Linkin Park has released their new CD/DVD collection Road To Revolution: Live From Milton Keynes, and it was one of the band's biggest shows on the 2008 Projekt Revolution Tour. It was filmed in front of 65,000 people and it's the first video release from the band in nearly five years.
While performing and recording Road To Revolution, vocalist/multi instrumentalist Mike Shinoda talked about taking a detour.
"I noticed this kid holding up a sign that said, 'Hands Held High,' which is one of our songs that we've kind of sprinkled into the set here or there and then decided that the live version wasn't doing the album version justice, because the album has this layered almost like a choir vocal on the chorus. A couple of songs of him holding that up I thought, 'You know what? I can give this kid something. I can just do the verse.' I ended up just stopping in between two songs, and I did basically half the song, with the first verse, acapella. That felt great. We had never done it that way before. We never did it after. We actually changed the set to incorporate that verse in another part of the set. That day I did that and I think [guitarist] Brad [Delson] came up to me, he's like. 'That was really great. We should try and do something like that in a future set. Essentially that kid's sign changed our set for the rest of the touring cycle."
So what convinced Linkin Park to record their show at the UK venue?
"Leading up to the Milton Keynes show we were... It just seemed like the math was there telling us we should probably film this thing. It was the biggest Projekt Revolution show to date, and it was in a pretty well-known and prestigious venue, and Jay-Z was going to be on the bill and we would be able to do a couple of songs with him. So we decided we might as well, even if we don't use the footage for a DVD or some kind of release, we should at least just tape it just so we could have it kind of as a snapshot of where we were in the touring cycle."
Linkin Park's "Leave Out The Rest" from Minutes To Midnight was featured on CSI earlier this month with the song used in the opening credits, closing credits and excerpts used during the show. Meanwhile, Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington's solo album, which was formerly named Dead By Sunrise, will be out in the spring or summer of 2009.
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Linkin Park Show And Set Changed By A Sign
