Linkin Park Live Guide - Abbreviations

*Please Note*: Due to size limitations, I was forced to abbreviate a few tour dates on the tour pages. For example, in 2007, you will see the 20.10.2007 date in Sydney which has the tour name as "Aus. and N.Z. Tour". This is because I was unable to fit the information onto one line without it running to the next, so I was forced to abbreviate a few dates. This applies to approximately one date in 2000, three dates in 2003, one date in 2004, eleven dates in 2007, a few dates in 2008, one Fort Minor date, and four Chester Bennington dates.

*PLEASE NOTE THAT LPLIVE DOES NOT HOST ANY RECORDINGS OF SHOWS. WE ONLY PROVIDE INFO AND SAMPLES.*

Color Chart:
Red - On the tour year pages, red is used to indicate a canceled tour date. See the page about the show for more info on it. I was unable to put (CANCELED) on the tour page due to space limitations, so this was the next best thing to do.
Blue - Rescheduled tour date. See the page about the show for more info on it. I was unable to put (RESCHEDULED) on the tour page due to space limitations, so this was the next best thing to do.
Black - On the tour year pages, black is used to indicate that a recording exists for the show. However, please note that we will not 'blacken' a show if the only source is the Live Audio Soundboard Recording. We will put them in the source info of course but this is mainly to keep track of audience and proshot recordings.
Grey - All other shows that do not have audience or pro recordings are shown in grey.

Red - On the individual show pages, red is used to note that a recording of a show is 'unconfirmed'
Green - On the individual show pages, green is used to note that a recording of a show is 'confirmed'

Show page guide:
Source 1: Audio/Video - PROSHOT/AUD/... (TV channel/Equipment info)
Taper: nick name (real name)
Time: in minutes and seconds
Format: DVD (generation)/lossless/mp3...
Comments: comments on the recording itself

Note: Each source number stands for an individual source, whether letters (a, b, ...) stand for various edits/recordings of the same source material.

Recording Acronyms:
Audience recording - AUD
Proshot video - PROSHOT
Recording from soundboard - SBD
Recording from radio broadcast - FM
Recording from webcast - Webcast
Unknown source - ?

DVD generations:
M - direct copy off the master source. Mostly transfered over a PC or a DVD recorder
(M) - Master source was copy onto a (S)VHS and then transfered to DVD
1st gen - Analoge copy of (M) and then transfered to DVD
2nd gen - Self-explaining. The higher the generation, the worse the quality gets.

Show Notes:
-Notes about the show itself and how the band performed. Example: It was the first time blahblah song was debuted. It was the only show where Chester changed the lyrics to blahblah song with "examplehere" instead of "anotherexamplehere".

Other Notes:
-Info about if the show was mislabeled or something. This is just random other information, like guest performances, when the recording first surfaced, if it was officially released or something like that.

Other vocabulary:
MD - Minidisc, a Sony trademark that is NOT Minidisk, Mini Disk or Mini Disc
DAT - a recording device by Sony, popular in the 80s and 90s, one of the first 'digital' recorders, as opposed to 'analog' recorders.
Bootleg - A recording mostly pressed into silver CD's / DVD's and sold over an unoffical label or shop. Mostly with artwork to look like official releases.
Liberated bootleg - A bootleg that has been seeded or otherwise offered to the public for free.