Before I go and buy the album ,I download the available MP3 stuff in the internet .
I check the other songs just to make sure that there is more than just the two singles that have been released .
And if the entire CD sounds like something I'd be interested in then I go out and purchase the CD
In fact ,not wanting web surfer to find a bunch of the American parks when they were looking for the band online .
The guys decide to change the spelling of the band's name .
With that the familiar Linkin Park spelling was created ,and the all important.com was created
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 .
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 .
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 .
The point is if I wanted to I could do it and a lot of people are doing it .
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,
but they're on Napster .So people go to Napster and they can immediately download that song that builds up the hype .
A lot of different thing I see people on MP3.com that are earning money .
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 .
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.

I personally think that in theory ,yes ,it could be beneficial in application I don't know that it is.
The fact that or maybe 200,000 or 2,000,000 songs available on the internet for somebody to listen to doesn't mean
that somebody is going to take the time to actually go through and listen to 30 seconds of each song .
So consequently with the internet it became more of a concept of preaching the converters that the artist that
people are hearing on a radio and seeing videos on MTV and various other video programs ,
those artists are getting most hits on the internet just because you can put a video .
We're showing on the internet is not necessarily mean anybody going to listen to or review it and so in theory ,yes ,
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 .
As the technology changes ,who knows what could happen in the future?

Hip hop is part of American culture ,and some say that DJs are metals new heroes ,
following in the footsteps of bands such as Korn and Limp Bizkit ,Linkin Park incorporated DJ as well as MC into their lineup.
To me ,hip hop is taking over and it's taking over everything it's taking over fashion ,
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 ?
And not every rock band or not every good rock band, but I'm going as far as listening to Metallica songs randomly
and hear like a pause I was like ,wait a second ,it sounds like a DJ stopping the record in the song started again
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
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.
Because like rock used to be like more like a culture ,like almost kind of a movement in the 50s and 60s,
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 .
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 .
Sure but you know I feel like the most successful rock bands have tune tables now because people just want hip hop

I think the Hip hop influence on alternative music ,it does add a little bit more spice .
I personally like hardcore just you know ,I like the fact that when there is just  guitars and stuff like that ,but Linkin Park ,
the fact that they do have a DJ with their music is absolutely excellent .
So yeah I do think that have that hip hop influence does make it more interesting ,more exciting.

It just depends on how open the band is ,really ,because you know a tune table you can do anything .
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 .
Bass player could stop playing . You could be the drummer for a song it depends on how open the band is
'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 .
They may be hate on it a little bit .They feel like it's taken over their job .
umm it's just like I said ,it depends on how much the band will appreciate what you're doing
and allow you to write music without being scared of you taking over basically .
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 ,
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 ,
these people are taking from me .And as I thought about it , I realized that they're not necessarily taken from me
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 .
I don't really know Rock music was dead ,but it's just that because Hip hop has just a strong force in essence ,
once it is connected with anything else is just so much energy and so much life added to it where just makes whatever ,
whatever it was before that ,just look just that much smaller then , once rapped it's connected
and add all much more to it in the part two ,it just looks so much bigger .
Critics and fans alike can't deny that Linkin Park's Joseph Hann is far from average metal DJ ,
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 .
You just can't ignore those big bad group .
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.
There 's a lot of sound effects that people don't necessarily associate with the DJ because it's not a scratch
or it's not a particular performance part ,it's just it's a nice sound effect .
It kind of sits and sits in the back in the mix , but has so much to the song .
So yeah ,just that opposed to live performance kind of thing ,a lot of scratching ,that type of thing. .
You may kick ass on stage ,but it's no good unless the band can jump around to it at home too .
The guys has put six tracks CD out when they were called Hybrid Theory to get the ball rolling .
But this only had limited release .What they really wanted was a full out album .
With Warner Bros paying the bill ,the guys found themselves at NRG studio .
It was here that the guys pulled out all those songs they've hidden over the years.
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 ,
the engineer spend the day basically get the sound There is not a lot of performing recording goes on in the first day .
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
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 .
Do the basic set up process and then from there the ****the recording process generally starts with drums .
Generally the first thing that's get recorded and everything just build on top of that .
Generally when the drums are recorded ,everybody playing along .Everybody else in the insurance are just considered scratch tracks ,
which may or may not get used in the final product ,generally not .
And then after that ,that's really the only time the band full band plays together ,
after that everybody is recording their part individually .Overdubbing process is called .