{"id":552794,"date":"2023-02-16T19:02:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T16:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mike-shinoda-returns-to-linkin-parks-endless-winter\/"},"modified":"2023-02-16T19:02:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T16:02:36","slug":"mike-shinoda-returns-to-linkin-parks-endless-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mike-shinoda-returns-to-linkin-parks-endless-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mike Shinoda returns to Linkin Park\u2019s endless winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28bb426ab1f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: 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center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"custom-title\">\n      Mike Shinoda returns to Linkin Park\u2019s endless winter\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-description\">\n      On the new episode of The FADER Interview podcast, the Linkin Park co-leader discusses grief, family, and finding lost things.\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-attribution\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Alex Robert Ross<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"custom-media\">\n<div class=\" image center_align\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MS-PHOTOS_IMG_7202-_1__ybhyiw\/mike-shinoda-returns-to-linkin-parks-endless-winter.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MS-PHOTOS_IMG_7202-_1__ybhyiw\/mike-shinoda-returns-to-linkin-parks-endless-winter.jpg 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class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <span style=\"color:#ffffff\" class=\"lead-text\">In 2001<\/span>, Linkin Park were under pressure. Their debut LP, <i>Hybrid Theory<\/i>, was breaking record after record, well on its way to selling nearly 5 million copies in a single year and becoming one of the most commercially successful albums of all time. But, partly as a result, they were on a grueling world tour, constantly getting sick as they chased winter around the world, and an unfounded rumor had started to swirl that the band was a manufactured plant \u2014 a nu-metal, rap-rock boyband. As they crammed into the claustrophobic writing and recording space on their tour bus to work on <i>Hybrid Theory<\/i>\u2019s follow-up, they not only had to live up to their staggeringly successful debut; they had to prove that they were authentic.<\/p>\n<p>            The result was 2003\u2019s <i>Meteora<\/i>, a more sample-based, less guitar-heavy record that included some of the band\u2019s greatest hits: \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kXYiU_JCYtU\">Numb<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LYU-8IFcDPw\">Faint<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zsCD5XCu6CM&amp;ab_channel=LinkinPark\">Somewhere I Belong<\/a>.\u201d It helped to establish Linkin Park as one of the most impactful rock groups of all time \u2014 confident enough to sweep into U2\u2019s sonic territory, popular enough to sell out stadiums on their own, ubiquitous and idiosyncratic enough that everyone you know either loved them or hated them.<\/p>\n<p>            That all ended in 2017, with the tragic death by suicide of their lead singer, Chester Bennington. Linkin Park have been on hiatus ever since. Their emcee and co-frontman, Mike Shinoda, released an emotionally raw solo album, <i>Post Traumatic<\/i>, in 2018, confronting Bennington\u2019s passing and its after-effects head on. And a comprehensive 20th anniversary reissue of <i>Hybrid Theory<\/i> gave fans an intimate look at the band\u2019s early days. But there\u2019s been no new music from Linkin Park since.<\/p>\n<p>            Now, for the first time since the release of Linkin Park\u2019s last studio album, <i>One More Light<\/i>, we have Bennington\u2019s voice on a fully-formed and never-before-heard song. Diving back into the archives for the 20th anniversary reissue of <i>Meteora<\/i>, Shinoda stumbled on \u201cLost,\u201d a track cut from the album at the last minute and thought to exist only in the form of an instrumental. Recently, I spoke to Shinoda about how he unearthed \u201cLost\u201d with its dual vocals, how <i>Meteora<\/i> came to life two decades ago, and why Linkin Park\u2019s music keeps finding new life today.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242870\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242819\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left video\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper\" style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\">\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lost [Official Music Video] - Linkin Park\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7NK_JOkuSVY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n \/\/trackYouTubeVideo('242819');\n<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-242816,  #content_block-242816 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-242816 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #ffffff;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242816\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>            <i>This Q&amp;A is taken from the latest episode of The FADER Interview podcast. To hear this week\u2019s show in full, and to access the podcast\u2019s archive, click <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#000000\" href=\"https:\/\/link.chtbl.com\/thefaderinterview\">here<\/a>.<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242817\" class=\"content_block paragraph embed triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TFI7834680816\" width=\"100%\" height=\"482\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242871\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n #content_block-242818 {\n   background: ;\n   padding-bottom: 40px;\n }<\/p>\n<p> #content_block-242818,  #content_block-242818 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-242818 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #ffffff;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242818\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>You found \u201cLost\u201d pretty much whole, right? Where did you find it? Was it on a CD or a hard drive?