Legend

Geki gunna Geki

I'll bank on it being a Fort Minor set under the Mike Shinoda moniker.

I've decided that I'm no longer going to support Linkin Park. I was a massive fan of Xero through RTR but I don't really listen to anything past it much unless I force myself to. And what's the point of staying here and being negative when there are a lot of fans who like the newer shit and will support them in the future? So peace LPL.

You is lucky I got bronchitis right now mutha fucka.

Requesting DSPs gets you banned for quatro years.

How did they actually do this? edit the video and audio of a video already uploaded while keeping it's stats and views the same?

I'm sure it's because its Linkin Frikkin Park, the biggest rock band in all the land.

I didn't realize Synyster was shredding at the end of Bleed It Out until this edit. God I love that man.

Linkin Park could techncially still do the OML Tour. They could just play OML in full plus some other shit. Mike could handle all of OML easily, there really isn't anything he couldn't handle on it, IMO. Fuck it, bring Jon Green for the tour too, he can sing some of OML even. Maybe it would help them heal a little bit to give the album a final closure. I know fans would like it.

Let me be the first to say... I like this Geki.

I think the concert was okay. I was a bit disappointed by some of the guests.

 

Some of them really did a good job and I have much respect for everyone for doing it in honor of Chester. At the same time I don't understand how one can be invited to sing at a tribute concert, rehearse with the band and be so unprepeared. If you want to show respect, show respect and learn your lyrics at least to a point where you can sing them accurately with a teleprompter in front of you. I mean most of them had one or two songs

 

For me, Mike did a good job under the given circumstances. You could hear there were many emotions playing a role and he was never a really skilled singer live. Therefore it was good and very emotional. The Messenger was okay, RU was good and Iridescent was okay as well.

Ryan Key on Shadow of the Day and Gavin Rossdale both were good but nothing special.

 

Taka on SIB was really bad. That was the first time during the concert where I wanted to push someone off the stage but the worst performance of the night for me was Alanis Morissette...what was that? It felt like a slap in the face. Her singing was awful. She destroyed COG and even though her own song was better it still was not sung well. I know some of her records and they are not even bad but this performance was just not good.

 

Nobody Can Save me was better than I thought it would when it started both Mike, Jon Green and Steven Kellar did a really good job and up until then it was clearly the best performance of the night. Jon Green did great on Battle Symphony. I laughed out so loud when Mike told Joe to restart the song after he messed up the intro.

 

I never heard of Ilsey Juber before but sharp edges was pure gold. I loved the way she sang it and her voice really fits the song.

Talking to Myself was good but not as good as sharp edges.

 

Heavy would have been better with just Kiiara or Julia Michaels. Both didn't do great and the chemistry between them was kinda off. They were cute though.

 

One More Light wasn't sung very well but big probs to Mike for doing it as it was really emotional. Looking for an answer the same. I really like the song. The lyrics are beautiful and the melody as well.

 

Sydney Sierota really didn't shine on Waiting for the End. I don't know her work in Echosmith but WFTE was almost as bad as Alanis Morissette. She had problems hitting the notes and it just sounded wrong.

 

Next up Crawling. Oli Sykes... I really hated what he did here. I hope he sang it live better than what we got to hear on the live stream. It really sucks for him what happened and the sound engineers who mixed the live stream fucked up big time on most of the guest singers but for me the prerecorded vocals sounded so awful. It's just my opinion but I really asked myself how anyone would spend any money on hearing such a voice. But...opinions.

 

Papercut with Machine Gun Kelly was as good as it would have been without him. I think he added nothing to it that Mike couldn't have done alone with Chesters voice on the backingtracks the way it was anyway.

 

I really enjoyed One Step Closer. Jonathan Davis could have listened to the song a little more often beforehand but nontheless I think he was a great fit and did a good job.

A Place for my head was very good as well. Jeremy definitely knew what he was doing here and it was very nice seeing someone who clearly is a fan himself.

After hearing Rebellion with Daron I really wish he would have contributed vocals on the album version as well. That was just awesome. The only letdown was the mixing of the livestream as the vocal backingtrack was louder as Daron on many occasions. I'm so angry at the mixing engineers.

 

When Deryk came out I really wished he would leave right away but I was surprised that he did such a good job. The Catalyst is no easy song to sing and I think it was very good for that.

 

I don't want to lose many words on Blink 182 as I can't stand them and WID was only saved from being the worst performance of the night by their "new" singer who isn't half as bad and annoying as the original one.

