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You can definitely still hear Mike rapping in the outro (you can also see him on the screen behind the stage at one point), it's just really faint. Nothing more than a case of poor mixing on the live broadcast. I did notice that Brad didn't play the last guitar part in the song though (3:35 to 3:41 on that video), I haven't downloaded the DSP yet, but I'd be willing to bet that was fixed, along with the false start on the Somewhere I Belong intro too.

Wait...what? People are actually judging the performance based solely on crowd reaction? That's fucking stupid. The band sounded just as good as they have at any other show on this tour, from the footage I've looked at. Were all those club shows from 2000 when the band was opening for Kottonmouth Kings shitty too then? Because hardly anybody gave a shit about LP at those performances either.

Damn, the theater up here isn't showing it. Oh well.

I think the What I've Done/Faint/No More Sorrow combo they used to open a lot of shows in 2008 was perfect. They basically did those 3 songs without ANY kind of pause in between them, with the AMBO intro on WID it kept the energy going for a solid 12 minutes or so to kick off the show.

Adam went to McNally Smith? Funny, that's exactly where I'm looking into taking some classes next year.

It's a Vox SDC-55.

There are VERY few Japanese fans who frequent English-speaking websites. I have no idea why, but it's always been that way.

BIO video was removed by the user. Anybody got another link?

Looking at the Lisbon footage again, the black guitar Brad used on With You/Runaway is actually another PRS NF3 like he used at the House of Blues, this one just has a rosewood fretboard instead of maple.

Golly gee, I sure do love me some multitracks. They come in real handy for all o'them music projects I work on, ya know? It's a cryin' shame they're so darn hard to find though. I wonder where them dang BID multitracks could be hidin'? *Edit* K, I found the BID multitracks, but they're arranged differently than the ones in the main post: 01. DRUMS 02. BASS 03. GUITAR 04. SYNTH 05. INDIGO SYNTH 06. VOCALS 07. RAP I'm thoroughly confused now.

This song sounds like Mike had a couple decent verses and a sort-of-interesting beat that amounted to about a minute and a half's worth of music, so they had Chester churn out some angsty teenager bullshit in about 5 minutes to flesh it out. At least it sounds decent live.

Looking at some early photos from Pinkpop, looks like LP was using different gear for this show (Mike was using his blue PRS with the skulls instead of the plain blue one, as well as one of his black SGs instead of the red one), so I guess we can go ahead and confirm that LP is using at least 2 touring rigs on this tour. I'd imagine some of the guitars they used at the House of Blues that weren't used in Lisbon will be in this rig (or possibly a third one, if they're using 3).

http://lplive.net/shows/20110625.php "Mike played what he said was a "remix" of 'When They Come For Me' by changing up the samples. Brad also changed up what he usually does on the megaphone during the song." Clarifying this a little, Mike jokingly made the "remix" comment because when he went to play the samples at the beginning of the song, his keyboard was on the wrong setting and played piano sounds instead of the regular distorted samples in the WTCFM intro. Changing up the samples after that was still intentional though. *Edit* Also noticed that the "number" on this show says "11 of 15," when it should be "11 of 17."

Fixed that for ya. Great show.

A couple other updates following the show tonight: -The guitar Mike is using on WFTE now is actually a Fernandes Sustainer-equipped PRS CE 24 with a blue sparkle finish. This is actually one of Brad's guitars that he frequently used on No More Sorrow in the past. I'm really not sure why Mike is using it for WFTE, unless he's using the Fernandes Sustainer in place of some of the other effects he had on his guitar for that song in the past. -Brad used a different guitar on With You/Runaway than he did at the House of Blues, it looked like an all-black PRS with a rosewood fretboard and a pickguard. Not sure what model that would be, but the first model that springs to mind is the Mira (the NF3/DC3-type guitars like the one he used at the House of Blues only come with maple fretboards). -Anyone who saw the webcast will know this, but all of the guitar on Lies Greed Misery is played by Mike. -As previously reported, Rob is wearing headphones on stage now. Why? No idea. You can see the wires for his IEM's running down his back, so he's still using those, so the headphones must serve a different purpose.

Given the track record of LP's performances at these European festivals the last few years, I'm not holding my breath for anything other than the Rock in Rio webcast and a handful of songs from Rock Am Ring to actually wind up being shown anywhere. I'm still cautiously optimistic though.

Probably just one. The song they give away for the Share2Earn program will likely be the same one that gets premiered tomorrow (in full quality, as opposed to radio quality, which is always more compressed, plus we'd have to rip it from an online stream to get it).

Good thing it's the Lotus F1 team, and not the Lotus IndyCar team that's been 20 miles an hour off the pace at Indy 500 time trials all month.

It's just an echo. You can hear it on the House of Blues show as well, on both Burn it Down and the Until it Breaks verse during the WFTE intro.

http://instagr.am/p/KL0HcUDmVR/ http://starrlabs.blogspot.com/2011/02/ztar...ks-bassist.html Not a bass at all. That's a Starr Labs Z-Tar (basically a guitar-shaped MIDI controller), Phoenix's specific model is a Z6X. He's been using it on Blackout since last June, I believe.

The stage they used tonight was supposed to mimic the backdrop for the BID music video, so this was probably just a one-off.

Sometimes it's almost as noteworthy when LP DOESN'T do a special intro/outro to a song. I remember how surprising it was when they started doing the album version of Somewhere I Belong again in 2009 after using the drum/guitar intro for just about every performance of that song since 2004. The last time LP did the "regular" version of POA was...*checks* March of 2004. Wow.

Yeah, the end of BIO was faster than usual because Sabotage is at a slightly faster tempo, so once they sped up for that, they just played the rest of the song that way.

Yeah, looking at just the tracklistings would make that seem like the logical conclusion, but if you think about it in terms of the way the songs are structured, it makes more sense to have the 9-track be earliest. The version of Crawling on the 9-track is the one with the stupid "I HATE YOU SO MUCH RIGHT NOW" intro and the short break after the first chorus, but the 8/7-track version has a more similar structure to the final album version. Also, the 9-track version of Carousel has Chester echoing Mike's "he/she can only fool himself/herself for so long" lines before the choruses, which is something that's also present on the HTEP, but isn't present on the 8/7-track version. It makes more sense for that to have been edited out on the "last" version of the 3, rather than have it be present in the first version, cut out of the second, then added back for the third. The slight lyrical changes on Carousel/Part of Me from the 8/7-track CDs make it easy to put them last in the sequence too.

Nice performance! Judging from this and all the footage from the House of Blues show I've seen, I have to say this is the best Chester's voice has sounded to me in a few years. Hopefully he maintains that form throughout the upcoming tour.