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Linkin Park has been erroneously using the term "demo" to describe basically any non-album track they release, dating all the way back to Step Up being labeled as a "1999 demo" on the In the End single in 2001. Across the Line is a completely finished Minutes to Midnight b-side that was literally the last song cut from the album, according to Mike.

No...why would it be?

$30 for 6 albums is a good deal...but who's seriously going to buy this? There's no new bonus content to give people a reason to buy these albums again, and someone who's interested enough in LP to buy 6 of their albums at once probably already has all of them!

You're kinda right - just looked through the archived pages. They had Songs From the Underground on there at one point (it's not there anymore), which is where the QWERTY lyrics were: http://web.archive.org/web/20120107044718/...the-underground And yeah, totally wrong lyrics on there, lol. *Edit* They had LPUX on there at one point too: http://web.archive.org/web/20111206183504/...round-x-demos-1

I wasn't aware that there are or ever have been lyrics for QWERTY on LP.com? None of the LPU stuff has ever been in the discography on there...

There are TV commercials airing for the Grammys with no mention of LP as a performing artist, so I really doubt that's happening.

Pooch mixes/records all of LP's rehearsals these days. Don't really see why a release of something like that would be worthwhile (unless it was some unusual thing they did during rehearsals that never made it to the live show). The end result would pretty much just sound like a DSP without crowd noise. Also, I love how Brad can be either seen or heard working on the acoustic guitar part throughout almost the entire video. Transposing chords to a guitar with the A string tuned down to F is probably a nightmare.

The original idea for SDC was that they were going to perform as a processional after the rest of the Revolution Stage bands were done - they'd start on/near the Revolution Stage and perform while walking over to the main stage, where they'd finish up. I'm guessing that turned out to be a logistical problem, because it never happened, so they just had them open up the main stage. No idea why they were listed as openers on the original flyer though.

WeMix did a contest in conjunction with Mike/Glorious Excess where people submitted original songs and the winner would get to work with Mike in the studio. That song was basically "done" before they got in the studio with Mike, they re-cut the vocals but I think that was about it. I'd say Mike was like an "executive producer" on that track, but the main production work wasn't done by him.

The answer to both of those is that it varied greatly from track to track. Here's a list of what I remember... Re-recorded vocal parts: ENTH E ND - Mike's verses FRGT/10 - Mike's verses P5HNG ME A*WY - Chester's chorus vocals WTH>YOU - All of Mike/Chester's vocals RNW@Y - Chester's verses BY_MYSLF - All of Mike/Chester's vocals The majority of the remixing was done by whoever is listed on the back cover before the "featuring" part of each track. The band got involved with a few tracks and made some pretty substantial edits (the primary example that comes to mind is how Brad is credited as an additional producer on PTS.OF.ATHRTY, and a lot of that track changed from Jay Gordon's original remix). Certain band members contributed additional instruments on various songs (Phoenix played bass on BY_MYSLF, Joe did scratching on FRGT/10, Mike and Brad both did guitars on P5HNG ME A*WY, etc.), but most of the "edits" they did after getting the remixes from the original artists were relatively minor things they would've done in the mixing/sequencing phase with guys like Andy Wallace and Brian "Big Bass" Gardner. And yeah, the band got more submissions than what wound up on the album, so they had to do some paring down to get to the final tracklisting. That's why people like Z-Trip and Team Sleep were announced as having contributed to the album but aren't on it. The band has a tendency of throwing the "Linkin Park" name on any music their members create these days, unless it's specifically for a solo project.

"Tampa Finals" refers to a piece Mike did as part of the score for Rob Dyrdek's "Street Dreams" movie in 2009. Not really a Fort Minor track, and I've never been able to track down the piece of music itself.

Pretty sure that was posted on AOL or some music site like that. I remember it came out quite a while after the album did, like mid-2006.

Live in Texas was a really spur-of-the-moment decision, they decided to film those shows like a week before they happened, after the tour had already started. I'm really not sure why they decided to do it on a non-headlining tour, other than a live DVD just wasn't something they had done before. The fact that they were playing baseball stadiums for the first time probably had something to do with it too.

FYI, that list has a bunch of errors in it (I transcribed the original one from the picture posted on Julien-K's website and did a lot of straight-up guessing). It should look like this: 1. "Morning After" 2. "Let Down" 3. "My Suffering" 4. "Darkness" 5. "N2U" 6. "Wall of Sound" 7. "Instrumental" 8. "Fire" 9. "Hard Life" 10. "20 Eyes" - This one was drawn on the board as "20" followed by a pair of eyes. 11. "Give Me Your Name" 12. "Introutro" 13. "Walking in Circles" 14. "Morning After" (Possibly the Julien-K Remix)

Linkin Park's 6th album is holding up the release of their 7th album!

2005: Fort Minor Militia offers a monthly download of an exclusive track for first-year members. It turns into a disorganized mess, with the downloads abruptly stopping after 8 months with no explanation given. 2012: Linkin Park offers a monthly download of a remix to people who pre-ordered Living Things through their website. It turns into a disorganized mess, with many people never receiving emails to download the remixes, many remixes coming out weeks late, and the program apparently disappearing in December with no explanation given, despite the program not being finished (what happened to the winners of the Lost in the Echo remix contest?). I'm thinking LP really should avoid the monthly download concept like the plague in the future.

