Mike just did a small LP community chat tour in the linkinpark.com's, the LPU and Ustream chatrooms. He left the LP.com chatroom pretty quick so there's nothing much to cover. Some highlights on other chats.
The LPU chat:
mshinoda says to (16:18):
Chester said the NICES things on his interview today. The Zane Lowe one was out of control-nice.
mshinoda says to (16:18):
The REAL version is a bit longer than what most radio stations played (5:45 ish?)
mshinoda says to (16:20):
Why are people talking about my hair?
mshinoda says to (16:20):
I didn’t cut it.
mshinoda says to (16:21):
ATS = 15 tracks ranging from like 20 seconds to about 6 minutes.
mshinoda says to (16:22):
The album is 99.9999% done. If we had to put it out today, it would sound finished. We’re trying some extra credit
mshinoda says to (16:23):
There are a lot of sounds on A THOUSAND SUNS. Most are layered like The Catalyst, but many of them have different energy.
mshinoda says to (16:24):
As for Catalyst, we thought it was a good introduction to the nucleus of the record.
mshinoda says to (16:24):
I want to see #TheCatalyst and #LinkinPark trending on Twitter
mshinoda says to (16:25):
Catalyst: That effect on the voices is a layer of a flanger, a modulation effect, and some other stuff. We had fun with effects on this record…lots of “ear candy”
mshinoda says to (16:26):
…on many instruments.
Lots of great things and his comment on Chester's reaction on BBC1 is hilarious. Out-of-control-nice, that is definitely our Chester ;)
Thanks MikeShinodaClan.com for the chat transcripts. Heading to their site to read the full transcript
here.
The Ustream chat:
- Chester is doing a very different kind of screaming that is very exciting. Mike referred to it as "weird" and "losing his mind kind of screaming."
- Mike and Chester do back and forth vocals on almost every song.
- Mike and Joe both contributed to the artwork. Mike praised Joe's work.
- The music video for The Catalyst is not yet finished.
- Both new and old songs will be played on tour.
It's quite amazing that we can listen to a lot of Mike/Chester duet with this album, also with the comeback of Mike and Joe's work - the band is assur you that this album is worth all the fans' waiting. You can watch the video recorded from the livechat
HERE. Thanks
LPLive for the highlights.
Labels: chat transcript, news: Dead By Sunrise, news: Linkin Park
Update on the LPU chat with Chester Bennington, one dearest half of Bennoda, on January 23rd, 2009. Well, one Bennoda-related question was asked and passed! But Chester's reply kind of made everyone confused.
hiddentalentz says to (17:26):Chester, back when you were on Loveline in April, Bennoda Mountain was mentioned. Any new thoughts on that?
chesterbennington says to (17:28):hiddentalentz- that was a long time ago.
chesterbennington says to (17:28):we're on to new things
You guys are on to new things? Like what? Running to Las Vegas and getting married by an Elvis impersonator? Sound like great plan!
Silly jokes aside, he also mentioned how he encountered emotional difficulty when he tried to performed Breaking The Habit
JenJen says to darknessovrme (16:40):I would like to know what song is hardest on you either emotionally or physically to perform and why?
chesterbennington says to (16:41):jenjen- emotionally -when we wrote “Breaking The Habit”, it was hard to sing but I got over it. Physically- “Given Up” and “Crawling.”
chesterbennington says to (16:41):I think those ones are more obvious
and his favorite Linkin Park video so far is Breaking The Habit.
Tiff07 says to (17:03):Out of all the LP music videos, which one is your favorite thus far?
chesterbennington says to (17:04):tiff07- hmmm....I still have to say “Breaking The Habit” is the best video
and how their lyrics mean so much to him and Mike
Q_Dizzle says to chesterbennington (17:38):Numb was pretty much the song that made me a fan of you guys and is still to this day my favorite song of all time (I have it as my ringtone actually). Just out of curiosity, does that song mean anything special to you or to any of the other band members?
chesterbennington says to (17:39):q-dizzle- “Numb”- well all the songs have special meaning to us, every song has special meaning to us, especially me and Mike on the lyrics since we're writing them.
Other than that, Chester also said he thinks he would make a great teacher. His solo album will hopefully be released this September. New Linkin Park album will have about 8 songs (-_-) His drink of choice is Jet Fuel. They will open a Club Tattoo in Texas. He may try to rap in the future (lol, he did, IPT and lollipop, anyone?). He also doesn't know why he himself is such a nice guy (-_-) and the guys dislike haters on fansites as well as gossips (oooh gossipy things, what about Bennoda?). He admits that he's turning into an old guy but will always be young mentally, and that he's 16 in his brain. That's quite an amazing chat. Read the whole chat transcript
HERE. Thanks Naz for posting it on the board!
Labels: chat transcript, news, quote
