New Fort Minor album

Side and Solo Projects
#54

That’s a mighty fine setlist right there. He’ll hopefully do these songs during one of them shows he mentioned about. So sad that he’ll just do some local shows, though…

You know, I was wondering just right now. Wouldn’t it be nice if like… They did a tour, with the side projects added to their show? Make it an Alter Ego Festival, or whatever. Have STP, DBS, FM do their thing and then have LP close the deal. That would be sooooo cool. It really would. Just a brainfart I’m sharing here… :blush:

What you guys think?

#55

Mike did it back in 2006. 2 shows a night… he was dead tired lol

#56

Ooooh, that’s when this happened:

#57

Yeap, this one too.

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#58

Shinoda Sweat, now in bottles everywhere :smiley:

#59

Oh, it´s so animalism… I´like it, but for real: Ruy posted on twitter, that he did´nt knew about welcome and created an own version, that sucks and it´s confusing, also ´cause in my opinion the sound of welcome is saaad! Or I´m totally mistaken?? :flushed:

#60

I order 100 bottles for sure, I swear…;))

#61

It is weird, very weird actually. And it makes me really sad and kinda mad. I hope they will sort it out and it won’t get between their friendship.

#62

So there’s another version made by Ryu now?

Call me weird, but I somehow always felt like Fort Minor was just Mike’s project and the others were just kind of running along with it, but it was Mike’s game in the end. Not saying that to be negative. It’s kind of… Kind of like Eminem and D12, you know? Or maybe more like 2pac and any given rapper that rapped along on his tracks back in the day. In the end it was Pac’s game, the others just ran with him. Not to compare Mike with 2pac but yeah… Does this make sense?

Well, the lyrics to the chorus of Welcome has quite a sad undertone, I agree.

I don’t need their blessing now
I don’t need their invitation
Ain’t no way to shut me down
Or to take this path I’ve taken
And maybe I’ve been left out
Never let this be mistaken
They can keep that blessing now, forget me now
Cause I was never welcome

#63

Shinoda Sweat indeed… :blush:

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#64

Thank you so much, you are great, I orde 100 bottles, what are the delivering conditions???

#65

In the end, what Mike did wasn’t right. Intentionally or not, it just wasn’t cool. FM is Mike but he decided to bring his friends on board with him. The minute he decided not to call them again, he shouldn’t have gone with FM. He should have at least explained the situation and not let it get here. I’m very disappointed in him and didn’t expect this from him at all, I’m 100% with Ryu here. (Btw, that’s just my opinion on the matter. Not ditching Mike or anything, just saying how it feels to me.)

#66

I don’t follow FM as much as you guys seem to do, but what I get from these posts about the Ryu stuff, I think that Mike should have gone with a solo release without using FM’s name. I always thought FM (or any band for that matter) was a group and not a one man show. I would be sad if one of the LP members created, recorded & produced a song on his own & then released it as a Linkin Park song. I agree with @EvoOba & Ryu (if he has retaliated).

#67

It’s not really about the name… Mike used one of Ryu’s verses for the song and did not credit him. Instead he told him something about a remix song AFTER they talked about this when Welcome was released. It’s all on Ryu’s IG and FB pages but yeah… to me, what Mike did was plain stupid, he betrayed a friend, a friend who values him a lot. That’s why Ryu was upset, not for the song or whatever. But they say they talked it out, agreed to disagree and it’s all good again. Who knows…

#68

Thanks for clarifying the stuff for me @evooba, but then, this makes it even worse. If I remember correctly, the mailer from LP stated that “Welcome” was all Mike. This makes me sad.
Maybe I should avoid getting into the personal space of the band members and just enjoy their music as I have always done. Also, sorry for not knowing the actual story, but still commenting :mask:

#69

No worries… that’s what it has been said online btw. For all we know, they can meet and talk about this thoroughly when Mike gets back in LA. It’s just sad this happened… no heart feelings to either of them or name calling or whatever, just wish they were honest… well, Mike.

#70

Mike didn’t use any of Ryu’s verses in the song; all of “Welcome” is Mike’s work. Ryu recorded a verse to it, but it’s not included in the song.

#71

It was supposed to be on the remix but it’s not and Ryu had no idea about the video either as it seems. Honestly, this is so complicated… I just hope they’ll solve it.

#72

OK, here’s something that might come across as a bit off the beaten path, but euhm…

A few years ago I wanted to write this fanfic about Mike in his FM era. And in the fanfic, Mike and Ryu ended up getting into a creative disagreement and that caused the group not to do anything else together. Mike was being an ass in the story, a real pompous ass. Kind of similar to what has apparently happened now with the Welcome record. This idea rose up about 4 or 5 years ago. But then I kind of let it go because I just thought it wasn’t right to write something like that, even if it were fiction.

It’s kind of creepy to think that this imagined storyline I had years ago. is now actually happening for real.

On another note: Not to attack Mike; but seeing how he functions in LP for instance; writing and recording stuff even when the others aren’t around, he’s done that before. Look at the Steve Aoki projects; A Light That Never Comes for instance was all Aoki and Mike, with a bit of Chester. But let’s be honest, it wasn’t an actual Linkin Park thing. Same goes for Darker Than Blood.

Maybe it’s just his enthusiasm; he feels like he has something great going on and wants to share it with the world and poof it’s out before you can say shrimp fried rice.

I’m just going by my own observation here, but like I’ve said before; I think Mike genuinly feels like FM is his thing. And that that’s why he thought it was ok to just do whatever he felt fit with the songs. Not saying that’s right, just saying. Maybe he didn’t think so 10 years ago, but maybe he started feeling that way after years and years of not having the ability to get the guys together for whatever reason to actually make new stuff and publish it together.

I don’t know though. Maybe I’m just off. I do hope they sort it out. I agree that it’s not right to ditch your friends, no matter what reason. But who knows what’s going on offline, ya’know?

#73

I love this sentence!!! In my opinion, Mike is overload with all the thing to organise the whole thing FM, cause he´s the one to do mostly of that, so he thought, before I spend such a lot of time to bring everybody on the table, discuss the stuff, etc, it´s faster and more his necessity to do it , at last, all on his own, for me it shows also, how lonely the leader is in some moments…;((

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