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What the hell is this preshow post? There were times you got warned for mentioning fuck on the forums and now it's all over a news post? It also feels very oppinionated. Not a fan. Besides Welcome/RTN I am also wondering what's happening with COG/Kenji and WFTE/HHH.

I still haven't finish packing my stuff and I have to get up in 5.5 hours :-D I think a mashup/medley of High Voltage and Step Up would be great. In my opinion these two songs fit really well together.

And now NIN is under contract with Columbia. There are reasons even well established acts stay at major labels.

Since they are watching the petition this seems to be a pretty stupid idea. Even signing it two times as the same person is not good I think.

I would bet that a huge amount of his followers don't even know High Voltage or Step Up.

That screenshot was taken a few minutes after the poll was posted and is absolutely no good representation. Sample size is way too small if you think about how many follower he has.

I hate the direction they are going with announcing shows. It seems like the trend is to decrease the time between announcements, pre sale and the actual show, which just screws up planning for everyone who has a job or other obligations. Also announcing the show weeks (over one month) after the first two FM shows is a huge dick move in my opinion. I think there are a lot of people who don't have much money who just really want to see FM and booked flights/hotels for on of the other shows and now there is one more show that could have saved them hundreds of Euros/Pounds/Dollars.

The announcement said 8:30 GMT. It's 7:55 GMT right now (http://time.is/GMT). The UK is using UTC+1 right now so whatever is on your clock in the UK doesn't matter.

LP twitter just messed up time zones. Seems to be the hardest thing in the world for most people :-D

A different (very unlikely) idea: Remember the rumor of Riot Games collaborating with LP/FM a few days ago? The playoffs final of the European LCS (basically the League of Legends professional league) is going on right now, and the North American LCS Finals will start after that (it is planned to start in 3 hours, 90 minutes before the announcement). Maybe they will debut the song today on stream with a radio premier later today? Edit: One of the casters just made a random RTN reference. I am getting way to excited for something that is probably never happening :-D

I am wondering how many copies of one show they have to sell in order to get at least even. That's probably pretty much the number we have to reach for any chance at all.

Oh sorry guys. I didn't knew that Mike isn't allow to change his guitars...

Sorry guys, but it's Wastelands.

Oh, I think I discovered the (unfinished) site a while ago and thought it was an old version. Let's hope for something new. Edit: checked it again. it was another version.

Since I am following the e-sport scene of league pretty closely I think I can add some more details and information to this: First of all the World Championships is a fucking huge event every year that stretches over a month with a huge final at the end of it all. They started hiring artists to do some music and performance for it since 2013 I believe. 2012 only had a orchestra if I remember correctly. So 2013 had Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit, The Crystal Method and some other artists I am not familiar with. Awesome performance in the sold out Staples Center. You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39k9tnIjAegStill getting goosebumps whenever I am watching it. Maybe a bit more background: The Wes Borland part was specifically written for Worlds while the Crystal Method part was written for a champion that got released in the game. Every new champion that gets added to the game has it's own soundtrack and The Crystal Method did the music for the champion Lucian. In 2014 they teamed up with Imagine Dragons and created the song Warriors which was also kind of a mainstream success as far as I know (at least I heard it in the radio a few times): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmI_Ndrxy14 They also performed the song at the opening show of the Finals last year in South Korea (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36dx0wpLtmU) and a small set after the games have finished ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJOW2IyxDtU ). So I don't expect Riot Games to go any smaller than last year. Sadly it's already confirmed that LP won't perform at worlds by Riot Magus (who is pretty much the head of the esports department at Riot Games) on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/3gs0lw/linkin_park_to_preform_at_world_finals/cu14hq0 What does that mean though? Well first of all it's just a confirmation that LP won't perform at worlds which still leaves us with the possibility of some kind of MS/FM collaboration with Riot Games. But there is still the LP show the next day, right? Well first of all Riot Games is throwing so much money at Worlds that they would definitely pay enough for someone to consider doing two shows in 24 hours around the globe. Also worlds starts at around 1pm, so the opening ceremony should be done at 2pm and if you add the difference in time zones there would be at least 36h between the shows. On the other side maybe it has nothing to do with the World Championships. Like mentioned before The Crystal Method did the soundtrack for a new champion. But that's not the only time they took known artists to work on something for the game. In League Of Legends you can also buy skins for champions (basically just a difference appearance for a champion ingame). There are different tiers of these skins and the most expensive tier is some really high quality shit. This year they released a skin for a champion called Sona which was designed around a DJ concept (http://promo.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/dj-sona/). They hired 6 more or lesser known to create songs for that skin: 1. The Crystal Method & Dada Life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHJyAZtRrOY 2. Bassnectar & Renholder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX7UWavbT5g 3. Nosaj Thing & Pretty Lights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxa1Y71Lgyg So there is also a chance that Riot Games and LP are teaming up for creating the soundtrack for a new champion or a new skin. If you have any questions feel free to ask. If anyone got interested in watching competitive League you can contact me directly Update (7.9.15): At one of the last LPL (coincidence? xD) games for Worlds qualification they flashed a promo picture from the MTM era and wrote something like "You guessed it?". Since LPL is the official Chinese LoL league the text was in Mandarin and there are a dozen of translations floating around but I think that one makes the most sense. That seems to be too random to just appear at an official stream if there isn't something going on. After that RiotMagus confirmed again that LP won't perform at Worlds (no surprise though) but maybe there is something coming. They released Warriors about a month before Worlds started, so if they keep the same schedule for this year we could hear something new in the next 10 days.

Best thing you can do if you don't have any questions is to make sure you have a reddit account and upvote the questions you think are good! I think that's even more important than posting good questions

The best way to get harsher questions answered is to post numerous question in a single post and give him some lighter questions which he would be glad to answer. But don't make 10 question posts. No one likes them :-D I hope Mike won't just go through the first level posts but also takes a look at some follow ups to his questions. Makes AMAs always way better.

Because it's impossible to start the backing tracks in a different order?

I am looking for a FOH ticket for this show. Please PM if you have a ticket left or know someone who needs to get rid of one

Finally. I was waiting for a reddit AMA for years. This is a pretty good chance for us to get some good questions answered. I think we should prepare some questions so we can post them as soon as the AMA starts so they get a few more upvotes. Also other reddit useres always ask good questions that fans somehow don't come up with and stupid questions like "when do you come to my country" get downvoted like shit.

That makes no sense. The concert would be in the middle of the night then.

It is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Websites_blocked_in_mainland_China

When was the last time we didn't get a webcast recorded?

I don't think so. The time when people were most hyped for it was years ago when we didn't knew about any other HT demos. Also a lot of people realized that it's probably a mediocre demo anyway so the hype isn't worth it. I just want to get it so we are done with it. I don't have any expectations at all anymore.

Ok here are my yearly countings: 2000 (only LP): 90 2001: 165 (Seems we're one off here) 2002: 21 2003: 85 2004: 77 2005: 2 2006: 5 2007: 88 2008: 74 2009: 19 2010: 34 (including rehearsal) 2011: 55 (including rehearsal) 2012: 57 (including rehearsal) 2013: 18 2014: 66 2015: 28