I have the old emails dating back to around 2007, with a lot of the graphics missing, if you'd like anything from those.
There are some rather large swaths of time where I have no emails, and I don't know if anything is missing on my end or if the band went that long without sending out any updates via email - maybe someone else can confirm. Anyway, it isn't very much, but here's everything that I've got from 2006-2007, with the dates just as they were for my timezone: 7 Mar 2006 Subject: Mike Shinoda Gives LP Update & New Touring Info 19 Apr 2006 Subject: Linkin Park Update from Chester 7 Nov 2006 Subject: LINKIN PARK STUDIO UPDATE FROM JOE 1 Feb 2007 Subject: New Linkin Park Single News from Phoenix
If you want more stuff to archive, you could try and dig up all the old linkinpark.com posts. I quoted some of them for my old Session posts, like this one, but I don't know if they've been properly collected anywhere
@Christøffer, I think you hit me up on Reddit earlier. I wrote back but thought it might be worth checking in here, too. I should have the newsletters through to LPU 6. I know I had 7, so I'm not sure why it stops at 6.
I'm always happy to do some archiving lol it's like little time capsule treasures Yep that's me! Thank you for helping out!
Recently going through Depeche Mode discography again, and on some songs, it's so strikingly obvious the huge impact they had on LP - and fair enough, the musical landscape in general. But those melodic and dark mid-tempo verses backed up by catchy synth loop - trademark of LP sound - it's also all over DM music. Funnily enough, even though rock/hip hop elements have often been at the forefront of LP offerings, in my mind, DM is maybe one of the act that come the closet in term of direct predecessor.
Rick Beato did an interview with the great Andy Wallace, who mixed both Hybrid Theory and Meteora. 1:53:30 to about 2:02:20 they discuss Linkin Park specifically. Not quite as detailed as Beato's video where he analyzed some of Andy Wallace's mixing techniques (though I still have mixed feelings on him), but it's neat to see Wallace directly talking about the mixes and sounds on the three LP songs they cover. Also some well-deserved recognition for "Easier to Run" which is always great.
I also just learned last year that Mike reinterpreted Enjoy The Silence (04). I think you can really see where the sound comes from in that interpretation
I've actually always heard that the main keyboard on that remix uses the same patch as the keyboard hook from "Numb"
Shouldn't "Rebellion" be called "Imitations of Rebellion"? The title is opposite of what song is about... I guess it sounds cooler.
The twist that the song is not some sort of #resistance anthem is obviously intentional, but you could also easily make the argument that the song's central point is itself rebellious