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For anyone wondering what all the crazy @LinkinPark stuff going on today is, let me explain:
In 2005, an online friend of mine from the Linkin Park Underground fan club won a contest where she and 10 friends (including me) got to do a private chat with @MikeShinoda. 1/8
In 2005, an online friend of mine from the Linkin Park Underground fan club won a contest where she and 10 friends (including me) got to do a private chat with @MikeShinoda. 1/8
I took the opportunity to ask @MikeShinoda if there were any songs from the days when LP was called Xero that fans hadn’t heard of. To that point we’d only heard a 4 track demo cassette. He responded that there was a song called Pictureboard that had been played live as LP. 2/8
This information spread like wildfire across the internet and everyone began to wonder when, if ever, we would hear Pictureboard. The song was considered for release on a fan club exclusive CD but wasn’t included due to it having an uncleared sample. 3/8
The song became the biggest holy grail for the LP community. Fans wondered if a rarely played melodic interlude used in a few live shows in 2001 (named Be Yourself/In Yourself by fans) was actually an unheard demo, possibly even Pictureboard. 4/8 https://youtu.be/LLKkrDxaRck ">https://youtu.be/LLKkrDxaR...
Today, we finally have confirmation that Be Yourself/In Yourself IS in fact Pictureboard! The band is gearing up to release a 20th anniversary version of their debut album Hybrid Theory & have been having fans go through their “old band computer” at http://linkinpark.com"> http://linkinpark.com 5/8
So far, fans have discovered the titles of 12 demo tracks, some things we may or may not have heard before, but several others that are completely new, including one titled “PB (Edit)”, which is very likely Pictureboard. 6/8
Then today, a new discovery was made. Inside a folder called “In Yourself Jam” was a file called “Demo_Pic_Board.mp3”! This confirms that the songs are one in the same and that we’ve actually had several live jams of Pictureboard since 2001! 7/8 https://youtu.be/w7aF6fvwPY8 ">https://youtu.be/w7aF6fvwP...
So come October, we will be getting a bonus disc of some sort that includes the first ever studio release of Pictureboard. It’s been 15 years since I first asked @MikeShinoda about it & now the mystery is finally solved. What a day to be an LP fan! 8/8 https://youtu.be/jR0H80G0GPs ">https://youtu.be/jR0H80G0G...
