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Linkin Park And Friends Hollywood Bowl 2017 LINKIN PARK AND FRIENDS Celebrate Life in Honor of Linkin Park And Friends Hollywood Bowl 2017 Chester Bennington Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, CA October 27, 2017 MP3 Version Naughty Dog Linkin Park And Friends Hollywood Bowl 2017 Trade Freely. NotForSale. Freely. Trade Linkin Park And Friends Hollywood Bowl 2017 Bowl Hollywood Friends And Park Linkin Naughty Dog Naughty CHESTER BENNINGTON R.I.P. 1976-2017 with the five surviving members of Linkin Park. Metallica, Paul McCartney, Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan and Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan gave video messages that Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington has died aged 41, LA County Coroner played in between clips of U2 dedicating “One Tree Hill” to Bennington during their says. The coroner said Bennington apparently hanged himself. His body was found recent “Joshua Tree” tour. But the night’s most powerful moments occurred when at a private home in the county at 09:00 local time (17:00 GMT) on July 20, 2017. the remaining members of Linkin Park let the 18,000-plus fans take over and sing Bennington was said to be close to Soundgarden vocalist Chris Cornell, who took his Bennington’s parts on both “Numb,” which featured an empty mike stand illuminated own life in May. Formed in 1996, Linkin Park have sold more than 70 million albums in the center of the stage, and “In the End.” They also sang “One More Light” at the top worldwide and won two Grammy Awards. The band had a string of hits including of their lungs, with almost the entire Bowl illuminated by cell phones. Faint, In The End and Crawling, and collaborated with the rapper Jay-Z. In May 2017, Linkin Park released their seventh studio album, One More Light. As for the new songs, Shinoda explained to the crowd that during rehearsals for this show Morissette had played him some of her new songs, telling him they were demos. A key element in the group’s success was to fuse elements of metal and rock with rap He said they sounded like finished songs to him - and maybe if everyone asked she and hip-hop to shape the nu-metal genre on songs such as Crawling, In The End and would play one. They obliged, and so did she, introducing the ballad “Rest” as a song Numb. Arguably their biggest asset was Chester’s powerhouse voice. He had a huge, about the stigma faced by people who battle depression and mental illness. “I want to raspy vocal which suited their stadium-filling, singalong anthems. Whilst his vocal offer empathy to everyone out there and empathy to Chester,” she said. persona could be described as angry and harsh, in person he was warm, articulate and funny. The singer is said to have struggled for years with alcohol and drug abuse, Shinoda said he’d written his new song - “Looking for an Answer,” for which he and has talked in the past about contemplating suicide as a result of being a victim accompanied himself on piano - eight days after Bennington’s passing. He talked about of abuse as a child. Bennington wrote an open letter to Chris Cornell on the latter’s the role of music in helping him get through the loss. He also answered one of the death, saying: “You have inspired me in ways you could never have known... I can’t main questions of this night: Where would Linkin Park go from here? He said even imagine a world without you in it.” Cornell would have celebrated his 53rd birthday they don’t know. “I don’t know what’s gonna happen with this song,” he said. “If we do on July 20. He hanged himself after a concert in Detroit on 17 May. - BBC continue, I want to build on this.” + + + + + After the... emotional singalong of “In the End,” Bennington’s widow Talinda came out to read a speech, in which she said how much her husband would have appreciated Steve Baltin, variety.com: bringing everyone together. “He would have loved this and would have loved everyone lifting each other up,” she said. She also called the five band members of Linkin With a dozen big-name guests and 31 songs over three hours, Linkin Park and Friends’ her “brothers” and said how grateful she was he brought them into her life before tribute to their late singer Chester Bennington obviously had many memorable wrapping up the speech by citing the hashtags, “F- depression” “Make Chester proud.” moments. Alanis Morissette and the band’s Mike Shinoda both performed new songs dedicated to Bennington, who committed suicide in July. Members of No Doubt, That was followed by a powerful and now haunting video of Bennington introducing System of a Down, Avenged Sevenfold, Sum-41, Bush and Yellowcard performed “One More Light” during a recent show in Birmingham, England. Dedicating the track to the victim of the Manchester bombing Disc 1 Disc 2 Disc 3 after the Ariana Grande concert, he said, “The 01. intro 2:04 01. Sharp Edges 4:15 with Ilsey Juber 01. I Miss You 5:05 one thing that can’t be defeated is love.” 02. Robot Boy/The Messenger/ 02. Talking to Myself 5:08 with Ilsey Juber with Blink-182 Iridescent 5:56 03. Heavy 5:18 02. What I've Done 4:08 All that was left was for the band to celebrate 03. Roads Untraveled (live debut) 4:06 with Julia Michaels and Kiiara with Blink-182 him with the all-star finale of “Bleed It Out.” 04. Numb 3:41 04. One More Light 7:35 03. In the End 6:27 Shinoda introduced the song by saying audience sings Chester's part 05. Looking for an Answer (live debut) 4:04 audience sings Chester's part the evening was neither the end nor a 05. Shadow of the Day 8:11 06. Waiting For The End/Until It Breaks 8:19 04. Speech by Talinda new beginning for Linkin Park. “We don’t with Ryan Key of Yellowcard with Steven McKellar and Sydney Sierota (Chester's widow) 7:04 know where we’re going,” he said. “But we 06. Leave Out All the Rest 4:57 of Echosmith 05. Iridescent 5:22 appreciate your support. with Gavin Rossdale of Bush 07. Crawling 4:42 06. New Divide 3:30 07. Somewhere I Belong 5:15 with Oli Sykes of Bring Me the Horizon with Chester's pre-recorded vocals “More importantly,” he concluded, “keep with Takahiro “Taka” Moriuchi and Zedd on drums 07. A Light That Never Comes 5:23 Chester in your hearts and make him proud.” of One OK Rock 08. Papercut 3:16 with Machine Gun Kelly with Steve Aoki, Bebe Rexha and 08. Castle of Glass 5:00 09. One Step Closer 3:58 Frank Zummo of Sum 41 + + + + + with Adrian Young, Tom Dumont with Ryan Shuck and Amir Derakh of 08. Burn It Down 4:40 and Tony Kanal of No Doubt and Julien-K/Dead By Sunrise and Jonathan with Matt Shadows of Avenged Thanks to SOBERONEZ for sharing the HDTV Alanis Morissette Davis of Korn Sevenfold webcast at Dime. 09. Rest 6:45 10. A Place For My Head 4:05 09. Faint 4:09 Alanis Morissette, live debut with Jeremy McKinnon from A Day To with Matt Shadows and Synster Gates 10. talk 3:14 Remember of Avenged Sevenfold 11. Nobody Can Save Me 6:39 11. Rebellion 5:35 10. Bleed It Out/The Messenger 8:21 with John Green and Stephen with Frank Zummo from Sum 41, Daron 55 mins McCullough Malakian and Shavo Odadjian from 12. Battle Symphony 4:13 System of a Down with Jon Green 12. The Catalyst 9:35 60 mins with Frank Zummo and Deryck Whibley of Sum 41 66 mins.