[00:01.868]
[00:05.420]Before I go and buy the album ,I download the available MP3 stuff in the internet .
[00:10.018]I check the other songs just to make sure that there is more than just the two singles that have been released .
[00:15.295]And if the entire CD sounds like something I'd be interested in then I go out and purchase the CD
[00:20.859]In fact ,not wanting web surfer to find a bunch of the American parks when they were looking for the band online .
[00:26.475]The guys decide to change the spelling of the band's name .
[00:29.897]With that the familiar Linkin Park spelling was created ,and the all important.com was created
[00:37.995]Oh yeah I think definitely the internet thing is um it hasn't been...it has not been overrated as far as what it's done for music .
[00:48.810]It's just you can you know you can um I can make a sound right now put an MP3 format and E-mail to max amount of people you know .
[00:59.337]A those people would hear .All of those people might be the NARC people ,maybe they would trash it or whatever ,but that's not the point .
[01:04.483]The point is if I wanted to I could do it and a lot of people are doing it .
[01:07.984]Napster ,I mean ,there's been groups that are small and just getting off the ground back to independent record thing and they're not on the radio,
[01:16.186]but they're on Napster .So people go to Napster and they can immediately download that song that builds up the hype .
[01:21.698]A lot of different thing I see people on MP3.com that are earning money .
[01:27.915]I haven't got into all that .That's not really my thing .I'd rather sell the mix-tapes on the street make money that way .
[01:33.140]But for the people who are into that ,hey you know I think that the internet definitely has changed the way people get their music out there.
[01:42.100]
[01:50.015]I personally think that in theory ,yes ,it could be beneficial in application I don't know that it is.
[01:55.892]The fact that or maybe 200,000 or 2,000,000 songs available on the internet for somebody to listen to doesn't mean
[02:03.206]that somebody is going to take the time to actually go through and listen to 30 seconds of each song .
[02:08.144]So consequently with the internet it became more of a concept of preaching the converters that the artist that
[02:14.204]people are hearing on a radio and seeing videos on MTV and various other video programs ,
[02:19.402]those artists are getting most hits on the internet just because you can put a video .
[02:26.220]We're showing on the internet is not necessarily mean anybody going to listen to or review it and so in theory ,yes ,
[02:30.687]the fact that you could access all of this information and this music is great and  in application it doesn't seem to really have been that the factual yet .
[02:39.229]As the technology changes ,who knows what could happen in the future?
[02:44.689]
[02:50.018]Hip hop is part of American culture ,and some say that DJs are metals new heroes ,
[02:55.373]following in the footsteps of bands such as Korn and Limp Bizkit ,Linkin Park incorporated DJ as well as MC into their lineup.
[03:03.863]To me ,hip hop is taking over and it's taking over everything it's taking over fashion ,
[03:07.468]it's taking over speech ,so the rock will really can't escape it .They kind of have no choice ,you know what I'm saying ?
[03:15.383]And not every rock band or not every good rock band, but I'm going as far as listening to Metallica songs randomly
[03:21.130]and hear like a pause I was like ,wait a second ,it sounds like a DJ stopping the record in the song started again
[03:27.138]I mean ,that's Metallica they probably they might not have even acknowledged because the rest of the song didn't have wrapping or scratching
[03:33.381]or but to me it's just taking over ,so they have no choice and it's just that's the evolution of music to me.
[03:42.759]Because like rock used to be like more like a culture ,like almost kind of a movement in the 50s and 60s,
[03:49.028]and it's not anymore .Now it's just ,it's cool it's music ,but hip hop is like what rock used to be .
[03:54.984]So just like rock influenced Jazz and Blues and took it to a certain level ,that's what hip hop is doing with the influence of the earlier rock .
[04:02.586]Sure but you know I feel like the most successful rock bands have tune tables now because people just want hip hop
[04:10.214]
[04:26.802]I think the Hip hop influence on alternative music ,it does add a little bit more spice .
