ChuckCheese

Sick lineup!!!

Oh hell yes.

That's what I'm talking about! I'm psyched!

Didn't they do the exact same thing last time? Ah well.

My guess is either Rock am Ring 07 or Brazil...

Walking In Circles. How original, I know.

I'm pretty sure the lyrics for the second verse of In The Darkness go.. I will surrender my sin And give you control Make me a martyr for love To the heavens above As for End of the World...I think the pre-chorus is... Come on out of the hypocrisy Come on out of the theocracy Come on out and meet the war machine

Fire - Had to let this one grow on me. Initially didn't like it too much, I found the way it was structured kinda weird. But again, it grew on me. I agree the keyboard is mixed pretty loudly...but that honestly doesn't bother me too much. Chester's scream during "On the other side" sells it for me. Solid song, good start to the album. Loving the harmonies, gives you a good taste of things to come. 7/10 Crawl Back In - I think releasing this as the first single was a genius move. It really does just scream "single". I loved this track the first time I heard it. Good, catchy, straight up rock song. Something you can bang your head to and have fun with. Guitar solo is a bit disappointing, it could have been better. Overall though, definitely one of my favorites, even if it does sound mainstream. Absolutely love the "Hey!" that ends it. 8/10 Too Late - Interesting intro. Chorus is easy enough to pick up on and sing along to. I can't really say anything bad about this track, but I can't really say anything that special about it either. I do like the way it flows. I'm sure it stands out for some people, but I'd just say it's a decent ballad. It will probably grow on me. 5/10 Inside of Me - Immediately gets you going. Pretty impressive screams by Chester. This is another fun song, like Crawl Back In, except even more so. Bridge is a blast to rock out to. Lyrics don't impress me too much, but the sound makes up for that. Song is way too short though. 6/10 Let Down - One of the tracks I've been waiting to hear. I can honestly say I wasn't disappointed. I love the lyrics, the flow, everything. I find it to be a beautiful song. The electronic elements fill in the gap that was missing from the acoustic performance, which I also loved. The harmony and added "I don't wanna be let down!" added to the chorus really stands out to me. Definitely one of my favorites. 9/10 Give Me Your Name - Veeeeeery different feel than anything I have ever heard from Chester, whether in LP or in the rest of the album. Nice lyrics, very lovey dovey, but it works well for this song. Can't tell if that's his falsetto or head voice in the chorus, either way it sounds spectacular. Works perfectly for the song. Like all the ballads on the album, I love the way the song flows. It just kinda makes you sit back and go "yeah...this is nice." Something that caught my attention is in the last chorus how he goes back into full voice, I really liked that. 7/10 My Suffering - I know I'm gonna be one of the only people that agrees with this, but I like this version much better than the original 08 demo. I love the way the verses are sung. Yet again, another song to rock out to, so that can be a plus or a minus, depends on you. Nice screaming in the chorus, I love it. Only negative thing I can say is it's a tad bit short, and the echo thing in the verses is way too much like Inside of Me. 7/10 Condemned - I gotta say, I love this song. It hooked me the second it started. Chester's completely nails the singing styling that this song calls for. Very dark lyrics, which works. Reminds of a band that I can't quite put my finger on, I want to say Disturbed but I know that's not it. I love the guitar work in this song just as much as I love Chester's growling throughout it. Nice eerie, creepy, evil feel. And damn! I knew Chester could scream, but the ones that he's letting loose on this track completely blew me away. 8/10 Into You - Gotta say it again, the flow and overall simple sound of this ballad sell it for me. I really can't say much about the song, I love the way it picks up halfway through. Good lyrics as well. I'm positive the ballads will grow on me. It just takes me a few listens. 8/10 End of the World - One of my favorites. Love the sound. Like Give Me Your Name, it has a completely different feel than from the rest of the album, and from LP. I really, really like this style. The lyrics are pretty awesome as well. Can't tell if that's a keyboard or not after the second verse, but whatever it is, it makes me smile every time. Sounds amazing. This song, in my opinion, really shows how Chester ventured and experimented on this album, and touched on themes and styles that he really liked. Not gonna complain on the vocal layering on this song, I think it works. 10/10 Walking In Circles - My new favorite song. Period. Holy crap. This track is just so incredibly epic. The intro gives off a sort of creepy vibe. Drums are great, the highlight of the instruments on the track. Chester completely kicks ass with this song, the lyrics, the feel, the rawness, everything. The chorus is just fantastic, if not perfect. The harmonies give me chills every single time I listen to them. I can't even explain the feeling that shot through me the first time I gave this song a listen. Damn. Props to Chester and the guys in Julien-K for this masterpiece. 11/10 In the Darkness - Wasn't too impressed the first time I listened to the live acoustic version. Sounded odd to me. However, I'm loving the studio version, despite the funny sounding humming or beat-boxing or whatever it is. Seriously, what's up with that? Thought the chorus was repeated too much, but listening a couple more times, I think it works. Very unique song in it's own right, and a nice choice to end the album with. Lyrics stand out on this track. Has that "sexy" feel that he described, which is good and different. I can see this (again) and Give Me Your Name being performed acoustically in the near future. Great track. 8/10 Morning After - I love this song. The acoustic version from 2001 that is. I don't mind this version or the Julien-K remix, I love both. It's just that the remix sounds TOO Julien-K for me, and the studio version isn't different at all. I would give this a 9/10 if it stuck closer to the original acoustic version. Ah well, great, catchy song. Love what it's about. Kinda glad it's a bonus track, it doesn't seem to fit in with the other songs. 7/10 Now I'm not gonna lie, I'm a Chester fanatic. I think the whole album is OMG AMAZING THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD. I'll be listening to it nonstop for awhile. My review here is just from an overall music lover standpoint. Great album Chester, fantastic work. Fort Minor does win though in my opinion, but Dead By Sunrise is definitely more my style.