Yeah, pretty sure this was brought up either in an LPU chat or at one of the Summits recently and they said that wasn't intentional. Particularly given that Tinfoil and Powerless are pretty much a seamless track and that's where the "missing 12th song" is according to the dot patterns, I really don't see there being any significance.

Here's one that I just remembered the other day: Several news articles leading up to the release of Fort Minor's We Major mixtape mentioned that there would actually be TWO mixtapes: "We Major" and "We Minor." Whether this was just a case of incorrect information or if Fort Minor initially planned to do a second mixtape and scrapped the idea is unknown.

Well with Bruiser being included in the original Open Labs software, which functions completely differently from Stagelight, they would've had to "rebuild" it for Stagelight anyway. And it really wouldn't be too hard, they'd just have to do a mixdown of the individual tracks from the Pro Tools sessions and then import them to Stagelight, with minimal editing to make Stagelight's custom loop points and stuff like that relevant to the song. Bruiser and Space Station look about the same in Stagelight as they would in any other DAW.

If they made a song, they made a song...you're basically saying that anything that LP's ever made that wasn't specifically done for an album "doesn't count" by saying that. Plus Bruiser and Space Station could easily have been made for something else first and then included in StageLight later on, we have no way of knowing what their "original purpose" was.

FYI, the two "Loop Jams" are actually made up of various LP samples found elsewhere in the Open Labs Library folder, so they aren't actually "songs" of their or anything like that, they're basically just a couple more tracks you can play around with in the program like the rock/pop/hip-hop lesson tracks and stuff like that.

I've actually managed to get the program working pretty well now - deleted a crapload of desktop icons, ran Disk Cleanup, all that jazz. Complimentary seems really...glitchy though. The intro gets all fucked up when I try to play it back in Stagelight, and when I mix it down, it's still all skippy and shit. I wonder if it has something to do with it being just a .song file rather than having the audio files included with it like the other songs do? Maybe that makes it more of a strain on the program...the fact that Complimentary has a lot more stuff going on in it than the other tracks probably doesn't help either. But still...it almost seems like the file is corrupt or something, just from the way it acts. Weird. Anyway, looks like I may get some use out of this program after all! Sweet!

Trust me guys, the program is doing you a service by not letting you open it if you have less than 2 GB of RAM. I have 3 GB of RAM and the program is still completely unusable due to how big of a resource hog it is. I even moved around 10 GB of data off my hard drive to see if that made any kind of difference, and it didn't. I have a 250 GB hard drive with almost 200 GB free on it and this still runs like crap. You probably need at LEAST 4 GB to get any kind of use out of this program, and that's probably only if you have a really good processor like an i5 or better. If you have a more "typical" processor, you might need to push it up to 6 GB of RAM before this will run smoothly.

Unfortunately I'm having trouble mixing these down to .wav files. I guess I just don't have the necessary CPU power because once the mixdown is done, the files lag during playback, most noticeably when trying to play Complimentary. The BPM just jumps all over the place whenever one of the parts loops. As I've said before, the Stagelight software itself is completely unusable on my computer, but I was hoping I'd at least be able to do a mixdown of this stuff without it fucking up...the 32-bit version of Stagelight (which uses far less memory than the 64-bit version) uses like 55% of my RAM when it's running - not doing anything, no audio playback or whatever, just having the program running uses over half of my computer's memory. This thing is the biggest resource hog I have ever seen in my life.

HOLY SHIT, you guys were missing a bunch of stuff that comes with the LP Edition! After installing it, go to this folder: C:\Open Labs Library (this stuff isn't stored in the Stagelight program folders!). In there, you'll find the following, none of which is found in the "standard" edition of Stagelight: Audio Samples folder: -"Linkin Park" sub-folder w/various LP drum/guitar/bass/synth samples. Drum Kits folder: -"LP" sub-folder w/TONS of samples. Songs folder: -4 "full" LP tracks bundled with the software: Bruiser, Space Station, and two more that are just titled "Loop Jam 1" and "Loop Jam 2." Furthermore, a lot of the LP samples included seem to come from existing LP demos! Some of the titles I recognize in the various filenames include Sakura, Holding Company, Chicken Basket, Primo, Episodes, and Seahorse. Other titles that show up include Blacklight, Drano, Numbers, Rooster, Heretic, Grudge, Axis, Plastic, Twister, Casino, Trinity, Kerosena, Monday, Luna, Sandmine, Splinter, Stone, Kingdom, Sputnik, Shortcut, Sentinel, Grey Sky, Florida, Hyper, Paper Shark, Archbishop, and Ribeye (some of these may be "track names" as opposed to names for actual seeds, but most of them appear in numerous audio files, so it seems that they come from sessions for full songs). The samples in the Drum Kits folder even include samples from released songs like Lies Greed Misery, Roads Untraveled, Castle of Glass, Divided, Pale, and some of the songs from The Raid score. Most of them are just drum kit samples, but still - LOTS of LP stuff in there! Also, I can now finally confirm beyond a shadow of a doubt that this song is NOT Bruiser. I have no idea where it came from, but it's not found in Stagelight, while the real version of Bruiser (which DOES sound a lot like Wretches and Kings, like the original description from the LPU Summit said it did!) is.