Linkin Park Biography(English
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Band History
The band saw its and first beginings in
emcee/vocalist
Mike Shinoda's small bedroom studio, where he and Brad Delson recorded the
band's first material in 1996. The two had attended high school together, where
they met the band's drummer, Rob Bourdon. Shinoda hooked up with DJ Joseph Hahn
while studying illustration at Art Center College in Pasadena. Meanwhile,
attending UCLA, Delson shared an apartment with bassist Phoenix, who left the
band after college and returned a year later. At this point, they named
themselves Xero and recorded several demo tracks. They never got signed, and
the project floundered. Then Shinoda decided to hire a vocalist, and put out an
ad. They got Chester Bennington, a transplanted Arizona native who started
making records when he was 16. 'When I was two, I used to run around singing
Foreigner songs - there's tapes of me doing that... since I learned how to talk
I've been telling everybody I was gonna grow up to be a singer.' laughs
Bennington.
The band called itself Hybrid Theory
after the addition of Bennington (the idea being that they were a hybrid of
rock and rap), however, due to a trademark issue with a band called Hybrid,
they were forced to change their name. Some discarded ideas (serious or not)
were Clear (the band's favorite), Probing Lagers (which they thought was the
lamest), Ten PM Stocker (because they would record every night at 10 pm at a
place on Stocker Street) and Platinum Lotus Foundation. Eventually, they
settled on Lincoln Park, suggested by Bennington because after band practice he
would have to drive past there to get home. However the domain
'lincolnpark.com' cost more than the band could afford, so they changed the
spelling to Linkin Park. However, it has also been suggested that the name
'Linkin Park' was suggested so that the band would appear right next to Limp
Bizkit at record stores.
Working with an independent label, the
band recorded the album Hybrid Theory EP, which featured 'Carousel',
'Technique', 'Step Up', 'And One', 'High Voltage', 'Part of Me'.
After being signed to Warner
Brothers in 1999 their first album, Hybrid
Theory, was released in 2000. It was the top-selling album in
the United States and New Zealand in 2001, with the hit singles 'One Step
Closer', 'Crawling', 'Papercut', 'In The End' and 'Points of Authority'. The
album is notable for its absence of profanity, in contrast to many other nu
metal bands' songs.
Linkin Park were part of the Ozzfest in 2001,
touring along side Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, Crazy
Town, Papa Roach, and Disturbed. Linkin Park
have also created their own tour - Projekt:
Revolution, and on it have toured with Cypress
Hill, Adema, DJ Z-Trip, Xzibit,
Mudvayne and Blindside.
In 2002, they released a remix album of
their Hybrid Theory album, called Reanimation, as
well as releasing a remix version of their song, 'Points Of Authority'.
In 2003 their new studio album was
released, titled Meteora,
which debuted at #1 in the US and UK, and #2 in Australia. It contained the
singles, 'Somewhere I Belong', 'Faint', 'Numb', 'From The Inside' and 'Breaking
The Habit'. Later in the year, they joined forces with fellow nu-metal band Limp
Bizkit and Metallica
for the Summer Sanitarium Tour 2003. From this tour,
Linkin Park released a new CD/DVD set called Live
in Texas. This set contains tracks from their three previous
records, and was filmed on location at their Summer Sanitarium performances in Dallas and Houston, Texas .
In 2004, Linkin Park created the
Meteora World Tour. This tour included Linkin Park, P.O.D., Hoobastank,
and Story
of the Year.
In 2004, Linkin Park was touring with Snoop
Dogg, The Used,
Korn, and Less
Than Jake on the main stage, and No
Warning, Ghostface, Funeral For A Friend, M.O.P., and Downset on the second stage as part of Projekt Revolution 2004. They also had a travelling DJ,
Z-Trip with them, along with Irvin the Urban Action Figure.
On November 30, 2004, Linkin Park
released Collision Course, a collaboration with rapper Jay-Z featuring
rap-style remixes ('mash-ups') of songs from Meteora and Hybrid Theory using
lyrics from Jay-Z's repertoire. Collision
Course debuted at #1 in the US, but only got to # 17 in the UK.
In Holland Collision Course made it to a 7th place. Their first
Collision Course hit single 'Numb/Encore' reached #1 at the Free Record Shop
Download Charts in Holland.
