After a week break, Linkin Park is back in action on May 23rd when they head to Pryor, Oklahoma to headline day two of Rocklahoma. Joining them on the Bud Light Main Stage (which appears to be seated?) at this show are Volbeat, Halestorm, Anthrax, The Pretty Reckless, and Candlebox. All of those with the exclusion of Candlebox also played with LP at Rock on the Range last weekend. A funny part of this show's schedule is that Scott Weiland and his wild band (ha) play directly before Linkin Park on the Hard Rock Casino Stage. LP's set time is from 10:45pm-12:15am, and while they are technically headlining, other acts play after them on the other, smaller stages. This is the third show of the summer for Linkin Park, coming after Rock in Rio USA and Rock on the Range, but only 17,000 people are expected each day for this festival.
Linkin Park has played in Oklahoma a few times before. Their second tour ever, with the Kottonmouth Kings in 2000, stopped in Tulsa that year and they were back four weeks later at the same venue with P.O.D. as well. The band's good friends in Papa Roach played a radio show with them in Oklahoma City that December, giving Oklahoma three shows in one year. Oklahoma didn't get a show in 2001 as the Oklahoma City stop on the Family Values Tour was later canceled when the tour was rerouted several times.
Projekt Revolution 2002 visited the state and Linkin Park headlined Oklahoma City for the first time in February 2002. It was at this show that Crawling was stopped and restarted mid-song due to the fans being so wild. There's a good audience recording of this show if you want to listen to a solid 2002 performance. Next, the University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK was a stop on the Meteora World Tour in 2004 in between the Las Vegas and Texas shows.
Linkin Park did not return to Oklahoma until February 2008, on the Minutes To Midnight North American Arena Tour, four years later. Chester was sick at this show but instead of canceling, the band performed an abbreviated setlist. Wake went into Lying From You as Given Up was dropped (even though it was just released as a single a few weeks prior), Papercut had the outro from Points Of Authority, and Chester even told fans they could get their money back if they weren't satisfied. Check out the show page, as we cover all of the changes at that show. The two shows after Oklahoma City were canceled, and after four more abbreviated shows, the band returned to a full setlist to close the tour in Sacramento, CA.
Linkin Park has played in Oklahoma a few times before. Their second tour ever, with the Kottonmouth Kings in 2000, stopped in Tulsa that year and they were back four weeks later at the same venue with P.O.D. as well. The band's good friends in Papa Roach played a radio show with them in Oklahoma City that December, giving Oklahoma three shows in one year. Oklahoma didn't get a show in 2001 as the Oklahoma City stop on the Family Values Tour was later canceled when the tour was rerouted several times.
Projekt Revolution 2002 visited the state and Linkin Park headlined Oklahoma City for the first time in February 2002. It was at this show that Crawling was stopped and restarted mid-song due to the fans being so wild. There's a good audience recording of this show if you want to listen to a solid 2002 performance. Next, the University of Oklahoma in Norman, OK was a stop on the Meteora World Tour in 2004 in between the Las Vegas and Texas shows.
Linkin Park did not return to Oklahoma until February 2008, on the Minutes To Midnight North American Arena Tour, four years later. Chester was sick at this show but instead of canceling, the band performed an abbreviated setlist. Wake went into Lying From You as Given Up was dropped (even though it was just released as a single a few weeks prior), Papercut had the outro from Points Of Authority, and Chester even told fans they could get their money back if they weren't satisfied. Check out the show page, as we cover all of the changes at that show. The two shows after Oklahoma City were canceled, and after four more abbreviated shows, the band returned to a full setlist to close the tour in Sacramento, CA.
This will be the band's seventh show in Oklahoma, first since 2008, and first in Pryor, OK.
At the last Linkin Park show (last weekend), LP debuted their full U.S. Festival setlist for this summer. Rebellion and Breaking The Habit made their 2015 debuts, part of Darker Than Blood was performed directly before Burn It Down, and From The Inside stuck around after coming back for three shows in January. Unfortunately, A Place For My Head didn't make the cut for this set.
Phoenix gave an interview to an Oklahoma newspaper, saying about The Hunting Party, Those songs were written with the live setting in mind. A lot of people draw a correlation between The Hunting Party as an album and maybe Hybrid Theory and Meteora. All those records were written from the perspective of what would be the most fun way to present a song in a live setting. When youre starting out as a band, every song you write is going to transition and be some part of your live set."
While The Hunting Party may have been written with the live setting in mind, only six songs from the album have been performed live and two of those were dropped for this tour (Guilty All The Same and Final Masquerade, two of the singles). Another, Until It's Gone, was only performed in full less than 20 times, before being shortened for summer/fall 2014 and then disappearing entirely. Only Wastelands, Rebellion (which was absent from the Winter North American Tour), and A Line In The Sand remain in the set from the new album.
A band that used to be known for playing every song on their albums live (Hybrid Theory, Meteora, Minutes To Midnight, and even A Thousand Suns with the new Robot Boy piece in the show), Living Things and The Hunting Party suffered greatly, with a combined thirteen of twenty four songs being played live, including the instrumental Tinfoil and excluding the verse of Until It Breaks that is rapped over Waiting For The End. For Living Things, In My Remains also disappeared mid-touring cycle and hasn't been played since. Whatever happened to I'll Be Gone, Roads Untraveled, Powerless, All For Nothing, War, Mark The Graves, and more - we don't know. Did the band get lazy? Did they think that these songs wouldn't translate live? Did they want more "popular" songs played in the sets? Were these songs just not good enough to be played live?
"For this most recent record, we kind of returned back to that mentality, that ethos of a real live setting whats gonna be exciting as an audience member, whats the best choice to make step by step in the writing of a song, to be able to really have it translate in the live setting, the live environment.
I think the outdoor summer festivals are really unique in the energy that theyre able to create. You cant get such an awesome energy and atmosphere in an arena as you can at one of these festivals where people just, you get there early enough, you can get close and it turns out to be lots of excitement, a lot of energy in a crowd and its own unique thing."
Also at the last show, Brad was absent as many of you noticed. He was dealing with a personal/family issue and to our knowledge, we are about 95% sure that he will be back this weekend. Benjamin Chandler, his guitar tech, played the show for him and it was Benjamin's third time playing in place of Brad on this touring cycle. He also played both Brazil shows last fall.
Linkin Park plays back-to-back shows and headlines the Bud Light River City Rockfest outside of the AT&T Center on May 24th. Major storms are predicted for San Antonio on Saturday, so we will see if that affects the show in any way. Pryor is also being drenched with rain, with 3-5 inches predicted over the weekend.
The band is going to keep the same setlist for the rest of May, at least, and we don't think they'll change anything until Mexico. This setlist is a little shorter than the rest of the touring cycle, so it wouldn't surprise us if Mexico in June got an encore and one or two extra songs added to the show. These are the last two shows for May, and LP takes a four week break before five shows in June that start on June 19th.
Source: LPLive
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