Στα πλαίσια μίας πρόσφατης online συνέντευξης για λογαριασμό του περιοδικού Louder, οι εναπομείναντες Linkin Park, Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Dave Farell και Joe Hahn μίλησαν επί παντός επιστητού.
Πιο συγκεκριμένα ο κιθαρίστας BradDelson, αναφέρθηκε
στην πρώτη φορά που άκουσε τη φωνή του ChesterBennington:
Νομίζω ότι άκουσα τη φωνή του Chester όταν τραγούδησε το κομμάτι Pictureboard. Θυμάμαι ότι όταν το άκουσα είπα: Tι πιστεύετε γι’ αυτόν τον τύπο; Μας έστειλε αυτό εδώ το demo και σχεδόν κλαίγοντας είπα: “Ουάου”.
Ήταν τρυφερός και ευαίσθητος στα κουπλέ και μπορούσα να ακούσω όλες τις αρμονικές στις χαμηλές του νότες. Μου πήρε το μυαλό και είπα ότι πρέπει να τον γνωρίσουμε.
Να θυμίσουμε ότι στις 24 Οκτώβρη οι Linkin Park γιορτάζουν την επέτειο των 20 ετών από την κυκλοφορία του debut album τους “Hybrid Theory” και κυκλοφορούν ένα επετειακό box set.
Στα πλαίσια της προώθησης αυτού του box set μάλιστα, έδωσαν στη δημοσιότητα ένα πρώιμο demo για το κομμάτι “In the End” με εντελώς διαφορετικούς στίχους.
Ακούστε το “In the End” στον παρακάτω σύνδεσμο και δείτε λίγο παρακάτω τους νέους στίχους:
It starts with one… One, then multiplies ’til you can taste the sun And burned by the sky you try to take it from But if it falls, there’s no place to run Crumbling down, it’s so unreal They’re dealing you in to determine your end And sending you back again, to places you’ve been And bending your will ’til it breaks you, within And still, they fill their eyes With the twilight through the skylight And the highlights on a frame of steel See the brightness of your likeness As I write this on a pad with the way I feel Hear the screaming in my dreaming As it’s seeming that you’ve played your part Like you’re heartless, take apart this In the darkness, but I know that I’ve tried so hard I tried so hard and got so far But in the end, it doesn’t even matter I had to fall to lose it all But in the end, it doesn’t even matter I’ve looked down the line And what’s there is not what ought to be Held back by the battles they fought for me Calling me to be part of their property And now, I see that I get no chance I get no break Fakes and snakes quickly lead to mistakes And as the tightrope within slowly starts to thin I can only hope that they close their eyes To the twilight through the skylight And the highlights on a frame of steel See the brightness of your likeness As I write this on a pad to the way I feel Hear the screaming in my dreaming As it’s seeming that you’ve played your part Like you’re heartless, take apart this In the darkness, but I know that I tried so hard I tried so hard and got so far But in the end, it doesn’t even matter I had to fall to lose it all But in the end, it doesn’t even matter I’ve put my trust in you, pushed as far as I can go For all this, there’s only one thing you should know I’ve put my trust in you, pushed as far as I can go For all this, there’s only one thing you should know I’ve put my trust in you, pushed as far as I can go For all this, there’s only one thing you should know I tried so hard and got so far But in the end, it doesn’t even matter I had to fall to lose it all But in the end, it doesn’t even matter