- Chester Bennington (vocals)
- Mike Shinoda (vocals/sampling/guitar/keyboard)
- Joe Hahn (turntables, samples)
- Brad Delson guitar
- Rob Bourdon drums
- Dave 'Phoenix' Farrell bass
- Hybrid Theory EP (1998) US Sales: 1000 (only 1000 printed)
- 500 copies reprinted for the first 500 people to join LPU
- Hybrid Theory (2000) #2 US, #4 UK, US Sales: 8,000,000
- Reanimation (2002) (remix album including Hybrid Theory and older tracks) #2 US, #3 UK, US Sales: 1,000,000
- LP Underground v2.0 (2002) Unedited songs A.06, Dedicated (Demo 1999) & My December, Pts.Of.Athrty (The Crystal Method Remix) & With you & High Voltage live (Gift to join in LP Fan club)
- LP Underground v2.5 (2003) Fixed Hybrid Theory EP & LP Underground v2.0 songs, two Reanimation Songs & a New High Voltage Remix (Gift to join in LP Fan club)
- Meteora (2003) #1 US, #1 UK, US Sales: 4,000,000
Meteora was released as a combo pack
including a 'behind the scenes' DVD disc,
as well as just the Meteora album.
- Live in Texas (2003) #23 US, US Sales: 500,000
- LP Underground v3.0 (2003) Audio Tracks of DVD Live In Texas (Gift to join in LP Fan club)
- LP Underground v4.0 (2004) Sold My Soul To Yo Mama Mr. Hahn's Instrumental (with partials of Papercut), Standing In The Middle, Live versions of Breaking the Habit, 1Stp Klosr & a mix of Step Up/Nobody's Listening/It's Goin' Down (Gift to join in LP Fan club)
- Collision Course - (Mash-up album featuring rapper Jay-Z's mixes of songs from Meteora and Hybrid Theory) (2004)
- from 'Hybrid Theory'
- 2001 'One Step Closer' #24 UK
- 2001 'Crawling' #16 UK
- 2001 'Papercut' #14 UK
- 2001 'In the End' #2 US, #8 UK
- 2002 'Points Of Authority'
- from 'Reanimation'
- 2002 'High Voltage/Points of Authority' #9 UK
- from 'Meteora'
- 2003 'Somewhere I Belong' #32 US, #10 UK
- 2003 'Faint' #15 UK
- 2004 'Numb' #5 US, #14 UK
- 2004 'From The Inside'
- 2004 'Breaking the Habit' #20 US, #39 UK
- from 'Collision Course'
- 2004 'Numb/Encore' (with Jay-Z) #11 US, #14 UK
- One Step Closer
- Crawling (at the Dragon Festival)
- Crawling (The Brothers Straus)
- Papercut (International)
- In The End
- Points Of Authority Live footage (International)
- Pts.OF.Athrty (Points Of Authority Remix), CGI
- Enth E Nd (In The End Remix)
- P5hng Me A*wy (Pushing Me Away Remix)
- FRGT/10 (Forgotten Remix), CGI
- Wth>You (With You Remix), photographic animation
- Somewhere I Belong - live-action plus CGI. This video for features some surrealistic creatures moving from a painting that may have been inspired by Salvador Dalí's works - possibly The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1946) or The Elephants (1948).
- Faint - monochrome concert-like footage, directed by Mark Romanek
- Lying From You (Live in Texas)
- Numb
- From The Inside (International)
- Breaking The Habit, traditional anime
- Numb/Encore (live)
- Points of Authority/99 Problems/One Step Closer (live)
- Won Favorite Artist - Alternative Music; 31st Annual American Music Awards; Sept 16, 2003
- Won Best Group, Best Hard Rock; 2002 MTV Europe Music Awards. Nominated for Best Website.
- Won Best Foreign Rock; Swedish Hit Music Awards; November 17th, 2002.
- Won Best Rock Video; 2002 MTV Video Music Awards (In The End). Nominated for Best Video of the Year (In The End), Best Group Video (In The End).
- Won Best International Nu-Metal/Alternative Artist; ECHO 2002 awards in Germany.
- Won Best Hard Rock Performance (Crawling); 2001 Grammys. Nominated for Best Rock Album, Best New Artist.
- Won Best Foreigner Artist of The Year; Finland's 2001 Emma Awards.
- Won Best International Newcomer; 2001 Kerrang Awards. Nominated for Best Video, Best Album, Best Band in the World.
- Nominated for Favorite Artist - Alternative Music; 30th Annual American Music Awards; Sept 1, 2002
- Won Best Rock Video (Somewhere I Belong); 2003 MTV Video Music Awards.
- Nominated for Best Rock Video (Breaking The Habit); 2004 MTV Video Music Awards.
- Won Viewer's Choice Award (Breaking The Habit); 2004 MTV Video Music Awards.
- Won Song of the Year — Rock Alternative Radio (Numb); 2004 Radio Music Awards
- Won Artist of the Year — Rock Radio; 2004 Radio Music Awards
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