Linkin Park have decided on their status. After the death of Chester Bennington, there were rumors that the group was over, because without a lead vocalist, the show would not be able to continue. On October 27, Linkin Park played their first show without Chester, but in his honor.
A concert titled Linkin Park Celebrates Life in Honor of Chester Bennington was held in Los Angeles. The entire US rock scene took part in the show: Sum 41, Blink-182, No Doubt, System of a Down, Korn, Bring Me the Horizon.
And 17 thousand spectators. They became the main shock of the concert - see how the audience sings the part of Chester in the track In The End in chorus.
And don't forget what it was like with Chester.
Linkin Park is not the first to be left without a main vocalist. The same trouble happened to Queen, Nirvana, INXS, The Doors - the list is long, as is the number of members of the club 27. How did the supergroups manage without a leader?
Nirvana
You haven't heard Nirvana live since 1994. Chris Novoselic and Dave Grohl decided that there was no point in performing these songs without Kurt. Dave formed the Foo Fighters, Chris became a political activist, which they did until 2014.
In 2014, Nirvana was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and performed live for the first time in 20 years. Dave sat down at the drums, Chris connected the bass, and everyone came out to the microphone best friends groups.
Kim Gordon sings Aneurysm:
Joan Jett with her version of Smells Like Teen Spirit:
Those who started making music after listening to Kurt also performed their own versions of their favorite songs.
Annie Clark performed Lithium:
Lorde sang All apologies:
Coming back with a new album and concert tour Nirvana is not going to - their friendship was too sacred. It remains only to revise the classics in moments of sadness.
Queen
After the death of Freddie Mercury, Queen stopped releasing studio albums, and guest vocalists began to perform at concerts.
Freddie was replaced by Paul Rogers.
And Zemfira.
IN Lately Queen play with American Idol finalist Adam Lambert. Look what Adam is like as a frontman:
The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness is Queen's biggest concert since Freddie Mercury's death. It brought together 72,000 people at London's Wembley Stadium in 1992. On stage with Queen performed David Bowie, George Michael, Elton John, Annie Lennox and many others famous musicians for whom Freddie was both a friend and an idol.
Look how happy Elton John was when he performed Bohemian Rhapsody:
George Michael did a great job too:
Freddie Mercury knew for sure: as long as there are such friends, the show will continue.
Joy Division
When Ian Curtis passed away, the remaining members of Joy Division gathered in a bar and decided they would start over with a new name. This is how the story of New Order begins. Their starting point was two latest songs Jena - Ceremony and In A Lonely Place. This is how they sounded in the latest recordings of Joy Division:
That's how you heard them from New Order.
Joy Division did not collect any tribute concerts after Ian's death. Few people could repeat Ian.
Only Thom Yorke. On a personal initiative:
For the first time since Chester's death, Linkin Park musicians performed on stage. The incredible attention of the band's fans around the world was riveted to the concert - the performance was broadcast on the network.
Chester fans paid tribute to the untimely departed idol by performing his part in the song In The End. Another dedication to Bennington was the speech of Talinda, the singer's widow: “He was proud of what he does in music to relieve pain. He knew it saved lives. And saving lives is what we'll be doing in memory of Chester. Now is the time to realize that mental health is just as important as physical health. My mission is to make it easier for people to access mental illness research.”
All proceeds from yesterday's show will be donated to Music for Relief (One More Light program) in Bennington's memory.
The concert was attended by:
Linkin Park (Mike Shinoda, Joe Hahn, Brad Delson, Rob Bourdon, David Farrell)
Blink-182
Jonathan Davis (Korn)MattShadows & Sinister Gates (Avenged Sevenfold)
Ryan Key (Yellowcard)
Oliver Sykes (Bring Me the Horizon)
Kiiara
Daron Malakian and Shavo Odadjian (System of a Down)
Tony Kanal, Adrian Young, Tom Dumont (No Doubt)
Zedd
Machine Gun Kelly
echosmith
Takahiro Moriuchi (One Ok Rock)
Gavin Rossdale (Bush)
Alanis Morissette
Steve Aoki
Bibi Rexha
Jeremy McKinnon (A Day to Remember)
Derick Whibley & Frank Zummo (Sum 41)
Set list:
1 Potpourri: Robot Boy/The Messenger/Iridescent
2. Roads Untraveled
3. Numb
4. Shadow of the Day + fragment With or Without You U2 (Ryan Key, Yellowcard)
5. Leave Out All the Rest (Gavin Rossdale, Bush)
6. Somewhere I Belong (Takahiro Moriuchi, One Ok Rock)
7. Castle of Glass (Tony Kanal, Adrian Young, Tom Dumont, No Doubt; Alanis Morissette)
8. Rest (Alanis Morissette with Linkin Park)
9. Nobody Can Save Me (Stephen McKellar, Civil Twilight; Jonathan Green)
10. Battle Symphony (Jonathan Green)
11. Sharp Edges (Ilsey Juber)
12. Talking to Myself + All Along the Watchtower by Bob Dylan (Ilsey Juber)
13. Heavy (Julia Michaels and Kiiara)
14. One More Light
15. Looking for an Answer
16. Waiting for the End + fragment of Until It Breaks Linkin Park (Stephen McKellar, Civil Twilight; Sydney Sierota, Echosmith)
17. Crawling (Oliver Sykes, Bring Me the Horizon; Zedd)
18. Papercut (Machine Gun Kelly)
19. One Step Closer (Ryan Shaq and Amir Derak, Dead By Sunrise; and Jonathan Davis, Korn)
20. A Place for My Head (Jeremy McKinnon, A Day to Remember)
21. Rebellion (Daron Malakian & Shavo Odadjian, System of a Down; Frank Zummo, Sum 41)
22. The Catalyst (Deric Whibley & Frank Zummo, Sum 41)
23. I Miss You (Blink-182 excluding Linkin Park)
24. What I've Done (Blink-182)
25. In the End
Bis:
26.Iridescent
27. New Divide (vocal recording by Chester Bennington)
28. A Light That Never Comes (Steve Aoki, Bebe Rexha & Frank Zummo, Sum 41)
29. Burn It Down (Matt Shadows, Avenged Sevenfold)
30. Faint (Matt Shadows & Sinister Gates, Avenged Sevenfold)
31. Medley: Bleed It Out/The Messenger (all guests + studio recording of Chester Bennington's voice)
On Thursday, the lead singer of Linkin Park Chester Bennington was found dead at his California residence in Palos Verdes Estates, located near Los Angeles. According to the TMZ website, the musician committed suicide.
