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2000.07.08 West Hollywood, California
Photo Icon: Yes Year: 2000 Month: 07 Day: 08 Show Date: 07/08/2000 Previous Show: 2000andearlier/20000609 URL Link: 2000andearlier/20000708 Next Show: 2000andearlier/20000722 City: West Hollywood State: California State Abbr: CA Country: United States Country Abbr: US Venue: Whisky a Go Go Venue Type: Bar/Club Venue Website: http://www.whiskyagogo.com/ Event/Festival Italics: 0 Other Bands:Famous, Prizefighter, *, Half Cocked
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"Club-hopping in Hollywood is great. As many shows as there are on any given night, it is always a difficult task to choose when and where you want to be the most if you're an avid music fan. Late 1999, and the year 2000 have been an incredible time when it comes to new talent, which has made going to see concerts a monumental task if you're only one person. Last night, we narrowed it down.
Our friends at Andy Gould Management were intuitive enough to have forwarded us a CD advance by a band called Hybrid Theory about a month ago. Immediately taken by the sheer magnitude of talent in this band, both Brian and I were anxious to experience their live performance. Last night was only the first of hopefully many shows we will be attending in support of Linkin Park (formerly Hybrid Theory).
Emcee Mike Shinoda (one of two front men, and main rap vocalist) welcomed us and showed appreciation for their predecessors, Half Cocked (who we unfortunately missed) by thanking them for leaving the microphones smelling "fruity and fresh". After that, it was full speed ahead into what became a passionate and energetic performance by Linkin Park. The entire audience occupying the Whisky was already feeling the buzz surrounding the band that had a sound rumored to be a blend of hardcore, hip-hop, and electronic music with similar overtones from bands like Shorty, Tenfold, Simon Says, and even Professional Murder Music.
It would be an understatement to say that we were blown away. Chester Bennington (a complete Godsend on vocals) worked the crowd with his lively performance and astonishing singing voice, while Linkin Park's killer DJ Joe Hahn scratched and mixed with total style. This guy rules! Guitarist Brad Delson, sporting headphones and a great vibe, threw down with totally solid riffs that danced fluidly with the band's killer drum and bass team.
Linkin Park played an amazing set including just about all of the tracks that audiences will hear on their upcoming release in October. Needless to say, there wasn't a single Linkin Park cassette sampler left on their merch table!
Speaking to Chester after the show furthered our opinion on this great band. He candidly gave us a brief account of how he came to be a part of Linkin Park, "I'm originally from Arizona, and the rest of the guys are from here, so I was, you know, living in my car for a couple of weeks, and before you know it, things were happening. I feel really blessed right now. This is great. I'm just looking forward to getting out there [on tour]."
Keep a close eye out for the new Linkin Park release. This band is sure to explode on the scene when the word gets out further. Catch them live if you can; you'll be sorry you missed them if you don't. In the meantime, visit the band's website, at www.linkinpark.com. We sincerely appreciate and thank the band's management and publicity staff for bringing the music of Linkin Park to us."
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1998.02.27 West Hollywood, California
Photo Icon: Yes Year: 1998 Month: 02 Day: 27 Show Date: 02/27/1998 Previous Show: 2000andearlier/19971114 URL Link: 2000andearlier/19980227 Next Show: 2000andearlier/19980319 City: West Hollywood State: California State Abbr: CA Country: United States Country Abbr: US Venue: Whisky a Go Go Venue Type: Bar/Club Venue Website: http://www.whiskyagogo.com/ Event/Festival Italics: 0 Other Bands:Butterside Down, County, Bredrin Daddys, Fuel Syndicate, Formula
Show Number: 1 Show Number Total: 1 Show Category: showwithoutsources Notes: 0 Song No 1: xx Song Name 1: Rhinestone Other Notes:- At a party at Brad and Phoenix's apartment after this show, Mark Wakefield (singer) introduced Mike to his friend Anna (Mike's future wife) from Long Beach.
- This was The Bredrin Daddys' very first show. The entire set was filmed and released online in 2012 by vocalist Tom Gramm to celebrate their upcoming performance at St. Maria Goretti Carnival. Xero can be seen briefly on stage while the band is walking to the green room backstage.
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1998.06.20 West Hollywood, California
Photo Icon: Yes Year: 1998 Month: 06 Day: 20 Show Date: 06/20/1998 Previous Show: 2000andearlier/19980319 URL Link: 2000andearlier/19980620 Next Show: 2000andearlier/19981010 City: West Hollywood State: California State Abbr: CA Country: United States Country Abbr: US Venue: The Roxy Theatre Venue Type: Bar/Club Venue Website: http://www.theroxy.com Event/Festival Italics: 0 Other Bands:Groove Salad, S.H.A.D.E., Pigeon Jow, Sally Smithwill
Show Number: 1 Show Number Total: 1 Show Category: showwithoutsources Notes: 0 Song No 1: 01 Song Name 1: Unknown Other Notes:- The band is listed as Xero 818 on the flyer. Talking to Kerrang! in 2020, Brad explained they started using this name because there were already other bands named Xero.
