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Figure Nine 26 Letters in the Alphabet The Blues

Was supposed to go to this show, could have afforded it and gotten the time off from work no problem...but our car is being a piece of shit lately and I couldn't find a ride with anybody else. Needless to say, I've been pretty down all week...hope everybody else has fun at least.

The timing of these shows doesn't bode well for there being a U.S. arena tour this time around...if HCT winds up being the only time they tour the U.S. in support of this album, that's a load of bullshit.

Yeah, the bandwidth they'd have to use for something like that would be crazy, unless they were to encode it at such a low bitrate that it wouldn't even be worth paying for in the first place. I doubt it's a money issue (beyond the cost of the server space/bandwidth), because all they'd really have to do is record the live video feed and sync it up with the DSP audio, the editing would probably be minimal.

Mike's new guitar is a custom-painted Green Guitar Project Telecaster-style guitar (like the ones Chester's been using on Iridescent lately), he currently uses it on Lost in the Echo:

Lovely. As was the case with the WJ&L situation, I refuse to download any of these DSPs then. Just went through my external HD a while back and deleted all of my incomplete live recordings. I don't have the time nor the desire to bother with stuff like this.

The traditional definition of a musical medley is THREE OR MORE songs strung together.

Seems like this is just going to be Set A with LFY in place of Papercut. Makes sense, if they're not playing the full medley they might as well alternate playing the full version of each song.

Mark says the storm is getting pretty bad, lots of lightning and such. It looks like the REALLY nasty part of the storm is going to miss Wantagh to the north, but they're still getting hit pretty good.

...You guys never fail to confuse the living fuck out of me. Victimized/QWERTY/LFY/Papercut - Victimized/QWERTY In My Remains - Lies Greed Misery Empty Spaces/When They Come For Me - Points of Authority (they aren't going to do these two songs in the same set with WTCFM's lyrical reference to POA, wouldn't make sense) Plus you get Tinfoil, and a full version of Papercut. Other than In My Remains being a far better song than Lies Greed Misery, I fail to see how Set C is so amazing and Set A "sucks." It's literally almost the EXACT same selection of songs, guys.

LPA's setlist report says Fallout was played before The Catalyst...anybody able to confirm/deny?

Predicting Set B starts like this: TINFOIL Faint Papercut With You Given Up VICTIMIZED/QWERTY Somewhere I Belong They rehearsed that sequence of songs at one point last night before the "main" set, so I'd imagine that's the start of the second set. Lies Greed Misery in place of IMR, maybe Blackout in place of Empty Spaces/WTCFM, Crawling in place of BTH? Looks like APFMH won't be played on this tour after all. POA too...although I don't care so much about that one.

Nope, no Crawling, just OSC with a shitload of pyro to end the show. So...pretty solid set, still don't get the point of them cutting half of Papercut and Lying From You, although it seems like this set went EXACTLY 90 minutes and I know a lot of the amphitheaters have 11 PM curfews, so that might have something to do with it...still, I'd rather see them drop one song and play the other one in full than do it this way. Crawling being omitted is kind of surprising, but it's not a song that's been particularly good live in recent years, so maybe that's for the best. Also surprised they didn't play Lies Greed Misery, but if they do multiple setlists I can see them playing it in place of In My Remains or something.

Predicting LITE, WID, Crawling, OSC for the encore.

Encore break after BIO! Hopefully that means more songs, I doubt they'd come back out just to play One Step Closer and leave.

Incubus isn't playing the first two shows of the tour. In the End now. Seems like they're just sticking to the second rehearsal set...which means no Lost in the Echo, no Crawling, no What I've Done, and no Lies Greed Misery, unless something changes. Huh.

Aaaaaand we have pyro on Burn it Down! HEHE HEHE FIRE! HEHEHEHE. /beavis

The lack of the LOATR/SOTD/Iridescent medley is also disappointing...hoping it just got moved somewhere else in the set or maybe they just dropped it tonight for some reason. *Edit* Okay, false alarm, they just swapped it with BTH.

Other than the (currently) baffling Lying From You/Papercut situation, this is shaping up to be a pretty solid setlist.

The only thing I can think of is maybe Lying From You/Papercut is a mashup too? Like one goes straight into the other or something. Otherwise there's absolutely no point in playing two half songs in favor of one full one.

...They're actually playing the shortened versions of Lying From You and Papercut the way they did at the soundcheck. The fuck?

That was one of the shows added after the initial tour was announced, it's possible they may have just forgotten it.

This is a "full production" rehearsal, so there's actually a pretty good chance they'll run through a full set to make sure all the lighting cues and stuff like that are straightened out.

Roughly 7 hours. The rehearsal is supposed to start "around 6:30 PM."

They generally do play both of them...traditionally they're usually paired back-to-back whenever they're played (with a couple exceptions, the biggest being the Summer Sanitarium '03 setlist), and even when that doesn't happen, they're usually both still included. Bamboozle 2007 is the only time I can recall them doing one but not the other, and that was really a one-off performance of Runaway anyway.