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[00:06.622]Blending hard core rock hip-hop and electronic
[00:09.548]Linkin Park has established a sound that easy to identify but hard to classify
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[00:17.646]I don't know whenever there is been like diffucult times in my life which there is been quite a few
[00:22.322]I've just put the CD in and I listen to it and its helped me a lot just because
[00:26.945]I don't know if thats sound cheesy or not but it seriously has
[00:30.420]I'd say that the word are like the best part of the album
[00:33.894]and the musics are like great too I just
[00:36.323]that would be my reasoning for that I don't think there is anyway that you cannot like any of the sounds
[00:42.619]The band combined the hard hitting rythem of Michael Kenji Shinoda
[00:46.145]The melodic vocal of Chester Bennington,the bone-crashing beats of Rob Bourdon
[00:51.553]The vicious guitar riffs of Brad Delson,the pounding bass of Phoenix Farrell
[00:56.620]and last but not least,Joseph Hann's slip sliding decks
[01:00.643]Yeah people,this band kicks ass
[01:04.065]Very strong rythem Very strong rythem.
[01:05.920]I mean as long as you know everytime you listen to the radio stations and like you watch MTV or VH1
[01:11.406]or any of these music stations just by you know showing the videos or constently play the songs on a radio
[01:18.615]over and over again you can't help but falls into it.
[01:21.280]and you can't help but want you know their music, their CDs,their posters.All of the above
[01:28.020]So how did all of this happened? Where did it all begin?
[01:31.729]Well it didn't happened overnight.These guys has done their tour of duty another band
[01:36.117]But if you want a starting point you have to go back a few years
[01:39.853]Mike and Brad attended the same high school in Agoura it was here that they start to mess around with music
[01:45.522]and met up with drummer Rod Bourdon.
[01:47.481]Soon after the guys won their first band Xero
[01:51.895]This included fellow Linkin Park members Phoenix and Joe
[01:54.926]Brad haven't met Phoenix at UCLA,and mike haven't met Joe while studing illustration at Pasadena Art center
[02:01.770]Yeah,I believe there were yeah they been sense since they were young and that definitely help growing up playing together
[02:08.222]and sure contribute to you know graduate to all of their processers
[02:13.708]they've been spend so much time together and they know they can be conbined together
[02:17.678]and two of us for a *** year and they could spend a week in a recording studio twelve hours a day
[02:23.660]And I'm sure you know starting knowing each other for so long and growing up playing together
[02:29.512]and very intimate with each other
[02:32.098]and how they gonna react to each other personally and musicaly specially
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[02:45.107]The lead singer I been listening Mike. I definitely like him just I guess 'couse he is the one like sing the words
[02:53.283]and like that's who I daily listening to. I 'm not sure who write the song,do the rhyme together or not
[02:58.612]But I definitely see all of them together see them also I've gone MTV at the word ever played in.
[03:05.221]they all like seem to like be influence
[03:09.087]*everything from hip hop stuff like Black Star the roots back to more like transbonding star
[03:17.995]*elemental visionaries word.Ronnie side effect twins like cash mode
[03:24.212]I like the driving the pulsing,I like motivitional music, music you can listen to and that will pump you up
[03:31.056]It will get you ready for you know any kind of whatever you need to prepare for
[03:35.680]when there is a test for school or driving on the freeway
[03:39.990]anything that's gonna just you know get you pumped and get you ready make you feel confident and motivated
[03:44.535]the guys play for fun at first before setting up their first major show at Whisky a Go Go on Sunset Boulevard LA
[03:52.215]The show is really energetic and we like the kids to be as well
[03:56.082]So been in a standing venue could be great because you know we'll go out there
[04:02.090]and they will freak out we gotta one more playing and stuff
[04:06.165]and whole lot stuff is pretty important
[04:07.915]Wow the Vally ,you know the Vally is really deverse,ethnically and musicly
[04:15.987]You have Jazz,back institute  places right here,
[04:20.140]you know winin fifty yards of this place you have Jazz bands going on and punk bands going on
[04:29.100]Vally had a pretty decent hard core theme.
[04:32.627]North hollywood start to have a couple more different music areas plces where you can go
[04:40.646]The west Vallly is kind of bad.Actually you can go for another new place,maybe about two miles north from here
[04:48.091]So there will be the main competition,
[04:50.416]but I think I'm looking at a verge of a big LA music explosion leads to some people noticing from the media or
[04:58.749]some big bands coming out here within the next year
[05:02.694]the larger focus on what's going on here
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[05:13.221]Yeah, I would definitely say that there been from south California that's definitely prevalent in there sound
[05:21.659]You can tell they are not a Hollywood band, they are west Vally band you can tell
[05:25.682]That's for sure that there are many more peaceful a little more serene
[05:30.122]but they still have the ad,they still have the California edge if you calling that
[05:33.858]but you can tell there music isn't jaded in some of the other places like Hollywood or New York
[05:43.262]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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[05:52.144]They must've been pretty good because some of the music publisher saw them and sign them there and then
[05:57.786]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
[06:05.335]A&R mean artist and repertoire back when I was originated
[06:09.541]it was the A&R man was the man who sign the artists, found the material for the artists
[06:15.340]found the range of the band leader,*help studio did all of that
[06:19.050]Today the A&R world is much different, most acts of conteporary field are self-contained
[06:25.554]so you gotta a A&R person who seeks talent,who um signs talent
[06:31.824]and then work and coordinate the recording brings the producer working with the others
[06:38.328]There are some act who don not write,the A&R person involve will as I have done with artist like Celion Dion.
