Zach Sang Show - Interview with Emily and Mike

[martinez]

Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda and Emily Armstrong came by to talk about the band's new album "From Zero", why Emily was the perfect fit to join the band and more!

 

 

Chapters:
04:00 - How Did Mike Shinoda and Emily Armstrong meet?

06:30 - Dead Sara

08:00 - Emily’s First Experience with Linkin Park’s music

10:30 - What Mike Shinoda saw in Emily Armstrong

20:30 - Approaching Linkin Park’s New Music

27:00 - Chester Bennington liked when Mike Shinoda suggested lyrics to him

29:00 - Emptiness Machine31:30 - Heavy Is The Crown

38:30 - No one else could write Linkin Park songs

40:30 - The beauty of working on songs for a long time

41:30 - Linkin Park’s new drummer

46:30 - Emily Armstrong preparing for live Linkin Park shows

50:20 - Mike Shinoda on getting to perform with Linkin Park again

54:30 - Linkin Park is bigger than the band

56:30 - The meaning of From Zero

58:30 - Screaming on Heavy is the Crown

1:02:30 - What Mike Shinoda and Emily Armstrong learned about themselves making this album

1:03:00 - How did Linkin Park keep their comeback a secret?

1:06:30 - Having a woman in the band for the first time

1:10:30 - Mike Shinoda producing music over Twitch

1:11:30 - The Linkin Park Community

[JZLP-Benningstrong]

The biggest news of this thing is that Rob suggested the band to meet Emily.

 

too bad that Mike just mentions it and doesnt go in depth.

 

also Emily wanted to be part of Chester's Hollywood Bowl show.

 

holy fuck.

[Shubho-Lp]

1 hour ago, JZLP-Benningstrong said:

The biggest news of this thing is that Rob suggested the band to meet Emily.

 

too bad that Mike just mentions it and doesnt go in depth.

 

also Emily wanted to be part of Chester's Hollywood Bowl show.

 

holy fuck.

 

Yeah....but loved the fact that Mike referred Rob as our drummer....As a friend - Rob will always have a special place in Mike's heart it feels. Recalled how he stared in amaze when Rob played the solo in Rock in Rio 2014

[LionHart]

One thing that jumped out to me is them discussing IGYEIH being the last song to come together. To me it's definitely the song on the album when I heard it the first time that I could hear a more dead Sara influence to it and wondered if it was a fresh song they did together or was a seed mike introduced her to 

[YRQRM0]

16 minutes ago, LionHart said:

One thing that jumped out to me is them discussing IGYEIH being the last song to come together. To me it's definitely the song on the album when I heard it the first time that I could hear a more dead Sara influence to it and wondered if it was a fresh song they did together or was a seed mike introduced her to 

 

I also thought it was interesting that felt rushed and that it was called Villain at some point 

 

The other cool trivia for me was the HITC scream being the first take 

[RayGun4200]

8 hours ago, JZLP-Benningstrong said:

The biggest news of this thing is that Rob suggested the band to meet Emily.

Well Mike says "He believes it was Rob" but also says "it could of been someone else" Mike's memory thing could be at play here but I feel like Rob would be the last person to do that cause 1 he was distancing himself away from LP and 2 he's no longer here anymore with LP.

[Superxer0]

I’m just excited to hear all of the demos tracks

[JerseyShore]

This was a really great interview where we got some great info about the comeback and the band overall.

 

I always love when Mike talks about their lyrics being somewhat ambiguous. It's what has helped them sustain success for 25 years.

[RogueSoul]

This interview is a gold mine. Took like two and a half hours to go through and add the information to all the Linkinpedia pages, but wow. This guy let Mike go on his tangents and that gave us exactly what we wanted LOL. Emily looks wonderful here, might I add.

 

For those who wanna do some reading, I updated these pages on Linkinpedia: From Zero (album), IGYEIH, Heavy Is The Crown, The Emptiness Machine, Casualty, and Two Faced. FZ album page has a lot of new information on Emily and Colin joining and their dynamic as the new members of the band.