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Blending hard core rock hip-hop and electronic |
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Linkin Park has established a sound that easy to identify but hard to classify |
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I don't know whenever there is been like diffucult times in my life which there is been quite a few |
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I've just put the CD in and I listen to it and its helped me a lot just because |
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I don't know if thats sound cheesy or not but it seriously has |
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I'd say that the word are like the best part of the album |
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and the musics are like great too I just |
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that would be my reasoning for that I don't think there is anyway that you cannot like any of the sounds |
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The band combined the hard hitting rythem of Michael Kenji Shinoda |
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The melodic vocal of Chester Bennington,the bone-crashing beats of Rob Bourdon |
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The vicious guitar riffs of Brad Delson,the pounding bass of Phoenix Farrell |
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and last but not least,Joseph Hann's slip sliding decks |
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Yeah people,this band kicks ass |
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Very strong rythem Very strong rythem. |
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I mean as long as you know everytime you listen to the radio stations and like you watch MTV or VH1 |
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or any of these music stations just by you know showing the videos or constently play the songs on a radio |
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over and over again you can't help but falls into it. |
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and you can't help but want you know their music, their CDs,their posters.All of the above |
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So how did all of this happened? Where did it all begin? |
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Well it didn't happened overnight.These guys has done their tour of duty another band |
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But if you want a starting point you have to go back a few years |
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Mike and Brad attended the same high school in Agoura it was here that they start to mess around with music |
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and met up with drummer Rod Bourdon. |
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Soon after the guys won their first band Xero |
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This included fellow Linkin Park members Phoenix and Joe |
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Brad haven't met Phoenix at UCLA,and mike haven't met Joe while studing illustration at Pasadena Art center |
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Yeah,I believe there were yeah they been sense since they were young and that definitely help growing up playing together |
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and sure contribute to you know graduate to all of their processers |
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they've been spend so much time together and they know they can be conbined together |
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and two of us for a *** year and they could spend a week in a recording studio twelve hours a day |
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And I'm sure you know starting knowing each other for so long and growing up playing together |
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and very intimate with each other |
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and how they gonna react to each other personally and musicaly specially |
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The lead singer I been listening Mike. I definitely like him just I guess 'couse he is the one like sing the words |
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and like that's who I daily listening to. I 'm not sure who write the song,do the rhyme together or not |
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But I definitely see all of them together see them also I've gone MTV at the word ever played in. |
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they all like seem to like be influence |
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*everything from hip hop stuff like Black Star the roots back to more like transbonding star |
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*elemental visionaries word.Ronnie side effect twins like cash mode |
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I like the driving the pulsing,I like motivitional music, music you can listen to and that will pump you up |
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It will get you ready for you know any kind of whatever you need to prepare for |
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when there is a test for school or driving on the freeway |
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anything that's gonna just you know get you pumped and get you ready make you feel confident and motivated |
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the guys play for fun at first before setting up their first major show at Whisky a Go Go on Sunset Boulevard LA |
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The show is really energetic and we like the kids to be as well |
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So been in a standing venue could be great because you know we'll go out there |
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and they will freak out we gotta one more playing and stuff |
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and whole lot stuff is pretty important |
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Wow the Vally ,you know the Vally is really deverse,ethnically and musicly |
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You have Jazz,back institute places right here, |
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you know winin fifty yards of this place you have Jazz bands going on and punk bands going on |
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Vally had a pretty decent hard core theme. |
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North hollywood start to have a couple more different music areas plces where you can go |
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The west Vallly is kind of bad.Actually you can go for another new place,maybe about two miles north from here |
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So there will be the main competition, |
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but I think I'm looking at a verge of a big LA music explosion leads to some people noticing from the media or |
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some big bands coming out here within the next year |
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the larger focus on what's going on here |
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Yeah, I would definitely say that there been from south California that's definitely prevalent in there sound |
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You can tell they are not a Hollywood band, they are west Vally band you can tell |
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That's for sure that there are many more peaceful a little more serene |
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but they still have the ad,they still have the California edge if you calling that |
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but you can tell there music isn't jaded in some of the other places like Hollywood or New York |
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But they are also not you know from the middle of nowhere try to emulate the band of one of those area |
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They must've been pretty good because some of the music publisher saw them and sign them there and then |
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Well the A&R man today as against when I manage to became an A&R person of chain considerably I mean the traditional word |
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A&R mean artist and repertoire back when I was originated |
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it was the A&R man was the man who sign the artists, found the material for the artists |
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found the range of the band leader,*help studio did all of that |
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Today the A&R world is much different, most acts of conteporary field are self-contained |
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so you gotta a A&R person who seeks talent,who um signs talent |
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and then work and coordinate the recording brings the producer working with the others |
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There are some act who don not write,the A&R person involve will as I have done with artist like Celion Dion. |
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Find songs for them,and bringing various producers appropriate for the singer and the song. |