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            <b>Mike Shinoda:<\/b> We put out a 20th anniversary [edition] of <i>Hybrid Theory<\/i>, and it did really well. We didn\u2019t have a plan to do 20th anniversaries of anything else. [But] we were like, \u201cOkay, people want this,\u201d so we started looking through the band\u2019s hard drives and going to friends, like, \u201cIf you\u2019ve got anything from this era, send it over.\u201d The highlights of the excavation were \u201cLost,\u201d a couple other songs with vocals, a bunch of other demos that didn\u2019t ever get finished, a whole documentary of our touring at the time and what it was like to be on the road with us, and then multiple shows that had been professionally filmed but hadn\u2019t been fully released. It\u2019s a lot. If you\u2019re a Linkin Park fan and you like this album, it goes so deep, but you also get this wonderful time-warp snapshot of how young and naive and childish the band was at the time. <\/p>\n<p>            We were 25, but we were acting like teenagers. We\u2019d gone from playing clubs for 300 people to headlining festivals in a year. This radio show for a station here in L.A. \u2014 one year we were the first band on the lineup and the very same show one year later, we were the headliners. We didn\u2019t even grasp what had h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened. We were just head down, going through what we knew. Get to the next step. Get to the second album. Here are our challenges. Here\u2019s what we expect of ourselves. Here\u2019s what other people expect. Gotta make the best record that we can. You can hear it in all of the material on this 20th anniversary package.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>In the DVD that came out with <i>Meteora<\/i>, you get a real sense of the work you guys were putting in. It sounds like, by the end of that process, there was a lot of pressure. Chester gets sick for five weeks when he\u2019s still got to track vocals.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I don\u2019t know what was wrong with us, but we got sick so much. There was a point at the end of the <i>Hybrid Theory<\/i> tour leading into that <i>Meteora<\/i> recording where we called it the \u201cEndless Winter Tour\u201d; we followed winter around the planet for five months. It was cold and rainy everywhere we went. At the three-month point, we\u2019re like, \u201cWhy is it still raining?!\u201d Every day is rainy. We\u2019re always sick. We\u2019re doing a show and go to the side of the stage and throw up in a bucket and come back on and finish the song. We were a mess, just pushing as hard as we could every single night. <\/p>\n<p>            I remember sleeping on the tour bus, bundled up with the chills and a fever. I played a show, got in my second layer of clothes, went into the bunk, slept, woke up, ate, slept, woke up, ate, slept, got on stage to play another show. This was life for us at that point. And when it wasn\u2019t that, it was us being wildly just childish. It was the best ride, a dream come true, so we were enjoying every minute of it.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-242820,  #content_block-242820 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-242820 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #ffffff;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242820\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p>\u201cWe were 25, but we were acting like teenagers. We\u2019d gone from playing clubs for 300 people to headlining festivals in a year.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242873\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-242821,  #content_block-242821 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-242821 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #ffffff;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242821\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>Was it internal pressure or external pressure? Was it because like, \u201cHey, we\u2019ve gotta tour, the label set us up,\u201d or were you pushing yourself because you\u2019re 25 and that\u2019s what you do?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            As we went along, we\u2019d get updates about the performance of the album and the tour, and every email was, \u201cYou guys, we broke another record. This song did better than your last song. We\u2019ve gotta go bigger on the headline tour. We should probably think about making our own festival.\u201d By the end of [the tour], we got an email from the label saying <i>Hybrid Theory<\/i> was the biggest album on planet Earth that year. It took us weeks to even process that information because we were so used to hearing good <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>, as stupid as that sounds; everything was bigger, bigger, bigger. We almost just filed it under more good news, and then we realized, \u201cThis is not the same good news. This is life-changing good news and  life-changing pressure as we go into this next record.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>            Meanwhile, a rumor had started. I think it was the U.K. rock press where they were really snarky and there was no quality control back then, fucking children writing on blogs and submitting it to editors that would print it in a magazine. They were so bad. And somebody made up a story about us being a manufactured boy band, the Backstreet Boys of rock, an industry plant. \u201cSomebody hired these guys that didn\u2019t know each other. Somebody else wrote the songs. Blah, blah, blah.\u201d Every word of it was bullshit, but what do you do?<\/p>\n<p>            At the time, there was nothing we could do to prove them wrong. We\u2019re like, \u201cNo, we have photos! We\u2019ve known each other!