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TRIVIA
{[by pushmeaway.com]
* Xero was formed in 1996 by Mike and Brad
* Xero was made up of: Mike, Brad, Joe, Rob, Phoenix and Mark.
* Mark left the band before they were called "Hybrid Theory" because things didn't work out, but he has always been a really good friend of theirs.
*Mark is now Taproot's manager.
* The guys played around for fun and started getting attention from friends. So they set up a show at LA's Whisky and got signed to Zomba Music Publishing their 1st show. They were with the bands: System of a Down and SX-10
* They started getting serious from there but "labels weren't really catching on" so they changed a few things and were looking for a new singer. About 2 yrs later or so Chester joined the band. That's when they changed their name to "Hybrid Theory".
* Chester had previously been in the band Grey Daze which had done pretty well and had some offers. (more grey daze info is below under Chester Bennington facts)...so he met Mike and the guys through mutual friends in the industry. They met through their law firm Miniet Phelps and Phelps.
* The firm told "xero" that they had a guy in Phoenix (Chester) who might be good for the job and sent Chester a demo. He was asked to sing/make up something to the demo.
* He really wanted the job so he went to a recording studio to do it professionally. Within 3 days he had finished recording it.The guys were surprised when Chester called and said he was done and would fly to S. California because it was his birthday. He supposedly left people at his party or birthday and worked on the tape. They asked to hear the tape over the phone first. Once they heard it,they were blown away and told him to fly over.
* Once Chester was in the band, they focused on making demos and used their connections at Zomba to get their demos out to people who would listen.
* Eventually after a buzz started, Warner Brothers was interested and signed them to their label. Then "Hybrid Theory" changed their name to "Linkin Park" to avoid legal hassles w/ another band who had the same name.
* They chose "Linkin Park" because Chester used to drive by Lincoln Park in Santa Monica, CA (which was a middle class neighborhood where lots of homeless people hung out) after practice and it grabbed his attention & the guys in the band liked how it sounded. They changed the spelling so that they could buy the domain; lincolnpark.com was too expensive. They also think it's cool because there are so many Lincoln Parks that everywhere they play people think they are a local band.
* Also while Phoenix was with the band when they were "Xero" he left the band at some point to tour with another band Snax. He is not the bassist on the Hybrid Theory ep, Kyle Christner was bass. Once Phoenix finished up w/ the Snax tour he came back as a permanent member of Linkin Park. Who knows what happened to Kyle..? So basically Phoenix was the bassist for "Xero", Kyle was the bassist for "Hybrid Theory" and Scott was just a temporary bassist for linkin park until Phoenix came back. (more info on Phoenix and Snax below).
Song Titles & Stuff:
* 'In the end' used to be called 'Untitled'
* 'One Step Closer' used to be called 'Plaster'
* 'Cure for the Itch' used to be called 'Mr. Hahn'
* 'Esaul' is an earlier version of 'A Place for my Head'
* 'Esaul' is a guy's name, he's a friend of Lp's that they used to hang out with and still see sometimes.
* 'Super Xero' is an earlier version of 'By Myself'
* 'My December' was recorded in a studio in Nashville.
*'One Step Closer' was written after LP had spent about 2 weeks trying to write 'Runaway' and it wasn't working so they wrote a song about how frustrated they were- osc.
*'The Morning After' was revealed at The Brixton Academy, London UK (june 4, 01) show where Chester performed a solo acoustic rendition of the new track. It's "a song about sleeping in your car". -chester
* The demo version of 'Points of Authority' was NOT called 'Vertical Limit'- there is confusion over this because the album version of the song was in the movie Vertical Limit.
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Linkin Park is NOT a Christian band.
* Lots of people think they are a christian band because they don't curse on the "hybrid theory" album and because they were on tour w/ pod, but they are NOT a christian band. Two of the guys are Jewish (brad and rob), chester has his own " really unique views" on religion, which most likely means he doesn't really have one that he belongs to, mike was raised in "a really, really liberally Protestant church" and Joe was raised "in [a] little more conservative Christian church"..lp is all over the place... and they have said that if kids want any spiritual advice/help, "ask you parents" not them, :)
* Oh and the reason that linkin park doesn't have any profanity/curses/whatever on "hybrid theory" is because they just didn't think to add any when they were writing/recording the album, they wrote honest lyrics and what came out; came out. That doesn't mean that they don't curse because they do when they sing live, their are a few curses in "high voltage" and they may very well use curses in an upcoming album but they just didn't use them on the first..the point is that they did not specifically avoid using them.
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Hair color:
* Linkin Park use Special FX (or Special Effects) and Fudge to color their hair
* Mike's natural hair color is black. When Mike's hair was RED, he bleached his hair himself and colored it red with "Ruby Red" and occasionally Fudge 'Rock Star Red'. With Mike's blue hair he had his hair professionally bleached because he said he couldn't do a good job by himself. Mike thought the whole blue thing was too annoying...probably too annoying to do, I'm guessing. Then he went to just red tips.
* Although Brad's hair is a 'normal' color NOW he used to color his hair purple,etc in high school. (this is also listed under Brad)
* Chester's hair has been bleach blonde, black/brown, red, pink, purple, and probably other colors too,lol. His hair style have changed alot too. He has had curly/spikey hair, 2 devil horns, a mohawk and he's even been bald..well not bald but had all his hair pretty much shaved away.
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