Still, the cheers were much louder during the bandвЂ™s established hits: вЂњNumbвЂќ, вЂњCrawling,вЂќ вЂњFaintвЂќ, вЂњOne Step CloserвЂќ, вЂњWhat IвЂ™ve DoneвЂќ, вЂњIn The EndвЂќ, and вЂњBleed It Out.вЂќ IвЂ™d bet that if the band played вЂњHands Held HighвЂќ and cut about four new songs, the show would have been better and cheery overall. The band has a loyal following that cheers for about everything. Linkin Park is trying to accomplish too many items at one time, and this unfortunately was evident in Kansas City. I especially mean the punctuated use of electronic and dance elements present in A Thousand Suns, and the entire notion of producing a concept album to begin with. Playing nearly the whole of a concept album with a few pointed songs was not, then, a Solomonic action, and aside from the bandвЂ™s desire to distract and waste time, it also seems that they are trying too hard, to a fault, to win acclaim. Anyway, these six songs worked as far as set-piece material, but they really should not have been performed at all, with the exception of the opener, вЂњThe Requiem.вЂќ вЂњEmpty SpacesвЂќ is a fatuous eighteen seconds in length. Indeed, it was an incredible mistake because six of the eleven new songs were simply filler material in a most tangible fashion many of these six songs are, for instance, not even two minutes long. The band showcased eleven of the fifteen songs from A Thousand Suns, a rather bold and cocky move. The rap, rock, and, now I suppose, electronic-dance band is hawking its newest and most ambitious album, A Thousand Suns (2010), produced by band member Mike Shinoda and prestigious studio guru Rick Rubin (Beastie Boys, Metallica). That said, Linkin Park put on an above average show at Sprint Center few bands can accomplish that. It is a sweet but grand distraction from your actual musicвЂ“which is typically decentвЂ“not any sort of augmentation of it. Apologies, Linkin Park, but youвЂ™re neither Alice Cooper nor David Bowie (though Chester Bennington did dress like a villain from Alex ProyasвЂ™s sci-fi film Dark City), and your current brand of theatre is specifically a sadly pathetic waste of time. It seemed the band was rather interested in matrimony over music in performance. The point here is that if the band simply played its music in a naked and honest fashion, sans all the superfluous wining and dining, they would be a top live act instead of merely above average. TonightвЂ™s show featured nearly every trick in the book save for the prurient sense of вЂњtrickвЂќ (but I hereby posit the band came close to that too) one could call it Kardashian-ing: excessive clapping, not actually singing, filler and drawn-out songs, not actually playing guitar, incoherent videos, not actually playing synthesizer, using drums as a prop, switching instruments prior to every song, raising arms foolishly in the air, sharing germs with the crowd, twice, and, still, exhaustively praising the host city. The band even has its own semi-gang (LP Underground) and charity (Music for Relief). For a band that is as talented and prominent as Linkin Park, they rely far too much on charm and cheesy gimmickry to win over their audience.

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