I’d probably say Breaking the Habit and Papercut are probably my favorites. hahaĬhester Bennington (LPU Chat 2 August 2011):
originally, forgotten was called "rhinestone," and no matter how much i ask him not to, brad still calls that song by its old name. "in the end" was originally called "untitled", which we liked until d'angelo came out with a song of that name.īut sometimes, some of us never get past the working title. "papercut" was a working title, as was "points of authority". Mike Shinoda ( 7 October 2002):Ī bit of trivia: some songs never lose their working title. We played those songs a ton when the band name was "Hybrid Theory," and once we had a whole album to play, those kinda just went away. Mike Shinoda (Reddit AMA 12 August 2015): I think we were called XERO when we called Carousel and Part of Me, and it was probably in a small club in LA or Arizona. I do remember performing Carousel, And One, High Voltage and Part of Me. He was someone we had met who was really nice and we could do something for a small amount of money. Actually it was with Mudrock who did Godsmack's tracks. It was the first time we were in the studio. That was a little project we put together when Chester first came to California. It was part of an EP that we put out with a baby on the cover. That was an older song of ours that is not on the album. He wrote a guitar part to it and we wrote a song around it. He got woken up or something to a car alarm from a garage in the parking lot underneath his apartment. I wrote a song from a sample that Brad collected of a car alarm. This song is called Reading My Eyes.Įvery time we write a song it starts from something different. This is actually from a demo from before we were Linkin Park, before we were Hybrid Theory, back when we were called Xero. We haven't played this song on this tour, it's the first time in a long time we're playing this song. What we wanna do right now is take you back a step. but i’ve seen some really bad “interpretations” of the lyrics on so-called “lyric websites” that are WAY OFF…so i figured i’d give you the real lyrics. Looking back at the lyrics, it’s crazy some of it’s really dated, some of it’s still dope, and some of it makes virtually no sense whatsoever. We decided to put it in the show because a lot of the hardcore fans wanted to hear us play it–the only time we played it with chester before this tour was in tokyo, 2006. this was one of the songs on the demo we would send out to record companies to try and get signed, and it was on some of the demos we passed out to friends and new fans (the blue cassette with the baby on the cover). it was an original demo from when the band was called XERO, which means it was written (and originally performed) by me and my friend mark. i think we wrote the song back in ‘97 or ‘98. I may have posted this before somewhere, but i thought since we’re playing “reading my eyes” a bit on stage, i’d give you a little background. Mike Shinoda ( 17 June 2008):įirstly, looks like won the Best International Video - Group award from MUCH MUSIC…big up to canada! we love you guys, thanks
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We actually had to download it online to remember how the song started! once we figured out the first few notes, the whole song came back to us. RME: we actually just got the idea while we were in rehearsal. The xero song (reading my eyes) we played recently in japan is almost 10 years old, so i guess it's just a reminder how time flies. So that to us indicated that like "hey, maybe we should play this song." This song was actually realized before Chester was even in the band. And as soon as we played the first couple of notes, it all came back and we just.
We didn't know if we could still play it. And we were just messing around in practice before we came here, and somebody brought up that idea. So almost ten years ago, back when we were called Xero, we wrote a song that we kind of haven't played it since. And before Hybrid Theory we were called Xero. actually, before we were called Linkin Park we were called Hybrid Theory. What we wanna do is take you back a long time.
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