For those of you that have been following the news lately, you'll know that in the LPU chats with Mike and Rob they confirmed that Linkin Park will be releasing
UNRELEASED DSP's (Digital Souvenir Packages) from the live shows online at
http://downloads.linkinpark.com/ sometime in early January 2010.
I have asked around about the project and haven't gotten much information on it, but one (anonymous) friend has come through and confirmed for me something I think you all would like to hear.
"Linkin Park will be releasing every single show that they played on the last run as a DSP. So shows not previously available will be available. Shows that have NOT been mixed will be mixed in early January. The plans are for those shows to be posted AFTER the site goes live."
I take this quote to mean that this means everything. The promo run in 2007 (Berlin, London, Bamboozle, etc), the European Tour in 2007, the New Zealand/Australia Tour in 2007 and all of the European Tour in 2008. I still am wondering about the random one-off shows like the Music For Relief benefit (2007), Las Vegas show (2007), Club Ritual opening (2007), KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas 2007 and possibly even the 2009 shows we don't have.
This means we can possibly get a lot of highlights from the 2007-2009 Minutes To Midnight cycle including the only performance of 'Runaway' since 2006, 'Reading My Eyes' from 2008, the children's choir on 'Hands Held High' at KROQ 2007, Mike mashing up 'There They Go' and 'Faint' in Berlin in 2007, the show where Chester broke his arm in Melbourne in 2007 and more. This possibly might open up the chance for them to sell older DSP's someday or sell the 2010 ones in this format. Regardless, this is a HUGE step in the Linkin Park world and I think it's a very exciting time to be a fan if you like following the live shows.
One hell of an awesome win on the part of Linkin Park? I sure do believe so. I can't wait. Who's excited as I am? As usual, LPLive will work with you all to share the shows, but we'll have to see exactly what the release format is (the cost of each show, etc) first before we figure out the exact plans on getting the shows bought, uploaded and shared. Stay tuned!