Майк в студии 2009

прошляпили ))) может Майк ещё рапортует

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    Winter NAMM 2009
01/08/09
   

January 15, 2009 to January 18, 2009
Anaheim Convention Center
Booth #6700

More information: http://www.thenammshow.com

Come visit M-Audio, Digidesign and Sibelius at Winter NAMM 2009 and experience the latest music creation technology — including Pro Tools® 8 software, Studiophile® DSM monitors, Torq® 1.5 DJ software and much more. Don’t miss exciting appearances and performances by M-Audio artists Daddy Kev, Guns 'n' Bombs, DJ Enrie, Suprema, TAKE and MATTER. You’ll also have the chance to hear Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park), Chris Vrenna (Marylin Manson, NIN) and Brendon Small (Metalocalypse, Home Movies) explain why Pro Tools 8 software is the ultimate creative environment for their productions.

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NAMM show, day 3
posted by Busta

mmk..so I can't even remember all of what happened today...so I'll just give the rundown of who we met today, and the Papa Roach signing.

Today we met...
-Mike mofo'n Shinoda from Linkin Park [one of the nicest people ever] I finally got a pic with him and this is the third time I've met him.

17 января 2009

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About Paul Reed Smith Guitars
Paul Reed Smith Guitars, a leading manufacturer of high-quality instruments in Stevensville, MD, has been providing some of the world’s most renowned guitarists with instruments since 1985. More than 200 highly skilled craftspeople produce more than 60 guitars each day for worldwide distribution. Carlos Santana, Dave Navarro, Chad Kroeger of Nickelback, Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson of Linkin Park, Chris Henderson of 3 Doors Down and Mark Tremonti of Alter Bridge are among the many artists currently playing PRS guitars.

плюс древнее интервью с Майком

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Linkin Park’s energetic and cathartic blend of heavy rock, hip-hop and electronics has propelled the Southern California six-piece from humble bedroom-studio beginnings to recording one of the most hotly anticipated follow-up albums in recent memory, “Meteora”. Their debut “Hybrid Theory” broke the band’s unique sound in a big way, having now sold over 14 million copies worldwide to date, but the band refuses to take a sophomore slump. Driven by a strong collaborative spirit and a relentless dedication to their fans, the group has managed to produce a second album that pushes the ideas explored on “Hybrid Theory” to new levels, building and expanding on the band’s intense energy and heavy emotion.

An integral part of the Linkin Park sound is the use of samples and electronics to give their music a more intricately layered, textured and dynamic sound. NI spoke with vocalist Mike Shinoda about how they get it all done.

Interview by Chris Cummer
Photo by James Minchin
Linkin Park originally went by the name Xero and then Hybrid Theory. Where did the final name Linkin Park come from?
Lincoln park was a park in LA near where we lived. We changed the spelling to be able to get the website - linkinpark.com was available.

Rap heavily permeates both "Hybrid Theory" and "Meteora", and musically Linkin Park also seems to draw heavily from new metal and industrial roots - who are your influences for this?
Los Angeles is a place where many types of music are prevalent - any type of music you want to go out and hear can be found relatively easily. When we started making music we just naturally mixed a lot of styles.

"New metal" is the label most commonly applied to Linkin Park, putting you in with the likes of Korn, Limp Bizkit, Disturbed, et al. How do you feel about this label?
We don't care much for the whole "new metal" thing. We just make music that we want to listen to. Rather than writing to be part of a genre, we just write what we feel moved by.

Between the Project Revolution tour and the Summer Sanitarium tour you've set up a pretty ambitious tour schedule. How do you like touring? How do keep the performances from getting stagnant?
Touring is cool. When we're on tour, the show is the best part of the day. So we look forward to getting out there and giving people our best, and sometimes gear what we're doing on stage to what's going on in the audience.