- The flyer is the cover of N.W.A.'s debut studio album "Straight Outta Compton" with one extra person: Mike's dad.
- This date came from Mike's wife Anna. On July 24, 2013, she posted an article on her blog entitled, "College, Sunset Strip, and Meeting Mike", which included some old Xero posters and a ticket stub. When we asked her for closer pictures of these items, she happily obliged and sent them to us. A grateful thank you goes out to her for submitting this information!
- Andy Gould (who was partners with Rob McDermott, Linkin Park's future manager) was in the audience. McDermott couldn't make it to the show. In an interview to Brighton Lee Sagal in front of the venue Andy Gould said: "Came here seven years ago with Rob McDermott, my old partner. We saw a band called... what they're called? Xero. X-E-R-O. Changed their name to Hybrid Theory, changed their name to Linkin Park. Played in front of ten people here. I was [managing Linkin Park] for a time. But sometimes you just see, you know, you see the [talent]. And it was Rob McDermott. So I stood there like 'I don't know if this band is good or not' but he believed that passion was talent. Got that wrong every time."
- Styles Of Beyond played across the street at the Whisky a Go Go. Once their show was over, they went to The Roxy to watch Xero.
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1997.11.14 West Hollywood, California
Photo Icon: Yes Year: 1997 Month: 11 Day: 14 Show Date: 11/14/1997 Previous Show: 2000andearlier/19960517 URL Link: 2000andearlier/19971114 Next Show: 2000andearlier/19980227 City: West Hollywood State: California State Abbr: CA Country: United States Country Abbr: US Venue: Whisky a Go Go Venue Type: Bar/Club Venue Website: http://www.whiskyagogo.com/ Event/Festival: Opening for System Of A Down Event/Festival Italics: Yes Other Bands:System Of A Down, SX10, *, Deicide
Show Number: 1 Show Number Total: 1 Show Category: showwithoutsources Notes: 0 Song No 1: xx Song Name 1: Rhinestone Song Notes 1: Live Debut Song No 2: 02 Song No 3: 03 Song No 4: 04 Song No 5: 05 Song No 6: 06 Song No 7: 07 Song No 8: 08 Song No 9: 09 Song No 10: 10 Song No 11: 11 Song No 12: 12 Song No 13: 13 Song No 14: 14 Song No 15: 15 Song No 16: 16 Song No 17: 17 Song No 18: 18 Song No 19: 19 Song No 20: 20 Song No 21: 21 Song No 22: 22 Song No 23: 23 Song No 24: 24 Song No 25: 25 Other Notes:- Xero opened for System Of A Down. This show in general is pretty interesting from a historical standpoint. System Of A Down was still a local/regional band (although a pretty well-established one) in 1997, in fact the period they were playing shows at places like the Whisky and the Viper Room was around the time they started getting major label attention (they were ultimately signed by none other than Rick Rubin that year), and SX-10 would have just formed not long before this show as well...it may have even been THEIR first show too. Mike said in one of the Sunset Strip Music Festival 2013-related interviews that Xero played four out of their first five shows on Sunset Strip.
- In the HBO Reverb airing from the 2001 London Docklands show, it said that this very first show got the attention of Jeff Blue, who worked at Zomba Music at the time. He saw that they had potential but they were pretty far from actually "making it" so they got a little financial support from Zomba at the time. Jeff later said that he went on to see Xero play several shows after this to mostly empty venues with almost no one in attendance.
- In a 2010 article published by NME, Mike described the show, “I remember that gig. I was wearing the most ridiculous thing ever. I had this white beanie hat on with blue goggles and white gloves, I think because it made me feel more like a performer and not the normal dude that I knew I was. So I had to get into costume in order to get psyched up and get into character. We were awful, just horrible but we survived.” Jeff Blue addressed this on his "One Step Closer: From Xero to #1: Becoming Linkin Park" book. He heard an audience member say Mike looked like a smurf. Jeff thought the performance was raw and energetic and that the band had potential but the audience lost interest about two minutes into the show. He wrote the following notes on a napkin: "Vocals off key. Awkward stage presence. Decent songs. Didn't connect with the audience."- Jeff Blue's book mentions 'Rhinestone' was recorded shortly before the show for inclusion in the cassette tape with the baby cover.
