ENTRY 1 - ST. PETERSBURG
Saturday, July 22, 2000: We arrived in St. Petersburg, Florida, after driving almost three-days-straight from Los Angeles (we did shower once). Fortunately, the ride was smooth and we only got really lost once (partially my fault). Unfortunately, when we arrived in St. Pete, looking forward to finally getting half-a-night's-rest, our tour manager got stuck in the hotel elevator. An hour later, the fire department had managed to free her from that evil machine. We opened up for a band called Union Underground, who we'll be touring with for the next three weeks. The show was awesome and the people we met at the State Theater were super-friendly. Special thanks to the street-teamers who were representing in the front. We can't wait to meet all the Linkin Park streat-teamers and supporters who catch us on our current tour. Keep checking the website for more journal entries and information on shows. Thanks for your support,Brad (a.k.a. Big Bad Brad)

ENTRY 2 - PITTSBURGH
Saturday, July 29, 2000: We just got done playing Laga in Pittsburgh. The show was awesome; there was a line of kids around the block to see the show. The place was packed, and we did our best to entertain. It all went well, the crowd was probably one of the largest and most energetic yet, and subsequently we spent the next two/three hours after the show meeting all the (mostly new) fans and giving them tapes to listen to. But that's not to overlook all the other shows on this tour; the crowds have been totally receptive. We've had a great time playing in every new city. We've never played in any of these places before, and every new fan we meet makes us that much more energized to play harder and better every time. So, to everyone who's supporting the band: thank you. And we'll see you in Grand Rapids on July 31st. Thanks-Mike

ENTRY # 3 - Somewhere In Middle America
Tuesday, August 8th, 2000: We’re sitting at a TA Travel Center eating and playing video games. Something is wrong with our RV, and our mechanic has ordered a new part. Last night we stayed in Oklahoma City enroute to Texas, where we will be playing four shows. We are on the home stretch of this tour, and are totally inspired by how much fun the shows have been. Kitt’s Korner in Madison, Wisconsin went off extra hard as did our show in Grand Rapids. Systematic, who joined the tour in Michigan, is a rad band and is super fun to play with. Off-stage they specialize in home-made fireworks displays. Let’s just hope all our gear remains in tact until our Roxy show August 16th. We’ll see our LA people soon. To everyone else who has come or is coming out to see us, we deeply appreciate your support. Fondly,Brad

STREET SOLDIERS TOUR BEGINS
1/30/01: Hey, what's up people! How's the new site! I hope you guys are stoked because we've been working really hard to get this thing up. We always talk about being dedicated to our web presence, so we're "putting our money where our mouth is." Right now I'm sitting at the world-famous Filmore in San Francisco as Taproot are soundchecking Weezer's "Say It Ain't So." The club is video-taping the show tonight so I hope we don't suck. We've been really busy these first few days of the tour, but the shows have been going off hard. Seattle, Portland, and Sacto were big sweaty pits of energy. Styles of Beyond are unbelievably sweet and Taproot have been ruling it every night. We can't wait to see everybody across the great U.S. of A. Thank you tremendously for your support and dedication. Mostly, enjoy the new site. Much Respect, Big Bad Brad --Brad

LIVE @ THE FILLMORE
1/31/01: so...we've been all talk for like two months about this site, and it's finally here. i hope you all like the new features. and if you're an artist, don't forget to enter the fan art contest (see the news/home page for details). the tour has been phenomenal so far. last night, we played at the fillmore. we didn't know what to think, looking at the crowd, standing on the same stage that jimi hendrix and led zeppelin played on. i hope that all of you that came to the show enjoyed yourselves as much as we did, and hope that those of you who have tickets to the upcoming shows are excited as we are. (and when i jump out into that crowd, i hope you guys have my back!!!) see you soon --Mike

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA
2/08/01 Styles of Beyond has finished their time on our tour, and we were all sad to see them go home. they are really nice guys, and put on an excellent show. i hear they're going to go home to save up some money and showcase for some more record labels, as they are as of yet an unsigned act. as for us, driving almost non-stop for days at a time with twelve people trapped in one vehicle with "the shining" playing in the background isn't one of the most ideal ways to travel. -hahaha- at least we got here; the drive from denver last night was pretty rough, especially in the snow. something froze in our septic system, and the bathroom smell kept rob and i from going to sleep for a while last night. but our bus driver (also named rob) managed to fix it eventually. but this past week, the shows in salt lake city and denver were awesome. some of the biggest crowds we've headlined for, and the energy in the room really pushed us to deliver. everyone in our bus and taproot's bus have been passing around a cold. chester and steve were having coughing fits yesterday. all of our guys slept about 12 hours last night, trying to fight it off. good timing for a day off. we'll gather our energy so we can give 110% at the show tomorrow night. i'm going to stop writing and go look at some of those art contest entries. good luck to all... --Mike

