Shows in Review: May 12, 2017 - KROQ Weenie Roast and IdentityLA

I agree that the vocoder use was great, but it was still him. It was done in a way where you could still hear his normal voice along with the modded voice, so it was still like the classic duet. It truly was like he was singing for both of them.

 

I literally cried watching "Sorry For Now" be played. It has been my favorite Linkin Park song since the day we heard it in full, and to finally see him play it live was bittersweet.

The way he had fun with the track, from just bopping around and even rapping Chester's part confidently. Man.

I can't even describe the goosebumps I got from that.

I have nothing to say.

Wow.

 

thanks Mike!!! That over again papercut mix is really awesome, the sun goes down part gave my chills, i started to cry i aint gonna lie that was emotional. Papercut was Chesters fave LP song to play live and its my fave LP song

 

One thing to remember is that the stream doesn't have the crowd mic'd up. It sounded like a dead crowd because aside from the direct instrumental feeds, you only had Mike's vocal mic, which is of the cardioid variety. Those are made specifically to only receive sound from directly in front of the microphone, and not anywhere else. That you could even hear the crowd at all at the KROQ show is ridiculous.

It sounded louder for the Identity show because we were listening from the crowd, rather from a (at times shoddily) mixed source.

 

New wallpaper for me, thanks for that!

I was wondering this too. KROQ seemed much quieter. But your explanation, alongside Louis’s review makes a lot of sense!

 

THIS! I confirm.

 

I am aware that this is the case which is why I tried to not revolve my comment on that aspect. Not counting the streaming aspect, it just seemed like a lot of LP fans showed up to Identity since it was a free show whereas Weenie Roast was people there for headliners that so happened to also watch Mike.

 

Thanks a lot for the in-depth insight into what you experienced and felt at both shows Louis, it was a pleasure to read and is one of my favourite posts on this forum that I've ever read.

I haven't watched the footage from either shows yet but will try and see them at some point this week, can't wait!

 

Thank you for such an expansive response to my question! I understand what you are saying. It seems a bit odd to me but I guess I was just wrong in my assumptions. And it is true that a lot of acts at Weenie Roast were related acts to Linkin Park but to me it felt like Mike still stood out on the lineup. He did a setlist I did not expect though so I think he made it work

 

Thank you for this review.

I just watched the KROQ one on youtube. I'd expected it to be a happy experience but I ended up quite tearful - thought it would basically be the 6 songs he's put out from Post Traumatic and didn't realise he'd put LP songs in, especially doing some of Chester's parts. Well done to him for doing that though. Going to save the other show for tomorrow as I'm emotionally worn out from watching the first one!

A couple of questions - why did Mike re-wind on Remember the Name? From the review here it sounds like he forgot to start the verse? When I watched it on youtube I wondered if it was because he decided he wanted to go through the crowd and knew he needed more of the track to do that in time? Also what is the vocorder exactly, does it produce a previously recorded version of Mike?

 

You guys! Are all wrong

 

That's a lovely thought!