Recorded live at Reliant Stadium, Houston, Texas on August 2, 2003 and at Texas Stadium, Irving, Texas on August 3, 2003.
Linkin Park's third album (not including the remix project, REANIMATION) is their first live effort, recorded in 2003 on their Metallica and Limp Bizkit-accompanied Summer Sanitarium tour. Showcasing material from their previous two albums, HYBRID THEORY and METEORA, it works well both as a semi-greatest hits set and a useful stopgap for diehard fans. LIVE IN TEXAS finds Linkin Park tighter and more powerful than ever on songs such as the incendiary "One Step Closer" and the pop-metal hybrid "Numb."
The band's trademark amalgam of metal, pop, and hip-hop translates well to this live setting, with Mike Shinoda's growling vocals contrasting even more sharply with Chester Bennington's rather angelic pipes. Linkin Park's melodic, roiling choruses, with their frequent angular pauses before jumping straight back into the aural mosh pit, are ideally suited to the wide-open concert venue featured here. While it's no substitute for an actual in-person Linkin Park live experience, the album is both a useful memento of a moment in time and a fine testament to the band's ability to walk a musical tightrope without a studio-enhanced net.
This CD/DVD combo, packaged in jewel case features Linkin Park's concert set from the Summer Sanitorium Tour. The CD features 12 songs and the DVD 17, along with backstage footage, from August performances at Houston's Reliant Stadium and Irving's Texas Stadium.
Includes bonus DVD.
Linkin Park: Mike Shinoda (vocals, emcee, samples); Chester Bennington (vocals); Brad Delson (guitar, background vocals); Phoenix (bass, background vocals); Rob Bourdon (drums, background vocals); Joseph Hahn (turntables, samples, background vocals).
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.
Even better live Linkin Park is even better when they are live on stage, and because on this cd are songs from both the albums you absolutely must have this cd! Submitted by Hanz (Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo 1 of 1 found this helpful.
CRANK IT UP! This is bloody brilliant cd by Linkin Park! Be sure that you turn it up so loud it annoys your neighbours from down the road for playing this cd! ROCK ON LINKIN PARK! YOU GUYS ROCK! Submitted by Alyssa (Adelaide, South Australia, Australia) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
the best in the world This cd is AWSOME!!!!!!!!! I havn't listened to Likin Park before until I heard this cd, then I knew that they r the best band ever!!!! Submitted by larkin dude.org (Sacramento,CA,USA) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
The best cd ever I think this CD is the best!! it rocks out loud!!!!!!!!!!!!! Submitted by Katelyn (New Mexico) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
the best I have listened to Linkin park for years and their the best! Submitted by Collin Pulke (Tamaroa, IL, USA) Was This Review Helpful? YesNo
Even better live
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