\u201d But there\u2019s no <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>, there\u2019s no cell phones with pictures. It\u2019s just your word against theirs. So going into <i>Meteora<\/i>, we said, \u201cNot only do we have to write an album that proves we can do it again, but we have to show them that we\u2019re the ones writing it. We have to show them how we do it and how hard we\u2019re working to get to where we\u2019re at.\u201d That was part of the challenge put on us by other people but also part of the challenge we put on ourselves: to prove that we earned it and to make sure we advanced the conversation, that we weren\u2019t gonna just do <i>Hybrid Theory Part Two<\/i>, that we set ourselves up to be more than just the band they found out about on the first record, that there were songs on the record that proved we could change our musical \u201capproach.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>            I was gonna say \u201cgenre,\u201d but we never wanted to be part of a genre. We wanted to change the approach, and the idea of genre as a concept. We wrote this song called \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v2H4l9RpkwM\">Breaking the Habit<\/a>.\u201d We made the label promise we could release it as a single. We were like, \u201cGuys, this is so important for the band to have a song out that has no heavy guitars, no screaming, no metal at all.\u201d It\u2019s mostly sampled \u2014 programmed drum beats and strings [are] the meat and potatoes of the track \u2014 to let people know that we don\u2019t subscribe to this idea of what the band is supposed to sound like.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242874\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242815\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left image\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1440,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MS-PHOTOS_IMG_7046BW_srhuxu\/mike-shinoda-returns-to-linkin-parks-endless-winter.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_220,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MS-PHOTOS_IMG_7046BW_srhuxu\/mike-shinoda-returns-to-linkin-parks-endless-winter.jpg 220w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_300,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MS-PHOTOS_IMG_7046BW_srhuxu\/mike-shinoda-returns-to-linkin-parks-endless-winter.jpg 300w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MS-PHOTOS_IMG_7046BW_srhuxu\/mike-shinoda-returns-to-linkin-parks-endless-winter.jpg 400w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_600,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MS-PHOTOS_IMG_7046BW_srhuxu\/mike-shinoda-returns-to-linkin-parks-endless-winter.jpg 600w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_750,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MS-PHOTOS_IMG_7046BW_srhuxu\/mike-shinoda-returns-to-linkin-parks-endless-winter.jpg 750w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_840,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MS-PHOTOS_IMG_7046BW_srhuxu\/mike-shinoda-returns-to-linkin-parks-endless-winter.jpg 840w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_960,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MS-PHOTOS_IMG_7046BW_srhuxu\/mike-shinoda-returns-to-linkin-parks-endless-winter.jpg 960w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1260,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MS-PHOTOS_IMG_7046BW_srhuxu\/mike-shinoda-returns-to-linkin-parks-endless-winter.jpg 1260w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_1800,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MS-PHOTOS_IMG_7046BW_srhuxu\/mike-shinoda-returns-to-linkin-parks-endless-winter.jpg 1800w,https:\/\/thefader-res.cloudinary.com\/private_images\/w_2400,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:best\/MS-PHOTOS_IMG_7046BW_srhuxu\/mike-shinoda-returns-to-linkin-parks-endless-winter.jpg 2400w,\" sizes=\"100vw\" alt=\"Mike Shinoda returns to Linkin Park\u2019s endless winter\"><span class=\"img_caption\"><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"credit\"><\/p>\n<p>      Frank Maddocks<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-242822,  #content_block-242822 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-242822 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #ffffff;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242822\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>Seeing footage of you guys back then, you\u2019re kids living out your dream. But you\u2019re still grappling with some really difficult things on <i>Meteora<\/i> \u2014 just as much as you were, if not more, than on <i>Hybrid Theory<\/i>. You can see that happen across the history of rock; Nirvana were breaking records, but at least for Cobain, that was actively pissing him off at the same time. This tension that exists within the band, between the music you\u2019re putting out and the experience you\u2019re having, seems quite heated.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            Yeah, it\u2019s not unique to us. Every musician, every band, everybody has their own version, right? For us, the dynamic was that I was becoming the primary writer of the tracks and the lyrics. Sometimes I was writing things from my perspective, and other times I was writing for [Chester]: \u201cI know this story about you, and I wrote a song about it.\u201d And then other times, I was writing something that was both of us, a little vague, maybe, or designed to address the way we felt about a thing.<\/p>\n<p>            On those records, the lyrical approach was abstracted storytelling. I don\u2019t know that we had the words or the balls to tell our very specific stories at the time. We also wanted to let fans interpret the way they wanted to. I could write a song about a thing, and you could hear it and think it\u2019s about a different thing. And as far as I\u2019m concerned, your thing is more important when you hear it. I don\u2019t wanna ruin that.