- In a 2013 interview with Rolling Stone, Mike said, "Our very first show there we opened up for SX-10, with Sen Dog from Cypress Hill, and System of a Down. I remember really vividly that I had seen System play there before. It was the era where Incubus played there all the time, System played there quite a bit. And we played our set, which was probably 30 minutes at the time, and it was all friends. Nobody had even heard our music – they were there just to support friends. After SX-10 performed, System of a Down's set was memorable for other reasons. It turned out that a couple of the guys had smoked weed with Sen backstage and got laid out. They were incapacitated. They were two hours late to start their set because some of them were just, like, unable to function." Mike also mentioned this at the 2007 LA Club Ritual show when he said System Of A Down didn't go on "until like 1:00 in the morning" because "Daron was knocked out backstage."- If you happen to have or know a full or partial setlist for this show, please let us know!
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1998.12.10 West Hollywood, California
Photo Icon: Yes Year: 1998 Month: 12 Day: 10 Show Date: 12/10/1998 Previous Show: 2000andearlier/19981010 URL Link: 2000andearlier/19981210 Next Show: 2000andearlier/xxxxxxxx-1 City: West Hollywood State: California State Abbr: CA Country: United States Country Abbr: US Venue: Whisky a Go Go Venue Type: Bar/Club Venue Website: http://www.whiskyagogo.com/ Event/Festival Italics: 0 Other Bands:Sugarcoat, HotRod Gang, Comic Strip, Corey Glover, Loose Angels
Show Number: 1 Show Number Total: 1 Show Category: showwithoutsources Notes: 0 Song No 1: 01 Song Name 1: Unknown Song No 2: 02 Song No 3: 03 Song No 4: 04 Song No 5: 05 Song No 6: 06 Song No 7: 07 Song No 8: 08 Song No 9: 09 Song No 10: 10 Song No 11: 11 Song No 12: 12 Song No 13: 13 Song No 14: 14 Song No 15: 15 Song No 16: 16 Song No 17: 17 Song No 18: 18 Song No 19: 19 Song No 20: 20 Song No 21: 21 Song No 22: 22 Song No 23: 23 Song No 24: 24 Song No 25: 25 Other Notes:- According to Jeff Blue's "One Step Closer: From Xero to #1: Becoming Linkin Park" book, this show was a public showcase with over 30 industry scouts in the audience. This included Danny Goodwin from Virgin, Matt Aberle from Warner/Reprise, Clive Davis and Michelle Ozbourn from Arista, Tommy Mottola from Sony, Guy Oseary (who worked with Madonna) and Polly Anthony from Epic (who signed Macy Gray) as well as staff from Columbia, Capitol, Atlantic, Dreamworks and RCA. Both Jeff Blue and Danny Hayes thought this show was a bad idea because if it went bad the entire industry could decide the band wasn't worth signing, but the band insisted on playing. David Simoné from Geffen, the person who was interested in Xero, couldn't make it.
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- Before the show, Brad bribed the sound guy with $150 to make them sound good. The band was 15 minutes late and had to stop and restart the first song so Brad could re-tune his guitar. Mark Wakefield was described as being horribly off key. The band played for 30 minutes and when the lights came up only Jeff Blue, Danny Hayes, Scott Harrington and a few of the band's friends were still in the venue. They received 7 official rejections in the next 36 hours, the two executives from Geffen who wanted to hire Jeff Blue were fired, Danny Goodwin (who had shown interest in the band after listening to a demo) was fired from Virgin and Mark Wakefield was fired from Xero. Most of the rejections centered on how bad the vocals were.
- This show was the reason the band decided to change their name to Hybrid Theory.
- Rick Rubin, the producer of Minutes To Midnight, A Thousand Suns and Living Things, was in the audience.
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1998.03.19 West Hollywood, California
Photo Icon: Yes Ticket Icon: Yes Year: 1998 Month: 03 Day: 19 Show Date: 03/19/1998 Previous Show: 2000andearlier/19980227 URL Link: 2000andearlier/19980319 Next Show: 2000andearlier/19980620 City: West Hollywood State: California State Abbr: CA Country: United States Country Abbr: US Venue: Billboard Live Venue Type: Bar/Club Event/Festival Italics: 0 Other Bands:Shutdown
Show Number: 1 Show Number Total: 1 Show Category: showwithoutsources Notes: 0 Song No 1: 01 Song Name 1: Unknown Other Notes:- This venue was later renamed to the Key Club and was closed in March 2013.
- This date came from Mike's wife Anna. On July 24, 2013, she posted an article on her blog entitled, "College, Sunset Strip, and Meeting Mike", which included some old Xero posters and a ticket stub. When we asked her for closer pictures of these items, she happily obliged and sent them to us. A grateful thank you goes out to her for submitting this information!
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