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So the world of A&R is changing considerably. But the basic of the person is searches for the works with talent |
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Two years later and after a slight of a line up change, |
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Chester Bennington joined the band after the guys heard his vocal remix of one of their demos |
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He was so excited when they asked him to try out that he ran out of his own birthday party and go work on his demo |
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the band love what he has done and ask chester to join the band. |
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He soon left Arizona and jump on a first plane in LA |
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The thing that we saw on Chester right away is that he is someone who should be doing sing for his whole life |
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and I am someone who has been rapping for my whole life,so that's just felt very natural you know |
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We spent a lot of time working out what we were doing(some ages you wannna be chatter) |
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and he like me a lot and I can't stand him |
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With the band line-up complete,the band changed their name to Hybrid Theory to celebrate their new look |
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The next few month the guys work hard on their demos and sent them out to just about anyone who would listen |
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Lucky for them it was the Warner Brothers who had their ears glued to the stereo |
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I think that its really taugh, I think that in the case of Linkin Park, |
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I think,you know I have a lot of respect to the fact that |
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they been able to stay on the top 20 charts for well over a year, |
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and that's huge and one of those things Bennington and I was talking about part you coming here |
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is that they had a buzz prior to them even when getting signed and I think that's a huge thing |
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and I think that's the huge thing and the industry start to hear wow you gotta start to start check on this Linkin Park band |
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They gonna be really great they gonna be huge . |
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Some part of it the kids has the the kid appeal anyway but I think you'll get something told |
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that it is gonna be big and for hearing it on the radio and they see them in MTV |
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and they'll like the way they look then you can now get longer |
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Well in a general sense ,we look to find the artist.it depends on the kind of music that you working with. |
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But in the general sense ,to me I think we've gotten away in this day and age we got away a lot from it , |
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we have a tendency to jump on the quick trends and not really worry about the artist's integrity out of it |
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But in truth I still think of the need for great artists. |
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In real when you look for that you are looking for someone who are a artist or band who the A&R person's opinion |
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has the potencial to be successful for a long period of time. Has something special about them that stands out |
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What kind of gimmicks you do right? can make people like our band |
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and the problem is we coundn't come out with anything so we are kind of forced to play our songs |
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The Undergrounds sort of graft through kind of viral sort of marketing I think is one way, |
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and some of these bands by the time they get signed they already havea mailing list to vote, a hundred thousand kids. |
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So there is that way but also I think there is a old way whitch is |
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just been you know anointed for success by a major who can marshal this massive |
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promotional resources behind you.Almost preordained the hit.especially among the steam marketing I think |
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Getting into the music industry is just,its just one big test . |
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You know it's a test about everything,it's a test of your stamina, |
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it's a test of how many time can you be rejected and still believe yourself . |
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It's a test of you know can you basicly maintain your composure not freak out and strangle someone who just |
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jerk you over for tens of thousands of dollar . |
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It's everything you know you never really at the top, |
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you might think you are at the top but I don't think anyone really is |
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If you try to break into the industry,just you have to just believe in yourself |
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and try to meet as many people as you can .Never give up |
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Um...you know I guess obviously there is something interesting in what I'm doing it means the world to me . |
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Every little dropback anyone ever gives you a compliment you just have to be as humble as you can be |
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and just thank them .It doesn't even matter how huge or which or whatever |
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you gave you have to matain that same atitude as humble as you possible can be |
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and just keep adding persistence that's how I get through |
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They have sertain labels,I mean most labels you have in California just because the whole of philosophy |
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in Southern California should be able to show how much wealth do you |
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have and be able to live whatever American dream you may think there may be . |
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But you know for a label,most labels arould here just purely appropriate labels center in |
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with the radio stations just wanna play whatever is popular . |
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They wanna play whatever is the softest thing and whatever what they call the corporate rock |
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you have like insane and all those little band just copy each other and it's more like a state show. |
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And personally I think that music should be more about platform to be able to get a real messenger cross |
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and you know I just named it right now |
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solve the problems you have in the world and the United States people should actually be saying something |
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rather than just talking about nothing like their girl friend and something stupid |
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There was a problem though ,turns out there was another band called hybrid theory . |
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So the guys have to come up a new name .It was Chester who came to a rescue. |
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He recalled how he used to drive pass Lincoln Park in Santa Monica on his way to band practice. |
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He relly like the name,and so did the other guys.With that Lincoln Park was born. |
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If you want people to know about you,you gotta have a website man. |
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It's here that your fans can learn all about you,listen to your music |
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and see those tour photos you wouldn't want to show your mom. |
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I definitely think so that way,cause even for the people younger than me like they like to look it up |
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and see what's going on and they really like the band in that way. |
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They are updated and they can see what's going on with tours, |
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that's just that's the best you can see your favourite band like playing live |
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