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It was basically the "label" that Hybrid Theory put their music out under prior to getting signed by Warner. I don't think it was really an official organization or anything like that, probably just something they came up with because it sounds cooler/more professional to put your music out under a label with some kind of name, instead of say, "Hybrid Theory Records" or something like that.

That's odd, because from what I've been told, Burn It Down is being sent digitally to all radio stations/distributors simultaneously in mass-email form the morning of the 16th, which is exactly the same way What I've Done and The Catalyst were delivered to radio as well. Glad I'm not the only one who's noticed. Typical LPBR behavior, really.

He also apparently missed the fact that the official working title for What I've Done was "Bang Three" and the demo was released on LPU 11, because he just uploaded a really poorly-made fake one (using the Guitar Hero multitracks) like 2 weeks ago, and it's still labeled with that stupid "Forgiveness" title that's been going around for ages.

That's the intro from the Summer Sanitarium tour shows in 2003. The majority of the instrumental is sampled from Dead Skin Mask by Slayer, the speech at the beginning is from the movie Cromwell. Most of HybridSoldierLP's Youtube videos are bullshit anyway. They either have fake titles/are intentionally mislabeled (as is the case here) or are completely fake tracks altogether. He deletes your comments as soon as you call him out on it too.

This has more or less been confirmed as fake... ...and so has this.

"Super Zero" was the demo of By Myself from the 9-track demo CD (the one without She Couldn't on it). That's the only one of the By Myself demos where it was spelled with a Z instead of an X. It does bear some slight differences from all of the other By Myself demos (I believe there are 4 different ones in total), but none of them differ too drastically from each other.

The second one is correct (you can clearly hear the "m" in "enemy"). It should read like: Common enemy: Hypocrisy Common enemy: Theocracy Common enemy: The war machine

Haha, I'm not bad with the FM stuff, but I never kept up with SOB much, and I honestly don't think I'd ever even heard a GBC song until Suicide Music came out on The Raid soundtrack the other day.

Just asking, I figured somebody would know better than me: The original version of "Hard" (which I'm assuming will still be on Resada Beach) was produced by J. Dilla, and the Razor Tag version was remixed by Mike, right?

If that's the final tracklisting, it's completely different from what was listed on the preorder: - Prayers - The Arrival - Gear Up - We're Alone Here - Quaking Old F**k - We Have Company - Hole Drop - Moving Up, Part 1 - Trapped - Moving Up, Part 2 - One Way Out - Close Shave - Chair Slam - Rama's Family Dream - Jaka Caught - Dirty Cop - Uncle Andi - Dog Fight - Dead Already - Machete Standoff - Andi Strung Up - Misfire - Drug Lab - Putting A Mad Dog Down - SUICIDE MUSIC - RAZORS.OUT Song order changed around all over the place, and the track "Andi Strung Up" was apparently dropped...hmm.

I kind of doubt it. Brand New's lead guitarist tweeted a couple weeks ago that they'd be headlining that tour, and the tweet was deleted soon afterwards, so I'm guessing he let that one out of the bag prematurely. Even if that wasn't the case, LP just doesn't seem like the kind of band that would be chosen for that tour. That one is usually liked "Warped Tour Lite" in that it mainly caters to the punk/emo crowd (except for in '06 when they pulled a total "WTF" move and had the Black Eyed Peas and Pussycat Dolls on the tour).

One band that came to mind as a good candidate for an opening slot on a potential LP/Incubus tour would be Middle Class Rut. They sound really good live (although they do rely pretty heavily on backing tracks since they only have 2 members), and they definitely have a unique sound going on. LP/Incubus/Middle Class Rut would also make for a tour where all the bands are based out of California, which would be kind of cool.

2006 was the first time, I think Chester did that again a couple times in early 2008 (Crawling didn't have the Reanimation intro in 2007), but it probably didn't happen more than a handful of times.

I was gonna say, I thought Joe had already done this at least once before. Glad I wasn't imagining things.

MCR's song was Mama, HIM's songs were Passion's Killing Floor and Killing Loneliness (I forget which songs were mashed up with which LP songs). I THINK the Taking Back Sunday song was Makedamnsure, but I'm not 100% positive on that. I have all of those samples somewhere, I'll have to dig them up and check. *Edit* Yup, I was right: Bleed it Out vs. Makedamnsure Bleed it Out vs. Passion's Killing Floor Faint vs. Killing Loneliness In the End vs. Mama

The feature itself isn't actually new, they just didn't have anything you could redeem the points for until now.

