LPU Chat: Chester Bennington August 1, 2011 Options

[colinreid]

Chester will be taking time out of his schedule to stop by the LPU chat room this Friday, July 29th at 2:00 PM PT to chat exclusively with LPU members.

Make sure to have your questions ready!

If you are not an LPU member, sign up today by visiting http://lpu.linkinpark.com/.

Source: LPU Facebook

EDIT: Adam just told us in the LPU Chat room that the chat schedule will be moved to next Monday August 1! At 3PM PT!

This post has been edited by colinreid: Aug 1 2011, 04:24 AM

[Ginger]

we need some less serious questions.

ALSO, ask him why he couldn't come on a few days ago.. was it album related?

[colinreid]

we need some less serious questions.

ALSO, ask him why he couldn't come on a few days ago.. was it album related?

Well this is Chester were talking about. He seems to be very opening when it comes to answering questions

[AlexonlyAlex]

Well this is Chester were talking about. He seems to be very opening when it comes to answering questions

When he actually knows what he is talking about. No offense, against anyone, just sayin.

[colinreid]

When he actually knows what he is talking about. No offense, against anyone, just sayin.

Yeah I know

[LPU90]

For those who wanna know the questions here's the transcript courtesy of LPA

Q: What is the new album going to sound like?

It’s going to be different. Too early to say what it’s going to sound like, we have no idea. But, we’re working with Rick, and we’re in the process of writing some songs.

Q: What was the hardest obstacle to over come while making A Thousand Suns?

I would say that just kind of getting out of a comfort zone when we write. Once you know how to do something, you kind of want to keep repeating that and that gets really easy, but I think that overcoming the safe route is probably the hardest part because it’s easy to do the same thing. It’s harder to take a chance and make music that sounds different than the stuff than the stuff that was successful in the past.

Q: Will you make another Dead By Sunrise record?

Maybe. I don’t know. I think I’ll probably make another one. But I think that Dead By Sunrise is something that’s gonna have to happen when I’m not busy with Linkin Park, and that could be in a long time. So I don’t know when the next one will come out.

Q: Will you be performing any other covers?

Playing covers is something we don’t do very often, so we have to be picky about that kind of thing. But eight years ago when we didn’t have very many songs to play live, we would actually play songs like “Wish” or any of the other Deftones songs or whatever we could throw in our show because we only had like 36 minutes of music. So I don’t know how often we’ll do covers.

Q: What lessons have you learned over the past 10 years?

I’ve learned a lot of stuff over the last 10 years. I think I’ve learned to calm down a little bit. I was just a little kid, a young man when we started this. I’m kind of like an old guy now. I think learning patience and being a dad is really something that I didn’t know…I didn’t know I would be the person I am today for sure 10 years ago.

Q: Will you play Robot Boy live?

Maybe. I would like to play all of A Thousand Suns from beginning to end live someday, that’d be cool.

Head over to LPA for the complete rundown.

This post has been edited by Dmitry: Aug 5 2011, 03:04 AM

Reason for edit: shortened to snippet, added link to LPA -Dmitry