Live in Texas

Live in Texas is the first live album and third DVD of American rock band Linkin Park, originally released on November 18, 2003. The band's main setlist includes songs from their studio albums Hybrid Theory and Meteora, as well as songs from their remix album Reanimation. The album managed to peak at #23 at the Billboard 200. The audio version of the concert includes 12 out of the 17 tracks.

Background

The DVD comes with a bonus CD that features twelve of the songs from the DVD. The other five live tracks can be found on the Linkin Park Underground V3.0 CD. The audio on the CD is mixed differently from the audio on the DVD. The DVD/CD comes in two versions: a CD case and, although harder to find, a DVD case. Live in Texas awarded Gold in 2003 by RIAA, only 29 days after the release of album and Platinum in 2007.

The concert footage was shot on August 2 and August 3 during the Summer Sanitarium Tour 2003 at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas and Texas Stadium in Irving, Texas.

The video footage is made up of the audio from the Dallas show and video from both the Houston and Dallas shows; because of this the band had to wear the same clothes on two shows, although there are still noticeable differences. For example, it can be seen that Mike Shinoda wears two similar but different shirts, Brad Delson's guitar sometimes changes multiple times in the middle of songs from a red PRS to a black Ibanez, despite there being no break in the guitar, as well as lead singer Chester Bennington's shirt soaked with sweat, and it being completely dry the next time he is shown on screen.

Lars Ulrich also makes a quick, surprise appearance during LP's set dressed up as a Hulk-fisted bunny man during "From the Inside".^[1]

In some Asian countries, the package was released with a VCD instead of a DVD. The VCD contains identical content.

The audio versions of "From the Inside" and "Runaway" was released as the b-sides of the "From the Inside" single. When "Lying from You" was released as a single, the footage from Live in Texas has been used as the song's music video with the studio version dubbed over.

Inside the cover between the two discs where the song titles are written there's a misspelling in "Figure9.0" instead of the correct writing "Figure.09" and there's also some other song title errors like "Points" instead of "Points Of Authority", "Pushing Remix" instead of "P5hng Me A*wy" or "Pushing Me Away Remix" and "One Step" instead of "One Step Closer".^[2]

Reception

Johnny Loftus of Allmusic gave the album a mixed review, saying "their cool professionalism makes Live in Texas sound somewhat sterile", as well as saying the band "seems lost inside its own sound". Nevertheless, he also says that the album "will likely serve as a [the fans'] memento of the tour".^[3]

Track listing

CD

All songs written and composed by Linkin Park, except "Runaway", written by Linkin Park and Mark Wakefield and "With You", written by Linkin Park and The Dust Brothers. 

Enhanced CD Extras

1. Menu:

• Website Toolkit
• Merch
• Screensaver
• Web Links

DVD

1. "Don't Stay"
2. "Somewhere I Belong"
3. "Lying from You"
4. "Papercut"
5. "Points of Authority"
6. "Runaway"
7. "Faint"
8. "From the Inside"
9. "Figure.09"
10. "With You"
11. "By Myself"
12. "P5hng Me A*wy"
13. "Numb"
14. "Crawling"
15. "In the End"
16. "A Place for My Head"
17. "One Step Closer" (contains verses from "1stp Klosr")

Personnel

References

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ [2]
3. ^ ^{a b} http://www.allmusic.com/album/r666101

External links

• "Live in Texas" on YouTube