RIP Chester Bennington

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Original Poster:

3,575 posts

126 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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Lead singer of Linkin Park commits suicide

Rip

anonymous-user

53 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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Jeez what was he 40 ish ?

weeboot

1,063 posts

98 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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p1stonhead

25,489 posts

166 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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This is sad to me. They were one of my favourites when I was about 14. Rip.

Hybrid Theory is a belter.

Edited by p1stonhead on Thursday 20th July 19:48

MOBB

Original Poster:

3,575 posts

126 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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Just giving hybrid theory a quick listen and the lyrics feel much darker now :-(

HorneyMX5

5,306 posts

149 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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Another sad loss for music. The first album blew me away.

Can't remember the year but they played Reading Festival and my younger brother and his mates went off to see some band in a small tent because "Linkin Park is too commercial dude". They missed out on one of the best sing along Reading sets by any band I've seen there over the years. The crowd pretty much drowned out the band. Turns out the band my brother and his mates went to see was rubbish, they were gutted.

Butter Face

30,191 posts

159 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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Crazy stuff, obviously a pretty tormented soul with a history of alcohol and drug use. Hell of a talent gone and what a shame he got to the point of killing himself.

In the end is possibly one of my favourite songs of all time and it'll not sound the same after today.

bexVN

14,682 posts

210 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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Really liked this band back along, such ashame a talent lost and six children without their Dad. RIP Chester.

NewNameNeeded

2,560 posts

224 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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So sad. Hybrid Theory is a hugeky iconic albumn for me. One of my favourites. Saw them live several times and they were phenomenal. Chester had an astounding voice. Loved his cover of Adele too. Very sad.

S100HP

12,645 posts

166 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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Gutted. Again.

6 kids too.

Hoofy

76,253 posts

281 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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Wow. I'd only been listening to Hybrid Theory again last week.

pidsy

7,958 posts

156 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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Saw them about 9 years ago in Milton Keynes when jay-z.

Great band, excellent front man and a pretty big following. I haven't been keen since they changed musical direction when mike shinoda and Chester decided they wanted to save the world but they're earlier stuff was first class.

Hub

6,411 posts

197 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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They just released a new album, which got terrible reviews - I haven't heard any of it, but it seems that they went cheesy pop or something.

Not really a fan of Linkin Park, but that is no age. RIP. Being a rock front man seems to be an unhappy profession.

LJTS

331 posts

182 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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Saw LP in concert several times, fantastic live

RIP Chester :-(


FN2TypeR

7,091 posts

92 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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I'm 29 so their early albums were a big thing for me, Hybrid Theory is one of the best debut albums of all time IMO.

I saw them in France only a month ago and he looked so happy - what a shame frown

Genuinely a bit gutted, got Meteora on now, also a superb album

FN2TypeR

7,091 posts

92 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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HorneyMX5 said:
Another sad loss for music. The first album blew me away.

Can't remember the year but they played Reading Festival and my younger brother and his mates went off to see some band in a small tent because "Linkin Park is too commercial dude". They missed out on one of the best sing along Reading sets by any band I've seen there over the years. The crowd pretty much drowned out the band. Turns out the band my brother and his mates went to see was rubbish, they were gutted.
They headlined Leeds and Reading in 2003

Superhoop

4,676 posts

192 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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Saw them a couple of weeks ago at the O2, they were amazing and was blown away by just how good Chester was... definitely more of a fan of their older stuff, but the new stuff ain't half bad either...

RIP Chester

Ray Luxury-Yacht

8,910 posts

215 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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As said, quite a shock, and it makes me sad.

What a debut album - it blew me away when I first heard it, and I have been a fan ever since.

Also now sitting here with Hybrid Theory playing. Rest in peace, troubled soul frown


craigjm

17,907 posts

199 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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The words to Numb are a little more poignant now!

I wanted to see them at the beginning of July but was in Prague to see Guns n Roses instead so missed it.

Collision Course with J-zee is one of my favourite albums ever. Would have loved to have been at the live show at the Roxy in LA in July 2004

ambuletz

10,689 posts

180 months

Thursday 20th July 2017
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^when i read of it I instantly thought of 'shadow of the day'.

"sometimes solutions aren't so simple
sometimes goodbye's the only way"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1PCW0C1aiM