It is hard to imagine how the suits blew it. “You could hear crickets.” When Bennington arrived in 1999, the band played forty-two showcases for labels and, the singer says, “got turned down by everybody.” “The place was empty,” says Blue, now a vice president of A&R at Warner Bros. Blue, who gave the group a development deal in 1997 after seeing just one show, recalls a Xero club date in Los Angeles packed with A&R scouts. passed three times before finally signing the band in late ’99. For three years, Linkin Park were rejected by every major label in the business and by a lot of indies, as well. “Each week, we’re in awe,” Bennington, 25, says with a deep gulp of air.Įxecutives at other record companies must be in tears. The band’s maiden DVD, Frat Party at the Panhake Festival, is a Top Ten seller, and an official fan club, launched in November, already has 10,000 members. Phoenix -are also up for three Grammys on February 27th, including Best Rock Album and Best New Artist. Linkin Park – Bennington and founding members guitarist Brad Delson, rapper Mike Shinoda, drummer Rob Bourdon, DJ Joseph Hahn and bassist David Farrell, a.k.a. Twelve songs of compact fire indivisibly blending alternative metal, hip-hop and turntable art, was the best-selling record in America last year – trumping albums by Jay-Z, ‘NSync and Britney Spears – and still sells nearly 100,000 copies a week. in October 2000, Linkin Park’s debut album,, has sold 6 million copies in the U.S. Three years after he took that phone call, Bennington – a slender dynamo with black-rimmed eyeglasses, a ring piercing his lower lip and a shrapnel-laced howl that sounds like it comes from someone twice his size – is the singer in the hottest new band in rock.Īfter he joined, Xero changed their name to Hybrid Theory. It’s gonna happen, even if it takes five years.'” He was way off. “But when I got that tape,” Bennington says, “we looked at each other and went, ‘This is it, this is the one.
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