Linkin Park’s bassist has said he thinks the band will record music again at some point in the future.
Ever since the tragic passing of Linkin Park’s Chester Bennington back in 2017, the future of the band has been in doubt. While the group’s remaining members have come together to pay tribute to their late frontman, and to hit up the studio, there’s been no definitive answer about what the future holds.
While Mike Shinoda has admitted he’s “open” to playing more Linkin Park gigs down the line, he’s also gone on record to admit he doesn’t “really know where it’s gonna go”.
Now in a new interview with SiriusXM’s Volume West (via Blabbermouth), Linkin Park bassist Dave Farrell has opened up about what the future holds in terms of new music.
“It’s a big question,” Farrell began. “I think the easiest way to answer it is probably just to say I don’t know. And then I can expound upon that.”
“The five of us, we still love getting a chance to hang out. We hang out quite a bit. I think we will do music again. We all want to. We all still enjoy being together and being around each other.”
“But we have a huge process to figure out what we wanna do and what that’s gonna look like. And I don’t have a timetable for how long that’ll take. I’ve never been down that road [or gone through] that process completely, so it’s really hard to put a time or a day.”
“In fairness, one of the things that I think has been ridiculously cool about Linkin park fans and our fanbase is how supportive they’ve been of us in that process,” Farrell continued.
“Social media, notoriously, can be a really negative place, and it is, like, 99.9 percent positive — what I see — from our fans just saying, ‘We’re here. We want to hear what you guys are doing. We want to be involved, but we get it. We want you guys also to be healthy and happy, and do what’s right for you as well.'”
“And we hear that message — we receive that, we get that from that community and from that fanbase — and it’s really, really something that is special, and I can’t say ‘thank you’ enough for that.”
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In related news, Mike Shinoda was recently accused by the family of Chester Bennington of “profiting on fan’ grief”.
In a series of Twitter messages, both Bennington’s sister Tobi and her husband Mike Knehf claimed that Mike Shinoda had “bullied” Chester, while noting that his decision to perform Linkin Park tracks on his solo tour didn’t sit right with them.
“Mike having the crowd sing Chester’s parts! So wrong!” John Knehr explained. “Hire a new lead singer and go out as LP 2.0! That we all support. But he’s profiting on fans’ grief! That’s wrong and sad!”
“We don’t expect the guys from LP to not move on. We support them in the future if they do choose to get another lead singer that can do justice to the old songs and make the new ones his or her own! Better than a one-man band using the crowd to sing parts he can’t!”
“We want and love hearing fans singing along with the music! That what every artist dreams of! But put the band back together get a lead singer that can do them justice and make the new one him or her own! Not this karaoke show! If that’s not support I don’t know what is!”
Mike Shinoda hasn’t responded to these claims, though it feels as though he’s being attacked for attempting to pay tribute to his late bandmate. Regardless, it looks like a huge mess that we hope gets resolved soon.
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