Linkin Park

On 13 November 2007, Linkin Park rocked the Singapore Indoor Stadium. I was fortunate to witness this event.

LINKIN PARK ROCKS!

The event details said that the concert would start at 8. Well, they did not start until around 9.20. And the concert was a little short, lasting only slightly over an hour. Nevertheless, they rocked every single person inside that stadium! As we all know, Singapore crowds are very hard to please and to get to participate. No surprise since we have been cultivated with the ''sit down shut up and listen'' motto our whole lives. Moving on... the crowd was still sitting down until the 3rd or 4th song when Mike Shinoda asked the ''people in the back'' to stand up. Surprise, surprise, they did! And they stood up for most of the concert too! Except for the slower songs... ''Shadow of the Day'' was a nice moment when the crowd sort of went a little quiet while still singing the lyrics and some of us took out our lighters! ''The Little Things Give You Away'' was a pretty neat piece as the echo of Chester's voice was replicated just like in the album!

There were 2 more memorable moments I remembered. The first I find to be a bit offensive and ignorant on their part. Chester, after the 2nd song, asked the crowd ''can you understand me?'' This is not his first time here, and no one bothered to tell them that we speak English? And if they can go to freakin Japan and speak to them, then of course they can speak to us! Anyway, it could have been a slip of the tongue. The second was when Chester went into the crowd and after performing that song, he said ''you people are ruthless. You steal my watch... break my arm''. Something like that. Here's the video of that moment...



I was quite far back (the $90 ticket) so I did not manage to get too many good pictures, but I got the chance to take the ''crowd'' pictures that I love to take! :)

I can't remember which song is this, but the screen was not revealed until a few songs into the concert.






Overall, a pretty good concert. I think I would have said it was a great concert if I had a better seat, but I guess you can't have it all! Of all the concerts I've seen, I admire Chester's vocal the best. Even compared to Christina Aguilera! HIs vocal is so much harder to do and can do more damage to the vocal chords, which is why admire him being able to sing clear and then switch to ROCK! They played more of their old tunes than I expected and I love the twist on ''Breaking the Habit'' where they played a soft piano version of it before breaking into the original song.

This will definitely last me until the day of MCR!!! 24 more days!