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I'm half tempted to carry a shank.

Wasn't that Debris?

The reason preorders are being cancelled is because it's against Record Store Day policy for any of their participating retailers to reserve items for customers (they have problems with this every year, it's not some oddity with this particular item or anything). You're supposed to only be able to purchase Record Store Day items on Record Store Day. Most retailers won't have any idea what kind of stock they're getting for the event until they get their shipments in. My local store's truck will be coming in on the 18th, and based on the size of the store and the number of copies of this particular item, they're probably only going to get one copy, maybe two. And the only way for me to get one is to go wait in line for the store to open the morning of the 20th and hope nobody else gets it before I do. That's basically the entire basis of what Record Store Day is supposed to be.

I'm not just saying this because I've seen LP there 3 times...Blossom Music Center is a REALLY cool venue. It looks like a big cheese wedge stuck in the ground...or a UFO landing, depending on the angle! It's also surrounded by some BEAUTIFUL scenery in Cuyahoga Valley National Park. I love the way the area looks in the fall:

Given past history with this event, I'd say there's a good chance Chester winds up performing at least one song.

Any piece of music is technically the intellectual property of whoever composed it. How well that holds up in court usually depends on being able to prove who wrote it first. In the case of stuff like LP's live intros that are well-documented with various recordings, that would pretty much be a no-brainer, assuming they cared enough to actually pursue any legal action over it.

Move On features scratches by Joe as well.

How far in advance does LP's crew (other than the people involved directly in booking the shows) find out about tour plans anyway? HCT would still be 4-5 months away at this point. I would assume Adam is normally one of the first people to know, but I don't know how far out that is.

It's hard to say how long the source version of Technique for that video is, they could've just looped portions of it to fit the video. There are some different sound effects in there though (along with the obvious lack of vocal samples/scratching), and it's already an established fact that the band has unreleased alternate mixes of the HTEP songs. There's another LPTV/LPUTV episode with an instrumental version of the HTEP High Voltage playing in the background, and it has a different guitar part in it than what's on the CD.

The whole "touring festival" concept really fizzled out in the U.S. towards the later part of the '00s. Just look at what happened to the other big players in that market like Ozzfest and Lollapalooza. PR was actually one of the last ones that was still doing decent, and that was probably largely due to the numerous corporate sponsors they had pouring money into it. For the most part, U.S. music fans don't really seem to be big on festivals anymore. They'd rather go to an evening show, see 2 to 4 bands, and call it a day.

*facepalm* Oh boy...I can't even respond to this in a way that wouldn't get me in trouble. I guess I'll just leave it at this: Learn to read, it'll do you some good.

Linkin Park and Maroon 5 are literally the only artists I'm aware of that the 4 clues haven't eliminated for one reason or another. Either way, looks like HCT is getting a repeat headliner this year.

Or if one person sends them 100 messages...

Absolutely 110% positive that the picture is Brad. The guitar is a dead giveaway - It's a PRS NF3/DC3-style guitar with a pickguard on it, but it only has a master volume knob and no pickup selector. Brad had two custom single-pickup DC3's built for him last year, I believe the first time he used them was for the Mexico shows. The guitar in question is THIS guitar. It's not like that's a guitar variant you could see on anyone. A normal NF3/DC3 has a second knob and a pickup selector on it that should be visible from the angle of the picture in question. Brad has a couple guitars like that too, as seen here. The photo was likely taken during the intro/pre-chorus of With You, given that his right hand is palm-muting the strings near the bridge and his left hand is in the open E5 chord position (which is actually a B5 in the tuning used for With You). The stage production also matches too. I'm one of the skeptics wondering if the pictures HCT is posting are even supposed to be "clues," but whether or not the original picture is of Brad isn't even in question here.

I don't think there's anything in there that really indicates that it's NOT LP music...the first track in particular is very reminiscent of some of the guitar stuff they were doing during the MTM period (Valentine's Day, Blackbirds). Also, the game sound effects in the background are kind of distracting but they aren't TOO bad.

Some post-Minutes to Midnight stuff would be nice...95% of the demos we've gotten since LPU 9 started the trend of releasing a demo CD every year have been from 2007 or earlier, which was cool at first when 2007 was just "a couple years ago," but we all know they've still got plenty of A Thousand Suns-era stuff in the vault. Might be a little soon for Living Things demos, but I wouldn't say no to those either.

