felipeintheend

You definitely was a key person on all of this. Glad I met someone on this forum with the same passion, craziest,and dedication same as me. Without mentioning the amount of money spent so far. Easily close to 40k USD over the years haha

I started searching for shows around 2005–2006, and I've been obsessed with it ever since. Once I set my mind on finding a recording, there was usually no stopping me until I either got it or hit a dead end. I was part of the LP Live staff around 2009 (I think), back when I managed to get an exclusive interview with Chester for the site. Around that same time, I relentlessly pursued a Linkin Park taper, Devore04, trying to convince him to release his recording. He kept making promises for months, then backing out. I confronted him almost every week about it until he finally got fed up and made a huge rant on some random forum, talking nonsense about the Linkin Park fanbase, LP Live, and everything else. He also claimed he wasn't the actual taper, which was completely false. Eventually, some of the staff (not Mark) got upset with my approach and removed me as Staff and changed to a VIP contributor (lol), mainly because they were worried my persistence would hurt the site's reputation. Looking back, I have to admit I sometimes went way too far, especially considering cultural differences between countries. But at the same time... in many cases, those crazy methods actually worked. The reason so many of the recordings you all enjoy today exist is because I almost never accepted the first "no." I kept asking, following up, and trying again—for months or even years. That's how recordings like Music for Relief, Roxy 2000, JKL 2003, London 2001, and many other audience recordings eventually surfaced. I stopped counting a long time ago, but I've helped release well over 200 recordings, including pro-shots, upgrades, and FLAC sources. Huge thanks to Nick Kramar and Mark—they helped tremendously, especially when we needed money to recover or acquire recordings. Every show has a story behind it—usually a stressful one. Maybe 10% of the recordings were found and released quickly. The other 90% took years of persistence, broken promises, frustration, negotiations, money, countless emails, and sometimes even calling a taper out of the blue without any prior permission. It wasn't always pretty, but that's how many of these recordings were ultimately preserved. We had some incredible people working behind the scenes to bring Linkin Park recordings to everyone: me, Nick, Mark, Jonas, Max, Fifek, PCfreak, and many other old-school collectors. Sorry if I forgot anyone! The main reason I stopped releasing recordings is simple: it's a new chapter for the band. They're building a new fan base, and not many of the old fans are still around—or still care about the kind of recordings I spent years chasing. The amount of work involved is enormous. As I mentioned before, some recordings took years of persistence, money, and personal dedication to obtain. That's time I could have invested in my career, my family, or simply living my own life. Releasing a show today only to receive two or three comments from the few remaining people who truly appreciate that era just isn't enough motivation anymore. It is what it is. Every era eventually comes to an end, and for me, that time has passed. Ironically, I also think this may influence the band's own archival decisions. As more time goes by, fewer people remain emotionally connected to the original era of the band. That makes preserving and releasing historical material a race against time. The audience that truly values those recordings won't be around forever.

hahahahha im retired

Def one of the best era of the old-band. Its no secret to anyone how much I love these old recs. I got really surprised today when I saw it... Thats nuts as Mark said, how life is a mistery and stuff like this just shows up over 20 years later. I have nothing to say but thanks to the filmer for recording it, preserving the tape and releasing it to the community for free. I know a lot more like this will be released eventually, the big thing is that we will never know WHEN lol. BIG WIN.

To avoid a big disappointment I decided consider there will be no a box. haha

No

Its not a big deal and thats why they were not released xD

Taken from MTV USA They confirmed to me they have it and now its confirmed it was also webcasted. We need find it.

Lets collect info about this event, who knows someday we find the videos. Years ago I have spoke with Scott, ex LP's bass player, and he told me there was a webcast for an outdoor event in 2000 being show on internet. It took me years to figure out he was refering to this event. So let's collect the evidence the event was webcasted and, somehow, we all missed the train. Source 1: https://whitelightning.org/news/news0009.htm?utm_source=chatgpt.com Source 2: MTV showed pieces of it Internet: Lets find that show and update the page.

It does but not circulating yet.

I don't have a proper list, it does include proshot and aud sources. I don't want to promose myself, Im just saying we shouldn't wait many old school things in a next future.

90% of old stuff out is here because I did. The band never did anything for you except SanDiego01 and the boxes. Then just be realistic and stop dreaming too high

I know you outside LPL and Its time you accept the factos dude. I like you as a friend but you create and imagine things in your mind about old live stuff that wont happen ever. Not being rude just stop imagining the band creating an old archive for old stuff lovers like we are. That wont happen ever. Its not about keeping hopes its a really that CANT happens. Stop wasting your time waiting for the band to post or publish stuff. I read every time your posts about stuff like this and it really annoys me because I am under stuff like this for years and I know what is possible and what is not. I don't want to take your hopes out forever. Just be realistic men

Yeah. For everyone here who has been around since the beginning or during Chester’s era, it’s one thing. But for those who became LP fans post-Chester, it’s not the same — and I’m not saying this with any lack of respect for Chaz’s legacy or anything like that. Everyone who knows me is aware of my passion for his work. But from a future strategy perspective, there’s no benefit in promoting songs featuring Chester’s voice while the current band has Emily as the frontwoman. There would be a bunch of unnecessary feedback coming with that, like comparisons and similar reactions. LP is doing very well worldwide, except in the USA. I don’t think the U.S. tour was as successful as it was in Europe, South America, etc. When they decided to move on and keep touring, I’m sure they had discussions like this, where older material couldn’t be published for a while — at least until they can solidify their new fan base to the point where every new fan understands that older content doesn’t influence the new era. And that takes time to happen. I’m very confident that, in their first reunion strategy meetings, they decided to focus on building a new fan base and bringing new people on board, rather than trying to convince older fans to accept their new sound. Time will tell if I am right.

It’s very clear to me that the label doesn’t want to draw attention to Chester’s material. A lot of content that includes his voice on Instagram is being taken down. The band is among the top ticket sellers worldwide in the live entertainment industry; they are doing very well and probably don’t want anything to interfere with their new market strategy. They now have a new generation of fans—many people who didn’t even know Linkin Park before. About 80% of me believes there won’t be any more box sets. If anything does come out, it will likely be live shows or similar material, but not demos. If that happens I will be freaking out but I am keeping my expectations very low here based on some bussiness point of view.