If we imagine that the MTV channel has a certain collective image, possessing flesh, blood and a humanoid appearance, then this is certainly linkin group park. The team suddenly managed to subjugate lovers of heavy alternatives in the spirit of Korn and Limp Bizkit, and fans of R "n" B, which was then gaining momentum. The secret was simple: on the one hand, the musicians exploited the pathos of a rock band, and on the other, they combined tenacious melodies and viscous riffs with biting recitative and dance electronics.
The result was something like the "Beasts" group, only better.
True, contrary to tradition, little is known about their personal lives: no one was in prison, and even the orientation of all, no joke, six men is the most common. One way or another, in the early 2000s, it was possible to hide from their songs only by tearing your eardrums. And now, six years after its triumph, the newly appeared TV channel A-One decided to consolidate its positions and brought them to Russia.
The assumptions of the “Park of Culture” expressed in the announcement of the concert came true: average age The absolute majority of those present did not exceed 20-25 years. That is, they were exactly those who wore 6 years ago wide pants and listened to the trendy "alternative".
Particularly touching was the fact that many of the rapidly maturing young men showed up to the concert of their childhood band wearing nostalgic T-shirts, clearly purchased many years ago in the Vietnamese market.
At about half past eight, Jane Air appeared on the scene. The presence of a warm-up band was prerequisite linkin park. The day before in St. Petersburg, the audience was cheered up by emo-Americans Aiden, and Moscow patriotically put up St. Petersburg club heroes. But, no matter how the black-haired owner of fashionable bangs and vampire pallor, and part-time frontman of Jane Air, tried to call on the crowd to “support the domestic manufacturer”, the audience reacted condescendingly and rather sluggishly. And the sound during their performance left much to be desired, even considering known fact that in the "Olympic" without hearing aids, only a standing parterre can enjoy a concert. True, unlike the recent Ozzy Osbourne show, two screens hung around the edges of the stage.
An hour after the start of the concert, the heroes of the evening appeared on the stage.
Contrary to statements that now everything will be different and the sound of the last two records should be forgotten forever, the concert program for the most part consisted of old songs.
Starting with "One Step Closer", the band didn't slow down until the very end of the hour and a half performance. The only exception was "Pushing Me Away", performed to the accompaniment of keyboards. By the way, this is the only song that sounded differently than in the recording, the rest of the works in terms of clarity and ingenuity of performance were no different from the album versions. Moreover, the list of performed songs was known to the most devoted fans ahead of time: during the tour in support of the Minutes to Midnight album, it practically did not change. Except that Mike Shinoda rapped his simple rap a little more cheekily and played the guitar, and Chester Bennington yelled even more frenetically.
Lovely, so to speak, nuances.
In the meantime, there was a unity in the hall, which the walls of the Olimpiysky had hardly seen since the launch of the memorial bear into the atmosphere in the finals of the 1980 Olympics. Raised hands made the palace of sports packed to capacity look like a wheat field somewhere in the middle lane. And when Shinoda asked the audience to raise up the luminous screens of mobile phones (steadily replacing the usual lighters), one got the impression that on the stage there were not rapidly aging nu-metal bands, but at least eternally young The Beatles. Needless to say, several tens of thousands of sips, without hesitation repeating the songs of your favorite group by heart, even made Bennington smile during the performance of one of the most sad songs.
Having played the environmentally concerned hit "What I" ve Done, which is gaining popularity, the group retired to return and sing three more action movies allotted for encores, after which they finally left the stage, promising to return.
The audience leaving the hall, even in the subway, continued to chant the name of their favorite group, however, despite the stormy emotions and strict police, not a single fight happened either before or after the concert.
They say that several people were carried away from the dance floor, but the cause of fainting was not assault or a senseless and merciless slam, but the breath caught by the meeting with idols.
If we discard the ironic attitude towards the fading nu-metal, it was almost a perfect rock show. Linkin Park are excellent melodists - their songs are still able, once heard, to sit in the head for a long time. In addition, the group proved to be artists capable of keeping a huge hall in suspense for an hour and a half: after they entered the stage, neither the imperfect sound nor the bad seats in the stands mattered.
Of course, the ideality of what was happening made us think that we were not faced with people at all, but with engineering masterpieces, combat robots, in the guise of which the group appeared in one of their clips. But in the end it was just beautiful.