Now it's everything between Monterrey and Culver City. KROQ works, but nothing else post-HCT does.

Someone should probably rip any music found in the beta just in case it's actually LP stuff...there's always the possibility of them changing stuff like that for the full release.

Why the hell do people keep debating this every few weeks? Across the Line was recorded during the Minutes to Midnight sessions. The *ONLY* demos we've gotten that were "completed" after the album they were originally intended for were Pretend to Be and Not Alone. Debris was obviously in play at some point during the A Thousand Suns sessions based on that short clip of it on LPTV, but we don't have any evidence that they actually did additional work on it at that point, and you'd think if they did, it wouldn't have been labeled as a Minutes to Midnight demo on the LPU CD (unlike Pretend to Be, which was labeled appropriately as a 2008 demo rather than a 2006/2007 one). LP revisits a lot of their old demos during the early phase of working on a new album, but that doesn't mean they actually do anything with them.

The ECW Anarchy Rocks mix of One Step Closer is totally different from the album version - It's actually very similar to the mix used in Plaster, with the beefed-up drum track, louder bass, and more emphasized samples, but it lacks the bridge vocal samples in the intro. The difference in the track length just comes from the "interlude" that leads into the next track being tacked onto the end of it (there are short clips of each of the featured wrestlers talking before "their song" on the CD).

Nice hi-res copy of the artwork - http://s3.amazonaws.com/broadtime_photo/418455340367 Looks like there may be a RSD logo in the bottom left corner of the actual item, which would be nice for making it easy to tell the original apart from the reissue without having to look at the catalog number.

The single versions of Somewhere I Belong and Faint have VERY minor differences in their intros due to the way some of the tracks on Meteora flow together.

Reanimation has more promo vinyl stuff than any other "solely LP" release (Collision Course and Fort Minor also had a lot), but it's still not particularly easy to come by. The only reason I ever got my hands on one was because I won the "LPU Spring Cleaning" contest a few years back and a signed copy of it was one of the prizes.

I think there have been moments that caught me off guard at all 4 shows I've been to: Cuyahoga Falls 2004: I saw this show at the point where NO recordings of the tour had surfaced yet, so I knew the setlist, but the last recording I had to go by was Rock Am Ring, so I didn't know about the little changes like the slightly altered Don't Stay intro, the new BTH/Numb transition, the new intro to Figure.09 and the Figure.09/From the Inside transition (I had heard about the latter obviously, but didn't have a clue what it sounded like). I was also pleasantly surprised to get Bert on Faint AND Jonathan on OSC at the same show, as I don't think too many shows got both. Some of Chester's stage banter was just priceless that night too..."Someone's hand went up my ass...I don't think I've ever been fisted before, that was kind of awesome!" Cuyahoga Falls 2007: Debuts of new piano intros to Breaking the Habit and TLTGYA, as well as the changed-up piano parts to Pushing Me Away. I was also relieved to catch QWERTY because I knew it tended to be the first song they'd cut out of Set B if they had to drop one (and it ended up only lasting one more show on the tour). The Points of Authority ending that went on FOREVER was hysterical too. Cuyahoga Falls 2008: Got surprised in a bad way at this show when I heard Remember the Name blasting from the second stage while I was stuck in line at the merch booth...pretty sure that was only the second time Mike joined SOB on that tour? Mike also went into the Just Like Heaven piano part after Numb at this show, and I just about freaked out because they were basically NEVER playing that anymore at that point, but he wound up not singing over it. Brad's epic fail on the outro of In Pieces that actually prompted a look of disgust from Mike was pretty funny too. St. Paul 2011: Got to see a new setlist debut at this show, which included the U.S. debut of Burning in the Skies. The piano transition from What I've Done into Empty Spaces/WTCFM also totally caught me off guard, as did the short-lived "slow encore" that started with Wisdom, Justice and Love, Iridescent, and Shadow of the Day. The sub blast at the very end of Jornada Del Muerto also scared the shit out of me, wasn't expecting it to be that loud.

Man, Chester was having a pretty decent show here...then it gets to One Step Closer and he's painfully flat for 90% of the song. WTF happened?