 

A Light that never comes...Bebe Rexha...OMG I laughed out so loud. This was neither great nor bad but I enjoyed it as I found this women absolutely funny as well as the performance. I liked it.

 

I love M.Shadows! Burn it Down was sadly just good. His voice sounds very worn out during recent performances and I think he could need some rest to recover. Faint on the other hand was really awesome. This was clearly a highlight for me.

 

Bleed It Out was cool but I would have liked if all the guests would have come out but whatever. I was happy Matts vocals were clearly the loudest in the live stream

 

 

So all in all I'm still in more grief about Chesters passing than I want to admit and therefore I couldn't enjoy the partly very flawed performances as I would have, had it been for just regular guest performaces. Whatever I really appreciate them doing this concert and the reason some things I wrote may sound a little harsh is my passion about singing, my passion about music and especially my passion about LP. Mike did a great job as a frontman and even though I'm criticising him as a singer I think he (and the others) will make the right decisions regarding the band.

Geki 2.0

Sydney crushed it. She was amazing. As a matter of fact, all of the females of the evening absolutely did justice to the songs they sang (Besides Alanis on COG; shit was trash)

Something else I just noticed from the live stream that I didn't notice during the live event when I attended...

On Bleed It Out, M Shadows sang Chester's part of the song (on the live stream) I didn't realize that live. I don't know if I didn't pay attention or what but live it felt like everyone was singing. Also, at the end of BIO, Synyster Gates shred a little. I definitely didn't hear this live but its clear on the live stream. Anyone agree/disagree with all this? Was strange that I didn't notice all this live.

For anyone knows how big I am on A7X.... the ending of the concert was a game changer for me. What are the odds that you're two favorite bands of all time will come as one? Insane.

The times of LP being aggressive in their music is over. And if it means having more of Mike and the rest of the guys around, I'm okay with it.

More Mike is better than no Mike.

 

Ilsey was meh? I HUGELY disagree with you there. It's definitely one of the better perfomances of the night.

I agree. Ilsey was one of the better performances of the night, and she absolutely killed it on the guitar. Put Brad to shame (sorry not sorry)

Just some notes as I was there live...

• A Place For My Head was the best performance. That growl though >>>>>>>>>>>>>
• Crawling was phenomenal. There was no lipsyncing. Oli was amazing and I feel bad about what happened to him with the live stream. It must be heartbreaking to him because that performance was extremely important to us.
• I hate Burn It Down but M. Shadows banged that shit.
• Avenged Faint was the highlight of the show for me. When they brought out Syn, who is my guitar idol out, it was surreal. Syn shredded a solo in there, but you cant hear it at all on the stream. Find some recordings!
• Castle of Ass was trash.
• Saddest moment of the show? It was not OML or the new song. It was not Numb or In The End. It was New Divide. The band played the music live and on the screens around the venue it was Chester signing (in line with the live music) from a previous show at the hollywood bowl. Everyone would look at the screen and see chester singing and jumping around but you would look at the stage and he wasnt there.

Just to follow up on my previous post.

Yes I was there. Yes, I was sexy

Saw this live and you can seriously hear a pin drop during this song performance. Definitely got everyone eyes watery.

Can't even tell you how amazing this was live....

Still soaking it all in...

I will be there. And I will be sexy.

I absolutely cannot wait to give you all high fives and butt touches in Los Angeles.

Geki gonna Geki.

Avenged Sevenfold confirmed.... damn...

I still can't believe I'm going. Plan is to fly in day of, fly out the night after (red eye back to the east coast) at a really cheap rate.

 

Section G1, thanks to the kindness of a very good friend who grabbed presale tix when I couldn't.

G1 is the section to be in, it seems!

FYI you have to buy a minimum of 2 tickets if you try for box seats. Clear your cache/history/cookies and try again. Or change browsers. Notes from someone who took 5 hours to get a ticket.

 

Luckily was still able to get TERR2 so I'll see you there.

Well thats good to know. I was going crazy trying to buy one damn ticket lol

I'm in G1. See you all there. Lets meet up.

Anyone else having trouble with Ticketmaster? I haven't been able to purchase a ticket for the past few hours.

If anyone has a code they aren't using, please contact me.

If anyone needs a place to stay, youre more than welcome to crash at my hotel room. In the process of purchasing everything right now.

Yes, if anyone has a code they know they aren't going to use, please send it my way.