YOUR DADDY
2/11/01 this is joe. we are now in chicago. the house of blues. we stayed up all night gambling. unfortunately, i only walked away with a winning of $300. tour is going great. we are looking forward to doing the ozzfest in a city near you. i hate winter. it sucks. i keep spitting up brown crap every morning. wack. funnel cake tastes good. dave has a blister on his foot. if there are any people that can give me a free skateboard, i would like one very much. brad just gained 12 pounds. mike has blue hair. rob has a palm pilot. chester is getting busy and steaming some vegetables. --Joe

CHICAGO IS TERRIFIC
2/11/01 I'm finally up and running, thanks to Naveen being in Chicago today. Unfortunately, Joe Hahn's gambling story is true, and alot of his winnings were my money! You win some, you lose some. We're actually going to have a few days off this coming week... so I'm very excited about that. Keep submitting that fan art! It looks great so far... Phoenix --Phoenix

SPAIN, FRANCE
3/04/01 what's up, peoples!? so we're out here in montpellier, france right now; we just finished three dates in madrid, san sebastian, and barcelona. please excuse any typing errors, as french keyboards are vastly different from the ones i'm used to. anyway, the shows have been going great, and we hope all the people wathcing are having as much fun as we are...it's interesting: mentally, we have to backtrack, and get used to playing in front of people who haven't heard us before. the album hasn't been out for very long out here, and not that many people are familiar with the songs (or the english language either, for that matter). so it's been a fun challenge to play extra hard, and hopefully we'll have some video footage for you to see someday. i love hearing people sing our songs with heavy accents. french food is for the experienced...i have a hard time finding places i can eat at. it's all good though. we haven't gambled on this tour yet. but we have hung out with the deftones and taproot. lucky we haven't gambled with them, becuase i know none of us or taproot could hang if stephan bet his rolex on a hand of cards. word. --Mike

MANCHESTER/LONDON
3/24/01 we just played our first of two shows in manchester last night. this tour has been excellent...today, we were greeted here in london by some kids (who showed up before ANY of the crew of bands got here) with a 4-foot hand drawn poster of the band; we signed it and they're going to keep it for their collection... thank you guys for showing up at the shows. this tour has been an awesome experience. tonight's show is at a ridiculously huge venue, the biggest we've played so far. two last things - 1. we've posted a few things on the massage board recently that you might want to check out. 2. the deadline for the art contest is approaching, so send those entries in!!! thanks, as always, for the support. --Mike

4/08/01:
someone complained the other day that nobody was posting a tour journal. so i am now writing one. we are enjoying our time off in la. we finally have a couple of weeks off after 9 months of touring nonstop. we just delivered our video for crawling to mtv. we will shoot the video for europe's "papercut" at the end of the month. check dave and i out on the espn sports & music awards on tuesday night.
peace
mr hahn
--Joe

4/21/01: TEXAS
getting out there again. playing a few shows here in the states before we go to australia, new zealand, and japan. then more u.s. dates. then europe. then ozzfest. and offdates (during ozzfest) with slipknot, papa roach, disturbed, and mudvayne. we should be your town soon, so come say hi... and we're trying to work out a way to hang out with fans at ozzfest; at most shows, we like to just come down and say hi, but ozzfest is a different monster. we may have a booth, or be at the streetwise booth; we aren't sure yet. but just letting ya know. --Mike

4/30/01: WHAT IT IS!?
australia is dope. we've had agreat time our first day here in sydney. we went shopping, and hope to go do a little sightseeing later. can't wait for the show tomorrow. i heard it sold out pretty quickly, so big thanks to all you guys who are coming. the shows in the 'states in the last few weeks have been fun. we just played with (hed)pe, mudvayne, disturbed, systematic, spineshank, the offspring, and staind (not in that order) at a festival in florida. the show went really well - i think it was a good warmup for ozzfest... --Mike

