Mike Has a "Message"

My personal opinion about guitar solos is that they are cool and fine, but it depends how they are made. If we get some solo playing as The Little Things Give You Away, or a solo like the one in Saw Something of Dave Gahan, or whatever that has "feeling", then ok, i'm fine with it. If the solo is done just to rock the fudge out and show you can play guitar, sorry but it aint not for me. Music must be a revelation on many ways, not overfilled with "cool" or useless parts. I am not saying i don't want solos (as i love the Faint one live for example), but i don't want, sincerly, solos like Dead By Sunrise. There again: nothing against DBS solos, just i feel they are put the because the genre requires it and to rock for 10 or 20 seconds more, but not to give more feeling. And i accept only feelings solos.

 

LP THROWBACK!

I remember people going all Sherlock Holmes on this under construction LP site back in 2007. Trying to find something out of nothing lol.

 

That was me.

But come on, the band has been saying all after m2m that they wanted to recreate the experience of putting out albums in new and exiting ways. Plus that's just 1 site on 1 page in 2007. This has been posted 8 different times in 2010. I'm 99% sure it's not "nothing" and that it is the start of something that will grow bigger and bigger over time.

 

Storm,

I agree, but then again it depends. Basically, guitar solos are a part of Rock music, it depends on how and when they're played. I have never seen anyone complain about a 2 minute solo in "Comfortably Numb", simply because it's played to perefection. In Linkin Park's case, that short solo in "In Pieces" is a good example of a nice solo. It's one aspect of Rock music Linkin Park did not develope in their music that much in the past, and I guess we all agree Brad is good enough to play some fine solos, so I think it would be a welcome change for the new record. Whether they have done that in this record or not, is another case.

 

lol!

I recall Mike saying, possibly in his blog or a chat, that Brad was coming in to lay down a guitar solo. Whether or not that song made the record...

Though I'm sure we'll hear a few guitar solos. I love to hear a drum solo over the outro to some song, like this.

 

Guys, the message is a blurry, static-y silhouette of an elephants head.

The right side of it has it's trunk curved upwards, and on the left side you can see it's large ear. In the middle is the head/side of its face.

DONE

 

Damn... I'm really starting to see things..

 

What could be involved...
Elephant.. Mammoth... Beast... Animal... Vuvuzelas..

 

Pink elephants

 

Normally bands say "oh yeah the album is coming out on blah and the first single is called blah"
I don't understand the need to be cryptic. I mean shit like this only really works if a band is like getting back together or something
this is just annoying

 

No one would EVER see any elephant there of it wasn't for Phoenix photo.