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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.

Yeah, I'll go with Reanimation just because of how little of it wound up being performed live. Seeing stuff like BY_MYSLF and the full version of 1STP KLOSR would be SICK.

Yeah, that looks like some kind of electronic cymbal that Rob has mounted on top of his rack of trigger pads (it stops moving pretty quickly after he hits it, so I doubt it's a real cymbal). He uses it on Burn it Down, but I can't make out any specific sound that's triggered by it. Also, I lied about Mike's keyboard, he's still using the Neko XXL. On another note, I'm kind of surprised to see Brad using a PRS on Burn it Down. The guitar on the studio version sounds like a Strat to me.

http://lplive.net/shows/20110222.php - "After 'The Radiance', Mike told Dylan to hold off on starting the 'Breaking The Habit' intro sample because his keyboard broke." Breaking the Habit wasn't even performed at this show, nor was it typically a part of that show's setlist...

You sure that's a cymbal and not one of his triggers? He had a bunch of new trigger drums added on the left side of his kit for the ATS tour.

The HTEP definitely comes first out of those releases. The 9-track demo CD is dated February 11, 2000 (meaning the demos contained on it were likely recorded in late 1999/the very beginning of 2000), the 8-track doesn't have a date on it, and the 7-track (which we know came after the 8-track) is labeled "Demos from 02-2000," which seems to suggest that February of 2000 was when those tracks were recorded. Based on that, plus the differences between the 9 and 8-track versions of certain songs (the most telltale sign being the subtle arrangement changes to Crawling), I would say the 9-track is the oldest of the 3 demo CDs, and the 8 and 7-track versions came a little bit later in the "narrowing down" process for what songs would be on Hybrid Theory. I'm really not sure where the 2-track APFMH/By Myself demo comes into play, obviously it was before the name change to Linkin Park, but other than that it's hard to say (although it IS the only demo CD to use the final "By Myself" and "A Place for My Head" titles, so I'm inclined to say it came out sometime in early-mid 2000, after all the other demos). If you want to go a bit further than that even, the unmastered copy of Hybrid Theory was dated May of 2000, the Wicked World of Warner sampler with Now I See on it was a promo that was given away during the Ozzfest tour, so it would've come out in July of 2000. I'm really not sure when the Raw Power promo with the By Myself demo came out.

http://lplive.net/shows/20120518.php - I know this is probably going to be edited numerous times over the next few days, but I figure I might as well offer what input I can now: -While we obviously can't confirm this 100% at this time, I think it's reasonable to assume that the version of Tinfoil used for the intro isn't the full song. Just something to keep in mind that may need correcting once the album drops. -Faint had the regular extended outro. -From what I can tell, With You did NOT have an extended intro (despite it being labeled as such on the setlist), however it DID have a slightly extended scratching outro. -Given Up had the short extended outro with the "extra note," but the "extra note" was the same as the last note of the song this time, instead of modulating to whatever note the next song started on like it did in 2010-2011. -Joe messed up the intro to Blackout. -Somewhere I Belong's extended intro was brand new - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1z3TzH4jxE -I'm pretty sure the Waiting For the End intro should be spelled "Apaches" (I noticed Jonas questioning this in the show thread because it was spelled differently on the HOB and KROQ setlists). As far as I know, there's no significance to "apatches," so the other spelling makes more sense. -One Step Closer had the same extended outro as usual. -Bleed it Out had an extended intro and outro. Also, I know "Hip Hop Medley" is an unofficial title for the Step Up/Nobody's Listening/It's Goin' Down medley from '04, but it's such a universally accepted title that everybody refers to it by that name, and LPL even uses it on the '04 setlist pages. For consistency's sake, I vote that the new LOATR/SOTD/Iridescent medley should have a name of its own as well. "Ballad Medley," perhaps?

Yeah, it's virtually identical as far as the execution goes (totally different on the album version though - they used an Electro-Harmonix HOG for the original recording). Brad probably went that route instead of using the Digitech Whammy because his current rig doesn't have any individual pedals on stage, he uses a MIDI switching system for all his effects and keeps the stompboxes stored in a drawer as part of his rack-mounted gear. With the Whammy pedal, it would have to be on stage where he could actually use it, so they'd have to run instrument cables from his rack, out to the front of the stage and back again, just for one pedal that he uses on one song, haha.