5/04/01: YO
okay, so the australian shows have been banannas. i think it's safe to say a show has gone well when the kids leave behind them a BROKEN CLUB FLOOR. when everyone cleared out of the enmore theatre in sydney, there was a 20-foot circle where the floor had been smashed down about 18" lower than where it was supposed to be. the crowd was so out of hand that they broke the floor. and tonight in melbourne, we had the biggest turnout that we've had on a headlining show. we can't wait to see what happens in brisbane. --Mike

5/09/01:
someone named jave keeps kicking me out of the chatroom --Joe

6/01/01: FROM GERMANY
hey. it's mike and phoenix. I already wrote a bunch of funny crap, and Mike had the computer set up wrong, so we were disconnected from the internet, so we lost it all... We're in Germany, and I (Phoenix) am jetlagged... I've been up the last couple of days by 4 am, and a few minutes ago German MTV played the rock-rap-nu-metal "Koom By Ya My Lord." Needless to say, I feel like I'm on a different planet than the one I grew up on. For the record, the current LP vote on The Mummy Returns is 2-2. Mike and Brad enjoyed the movie, while Joe and I were pretty big negatories. The international scene is great, but I'm definitely excited to be touring in the states again on the Ozzfest... thanks for all your support.// i (mike) don't know why the computer bombed. but whatever...here we are anyway. german mtv and music here in general doesn't make sense to me yet. but i guess if i was german, i'd get it. we're playing rock im park today, for a gigantic crowd. neato. i'm excited for ozzfest. by the way, thanks for all the cool questions on the message board. we'll have to do a little FAQ session again sometime. see ya soon... --Mike

7/10/01: FROM OZZFEST
we're going to florida this week. we just finished five shows in a row. three ozzfest and two off-fest. the off-fest shows are particularly exciting, 'cause they are usually general admission, which means there are no seats. and that gives all the kids more room to run around. but as for the ozzfest, make sure you come to the transworld/fye tent--we sign there every day at around three o'clock, so plan to get there early. and people with cd's get to be in the front of the line, so bring your cd. by the way, the chat the other day was fun. sorry we didn't answer more questions, but it was a little overwhelming. maybe we'll do more next time; the log will be posted soon. and i'm going to answer some old questions on the message board. later --Mike

8/13/01: END OF OZZFEST
so the ozzfest is over. we're happy to be home, getting a little rest so that we can be fresh when we start the upcoming european and family values tours. we're hoping to do some cool new stuff on stage, and MAYBE even playing some older songs that we usually don't play. i don't know what it's going to be yet, but we are going to practice the e.p. songs to see if any of them work their way into the set. by the way, if you don't have the e.p., ask around on the messageboard for the mp3s. the songs are: carousel / technique / step up / and one / high voltage (original version) / part of me ...and there is a hidden instrumental track. --Mike

9/10/01: AFTER THE VMAS...EUROPE
the mtv VMA's were fun. i had a good time getting together with the xecutioners again. and for those that are into hip hop, i just got the advance of their album, and i think it's definitely worth checking out. the song joe and i did with them is on there. ...anyway, it was a big hollywood-style event, and we're all pretty glad to be done with it and back to a little more normal routine. we're touring in europe for the next couple of weeks, and then comes family values. check the tours section. word. --Mike

9/11/01: SEPT. 11, 2001
Due to the tragedy in the U.S., our show tonight was cancelled. We are unaware of the status of the upcoming shows. Berlin, tomorrow, is scheduled to go on as scheduled. Further updates can be found by calling your local venue, or by checking here. --Mike

1/22/2002: Los Angeles
Hi guys. Today is the first day of rehearsal for projekt:revolution. We took a break for the holdiays, and to write some new stuff. We're not going to play any of it yet, but we will be doing some cool stuff at the shows. Its very exciting to be coming back to a lot of the cities that we haven't been to since this time last year. At this point, i'm most excited about the DJ battles we're hosting. At every show, two local, unsigned DJs will be facing off to win a trip with the band to play with us and KORN in mexico city, in front of 40,000 people. and the judges will be YOU -- we're putting live audio from the winner of each night online, for you to vote on and you will choose who best DJ is overall. The winner of every night gets a little gift from vestax. anyway, see you at the show, and LP underground members: don't forget to bring your membership card.
Posted by Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park

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