I don't know what I was excited for.
It's not like they'd been working this song out over and over over the past 4 or 5 years like Points of Authority or Forgotten, or Esaul, or By Myself, or Crawling, or In the End..... this song was written DURING the recording process of Hybrid Theory, if I'm not mistaken.... so they technically didn't have years and years to put out demos.... you know what I mean? So it makes sense that it wasn't very different.
It's great that we have it now... it almost completes the collection, but its only impressive on paper. We've been looking for it for ages, so it's a big deal simply from the nature of the beast.... but as far as it being a 'great demo' I don't think it is. It's just, a demo... it's not a completely different monster like Esaul was to Place for my Head.
So, I'll just say thank you to Nick for finally getting ahold of this thing. Really. And thanks to whoever decided to do a joint release (Mark?). It's not that different, but, it didn't need to be... I listened to it, and I enjoyed it. I probably won't listen to it again, but it'll definitely join my collection where ever it happens to go.