Most of the tracks on Meteora tend to be heavily and often subtly layered compositions, more so than the tracks on the first album. This seems to indicate a conscious evolution in the band's music. What and who was the impetus for this?
I don't think there was a conscious decision to make the songs more layered. But I think they did come out that way. We have always put a lot of emphasis on our sampled parts, because they're fun to do and because they are such an important part of our sound. It's cool to be able to take something that someone recognizes and turn it into a new sound, using plug-ins and effects.

"Nobody's Listening" contains long segments of a Japanese flute under a hard rap song - how did the juxtaposition of those two influences come about?
I was just picking through my music collection and got the idea. I wrote it in the computer, and we had a shakuhachi player come in and play it. I ended up layering some other background sounds to it, to make it feel fuller.

In "Meteora" a plethora of sounds is used, from guitars to pianos to Japanese flutes, and the songs seem to indicate that you've been influenced by many genres. What is the musical background of the members of Linkin Park? Classically-trained? Self-taught?
All of us have had training of some sort, ranging from Chester as a self-taught singer who just practices a lot to Phoenix and I who have had about ten years of theory and classical training (piano for me, violin for Phoenix).

The new album

There's an obvious amount of sampling throughout your music and your overall sound is very refined and well produced. What hardware, software have you been using?
In our music we use the term "sampling" in reference to the original samples that we make. Making a sample from scratch is not easy, and knowledge of a broad range of plug-ins, instruments, and effects helps us to make these sounds.

How long have you been using NI software? Which programs? Are they any specific features or instruments you like working with?
Lately I have been messing around with the Pro-53 and Battery. There is a lot of variety in the types of sounds and endless ways you can use them. In particular, I really like Battery and the expansion packs for it because I like to experiment when creating rhythm tracks, and Battery is a versatile program. Right now, I've been downsizing my rig into a format where I can take it wherever I need to go. For me, it's ideal to use software synth and drum programs rather than rack mount, as long as I'm not sacrificing sound quality or workability. NI has done a great job making this happen."

I haven't been using NI stuff for long, but I've had great experiences with the stuff so far. I will be using it on albums in the future.

You manage to keep real organic sounds throughout your albums and at the same time, consistently add digital elements to your work. Do you think your music will always be a mixture of new technology and analog sound?
As long as we can have fun with each, it will remain a part of what we do.

Thanks for the interview.
Thanks very much.

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19.01.2009 Ruff Mix.

1. Crawl Back In
2. Give Me Your Name

Mike's mon is this one

Daki Myoga.  (or embracing ginger plants) японский имбирь

http://www.yushinkan.com/info_en.php

it's on The Rising Tied and Reanimation album covers.

http://www.kanjistyle.com/html/j_image/03.html

Japanese daki myôga
Note The plant of "Myouga" said as the wonder drug of the forgetfulness was designed.

August 2004
Interveiw with Mike from a French magazine, posted on LPTimes.com

On June 22nd, while touring triumphantly in Asia, Linkin Park perfomed in Singapore, in front of a full and totally hyterical crowd. Just a few hours before the show, Mike Shinoda, visibly happy but tired by this marathon tour, answered a few questions from the local press. Here's the report.

You've just made a long and triumphant tour in Asia that ends tonightt. How are you feeling?

To be honest, even if I'm happy that Linkin Park have that much success in Asia, I'm not discontented that the tour comes to an end. But at the same time I'm very excited. It's like going to school, at the end of the year, when you feel the holiday coming. You're still going but you don't do very much and the atmospheare is wonderful...

Why are you so looking forward to the end of the tour?

The reason is simple : we've been on the road for several months, far from our families, and we miss them a lot. I've been married for nearly 2 years and I don't often have the opportunity to see my wife, Anna. I miss my house too, my bed, my car, my sofa, things that may seem meaningless but that we don't have the opportunity to use when we're touring. But don't believe I hate touring. It simply doesn't have to last too long.

Do the other members feel the same need to come back home?

Yes, they do. And that's very good. We totally understand each other on that point and we can talk easily about it. When one of us feels a bit down because he's away from his wife or kids, everyone understands perfectly what he's feeling and can cheer him up. If I was the only one to want to see my wife, it'll probably be difficult to share it with the rest of the band.

