Mike Shinoda

He has a full album called Collision Course.

With Linkin Park, who they have a new lead singer, Emily, and Mike Shinoda.

The whole rest of the band is there.

Shinoda does a lot of the rapping with Jay-Z.

Definitely, Faint is one that I started with guitar, And I originally thought it was going to be a half triple song, like a 70 BPM, bop your head kind of thing.

And Mike, I actually double timed it to 140 BPM.

At first I was kind of like, are you sure? That's not what I intended.

But he said, trust me.

So interesting to know that was in the picture, but the final thing is Mesa's and Marshall's, and then lots of plugins for the clean guitars.

We used plugins that weren't made for guitars.

crazy effed up plugins that don't sound like anything you've heard before then I worry about replicating it live afterward Mike always said if I do this how are we ever going to play it live but I tell him don't worry about it I'll figure it out I want to do what's best for the record I'd rather use plugins than the latest effect boxes because every guitarist has done those and they all sound the same the plugins add a lot of color a lot of groups are just guitar bass and drums but when you do that you're so limited sonically that's been around forever we aren't bogged down in that business because we're borrowing from the spirit of different genres there's an experimentation and a freedom that goes with that as to what you can try sonically I like some of your filter moves Mike like on the drum sounds in session

okay so filter moves I do kind of remember Lincoln Park being a band that's in the world that might use those where You like sweep a high pass up and down over an entire, you know, instrument or track or something.

But for the most part, when you think of Limp Bizkit, you think of niggas getting powerbombed, getting knocked out, fighting, things like that.

Whereas when it comes to Linkin Park, when you think of Mike Shinoda's lyrics, when you think of Chester, 1,000% think of Chester.

Amongst everybody else that's in Linkin Park as well.

But it just feels like a much more of an emotional connect than it is to Limp Bizkit.

Months before this, I'm listening to Get Rich or Die Trying.

yep that is

true and then months after this I'm listening to Meteora they came out in 2001 they toured forever they released Reanimation which I thought was solid Reanimation was solid to me like I fuck with Reanimation that one also had a really cool packaging Meteora had dope ass packaging too Meteora's packaging opened up as like a little paper it was like paper and it opened up as like a whole booklet showing like all of the artwork I think Mike Shinoda did the art inside of the book as well it it Again, they were on fire.

They could not do any fucking wrong.

He doesn't know me, so he'll make the connection when I make the connection for him.

But days like when Mike Shinoda of Lincoln Park was hanging out at backyard shows, these guys were making their own flyers at Kinko's.

You know, nobody had any idea how big this was all about to get.

For some of these names, you think about some of the names that came out of this area.

I'm actually making a whiskey with one of my distillery friends up in Paso, and I'm going back to my house, because I remember that spigot at Agora, and I would just drink from it, and it tasted like water from heaven, the water out of my old house.

So I'm determined to get that water and put it in there.

But the reason I bring up there's something in the water in Agora, because, dude, I remember Mike Shinoda was a great ahead of me.

I'd go in there, he'd be writing rhymes with Reza Asghari, and and doing things in art class.

I remember sitting by the radio waiting for K-Rock to play One Step Closer.

And then what really did it for me was when I was either 11 or 12, I met Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda at the mall in New Jersey because I was going to Ozzfest.

And I guess they were shopping at the mall before then.

And they signed my shoes.