Live in Texas (Linkin Park album)

Live in Texas is the first 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. At the end of "A Place for My Head", Chester Bennington breaks Brad Delson's guitar. At the end of the concert, Joe Hahn threw a piece of his equipment on the stage floor.

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, 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, Dave Farrell's basses change a few times as well in the middle of songs, 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 dressed up as a Hulk-fisted bunny man during "From the Inside".

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" 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.

iTunes
The live performances of "Points of Authority" and "Lying from You" are available for purchase on iTunes.

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."

Enhanced CD Extras

 * Website toolkit
 * Merchandise
 * Screensaver
 * Web links

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, keyboard
 * CD production
 * Produced and mixed by: Josh Abraham
 * Engineered by: Ryan Williams
 * ProTools 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