1st, 1999. I've never seen any solid information that points to anything other than "sometime in 1999" on a HTEP release date, but the group bio on the old HT website - http://web.archive.org/web/20021101062623/...om/lpgroup2.htm mentions that the band will have an EP out "soon," but then mentions a late summer 2000 release date for their first full-length album in the same sentence. If the HTEP came out in May 1999, that means they would've had an idea about a release date for Hybrid Theory close to a year and a half in advance? That seems VERY unlikely to me. I was always under the impression that the HTEP came out towards the end of 1999, a few months before the band changed their name to Linkin Park. 2. Chester's been VERY consistent in saying that he did his audition tape on his 23rd birthday over the years. In fact, the first time there was ever ANY kind of indication of Chester being involved with the band prior to 1999 was within the last few years when LPU demos featuring Chester that were dated as being from 1998 started coming out, and when that "Linkin Park: est. 1998" t-shirt popped up and stuff like that. If you were to go back like 5 years, "Chester joined the band in 1999" was pretty much an agreed-upon fact throughout the entire LP community. I'm far more inclined to believe that the dates on the demos are wrong.

Mainly the stuff in the intro/outro.