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Projekt Revolution is a music festival hosted by Linkin Park, bringing artists of various different genres of music together. Linkin Park started Projekt Revolution in the year 2002 with just one stage. Then, in 2004, Linkin Park announced the Revolution Stage (Second Stage) where the smaller bands/artists would perform.
2007, Linkin Park decided to make the tour ostensibly "green" by donating $1 of every ticket to American Forests through their charity Music for Relief and using biodiesel on a majority of their buses, eliminating an estimated 350 tons of carbon emissions.
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Projekt Revolution is a music festival hosted by Linkin Park, bringing artists of various different genres of music together. Linkin Park started Projekt Revolution in the year 2002 with just one stage. Then, in 2004, Linkin Park announced the Revolution Stage (Second Stage) where the smaller bands/artists would perform.
History
Projekt Revolution 2002
2003
2004
2007
For 2007, Linkin Park decided to make the tour ostensibly "green" by donating $1 of every ticket to American Forests through their charity Music for Relief and using biodiesel on a majority of their buses, eliminating an estimated 350 tons of carbon emissions. There were also informative booths that showed concert goers how to lower their greenhouse gas emissions.
It was revealed in Revolver magazine that Muse was in the list of bands Linkin Park had picked but couldn't join Projekt Revolution as they had other commitments to deal with.
On August 22, 2007, streamed the concert live, allowing MySpace users to watch the concert for free from their performance at DTE Energy Music Theatre in Clarkston, MI. The event was hosted by Matt Pinfield.
Linkin Park sold their performance from the 2007 PR tour at the merchandise booth. Each CD came with a blank disc and a special code that allowed fans to download and burn that specific Linkin Park performance from the venue it was purchased at. The price of purchase for the CD was $11.00. It was sold at every venue except for Jones Beach in Wantagh, NY due to disagreements with the venue wanting a portion of the CD sales.
2008
This will be the first time the tour will also be outside of North America. Their performance in Milton Keynes was announced months beforehand, which made it highly anticipated amongst fans waiting to attend. Jay-Z came out and performed a modified "Numb/Encore" and "Jigga What/Faint" with the band. This show turned out to be the biggest capacity Projekt Revolution to date. Camera operators obtaining interviews revealed intentions for a DVD, which has been confirmed by Mike Shinoda to be a CD/DVD set on November 25th, 2008. Shinoda posted on the band's online forum that anyone 18 or older can submit a title for the live CD/DVD which will later be turned into a poll for fans to vote for their favorite. Concerning the release date, Shinoda stated "we will be releasing it in a DVD/CD combo pack as soon as we can get it done".
Europe
US
Linkin Park changed the set-lists up a little bit, giving new intros to few songs and playing "We Made It" every show, until Busta Rhymes left the tour. Chris Cornell also collaborated with the band by singing on "Crawling". Also Chester Bennington performs "Hunger Strike" with Cornell. Street Drum Corps also performed a few songs with the band. On the two dates in Ohio, local band State Your Cause was asked to open the Revolution Stage.
Controversy
In 2008 Busta Rhymes was announced to have left the tour after only eleven days due to "complicated business matters", amidst rumours he had been removed from the lineup after an alleged backstage altercation with Mike Shinoda. Mike later posted on his blog that he and the rest of the band were disappointed to see him leave, implying the backstage altercation rumor is false.
2009
On 24th January 2009, SodaHead.com posted a poll about Projekt Revolution 2009, asking fans what bands they wanted on the tour. Linkin Park has an official page at SodaHead, so fans were lead to believe that it was real. In reality, SodaHead made it up and it was not official. There has been no official confirmation about the tour yet.
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