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LINKIN PARK FRONTMAN PLANS TO BRAINWASH KIDS INTO LIKING HIS SIDE PROJECTS - MTV.COM

не знаю какого года статья.....2005-2006?

Chester Bennington's house might have been the place to trick-or-treat this year, at least if you had any interest in the Linkin Park singer's top-secret side projects.
"I was thinking of making candies and giving them out to little kids, and then when they eat them, it downloads [the albums] into their brains," Bennington deadpanned. "If anybody out there actually has the talent to create that technology, give me a call."
And if not, at least Bennington is finally talking about his outside efforts, Snow White Tan and Julien-K, both with Orgy guitarists Ryan Shuck and Amir Derakh, as well as cover band Bucket of Weenies, whose Hollywood debut was October 25 at the Avalon.
In fact, it was hard to get Bennington to shut up about the latter, a much less serious band with no plans to record. When he did, however, he revealed a bit about the other two bands. It seems Bennington sings for Snow White Tan, while Shuck handles vocals for Julien-K, an electro band. (Bucket of Weenies features Bennington, Shuck, guitarist Mike Rouse of the Johns, bassist Mike "Cheez" Brown of T.S.O.L. and drummer Sean Dowdell of Bennington's pre-Linkin Park band, Grey Daze.)
"We've been working for a long time on these projects, and they're really interesting and different," Bennington said. "I don't know if I want to let too much of the cat out of the bag at this point, but when the time is right I think people are really gonna enjoy what we've been doing, and hopefully it kind of adds a new flavor to the music scene."
Like Linkin Park MC Mike Shinoda's Fort Minor, which is pure hip-hop (see "Linkin Park MC Gets Director With Flair For Video With Flares"), Snow White Tan and Julien-K are much different than Linkin Park. "It's not done purposely," Bennington said. "It's just that way, it's just naturally different."
Shuck, who met Bennington when Linkin Park were recording their first album at the same studio where Orgy were working, said some of the Snow White Tan material dates back five or six years.
"I always used to go to his house and hear him play acoustic guitar," Shuck said. "And I always thought to myself, 'Oh my God, these are such good songs.' "
Both the Snow White Tan and Julien-K albums are nearly complete, but the guys want to properly release and promote both the projects, which is where the scheduling issue comes into play.
"Timing is everything, and because of the kind of lives that we have, with so many different things going on, we have to really make sure that it's the appropriate time," Bennington said.
"By the time it actually comes out, we're gonna have probably three or four records' worth of material to release," he said. "But we'll see."
In the meantime, Bennington and Shuck are having the time of their lives with Bucket of Weenies, who put a punk or hard-rock spin on a variety of covers, including Elvis Presley's "Suspicious Minds," Oasis' "Wonderwall" and Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game." At the Avalon, the band also played Snow White Tan's "The Morning After" and a few Brown originals.
Bucket of Weenies formed last spring to play a Tempe, Arizona, show celebrating the 10th anniversary of Bennington, Brown and Dowdell's Club Tattoo chain.
"What was gonna be a small thing turned out to be 6,000 people, and we had a ton of fun," Brown said. "And then we thought, 'Let's keep playing.' "
"It's really kinda cool 'cause we play like, not the typical stuff — it's not 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' " Bennington said. "We're doing tracks that I think are songs that when you listen to them you go, 'Wow that's a really cool song.' "
The band apparently built its set list while jamming in Shuck's basement, yelling out songs and seeing if they could figure out how to play them.
"We're all over the map," Rouse said. "We've got Dramarama, we've got the Cure, we've got Bowie, just kind of like a collective sort of what we all listened to growing up and kind of got us to where we're at now. And we're having fun re-exploring it."
As for the name Bucket of Weenies, Shuck came up with it during a live radio interview in Tempe.
"It's just when you're partying and all your friends are, like, pulling their shirts off and you're just like, 'What a bucket of weenies,' " he explained.
"It was fantastic and stuck," said Bennington, who noted that the initials spell "bow." "Join the BOW movement!"

New Audio

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I added a new audio for download. I don’t really know the source of this audio or if it comes from an interview, but it’s Chester talking about his past, how it was like for him to go to school and being a teenager. I don’t think I’ve heard it before (or I just don’t remember) but it really touched me and makes me respect him and love him even more, so I thought I should share it with you guys.

Chester - Talking about his past
- Source unknown -
Format: mp3

http://www.sendspace.com/file/wn67ju

http://www.mikeshinoda.com/blog/Recomme … by_sunrise

19.01.2009 Ruff Mix.

1. Crawl Back In
2. Give Me Your Name

Linkin Park's Chester Bennington 'honoured to be playing Knebworth'

Frontman tells NME.COM about plans for new festival

Feb 9, 2009
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Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington has told NME.COM that he is "honoured" to be playing Knebworth as part of the Sonisphere festival this summer.