<\/p>\n<p>            <b><i>Hybrid Theory<\/i> had a huge impact on many millions of people, partly because of the sort of difficult topics that you and Chester were addressing about addiction and abuse. You\u2019re trying to connect with people. You want people to interpret it in their own ways. When you realize that\u2019s happening, do you feel like you have to go back to that same well of darkness?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            I met Chester in the late \u201990s, and I\u2019d always hear new stories. He\u2019d tell me about things that went on in the past, and I\u2019d be like, \u201cOh man, your life is like a movie.\u201d It was very dramatic. He\u2019s talked about all that childhood stuff. It\u2019s not a story for me to tell. But those stories were new to me, so it was like, \u201cHere\u2019s how I relate to that, my version. That\u2019s the song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            \u201cNumb\u201d was more of a backwards looking song: \u201cThis is how I felt in a relationship, and over time. it\u2019s become this way.\u201d Whereas with \u201cFaint,\u201d there\u2019s an urgency. I think most people go through a version of it when they\u2019re growing up: \u201cI\u2019m not being heard. Why doesn\u2019t anybody hear me? Why doesn\u2019t anybody see me?\u201d At that time, what we were feeling more than anything was, \u201cI keep telling people my story and how sincere I feel about this thing, and they don\u2019t hear me.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242875\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-242823,  #content_block-242823 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-242823 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #ffffff;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242823\" class=\"content_block breaker triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left pull_quote\">\n<div class=\"media_wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"pull_quote\"><p>\u201cIt was so fun to hear where we were at \u2014 what we were doing, what we were about, why people were showing up in the first place.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<p> #content_block-242824,  #content_block-242824 blockquote.pull_quote, #content_block-242824 .img_caption .caption {\n   color: #ffffff;\n }\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242824\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<p>\n            <b>Hearing you speak so vividly about that time two decades ago, you seem to be really in touch with it. I wonder if that\u2019s partly because you\u2019ve revisited these archives. What was it like going back into this and hearing \u201cLost\u201d for the first time in God knows how long?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            When we were looking for material for this thing, I wasn\u2019t looking for that song. There was another song that I knew was somewhere in a hard drive called \u201cFighting Myself.\u201d  We found the session of that song, which I didn\u2019t know they\u2019d kept a version of. That raised the question [whether I should] rewrite and rerecord my verses. I talked to the guys, and we decided that it would be more pure and true to the intention of <i>Meteora 20<\/i> to not do any new recording, so we kept everything as it was.<\/p>\n<p>            In the process, I heard \u201cLost.\u201d We\u2019d been writing <i>Meteora<\/i> and we had 40 demos or something, and you narrow down: \u201cThese ones don\u2019t have any vocals yet. They\u2019re not gonna be contenders. Get rid of them. These ones have vocals. They\u2019re close. Keep working on them. These ones are keepers.\u201d Eventually, you get to the point where it\u2019s like, \u201cOkay, we\u2019re gonna make an album of about 12 songs out of these.\u201d I remember that we did get to the point where we almost put \u201cLost\u201d on <i>Meteora<\/i>. We realized that tonally, it was the same kind of emotion and energy as \u201cNumb,\u201d and \u201cNumb\u201d was arguably a better song. We liked it better at the time. So we were like, \u201cWell, we can\u2019t have two \u2019Numb\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            We didn\u2019t know what we were going to do with it, so we just shelved it and forgot about it. Finding it was like, \u201cOh my God, the song got all the way to the finish line.\u201d Fans are gonna love to hear this. It was so fun to hear where we were at \u2014 what we were doing, what we were about, why people were showing up in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>            <b>I\u2019m trying to think what it would feel like to unexpectedly hear Chester\u2019s voice again singing like that while you\u2019re trying to uncover stuff.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>            That would happen back in 2017, 2018. I\u2019d go into a store and \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#000000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eVTXPUF4Oz4\">In the End<\/a>\u201d would play, and I\u2019d have to leave. That was tough. But yeah, I\u2019m not there anymore. I have kids. My kid\u2019s friends will find out, and they\u2019ll send my kids a message, like, \u201cYour dad is in Linkin Park? Dude!\u201d It\u2019s cool that they like it. The fact that it\u2019s still meaningful to anybody is\u2026 I mean, you know.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n<\/style>\n<div id=\"content_block-242876\" class=\"content_block paragraph text triple_gutter_right triple_gutter_left center_align\">\n<div class=\"content_inner_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"paragraph_wrapper center_align\">\n<div class=\"\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: left;\">\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n    <span><br \/>\n      By <span class=\"credit_name\">Alex Robert Ross<\/span><br \/>\n  <\/span><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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