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Review:by Dave LINKIN PARK - Live review 2/14/01 alien ant farm opened up this show. and i had heard their music before, so i wasnt expecting much. and for a while, i didnt get much. their songs had nothing more to offer than most any other band i can think of. they didnt have much of a melody, all their songs sounded the same. however, their last song made me a fan. im only a fan of this band when im hearing this song, and im going to see them live again JUST to hear this song again. at the end of their set. the singer asked "anybody out there like michael jackson?" i screamed hell yeah. i dont listen to his stuff much now anymore. but there isnt a person on earth that didnt jam to him when they were 10 as i did. most people boo'd but i was screaming for it. he then said "ok. well this ISNT a michael jackson song". and then went into a cover of the jackson song "smooth criminal" at least i think thats what its called. i was singing along and i tried to start a pit. however, noone cared. oh well. when taproot was about to come on everyone was going nuts. and all the ego-driven testosterone driven man pushed and shoved to the front. when one guy got up there. he told all 254 of his friends "hey, come up here with me" i hate people that do this. i kept saying to myself "taproot are pretty cool, but they arent THAT great" and i stand by my convictions, i bought their "gift" cd and i realy cant get into it. its ok and all but its just not what im realy into. however, as i stand by my convictions about their cd. i stand corrected about them live. i can honestly say, that out of the 130 plus bands that ive seen so far, that the signer for taproot (stephen) is the craziest and most daring front man that i have ever seen live (shxt, this guy even tops j.s. clayton from pitchshifter!!!) im sure you have all been to shows where the singer will stagedive in the crowd. well, stephen did that. im sure youve probably been to shows where the singer will let people sing into the mic as well. stephen did that too. youve probably even been to shows where the singer will jump in the pit and sing while moshing with their fans. again, stephen did this as well. but what other show have you ever been to, where they not only stage dived....but BALCONY DIVED as well. he climbed up onto the balcony for a song (i forget what song) walked around for a bit, stoped at an area to the right (if your facing the stage) and the music halted. he told everyone to get ready, they did, and he plumited all the way down. that was fxcking cool. they get MAD points in my book for that stunt. i will DEFINATLY see this band again. i may not listen to their cd much, but THAT made me a FAN!!! they may not have a whole lot going for them musicaly (i still dont think they have much to offer that 100 other bands dont do better) but they DAMN sure back it up live. GO SEE THIS BAND!!!!! Linkin Park. finaly. last time i went to see this band i was dicked over for my tickets, had to scalp one for 30$ outside the venue, and walked in a few minutes before linkin park walked OFF. needless to say i was pissed. however, this time i bought my tickets the DAY they went on sale and i was DAMN sure not missing them this time. they opened up with "with you" and played what, EVERY ONE of their songs on hybrid theroy? i cant recall any ONE that they DIDNT play. their set was an hour long and they even played "high voltage" and "and one" from their old hybrid theroy ep (as in, when their name WAS hybrid theroy) i have the ep and its great, i highly recomend anybody reading this review to BUY IT, that is, if you can sell your soul to satan to find a copy. that motherfacko is RARE AS FXCK!!! linkin were just as down with their fans as tarpoot was, they were giving props to crowdsurfers and one guy they even pulled up on stage to help sing. (i think the guy got thrown out of the venue though for not getting off the stage when the security guards told him to at the end of the song, and when he was ready to get off. he tried to stage dive. which is forbiden at the SHXTTY @$$ newport music hall in columbus, oh. (i hate this venue) one of the coolest things about linkin parks set, was that during one step closer, mike jumped down to let people sing with him, and when the song was over. HE DIDNT LEAVE. instead, the rest of the band came down and talked to everyone in the pit. AND STAYED THERE for a good hour or so. signing everything that everyone wanted them to sign. they didnt even leave to go change clothes or NOTHING!! fxck yeah!!! i asked joseph hahn (their turntableist) about why they didnt play "my december" his comment: "we tried to keep it upbeat, if we played that live, everyone would fall asleep" ah hah. thats funny. of course i told him otherwise. thus ends one of the best concerts ive ever been to (3 key factors made this one so great, a) the michael jackson cover, taproot singer diving from the balcony into the pit, and c)i finaly got to see a full linkin park set this time. WOO HOO!!!!!

