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Before Linkin Park, the original five members of Linkin Park were in other bands around the Los Angeles area. | Before Linkin Park, the original five members of Linkin Park were in other bands around the Los Angeles area. | ||
===The Pricks=== | ===The Pricks=== | ||
The Pricks was a band Brad Delson played in before Relative Degree and Xero. Mark Wakefield is rumored to have been a member of the band. Mike Giangreco (Brad's boss at The Roxy and Whisky A Go Go) also mentioned Rob Bourdon being in the band. The Pricks played several shows during its existence, many of them taking place at college frat parties. | |||
In June 1995, The Pricks opened Hoobastank's (spelled Hoobustank at the time) very first show in the summer of 1995 at Doug Robb's (lead singer of Hoobastank) parents' backyard. Members of both bands had been friends since long before The Pricks was formed and to prepare for the show they stole stages from their local high school in the middle of the night, set them up in Doug's backyard and hired security, charging a dollar for admission. Around 150 people were in attendance. Mike Shinoda mentioned in August 2020 that he was at this show. | |||
===Relative Degree=== | ===Relative Degree=== | ||
===Grey Daze=== | ===Grey Daze=== | ||
Revision as of 20:58, 12 August 2020
Band Background
Linkin Park is an alternative band from Los Angeles, California. As of 2016, Linkin Park has released six studio albums, their most recent being The Hunting Party, released in 2014. They are currently in the studio working on their seventh full-length album, due out in fall 2016.
Officially formed in 1999, the band has roots that go back to 1996 and prior. Before Linkin Park, all of the members in the band except Chester Bennington were in Xero, which existed from 1996 to 1998 with a different singer Mark Wakefield. At the time, Chester was serving as lead singer in Arizona band Grey Daze. After it didn't work out with the singer in Xero, the band reformed under the name Hybrid Theory in 1999. On his 23rd birthday on March 23rd, 1999, Chester recorded a demo for Hybrid Theory and as some say, the rest is history. After recording their Hybrid Theory EP, releasing it in 1999, and touring, the band changed their name to Linkin Park in May 2000 in anticipation of their label debut album, now called Hybrid Theory.
"Original 5" Previous Bands
Before Linkin Park, the original five members of Linkin Park were in other bands around the Los Angeles area.
The Pricks
The Pricks was a band Brad Delson played in before Relative Degree and Xero. Mark Wakefield is rumored to have been a member of the band. Mike Giangreco (Brad's boss at The Roxy and Whisky A Go Go) also mentioned Rob Bourdon being in the band. The Pricks played several shows during its existence, many of them taking place at college frat parties.
In June 1995, The Pricks opened Hoobastank's (spelled Hoobustank at the time) very first show in the summer of 1995 at Doug Robb's (lead singer of Hoobastank) parents' backyard. Members of both bands had been friends since long before The Pricks was formed and to prepare for the show they stole stages from their local high school in the middle of the night, set them up in Doug's backyard and hired security, charging a dollar for admission. Around 150 people were in attendance. Mike Shinoda mentioned in August 2020 that he was at this show.
Relative Degree
Grey Daze
Chester's Previous Bands
Sean Dowdell & His Friends
Grey Daze
Albums
Charity
Discography
Hybrid Theory EP (1999)
Hybrid Theory (2000)
Reanimation (2002)
Meteora (2003)
Collision Course (2004)
Minutes To Midnight (2007)
A Thousand Suns (2010)
Living Things (2012)
The Hunting Party (2014)
One More Light (2017)