Such quick movement, though, meant that at this stage, Chester hadn’t even set eyes upon the men who would become his new bandmates. I listened to the instrumental side first and immediately I was like, ‘This is it, these are the ones.’ The next thing I know, I’d flown to California and was sat outside Zomba Music Publishing, opposite Whisky A Go Go on Sunset Strip.” He said, ‘Well, I’ll just send you this demo,’ which turned out to have two tracks on one side and instrumentals on the other. “A dude who had been working with my old band gave me a call, going, ‘I’ve got these guys and they’re writing this great music but they really need a singer.’ I immediately was asking all sorts of questions, like, ‘How old are they? How long have they been doing this?’ because I didn’t want to waste my fucking time. That’s a fairly remarkable statement for someone who had only just turned 21 at the time, but Bennington, it turned out, was not a man to do things by halves. “I’d got a job in real estate and thought that while I would probably still make tunes for fun, I would need to find something else to do full-time.”
“I had basically decided to retire from music,” says Chester Bennington, reflecting on his frustrating early years trying to make it in a band. The answer, it turned out, would be found in the form of a flame-haired vocalist from Arizona. A merry-go-round of endless demoing ensued, but something was missing from the fledgling line-up. In the document, they've asked for the Democratic and Republican national, congressional and senatorial committees to stop using their songs for their own political gain and therefore forcing the artists to explain whether they support them or not.With his ambitious creativity and Spartan work practises already earning praise, Shinoda began to form the nucleus of what would become Linkin Park. Several artists, including Mick Jagger, Green Day, Pearl Jam and Lorde have teamed together to sign a letter demanding politicians and campaigners stop using their songs without their permission. The band have also joined many bands and artists in singing an open letter calling for an end to unauthorised use of their music by politicians. Meanwhile, the surviving members of Linkin Park sent a cease and desist to the Trump administration last month over the use of a cover of their In The End single. READ MORE: Linkin Park fans share the late Chester Bennington's old political tweets amid Trump row "So I would urge the fanbase to just let it happen and don't come up with ideas of what we ought to do, because your ideas might be better than ours. “They come up with their own great ideas, and then once in a while, those great ideas are better than our ideas!
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