Review by Jessica: We got to the venue around 6 o'clock. The show was scheduled to start at 8 so we had to wait about 2 hours in the FREEZING cold. But we entertained ourselves by talking to other linkin park fans on the line. Finally, they began to let us in. I bought a Linkin Park shirt for myself and we checked in all our stuff then went in to the ballroom. It was pretty empty so we were near the front pretty much the whole show and once Linkin Park came out we squeezed our way all the way to the front. The first band came out (Alien Ant Farm) and in my opinion, they totally sucked! I thought they had no talent, their music was horrible, and the band (especially the lead singer) were totally cocky. Every one around my area were booing them and one guy next to me kept flipping him off and the singer got pretty pissed at him and threw a condom at him that someone had thrown up on stage. We were put out of our misery when AAF got off the stage and Taproot came out. Im a big Taproot fan. Ive seen them once before with Deftones, and Incubus and they rocked even more this time. The lead singer (Steve)especially rocks. He even dared to get up at the top balcony walk around a little bit and then jump off into the crowd! Which is crazy because the jump was about 10 feet! He even got in the mosh pit during one of the songs. Their preformance was great and after they got off the stage they were signing autographs on the left corner of the stage so I got to meet the whole band. I told Steve "You guys fucken ROCK!" and he was like "No YOU rock!" and i was like "No YOU rock!" and we did this a couple more times...lol. Then finally, the moment I was waiting for, Linkin Park came out. Words cannot express how awesomely great they did that night. The entire preformance was increadable! They were oozing energy, the music sounded amazing, and the entire audience was jumping and everyone in the whole place was singing all the words, It was so load sometimes you couldnt even hear the band. They came out individually and got straight into "With You". Of course, I pushed my way up the closest I could get and almost suffered from several heart attacks each time Chester or Mike would come over to my side and stick the mic into the audience or something. One time Mike even pointed at me. It was during "A Place for My Head" He had come over to right where I was and looked right at our little section and I just started going nuts and rapping along with him during the part...."Im so sick of the tension, sick of the hunger, sick of you acting like I owe you this. Find another place..." and he saw me basically going nuts and exageratting all the words and he burst out with that great smile of his and pointed at me for a few seconds. They love it when you sing along. Then during "And One" Mike stage dived into the audience. By the time they pushed him back onto the stage, he had lost half of his shirt! The girls, Im sure didnt mind because enough was ripped off to see his boxers. He was pretending to be all pissed off and flipped off the audience a few times. A whole chunk of the back of his shirt was just gone! lol.. so he ran back stage and came back with another tshirt on and everythig was ok. Mike had even played guitar during two songs." Crawling" and "Pushing Me Away". Chester also had a habit of cocking his head back and spitting out a big wad of spit every once in a while. But, I guess spitting all over the stage is a rock-star think to do. Meeting Linkin Park Right after the show was over, Rob grabbed a bunch of drum sticks and threw them out into the crowd. I tried catching one but had no luck. A girl right next to me caught one though. Mike was wetting the crowd with like 15 bottles he had in his hands and the rest of the guys went back stage for a little. Then they all came out to meet there fans. They were hanging out in the area between the first row and the stage and since I was in the first row I got to meet them all (except Joe) and talk to them. I met Brad first and he was so cool. He was trading bracelets with all the girls around me. He had like a million so it was kinda crazy. And I was helping him get one on cuz it was too tight. We had to roll it on his arm..lol. So, I told him I loved him and all that stuff and he signed everything. He was really friendly. Then Rob was next to him. He was a total sweetheart. I told him that Linkin Park was my favorite band and that I loved them so much and yada yada, and he was like "Thank you so much! that means a lot to us. I really appreciate it!" and he asked what my name was and I said Jessica and he shook my hand and was like "Its nice to meet you Jessica" and he asked me when Ive seen them play before. Then I met Chester..wow..he is so hot. Like a gazilion times hotter up close. He was really quite though and didnt say much to anyone. This body guard came up to him with an autographed poster and asked him if he had signed it yet and he was like inspecting it and trying to figure out if his signiture was on it already. It was cute, he was like "Yeah, I did. No wait I didnt. I dont fucken know!!" so then he just signed it again, or not again. whatever. This girl next to me was like hyper ventalating and screaming"Chester! Chester! OH MY GOD!" she was beeing really annoying, teeny-bopper-ish. but chester found it amuzing and was cracking up and laughint at the girl. I shook his hand too (he had really soft hands) and then I met Phoenix who was really cool. And last I met Mike. He was all the way on the other side surounded by a million fans but I just pushed and shoved my way to the front because there is no way I was going home without Mikes signiture. So it took a while but I got to the front and Mike signed my stuff and flashed me that cute smile of his and right after he signed my paper the body guard next to him was like "Alright thats it,no more!" and litterally shoved Mike away and he left so I got the last autograph!!! How lucky am I?!! So, then we just went home. I felt like I was walking on air the rest of the night. It was a great night, the best concert I had ever been too, plus I met Linkin Park!

Oh, we need find this video. If it was released on lp.com, it will be more easy maybe.. that's the second live footage from 2000 i've heard! first: 11.25.00/Toronto,ON/MuchMusic Break This/Live and Interviews/Proshot/10 mins/ and now this hee.. great

I agree that Mike and Chester is the best ones from the band to do chats with lpfans! It seemed a MFR CHAT, or a MFR Fan Club and i agree too with bout2break, i pay for a lp news and not mfr news! If i can remember, my question was accepted, and it was about tour/setlist, He just ignored it and didn't answer it. Who was not there, didn't lost nothing.. hehe

I agree with 'chazmike' well... happy b-day to Adam.

i was there =) he is a very funny guy hehe

very nic pics, i like it

And for last, a Brazil show! yeh, they should do like 2004 because they will win more money

goooooooooooooooooooooooooood, more showsssssssss more dates comming soon, probably

wow, great. lets make good questions *_*

lol, the hackers is winning the world

i love summer sonic shows <3 and The All American Rejects / MCR is good bans, for me.

haha funny

thats what the guy told me. I'm still looking with lpfans around philly.

It is still there Mark, i just deleted the taper name

added sample for source 3 of: 09.08.2003 Los Angeles, CA, Coliseum, Summer Sanitarium

Its a great idea, and also, will help us find tapers

I love The All American Rejects <3

Warner Music is the source, 99% of probability to be true

it is not beautiful, but ok voted

haahah, yes... thats true

Fixed it. ;D - Deleted taper name of: 12.07.2003 Philadelphia, PA source 1 Source from David Jeffers (aka: Oyster Head) ---------------------- - Deleted source 2 and edited source 1 for: 04.03.2004 Sunrise, FL, Office Depot Center Source from Marc (Taper)

For a point you are right. They need to make shows in other countries too. Like: Brazil, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia, Phillipines, etc...

About Barcelona, it should be just a mistake, maybe the website got confused Barcelona with UK xD

According to this site, Linkin Park would be playing in Perpignan, France on 11 July 2009. Nothing is confirmed by the band yet. Source: ZoneLP