Here are my faves (sorry if I type so much)
3.12.03 Meteora Listening tour @ Roseland - My 1st LP show, was at Roseland at 8 am that morning cuz I wanted to be by the front of the stage, was one of the 1st there that morning. It was crazy inside there. The atmosphere was insane and when LP finally took the stage all hell broke loose.
7.8.03 Summer Sanitarium @ Giants Stadium - My 2nd LP show, it had Deftones, Mudvayne, Limp Bizkit and of course Metallica!! But I was really there to see LP, got there around noonish and it was blazing hot that day. If you’re not familiar with Giants Stadium, its an open stadium so it was HOT that day (97 degrees + humidity + all sun = disgusting weather) not a cloud in the sky and I had my LPST shirt on (which is black) I was dying. Was in the front (again) and took alot of pics (my best yet) plus they did P5hng Me A*wy one of my faves off of Reanimation. And I met Mistress Juliya from Much Music that day as well
1.18.04 Meteora World tour @ Nassau Coliseum - my 3rd LP show, it was in January so of course it was freezing outside, I had a GA tix but refused to be out in the cold and snow so I got to LI around 4 p.m. Doors opened of course everyone ran inside to be by the stage. My friend and I were standing next to each other (I was talking to the group of Canadians that travelled to the states to see LP, had my LP cd collection with me, showed them my import CD singles and all that) and then this big guy starts pointing out and saying “you, you, you and you” and walks away…We were llike "Uhm ok wtf was that about. 15 mins later someone from security comes back and says “In about 5 minutes we’re gonna take you out of the crowd so you can be onstage with POD” I froze, the security guy looks at me and says “are u ok” I shake my head yeah. Me and my friends were onstage for POD’s Youth of a Nation song. I love that song but when I was on that stage and saw that huge crowd I completely froze up. Now LP takes the stage and perform almost all of my fave songs off of HT and Meteora. Mike started to talk about how they were gonna do a song that wasn’t from their album and he starts off with a line from “Its Goin Down”, I went crazy cause I love that song, they also did Nobodys Listening and Step up! Now they perform A Place for my head and Chester comes into the crowd right in front of me! Damn crowd started to surge towards him and I feel people pushing me from behind, I panick cause I’ve heard about people being trampled on at concerts so I grab the first thing I can get my hands on which happened to be Chesters arm. I grabbed onto his arm for dear life cause I didn’t want to go under (Btw he has buff arms lol)
2.21.08 Minutes to Midnight tour @ MSG - LP 1st time at the Garden and I almost didn’t go! Luckily a friend of mine told me he was going and he got tixs from e-bay, I got my tix a wk before the show. it was floor seats but not too close to the stage. Heard No More Sorrows live for the first time (was hoping that maybe No Roads Left would be played but sigh it didn’t
) then people leaving thinking the show was over (including my friends) I said "its not over, 1. the house lights are off, when a concert is over they turn on all the lights and 2. they haven’t done Bleed It Out yet. People started to leave and then the chants of Linkin Park started. Then a huge roar from the crowd as Chester goes back onstage doing the Rockafella diamond, and then Jay Z comes out doing Numb/encore. Glad I bought that nights download of the show earlier while Coheed and Cambria were performing cause the Merch booth was packed with people after the concert ended.
2.4.11 A Thousand Suns World Tour @ MSG - LP’s 2nd time at The Garden! A co-worker got the tixs for me, we were in sec 48, decent seats but I was there. Then to find out 2 wks before the concert that Fuse would be there to tape the concert made me hype! So its the day of the show and we’re already inside. I was looking for my friend (who won tixs from Z100) and I see Mistress Juliya again interviewing people for Fuse. I had my LPST shirt on (again) and someone asked me if I was ok with being interviewed and I said fine. So I was pro-ATS and someone else was against ATS, me and the guy were going back and forth on why ATS was a good album and how he preferred the old LP sound, So I said ATS reminds me of NIN’s The downward spiral and Juliya agreed with me. After the interview, I told her that this was the 2nd time that I had met her during an LP show. We spoke about how music and whatnot, she’s very nice. This was also the show were I heard When They come for me live (went ballistic cuz I love that song) and they threw in APFMH into BIO. Best experience!
So the day comes that Fuse is going to show the concert and I have company over and they show how in the commercial breaks that will show LP fans and theres a shot of my LPST shirt that they used. Unfortunately, the didn’t show that interview but hey I saw Juliya again
Just hoping that they announce a date closer to NYC cause Camden is too far for me as well as Mohegan Sun…If they do Nassau or even Izod I’d be please…crossing my fingers cause I don’t want to miss out on this tour 