Real mature conversations going on here. Solid performance by the band. This is the only show they played in the US this year, so in a way the setlist was completely new for everybody at that show. Chester is never perfect, but he sings and screams his lungs out every night, so you can't really expect him to be. But he always gives it 110%, in case you didn't see him running and jumping around. Fuck whoever threw that damn water bottle and ruined the show for Mike, he looked like he was having fun 'til then. Kudos to Brad tonight, he seemed to really be enjoying himself. Dead By Sunrise was spot-on, as usual. Chester always sounds great when he sings those songs. Overall, good show. Fine setlist. I'm not gonna ask any of you to stop complaining, because I know you won't. There's my review of their last show of the year. Goodnight.

This webcast is failing so far...

That was truly the most informative thing I've ever read on DBS. Loved it. I'm even more excited for this record now.

Reanimated bridge back into OSC for sure.....Numb acoustic/piano. There's no reason they can't do it. Because it's one of, if their most popular song? I saw Incubus perform Dig acoustic, along with Drive and Make Yourself, and those three are definitely famous songs by them. Bring back the transitions...and if they don't switch up Numb then bring back an intro. I'd honestly like them to take out the outro for OSC. I'd like to see if they could come up with anything as an intro for Given Up. Bring back the "Oooh" sing-along thing into Bleed It Out. And do something with In The End.

What was it like working with Mike Shinoda?

Ahaha, that Lady Gaga part was awesome.

Keyboard piece gives me chills every time....New Divide is still so freaking EPIC live.

Thank you very much!

Love it love it LOVE IT! My favorite song so far. Sooo catchy and everything. Can somebody PM me a rip?

Papercut??? Must see.

Oh that shit is fucking hot. HOT. I love it.

For fans of GigaScythe, I think this is one of his best. Enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrL9EzlGSfA

Dammit!!! Points Of Authority Starts RIGHT AFTER Mike's rap! Gaaaah.