You've just been “Punk'd” on the Ashton Kutcher's show. Can you tell us what happened?

Those b******* really trapped me! (laughs) In fact that day, I was supposed to go to the restaurant. When I arrived there, the parking guy showed me where to park my car. So I followed his instructions and parked my car against the pavement, then entered the restaurant. But while I was in the restaurant, the people form the show came to put a fire hydrant on the pavement, just next to my car, and then obviously a fire started in the district. So when the fake fireman came to fix their water-hose nozzle on the fire hydrant, they couldn't reach it because my car was in the way. So they decided to break the glasses of my car to fix their water-hose, then they called the police and I was fined...

What's the rumour which annoys you the most?

I often read that Chester and I are competing against each other, that I would like to have his place, to sing more, to be the leader of the band. But that's completely false. Chester and I work together on all the songwriting, we exchange a lot of ideas and sometimes things heat up a bit. But I believe that's absolutely normal. And it doesn't go further than the music context. And then I'll never be able to sing like Chester. He's got a unique voice. We're definitely not competing against each other.

Have you already started to work on the next album?

Yeah, we've already started composing a few melodies, and, like for “Meteora”, we'll propably write a lot of things that will never make it. So, for the moment, I can't tell you what the next album will be like. For “Meteora”, we had more than 80 songs potentially recordable. But we decided to keep the best, the ones that were unanimous in the band. We're always proceeding like this. We don't have any scruples to ditch dozens of songs that the fans would maybe like if they heard them.

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хехе когда ж он с Чезом будет обниматься???

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February 17, 2009
This post is to help you promote your band. IF YOU ARE A MUSICIAN (in a band / singer / rapper / producer, etc.), post about yourself here. In the comments on this page, write a short description about yourself and your music, and include a link to your home page or wherever your music and bio are.

HERE ARE THE RULES:

1 - Don't embed stuff in the comments, or the page will get annoying. Links only. It would be ideal if the page or pages you link to have music. But the fewer links the better--one link to your main home page is best.

2 - Don't post unless you are the artist. I do not want to see: "Hey, I like your band," "My friend's band is cool," etc.

Again, this post is for artists only. So...if you don't make music, don't post a comment. Instead, your job here is to listen to it: go through the posts and see which ones you like best, and wait until my next blog post to comment--the next blog post will be for all of you who don't make music.

Enjoy,

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Posted 6 hours ago (changed 5 hours ago) by mshinoda

Here's an example:

My name is Mike and my band is called "DANGER DONKEY SUPER PRETZEL" Our style is New Age Arena-Polka. If you ever wondered what the theme song from "Small Wonder" would sound like played double-time with a cowbell and trumpets, come check us out:

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February 22, 2009
I know a lot of you have been anxiously awaiting the follow-up to the "Promote Yourself post." I want to begin by saying how impressed I was by the incredible amount of quality and variety of the stuff submitted. Truly incredible. Since almost all of the submissions were independent or unsigned, it further solidifies my belief that you guys are capable of making amazing music that sounds just as good as anything put out on a major label.

Many different genres and countries (including Australia, Chile, France, Russia, Canada, Romania, Estonia, Poland, Germany, and others) were represented. I asked the non-music-makers out there to please hold off on making comments (which some of you did, ha)...now, I'm opening it up to everyone to speak their mind. My team helped me put all of your posts up on the following site, where EVERYONE CAN NOW VOTE ON THEIR FAVORITES. There's no prize except knowing how you're doing, so there is no point cheating the votes. Just place a vote for the bands you like best, and let them know they're doing something right. Go here:

http://mikeshinoda.uservoice.com/

ALSO, If you didn't post about your music the first time, but you still want to, I'll continue to look, so post at the link above You have to sign in if you want to vote or post, but I think it's worth it.

In the next few weeks, I'll be highlighting some of the bands I liked. I'm not picking these based on votes or recommendations. These were simply some things that caught my ear. Let's begin.

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