Linkin Park's next stop on the From Zero North American run is Milwaukee, WI, where they will be taking the stage at Fiserv Forum, an 18,000-capacity arena. Playing support for the band will be Jean Dawson, in his fifth show on this tour leg as opening act. The city of Milwaukee has only played host to Linkin Park once, when they were on the Summerfest 2015 bill as headliners. This was Linkin Park's final date on a U.S. summer festival run, which included performances at events like Las Vegas' Rock in Rio and Montebello's Amnesia Rockfest. The band started on a North American winter tour leg earlier in the year, but it was unfortunately cancelled just a few dates in due to injury. They later closed out the year, and their Hunting Party touring cycle, with performances at a few other U.S. events. As such, the summer festival headline slots in-between served as the bulk of their U.S. tour dates for 2015. Summerfest is mostly organised as a series of concert events at different venues throughout Milwaukee across three weekends, and once earned the Guinness World Records title for "World's Largest Music Festival" on the strength of attendance numbers in 1999. The 2015 edition was described as "11 stages, 11 days of music and over 800 performing acts". Linkin Park headlined a show at Marcus Amphitheater (now known as American Family Insurance Amphitheater) on June 30, the festival's sixth day, with A Day to Remember and the Yeti-costumed rockers PPL MVR playing ahead of them. Linkin Park's typical setlist for these festival shows was front-loaded with a series of punches to the face: "Papercut", "Rebellion", "Given Up", "One Step Closer", "A Line in the Sand" and "From the Inside". Outside of "Wastelands", the remainder of the setlist contained no other songs from 2014's The Hunting Party, even omitting its singles. After being a setlist staple during the tour cycle up until this point, "Guilty All the Same" was dropped ahead of the U.S. summer festival run to accommodate band members dealing with minor physical injuries, while "Until It's Gone" was not performed at any 2015 shows for more mysterious reasons. Some things which the Summerfest setlist did include: the 2014 "Experience" arrangement of "CASTLE OF GLASS", an excerpt of the Linkin Park / Steve Aoki collaboration "Darker Than Blood" as an intro for "BURN IT DOWN", a Mike Shinoda solo segment consisting of a shortened arrangement of "Remember the Name" and his 2015 Fort Minor single "Welcome", "Waiting for the End" with an introductory rap verse from "UNTIL IT BREAKS", and an extended guitar solo during the bridge for "What I've Done" (something which carried over into the 2017 One More Light shows). While this has been Linkin Park's only show in Milwaukee throughout their whole touring history, the band has played in other places throughout the state of Wisconsin over the years. For instance, the band's first show there was on in August 2000, opening up for The Union Underground on their An Education in Rebellion tour. The tour leg included a stop at the village of Cross Plains on August 1, at a bar venue called Kitts Corner which closed down a few years later in 2004. Later that same year, in the midst of opening up for Papa Roach on their Master Bay tour, Linkin Park headlined at an event on December 9 put together by WJJO, a WI-based commercial radio station; they performed at the same Cross Plains bar venue, with support by Taproot. In mid-2001, Linkin Park was on 2001's Ozzfest line-up, which made two stops in Wisconsin; the first at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy on June 9 and the second at Float Rite Park Amphitheater in Somerset on June 16 (the venue is now Somerset Amphitheater as of 2011). Their setlist for this tour leg contained every song from 2000's Hybrid Theory except for "Cure for the Itch" and "Pushing Me Away"; the East Troy show featured a re-arranged setlist which began with "Points of Authority", the only time the song is known to have kicked off a Linkin Park live set. Ten minutes of footage from the East Troy show filmed by Brad Nolan was shared in late 2016; in it, the band is seen playing the set's first three songs ("Points", "Papercut" and "With You"), filmed from the front row: 15 minutes of footage filmed during the Somerset Ozzfest date also exists, capturing various moments throughout Linkin Park's show: Early 2002 saw the band performing in Madison, WI for the first time, bringing the 2002 edition of Projekt Revolution to Alliant Energy Center on February 2. The band's set here was unsurprisingly mostly Hybrid Theory songs, but they also threw in the 1999 Hybrid Theory EP cut "Step Up" and opened the encore with "My December", a song they had written and recorded whilst on tour in late 2000, just prior to the release of Hybrid Theory. The