{"id":670,"date":"2011-02-03T23:53:59","date_gmt":"2011-02-04T03:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/?p=670"},"modified":"2011-02-03T23:53:59","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T03:53:59","slug":"linkin-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"Linkin Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linkin Park- “A Thousand Suns” North American Tour<\/strong>
\n1\/20\/2011
\nEvent Rating: \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606<\/span>
\nVenue: Bank Atlantic Center (Sunrise, FL)
\nPresented by: Live Nation<\/p>\n

With anything from blue hair to black lipstick, fans decked out in LP t-shirts arrived in droves at the Bank Atlantic Center as rock band Linkin Park kicked off its \u201cA Thousand Suns\u201d North American tour in Sunrise, Florida.<\/p>\n

The audience was pumped well before the show began. Pumped enough to urinate on themselves? Yes. Alarming, but yes.<\/p>\n

An excited and apparently wet man was escorted out of his seat section before Linkin Park even appeared on stage. His exit was followed by a \u201cbio hazard\u201d clean-up crew of two staff members with spray bottles and paper towels.<\/p>\n

The attention was quickly focused elsewhere as the second opening act, Pendulum, closed and Linkin Park prepared to take the stage. Excited tension filled the air as the crowd internalized their high expectations, releasing them as screams when the arena went dark and the foreboding stage lights cased the stage.<\/p>\n

The almost packed audience was barely visible except for dancing camera flashes and swaying cell phone lights moving through the various sections. Waving arms, collective screams and a joint freaking out moment welcomed the band members to the stage. And so began the \u201cA Thousand Suns\u201d North American tour.<\/p>\n

Linkin Park responded with even more energy, feeding off momentum from the crowd like a parasitic relationship. The crowd gave and LP took. Linkin Park threw back and the fans roared.<\/p>\n

The playlist featured rhythmic spats from Mike Shinoda and created a steady hip-hop undertone, a perfect compliment to the dominant rock beats LP is so famous for. The band featured several tracks from its most recent album, \u201cThousand Suns (2010),\u201d including \u201cWaiting for the End,\u201d \u201cThe Radiance,\u201d and \u201cIridescent.\u201d<\/p>\n

The crowd went wild during the opening notes of \u201cNumb\u201d (2003),\u00a0 \u201cIn the End \u201c(2000), and \u201cWhat I\u2019ve Done\u201d (2007).\u00a0 A nostalgic audience reacted to the remembrances of LP\u2019s previous albums, \u201cHybrid Theory\u201d (2000), \u201cMeteora\u201d (2003) and \u201cMinutes to Midnight\u201d (2007). At this point fans were taking the head banging to a whole other level.<\/p>\n

The rock surge was specked with a few interesting harmonies which coupled with some of the moving and dramatic lyrics, brought a welcomed gravity to the performance.<\/p>\n

Not all of it was raging. Lead singer Chester Bennington finished \u201cBreaking the Habit (2003) with an acapella refrain. After Bennington\u2019s voice echoed the line \u201cI\u2019m breaking the habit\u201d three times, he left it to the audience to finish the last word. The crowd responded with a unified \u201ctonight!\u201d<\/p>\n

The band really displayed how multifaceted it is. LP transverses musical tastes because of its many layers and multiple dimensions. Fans left the concert wired and satisfied, a promising start to Linkin Park\u2019s 24 city North American tour.<\/p>\n

Reviewed by: Alex Roland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Linkin Park- “A Thousand Suns” North American Tour<\/strong>
\n1\/20\/2011
\nEvent Rating: \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606
\nVenue: Bank Atlantic Center (Sunrise, FL)
\nPresented by: Live Nation<\/p>\n

With anything from blue hair to black lipstick, fans decked out in LP t-shirts arrived in droves at the Bank Atlantic Center as rock band Linkin Park kicked off its \u201cA Thousand Suns\u201d North American tour in Sunrise, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,211,210,1,22],"tags":[426,419,408,257,439,422,428,436,434,432,418,10,427,437,423,438,425,433,412,424,497,431,429,430,435],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-guitar-instruments","category-instruments","category-live-rock","category-rock","tag-a-thousand-suns-north-american-tour","tag-a-thousand-suns-tour","tag-alternative-rock","tag-bank-atlantic-center","tag-breaking-the-habit","tag-chester-bennington","tag-does-it-offend-you-yeah","tag-hybrid-theory","tag-in-the-end","tag-iridescent","tag-linkin-park","tag-live-nation","tag-lp","tag-meteora","tag-mike-shinoda","tag-minutes-to-midnight","tag-new-rock","tag-numb","tag-pendulum","tag-rap-rock","tag-rock","tag-the-radiance","tag-thousand-suns","tag-waiting-for-the-end","tag-what-ive-done"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}