So, to start this off, this was one of the greatest days of my life. I love Linkin Park with a passion, and the second I found out that they were going to be playing here, I freaked. I counted down the days, I listened to them even more than usual, I watched Youtube videos, everything. Finally, the day came, and I was exploding with excitement. I didn't know about LPL at this point, and I wasn't a member of the LPU yet, so I was excited thinking about what songs they might play. I got there early and watched Madina Lake play, they were pretty good. Styles of Beyond wasn't playing that day, which was disappointed. Me and my friends weren't too interested in the other bands so we went to our seats to chill and talk. Eventually, Julien-K came out and played, they weren't too bad, but I had no idea who they were yet. HIM was decent, Ville Valo seemed high as a kite though. Taking Back Sunday was next, and they got everybody moving and excited. Great band. Finally, My Chemical Romance started playing. I'm a big MCR fan, so I had a blast during their set. Great performance, at one point someone tossed Gerard a boa and he wore it for a couple songs. After they were done, the entire place was packed, and everybody, especially me, was going crazy with excitement. The second those lights went out, the place fucking blew up. I was going nuts, so excited to see my favorite band of all time. I never in a million years thought they would open with No More Sorrow, but as soon as I recognized it I flipped out. The curtain flying off when the song picks up was just pure genius. Everybody went crazy. Lying From You was next, and everybody was jumping and singing along, having a great time. Somewhere I Belong gave us some down time, not for me though, I just kept on singing every word, losing my mind. Wake started and I recognized it immediately, so I got my hands up to start clapping for Given Up, which a lot of people had fun with. After that, I had a great moment as they played my favorite song by them, From The Inside. Papercut was awesome, it's fun as hell live. Then Mike starts rapping all of the sudden, and I recognize it near the end as Petrified, so I'm like "HOLY SHIT THEY'RE GONNA PLAY A FORT MINOR SONG!". Turned out to be Points Of Authority, which is even better, that's my favorite live song they play. Hands Held High surprised the hell out of me. I was the only one in my area who knew all the words, and everybody was staring haha. Then Joe did some gunshot samples, which I found funny. Numb has never been one of my favorites, but I didn't give a shit, I went nuts just the same. Chester took his shirt off before Pushing Me Away, and everybody started screaming. XD I sang along to Pushing Me Away, and we all cheered Chester on when he took that pause near the end of the song. I love Breaking The Habit, I loved hearing everybody singing it together. Shadow Of The Day was nice, Brad messed up on the guitar solo lol. Something I just remembered, I LOVED the images on the screen behind the band. I wish they still had that. Everybody sang their hearts out for Crawling. The Little Things Give You Away also surprised me, and again, I was the only one who knew all the words. What I've Done began, and all the energy in the crowd came back, and Chester had us sing the entire bridge. It was immediately followed by In The End, which everybody freaked for and sang loud as hell. One Step Closer was fucking kickass, the pit went nuts, and everybody was loud as FUCK. The band then left the stage, and everybody started cheering and chanting, and banging on the seats, making as much as humanly possible. Then good old Mr. Hahn stepped onstage and did an awesome remix of Cure For The Itch. Earlier, before the show started, me and my friends were joking about how amazing it would be if they played QWERTY. We all decided it would never happen. Well, guess what. They fucking played it. Most people didn't recognize it at all, but I was dancing and screaming my ass off to it. They fucking tore that shit up. I'm so glad I got to see that shit live. Bleed It Out was next, and it got everybody else dancing and clapping and having a great time. The drum solo was yet another surprise to me, and I cheered like mad for Rob when he tore it up. Doing the Ooooh thing with Chester was great. Finally, Faint came up to finish off the show. The outro is soooo fucking epic. As the band got ready to go, I held up my big ass Linkin Park bag that I brought with me. Mike looked straight at me and pointed, smiling and waving. I don't have any words to describe how I felt at that point. The night ended with me throwing up outside the venue, and throwing up again at home, then passing out in the guest bed. What an amazing day. Memorable quotes: Texted to the big screens in the amphitheatre: "Who's Julien-K, eh?" Reply: "I'm Julien!" Another reply: "Julien-K is a band, dude." Chester: "You guys are sounding great, thank you so much. I do have to say though, you could be a little fucking louder when you sing, you know what I mean? Just in case you're self-conscience, no one here gives a fuck, dude. No one out here gives a fuck. So sing loud and proud, you know, like you're at church on Sunday, you know what I'm saying?" Chester: "Hey, let's hear it for the rest of the bands that played here today. You know, it's a great honor to play with a lot of bands that have so much talent, you know, they make great music but most importantly they're really down-to-earth guys. They're all fucking cool, you know what I mean? It's been great getting to know everybody out here and, in my opinion this is the best Projekt Revolution so far, it's definitely the biggest one. But what really makes these days special and amazing, are you guys out there. You know none of us, none of these bands up on these stages would be anything without you guys. So we just want to thank you guys for making this possible for us and sharing this day of music, you know what I mean?" Mike: "So you guys...um.....you're pretty fucking awesome. *Crowd screams, Mike laughs* Hold on, I'm gonna give you this...who wants the sweatiest bandana in the universe? This thing is doing me no good, it was supposed to catch my sweat so that it didn't get my hand all slippery..." Chester: "And now it's just collected so much that all it's doing is dripping shit all over you." *Mike laughs* Mike: "Hey you guys listen, when we were working on Minutes To Midnight, we didn't know how the fans were gonna react to it because it was a little bit different, and I know a lot of people had been waiting a long time, we didn't know if we could live up to that expectation. And we just wanted to say thanks for sticking with us." As In The End begins: Chester: "This song's dedicated to Tera. She's a new friend of ours. It was wonderful meeting you, it's an honor. This songs for you." After In The End: Chester: "Thank you. *Points to the lawn* Those motherfuckers were loud down there, dude. That was amazing. *One Step Closer starts, crowd goes apeshit* I wanna see you get fucking crazy, all right?" Right before the bridge during One Step Closer: Mike: "Crazy motherfuckers in the pit, let's do this as loud as you can, come on!" (You can hear Mike very clearly on the DSP of this, yelling shut up loud as hell, sooooo fucking epic.) Over the amazing QWERTY riff: Mike: "You guys want some more?" *Crowd gets loud as fuck* Mike: "Ladies and gentlemen, have you had a good fucking time today or what? If you guys had a good time, two hands up like this! Let's go, you can be a part of this song, just put em together! *Starts Bleed It Out* After Rob's drum solo: Mike: "Thank you, Rob. That was sick. I thought that was a good one, that was a nice one tonight, that was real nice....well, you could of done better." Mike: "Hey we just wanna say real quick, before we go, that you guys have been fucking exceptional." Chester: "This is a great crowd tonight." Mike: "We had a lot of fun, thank you guys for making it so, we hope you had fun too. Let's get some energy going as we take this one out." Shit, I love Linkin Park.

Aw, Chester. I really liked that. But where did that video come from???

I'm liking the idea of interviewing Sal.

That's too hard. Voted for Dead By Sunrise because I love rock more. But FM is fucking amazing too.