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UPDATE: If you want the "Linkin Park Edition" of Stagelight (yes, it's actually called that), GO HERE: http://www.openlabs.com/index.php/Download...nparkstagelight You'll be able to use the same product key you got with your LPU email this way, but you'll get the "correct" version with the LP demo songs and such. I honestly think this whole confusion was just a matter of someone using the wrong download link at some point along the line. Also, it seems like the LP Edition has a lot more to it than the standard one...the installer .exe files are roughly 280 MB for the standard version, and 909 MB for the LP edition. I highly doubt that big of a difference comes just from the inclusion of a couple demo tracks...

Nope, looks like you have to pay the $15 for that one.

The 5-track version is the version released on MTV.com back in 2005, those were shorter versions of those 5 songs. The full versions (along with A.15, Selector, Teletronic, and Catharsis) weren't released until a couple years ago. 100 Degrees was a demo title that was kept for when it was made into a full song on the We Major mixtape - there's no way it was ever called "Hive" unless Mike randomly changed the title before he ever wrote lyrics for it...but in that case, you'd think he would've uploaded it under the final title when he released the full versions later on.

The track numbers went from 1 to 10 but skipped 3 when Mike uploaded them to Soundcloud, and 100 Degrees was mis-titled as "Hive." I've always assumed that Hive was the missing track.

Well I guess we can finally get the definitive version of Bruiser, lol. I'm assuming you get the same stuff regardless of whether you download it from the OpenLabs site (with or without the LPU code) or the Dell website? Currently redeeming my LPU code. *Edit* Apparently not...no Bruiser or any LP-related songs in the program after installing it. So if you want the one with Bruiser and stuff, DOWNLOAD THE DELL WEBSITE VERSION! Kind of sucks that the version LPU members get doesn't have any LP music in it, yet the one anyone can buy from Dell does... When you install Stagelight, it installs 2 desktop icons - one for a 32-bit version ("Stagelight32) and one for a 64-bit version ("Stagelight"). I couldn't get any sound from the 64-bit version, but the 32-bit one worked just fine. *Edit* WOW, this program is garbage. Looks nice and functional and everything, but it's kind of hard to use a DAW when your CPU usage jumps to 100% within 3 seconds of starting playback and everything lags so bad it's completely unusable! I guess the catch with this being a $10-15 program is that you have to have a $1,200 computer in order to use it. Nice!

Yeah, there's really no need for 3 guitars there, I think Mike just played guitar on it because that's what he's been doing for a long time, and Camp Freddy always has the gear to accomodate 3 guitar players, even though they often perform with 2. I noticed Dave Navarro was trying to make up for the lack of samples by trying to play some of those sounds on guitar during the intro/breakdown, but there were still never more than 2 parts going at once.

You have to keep in mind that prior to Minutes to Midnight, ~95% of Linkin Park material started off as demos that Mike and Brad came up with together. Most of the material Chester writes starts off as just acoustic guitar and vocals, which rarely seems to get used on LP albums, with the exception of The Messenger and Skin to Bone (which wound up as an electronic "Mike-ified" song anyway). There are always exceptions to the rule (Hands Held High being a piano demo Brad brought in, The Little Things Give You Away starting off as a drum beat Rob came up with, Chester writing Easier to Run as a lyrical exercise before they wrote any music for it, etc.), but Mike's always been the most prolific writer in the band. It's not so much that Chester is the odd man out, it just goes back to Linkin Park being Mike's baby. Not that that's a bad thing, plenty of bands have one primary songwriter.

FYI, first video is from the show on the 6th, the other 2 are from the show on the 11th.

They didn't even come to my region of the fucking country on the HCT. Nearest show was 8 hours away. Yeah, thanks LP, it's not like I've gone to your show at least once on every touring cycle since Meteora or anything like that...

I think the acoustic on the live version is in some kind of open/alternate tuning so Brad can play bigger chords to help make up for the fact that there's only one electric guitar on the live version.

The show hasn't even happened yet...

As I've pointed out before, the octave up vocal part Chester sings in Castle of Glass's second verse and last chorus is present on the album version...

Apparently they're only censoring "fuck," and only when it's spoken in between songs. Looks like they might actually be showing the full show EXCEPT Lost in the Echo...no idea what kind of logic that is, unless they had some kind of technical difficulties with the first song?

http://lplive.net/forum/index.php?showtopi...mp;#entry179014 Mark and I CALLED THIS SO FUCKING HARD. Nobody believed us.

Webcast is censored.

I think the point of this was that Mike made a song using the sample packs that come with the Stagelight software, not that he "wrote" a new song from scratch. There are definitely numerous samples from various Living Things songs in there.

The trial version is free, so what kind of benefit would that be? The full version is only $9.99 anyway.

The LPU12 Forgotten demo is a Hybrid Theory demo. The "Xero with Chester" demos are literally just that - the Xero demo recordings with Chester's vocals on them instead of Mark's.

Most of the MTV coverage was just interviews...I think there were a few short clips of the performance shown, but none of it was really even "proshot" stuff, just raw footage with camera audio.

I haven't really been bothering downloading most of the DSPs lately...what's the deal with the pictures?

Considering how they've already done 2 promo tie-ins/"music videos" for Powerless, I think a "proper" single release would just be overkill/somewhat confusing. Most people seem to think it's already a single.

http://lplive.net/shows/20020216.php - Part of the taper info is cut off. It says "Taper: lostintn OR stilllostintn (from" It should say "Taper: lostintn OR stilllostintn (from Tape Trade Centre)"

Haha, second time Mike plays God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen on piano, and it happens to be 5 years to the day after the first time he did.

Mike played part of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen on piano between Numb and What I've Done. There was no Encore lyrics tease outro.

http://joehahn.com/post/20789090256/hawaii-five-o He did.