Doubtful. The Machine Shop Mixtape effort was supposed to be a rare case of the band going into the studio and jamming together to write a new song in one day. Divided sounds more like something Mike came up with on his own, much in the vein of his 2005 VMA score tracks.

They have the CDs from 5 onwards. They did a sale of a limited bundle of the 1-4 CDs last week but they sold out in a matter of minutes.

...Ryan's playing in these two videos consists of nothing but basic first position chords (Em, G, Am, C, D...I think that was about it) that every student guitarist learns within their first couple months of playing. I've also yet to hear any evidence that Ryan is anything more than an average guitar player. He played powerchords 80% of the time in DBS songs and left anything with even a moderate degree of difficulty to Amir (same goes for Julien-K's first album), and Orgy's guitar parts were always more about making interesting noises than actually playing guitar in a conventional manner. Amir is a different story, he's shown quite frequently that he's a pretty creative guitar player who comes up with a lot of interesting lead work, but Ryan's playing that I've seen over the years is about on par with most high school-aged kids who have been playing for a few years. On another note, this is the first time I have listened to any of Julien-K's material from their new album (which I only did because I was curious to see how Chester contributed to the live performances), and I think both of these songs could put me to sleep.

It varied a lot from song to song. LP oversaw the final mixing process and everything so they did have a final say (for example, look at how different PTS.OF.ATHRTY was from Jay Gordon's original demo - I know Brad in particular had a fair amount of input on that remix). Obviously a lot of the vocal parts were redone, and various instrumental aspects were re-recorded on certain songs too (BY_MYSLF got a new bassline from Phoenix, P5HNG ME A*WY got new guitar from both Mike and Brad, WTH>YOU got new guitar from Mike, etc.). Some songs like H! VLTG3 or X-Ecutioner Style were almost entirely done by the remixers, some of the tracks Mike and Joe remixed were almost entirely re-recorded from the ground up, and some others were more collaborative.

The collector's market for LP stuff seems to have gone down a bit the last couple years actually, at least in terms of seeing REALLY ridiculous prices for auctions (save for the occasional new item we've never seen before, like the 8-track HT demo when that first popped up)...combined with some people being afraid to bid on stuff like this because they're worried about fakes, I wouldn't be surprised if it goes for less than $500. I'm going to make $375 my guess.

I felt the same way about Reanimation for a long time, and I do think it's stood up to the test of time (it'll be 10 years old in a few months!), but I think ATS ultimately surpassed it in terms of being a more complete body of work. I love pretty much all of Reanimation, save for H! Vltg3 being absolute garbage, and Enth e Nd being pretty lackluster (I also felt that X-Ecutioner Style was a fairly pointless track, but Black Thought's verse on it is sick, so it's forgivable). The standout tracks on Reanimation often stand head and shoulders above their Hybrid Theory counterparts if you ask me, but there are a couple big letdowns on there too. A Thousand Suns, on the other hand, doesn't have a single song on it that I don't like some of - I don't care for the first half of Blackout or the ending of Wretches and Kings, but the overall experience is one that I can listen to all the way through every single time, whereas I find myself skipping a couple songs on Reanimation. Don't get me wrong though, they're really close - if I were to rate ATS as a 10, Reanimation would be like a 9.5.

The U.S. got more shows than any other country on the ATS touring cycle, as has been the case with every touring cycle prior to it. The U.S. is a country. Europe is a continent. Apples to oranges, yadda yadda yadda.

The BMI database entries for Slip and Blue are a little interesting too, Mark Wakefield is credited on Slip, but not Blue, and Phoenix is credited on both songs, despite him leaving the band prior to Chester joining (although that may just be a result of LP crediting all current band members on new music releases these days). I have a feeling both of those songs were started prior to Chester joining, with Blue being from the short period where the band didn't have a singer between Mark leaving and Chester joining.

As far as I know, all of the Sessions@AOL tracks saw official release in one form or another, but there was never an iTunes EP with all 6 of them in the same place.