Live in Texas is the debut live album and the second DVD by American rock band Linkin Park, released on November 18, 2003, through Warner Records. The band's main setlist includes songs from their studio albums Hybrid Theory and Meteora, as well as one song from their remix album Reanimation. The live album peaked at #23 on the Billboard 200, and it has sold 1.1 million copies in the United States. 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 LP Underground 3.0 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 was awarded Gold certification in 2003 by the RIAA, only 29 days after the release of album, and Platinum certification 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.
Lars Ulrich also makes a quick, surprise appearance dressed up as a Hulk-fisted bunny man during "From the Inside".YouTube. YouTube. Retrieved on 2013-08-25.
The audio versions of "From the Inside" and "Runaway" were 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 was used as the song's music video with the studio version dubbed over. from the Warner Bros. Records Youtube Channel
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 memento of the tour".
Track listing
CD
Enhanced CD Extras
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DVD
Personnel
Linkin Park Chester Bennington – vocals Rob Bourdon – drums Brad Delson – lead guitar Joe Hahn – turntables, sampling, programming Dave "Phoenix" Farrell – bass Mike Shinoda – vocals; rhythm guitar ("Somewhere I Belong", "Faint", "From the Inside", "P5hng Me A*wy", "Crawling"), keyboard, sampling ("Numb") CD production Produced and mixed by: Josh Abraham Engineered by: Ryan Williams Pro Tools engineer: Brandon Belsky Mixed at Pulse Recordings, Los Angeles, California
DVD production Director: Kimo Proudfoot DVD producer: Matt Caltabiano Director of photography: Jim Hawkinson Edited by: Kevin McCullough
Production team Worldwide representation: Rob McDermott for The Firm Additional representation by: Ryan Saullo and Ryan DeMarti Booking agent: Mike Arfin for Artist Group International Legal: Danny Hayes for Davis, Shapiro, Lewit, Montone & Hayes Business manager: Michael Oppenheim and Jonathan Schwartz for Gudvi, Sussman and Oppenheim Worldwide licensing and merchandising: Bandmerch Creative direction: Mike Shinoda and the Flem Art direction and design: The Flem Digipak design: The Flem Booklet design: Lawrence Azerrad Design Digipak photography: Gret Watermann Recorded live August 2, 2003 at Reliant Stadium in Houston, TX and August 3, 2003, at Texas Stadium in Irving, TX on Metallica's Summer Sanitarium Tour Mobile audio recording: Live recording engineer: Joel Singer with Effanel Music Assistant recording engineer: Hardi Kamsani with Effanel Music Mobile recording equipment provided by: Effanel Music DVD producer: David May DVD mastered by: Gateway Mastering DVD production director: Penny Marciano DVD graphics coordinator: Raena Winscott DVD graphics design: Sean Donnelly and Kimo Proudfoot Authoring: Wamo
Charts
Weekly charts +2003–2005 weekly chart performance for Live in Texas Chart (2003–2005) Peak positionGreek Albums (IFPI Greece)3 Singaporean Albums (RIAS) 2
+2017 weekly chart performance for Live in Texas Chart (2017) Peak position
Year-end charts +2003 year-end chart performance for Live in Texas Chart (2003) Position French Albums (SNEP) 92 +2004 year-end chart performance for Live in Texas Chart (2004) Position Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria) 41 French Albums (SNEP) 169 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) 53 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade) 50US Billboard 200 88
Certifications
References
External links "Live in Texas" on YouTube