7 Curiosities About American Rock Band, Linkin Park. You Know The Seven?
Linkin Park is an American rock band from Agoura Hills, California. Formed in 1996, the band rose to international fame with their debut album Hybrid Theory (2000).
Linkin Park was founded by three high school friends: Mike Shinoda, Rob Bourdon, and Brad Delson.[18] The three attended Agoura High School in Agoura Hills, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. After graduating from high school, the three began to take their musical interests more seriously, recruiting Joe Hahn, Dave "Phoenix" Farrell, and Mark Wakefield to perform in their band, Xero.
1. Their final rebadging saw them take the name Linkin Park, a play on and homage to Santa Monica’s Lincoln Park. The band initially wanted the name "Lincoln Park", however they changed it to "Linkin" because they couldn't afford the domain name "lincolnpark.com".
2. The band's first ever gig was at The Whisky a Go Go, in LA, which was also the launching pad for a plethora of legendary bands like Motley Crüe, The Doors and Guns 'N Roses.
3. Linkin Park were the first rock band to achieve over one billion hits on YouTube. They hit the landmark with their 2009 single 'New Divide', which acted as the lead-off single to the Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen soundtrack scoring 131 million views on its own.
4. At the time of Chester and his ex-wife’s wedding, they were too poor to afford rings (he was working at BK at the time), so instead got matching tattoos on their ring fingers.
5. If you play Announcement Service Public backwards you can hear Chester sing: "you should brush your teeth and you should wash your hands." Allow this YouTube vid to do the technical part for you. It plays the track normally first then backwards. Jump to 2 mins 28.
6. Rob Bourdon started to play Drums after watching an Aerosmith concert. His mother, Patty, is friends with Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer, and Kramer gave Rob a kick pedal. That got him interested.
7. Talk about popular. Linkin Park are the biggest band on Facebook, with over 64 million fans and counting.
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Linkin Park was founded by three high school friends: Mike Shinoda, Rob Bourdon, and Brad Delson.[18] The three attended Agoura High School in Agoura Hills, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. After graduating from high school, the three began to take their musical interests more seriously, recruiting Joe Hahn, Dave "Phoenix" Farrell, and Mark Wakefield to perform in their band, Xero.
7 Curiosities About American Rock Band, Linkin Park.
1. Their final rebadging saw them take the name Linkin Park, a play on and homage to Santa Monica’s Lincoln Park. The band initially wanted the name "Lincoln Park", however they changed it to "Linkin" because they couldn't afford the domain name "lincolnpark.com".
2. The band's first ever gig was at The Whisky a Go Go, in LA, which was also the launching pad for a plethora of legendary bands like Motley Crüe, The Doors and Guns 'N Roses.
3. Linkin Park were the first rock band to achieve over one billion hits on YouTube. They hit the landmark with their 2009 single 'New Divide', which acted as the lead-off single to the Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen soundtrack scoring 131 million views on its own.
4. At the time of Chester and his ex-wife’s wedding, they were too poor to afford rings (he was working at BK at the time), so instead got matching tattoos on their ring fingers.
5. If you play Announcement Service Public backwards you can hear Chester sing: "you should brush your teeth and you should wash your hands." Allow this YouTube vid to do the technical part for you. It plays the track normally first then backwards. Jump to 2 mins 28.
6. Rob Bourdon started to play Drums after watching an Aerosmith concert. His mother, Patty, is friends with Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer, and Kramer gave Rob a kick pedal. That got him interested.
7. Talk about popular. Linkin Park are the biggest band on Facebook, with over 64 million fans and counting.
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7 Curiosities About American Rock Band, Linkin Park. You Know The Seven?
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