His band and Metallica will headline the new touring rock festival, which includes a stop at the English stately home and famous rock concert venue.

Both bands top the bill at Sonisphere, which visits Holland, Germany, Spain, Sweden and Finland before finishing up at the legendary site on the weekend of August 1-2.

"As I've become aware of the awesome bands who have played Knebworth over the years I realise what an honour it will be for Linkin Park. This is definitely one of the big ones," he said of the venue which has hosted massive shows from the likes of Led Zeppelin and Oasis.

"You have to work on earning the respect of the fans in the UK," he added. "I would say the experiences over the years playing festivals over there, the audiences actually get better and better each time.

"I think it will be amazing to come out and play this festival. Obviously we're huge fans of Metallica as well. We’ve had the pleasure of playing with them on a number of occasions. We get on really well with Metallica and its so much fun to play with Metallica."

The singer hinted that Sonisphere might see the band debut some all-new material.

"I can't promise because we're still writing," said Bennington, "but I'm going to put it out there that you might hear some new stuff from us."

Linkin Park's last album was 2007's 'Minutes To Midnight'.

http://www.nme.com/news/linkin-park/42634

All the clothing was designed and styled specifically for this video by Jeff Sebelia (Bravo’s Project Runway).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sebelia

Sebelia shared a violent relationship with his father, who divorced his mother when Jeffrey was only 8. Soon after, Jeffrey, who felt responsible for the divorce, began experimenting with cocaine and marijuana. By the time he was 16, he was a heroin addict living in a friend's garage. The following 15 years were filled with numerous, yet failed, attempts to get sober at a number of West Coast drug treatment centers. He has never been far from the spotlight and has been friends with Dave Navarro since they were teens. Chester Bennington of Linkin Park, who is also an avid client, loves the Cosa Nostra line and has known Sebelia for years.

я пока не въехала, но на http://lplive.net/ выдали весьма интересную инфу

Ryan Discusses Canceled European Tour

http://www.julien-k.com/forum/showpost. … stcount=15

Ryan from Julien-K has posted this message on the Julien-K forum in response to fans questioning him about why the band had to cancel their January 2008 European shows in support of Linkin Park.

The original message read in January 2008: "Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control, we are unable to perform the dates as scheduled and therefore must cancel the European tour. "

Ryan had this to say:
"here's the truth - simplified (some of this is a bit to personal to share in to much detail). if you guys are really savvy and decide to dig deeper, you will be able to fill in the blanks as this story starts to pick up traction in the mainstream press.

our company (L7) was having some major legal issues preventing us from being able to move forward in any substantial way. it wasn't anything that we (the band) did. it was a once in a lifetime nightmare that we inadvertently got caught up in - and we had no easy way out.

in addition to that, and connected to it - one of our closest friends and partners were in crisis. we just couldn't leave in the middle of it.

on the personal side - we needed to be there for our friend, on the business side, we were legally frozen.

no passport issues, and we would never book a tour and just cancel it to go record. we lost A LOT of money by canceling that tour, and a huge opportunity. it was not taken lightly.

hope this helps shed some light on why we were unable to do ANYTHING for so long. we have been in a 3 year long battle.

RS"

On December 7 last year, I posted this thread on our own forum entitled "Level 7, The Details You Never Knew...Until Now". Check it out. Some people don't really understand it, so I'll post a follow-up if needed. Level 7 was basically a music "company" that Chester and some friends created to release his solo album, the Julien-K album, and more. Anyway, enjoy.

всё гораздо хуже....ну в принципе этого и следовало ожидать.... Level 7 - наркопритон и бордель

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QUOTE (Shinoda Godfather @ Jan 28 2009, 12:41 PM)

I think it's no big deal if he sometime gets one or two drinks or even lets his hair down and boozes off his face a little.Jet Fuel is just a cocktail, anyway, guess he's just having his fun

But then, we know what happened in the past. What can make we know for sure that he's totally sober or off drugs. I don't try to be a wet blanket here, but alcoholism got him more than once, as a sole problem/addiction, not only a part of his drug abuse. Everything seems to be alright now, but who knows. Especially when you're a rockstar with friends who are totally living rockstar style (the Level 7 guy, anyone). /QUOTE

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Me ->
I believe absolutely the same. I think it's Julien-K guys or Shuck, who makes a company for drinking; neverending recording of DBS album seems to be just a reason to party, drink, smoke,sniff or whatever  Wish i were wrong.

Shuck is also a member of Bucket of Weenies, rite?
Have you ever heard about friendship between Shinoda and Ryan?
Maybe Linkin Park is a MACHINE in studio coz they WORK HARD and it's not a relaxing party as Diva Chaztina wants to be  Hope the time has come for Mrs Bennoda to tear her ass and release the damn fucking solo album!!!!!!!111