[06:45.616]Find songs for them,and bringing various producers appropriate for the singer and the song.
[06:50.867]So the world of A&R is changing considerably. But the basic of the person is searches for the works with talent
[06:57.554]Two years later and after a slight of a line up change,
[07:00.846]Chester Bennington joined the band after the guys heard his vocal remix of one of their demos
[07:04.999]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
[07:11.556]the band love what he has done and ask chester to join the band.
[07:15.239]He soon left Arizona and jump on a first plane in LA
[07:18.766]The thing that we saw on Chester right away is that he is someone who should be doing sing for his whole life
[07:26.655]and I am someone who has been rapping for my whole life,so that's just felt very natural you know
[07:31.592]We spent a lot of time working out what we were doing(some ages you wannna be chatter)
[07:35.797]and he like me a lot and I can't stand him
[07:37.809]With the band line-up complete,the band changed their name to Hybrid Theory to celebrate their new look
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[07:51.236]The next few month the guys work hard on their demos and sent them out to just about anyone who would listen
[07:56.800]Lucky for them it was the Warner Brothers who had their ears glued to the stereo
[08:00.666]I think that its really taugh, I think that in the case of Linkin Park,
[08:04.297]I think,you know I have a lot of respect to the fact that
[08:07.902]they been able to stay on the top 20 charts for well over a year,
[08:12.500]and that's huge and one of those things Bennington and I was talking about part you coming here
[08:15.817]is that they had a buzz prior to them even when getting signed and I think that's a huge thing
[08:20.127]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
[08:23.497]They gonna be really great they gonna be huge .
[08:24.934]Some part of it the kids has the the kid appeal anyway but I think you'll get something told
[08:30.446]that it is gonna be big and for hearing it on the radio and they see them in MTV
[08:34.390]and they'll like the way they look then you can now get longer
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[08:47.660]Well in a general sense ,we look to find the artist.it depends on the kind of music that you working with.
[08:56.046]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 ,
[09:02.054]we have a tendency to jump on the quick trends and not really worry about the artist's integrity out of it
[09:07.409]But in truth I still think of the need for great artists.
[09:10.988]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
[09:21.384]has the potencial to be successful for a long period of time. Has something special about them that stands out
[09:29.926]What kind of gimmicks you do right? can make people like our band
[09:36.849]and the problem is we coundn't come out with anything so we are kind of forced to play our songs
[09:43.092]The Undergrounds sort of graft through kind of viral sort of marketing I think is one way,
[09:51.399]and some of these bands by the time they get signed they already havea mailing list to vote, a hundred thousand kids.
[09:58.060]So there is that way but also I think there is a old way whitch is
[10:02.188]just been you know anointed for success by a major who can marshal this massive
[10:09.345]promotional resources behind you.Almost preordained the hit.especially among the steam marketing I think
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[10:25.149]Getting into the music industry is just,its just one big test .
[10:28.989]You know it's a test about everything,it's a test of your stamina,
[10:32.490]it's a test of how many time can you be rejected and still believe yourself .
[10:36.565]It's a test of you know can you basicly maintain your composure not freak out and strangle someone who just
[10:43.148]jerk you over for tens of thousands of dollar .
[10:45.812]It's everything you know you never really at the top,
[10:49.391]you might think you are at the top but I don't think anyone really is
[10:51.951]If you try to break into the industry,just you have to just believe in yourself
[10:56.157]and try to meet as many people as you can .Never give up
[10:59.997]Um...you know  I guess obviously there is something interesting in what I'm doing it means the world to me .
[11:06.449]Every little dropback anyone ever gives you a compliment you just have to be as humble as you can be
[11:11.046]and just thank them .It doesn't even matter how huge or which or whatever
[11:14.991]you gave you have to matain that same atitude as humble as you possible can be
[11:19.719]and just keep adding persistence that's how I get through
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[11:28.548]They have sertain labels,I mean most labels you have in California just because the whole of philosophy
[11:35.654]in Southern California should be able to show how much wealth do you
[11:39.206]have and be able to live whatever American dream you may think there may be .
[11:44.248]But you know for a label,most labels arould here just purely appropriate labels center in
[11:49.499]with the radio stations just wanna play whatever is popular .
[11:54.645]They wanna play whatever is the softest thing and whatever what they call the corporate rock
[12:01.567]you have like insane and all those little band just copy each other and it's more like a state show.
[12:09.091]And personally I think that music should be more about platform to be able to get a real messenger cross
[12:17.450]and you know I just named it right now
[12:19.566]solve the problems you have in the world and the United States people should actually be saying something
[12:24.477]rather than just talking about nothing like their girl friend and something stupid
[12:29.518]There was a problem though ,turns out there was another band called hybrid theory .
[12:38.139]So the guys have to come up a new name .It was Chester who came to a rescue.
[12:43.311]He recalled how he used to drive pass Lincoln Park in Santa Monica on his way to band practice.
[12:48.274]He relly like the name,and so did the other guys.With that Lincoln Park was born.
[12:54.831]If you want people to know about you,you gotta have a website man.
[12:58.410]It's here that your fans can learn all about you,listen to your music
[13:02.459]and see those tour photos you wouldn't want to show your mom.
[13:05.985]I definitely think so that way,cause even for the people younger than me like they like to look it up
[13:10.792]and see what's going on and they really like the band in that way.
[13:13.613]They are updated and they can see what's going on with tours,
[13:17.322]that's just that's the best you can see your favourite band like playing live
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