band was joined-onstage by members of Cypress Hill and Adema (both acts on the 2002 Projekt Revolution bill) for their closing song "One Step Closer". Linkin Park's next WI show in early 2004 would see them return to Madison, again performing at Alliant Energy Center on January 30 as part of the extensive North American Meteora run, their first tour leg of that year, with support acts P.O.D. and Hoobastank. Along with new songs from their 2003 sophomore including "Somewhere I Belong", "Faint" and "Numb", this setlist featured a whiplash-inducing encore selection: "My December", "P5hng Me A*wy" and "A Place for My Head", before the usual "One Step Closer" ending. The latter half of 2004 saw Linkin Park headlining that year's edition of their Projekt Revolution festival tour, which included two WI stops: a return to East Troy's Alpine Valley Music Theatre on August 27, and, then, Somerset's Float Rite Park Amphitheater on August 28, both venues the band had performed at during the 2001 Ozzfest run. These shows saw an 18-song setlist containing various songs from Meteora, as well as several Hybrid Theory cuts augmented with elements from 2002's remix effort Reanimation. Years later, 2008's Projekt Revolution festival tour included, once again, a stop at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy once again, on August 16. As had happened during previous editions of Projekt Revolution, Linkin Park was joined on-stage by members of other acts on the line-up on most nights. This WI show featured tourmates Street Drum Corps performing an intro segment which lead into the opening song "No More Sorrow", and re-appearing for the second half of closing song "Bleed It Out". Chris Cornell, another act on the tour line-up, appeared on-stage with Linkin Park to sing on "Crawling" - Linkin Park's Chester Bennington would typically appear during Cornell's set earlier in the day to assist on Temple of the Dog's "Hunger Strike". The bridge of "Bleed It Out" also saw Linkin Park sneaking in guitar parts from Guns N' Roses' iconic 1987 single "Sweet Child O' Mine", something which happened quite a few times during the band's shows back in 2001. At the show's midpoint, Linkin Park also delivered the full-band version of "Pushing Me Away", which appeared on one of the setlists the band was rotating between during the tour: Tonight, for the first time since 2015, Linkin Park will take the stage at Milwaukee, armed with 20 years of hit songs to draw from and a fanbase beyond eager to see them live again. The band's previous show, in St. Louis, MO at Enterprise Center on August 23, saw them delivering a setlist similar to what they played in Philadelphia on August 16, but with some key differences. "Crawling" was not in the setlist, a first for this U.S. run, and "Stained" appeared unexpectedly early as the third song. Later in the set, "CASTLE OF GLASS" appeared in place of "LIES GREED MISERY". Less surprisingly, From Zero cuts "Casualty" and "Over Each Other" were performed again in the second half of the set. Among the smaller details: Mike Shinoda got into the thick of it during the "Two Faced" bridge, moshing with some of the band's crew members on the floor: "Numb" was started off with this groovy reggaeton rhythm: And, always worth highlighting: "From the Inside". After tonight's Milwaukee show, Linkin Park will head to Minneapolis, MN and play a show at the 20,000-capacity Target Center there on August 27. Are you going to see Linkin Park at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee? Let us know!
Now that we're in the middle of the bulkiest leg, it really does feel like the pacing of this tour is insane. A show every second or third day. Props for managing to keep the tour posts this detailed!
Tony and Chris are beasts! ------------- SETLIST: - ACT 1 (Inception Intro B) - 01: Somewhere I Belong 02: Points of Authority 03: Stained 04: Crawling 05: The Emptiness Machine - ACT 2 (Creation Intro B) - 06: The Catalyst - Shortened (no third chorus; no breakdown) 07: BURN IT DOWN 08: Up From the Bottom 09: Where'd You Go - Shortened (intro, first verse, and first chorus only) 10: Waiting for the End - 2024 intro 11: LIES GREED MISERY 12: Two Faced 13: Joe Solo - With Colin 14: Mike Solo Medley - "When They Come for Me", "It's Goin Down" verse 1, & "Remember the Name" mashup; with Colin 15: Given Up 16: One Step Closer - 2024 intro & outro - ACT 3 (Collapse Transition) - 17: Lost - Hybrid version 18: Good Things Go 19: What I've Done - ACT 4 (Kintsugi Transition) - 20: Overflow 21: Numb - "Numb / Encore" intro 22: In the End 23: Faint - Extended outro - ACT 5 - Encore (Resolution Intro B) - 24: Papercut - Extended intro 25: A Place for My Head 26: Heavy Is the Crown 27: Bleed It Out - Extended bridge with 'Reading My Eyes' verse 1; extended outro