[04:32.496]I personally like hardcore just you know ,I like the fact that when there is just  guitars and stuff like that ,but Linkin Park ,
[04:41.117]the fact that they do have a DJ with their music is absolutely excellent .
[04:45.453]So yeah I do think that have that hip hop influence does make it more interesting ,more exciting.
[04:54.047]
[04:58.723]It just depends on how open the band is ,really ,because you know a tune table you can do anything .
[05:05.646]You can make melodies with it I mean you can you could even make like a baseline like you can be the basis in a song .
[05:13.117]Bass player could stop playing . You could be the drummer for a song it depends on how open the band is
[05:16.904]'cause I feel like sometimes a lot of rock bands that don't understand it .They feel like it's too loud in the mix .
[05:23.383]They may be hate on it a little bit .They feel like it's taken over their job .
[05:28.137]umm it's just like I said ,it depends on how much the band will appreciate what you're doing
[05:33.440]and allow you to write music without being scared of you taking over basically .
[05:38.952]I have a unique take on that whole issue because there was a facet of rap music that I am one of the pioneer of which is kind of the Chicago Sound ,
[05:51.255]Midwestern or whatever you want to call it in rap .Initially and the people around me all felt like these people are taking from me ,
[06:03.820]these people are taking from me .And as I thought about it , I realized that they're not necessarily taken from me
[06:09.698]what they're doing is they are taking what I do and making it more acceptable to people who hadn't heard me ,or that I may not have been able to reach .
[06:20.983]I don't really know Rock music was dead ,but it's just that because Hip hop has just a strong force in essence ,
[06:35.533]once it is connected with anything else is just so much energy and so much life added to it where just makes whatever ,
[06:45.224]whatever it was before that ,just look just that much smaller then , once rapped it's connected
[06:52.904]and add all much more to it in the part two ,it just looks so much bigger .
[06:56.744]Critics and fans alike can't deny that Linkin Park's Joseph Hann is far from average metal DJ ,
[07:03.902]mix with MC talent of Mike and it's not hard to see how Linkin Park take the Hip Hop metal crossover up to the next level .
[07:12.261]You just can't ignore those big bad group .
[07:16.023]I think a lot . There's a lot of parts on the record that many people wouldn't even know are the DJ at that point.
[07:22.632]There 's a lot of sound effects that people don't necessarily associate with the DJ because it's not a scratch
[07:32.219]or it's not a particular performance part ,it's just it's a nice sound effect .
[07:37.443]It kind of sits and sits in the back in the mix , but has so much to the song .
[07:41.074]So yeah ,just that opposed to live performance kind of thing ,a lot of scratching ,that type of thing. .
[07:50.086]You may kick ass on stage ,but it's no good unless the band can jump around to it at home too .
[07:56.539]The guys has put six tracks CD out when they were called Hybrid Theory to get the ball rolling .
[08:01.894]But this only had limited release .What they really wanted was a full out album .
[08:07.876]With Warner Bros paying the bill ,the guys found themselves at NRG studio .
[08:13.257]It was here that the guys pulled out all those songs they've hidden over the years.
[08:18.220]umm, basically the first day of the session is a set up day ,everybody comes in ,you know they set up the instrument how they feel most comfortable ,
[08:28.983]the engineer spend the day basically get the sound There is not a lot of performing recording goes on in the first day .
[08:37.159]Be a bunch of people spend 6 to 8 weeks here just kind like moving in to a kind of join a college through a first day
[08:42.305]just getting settled in and kind of you know make myself feel at home and then other days spend here getting a lot of sound .
[08:49.855]Do the basic set up process and then from there the ****the recording process generally starts with drums .
[09:01.845]Generally the first thing that's get recorded and everything just build on top of that .
[09:09.420]Generally when the drums are recorded ,everybody playing along .Everybody else in the insurance are just considered scratch tracks ,
[09:17.884]which may or may not get used in the final product ,generally not .
[09:21.593]And then after that ,that's really the only time the band full band plays together ,
[09:27.053]after that everybody is recording their part individually .Overdubbing process is called .
[09:34.367]