Linkin_Park_and_Friends:_Celebrate_Life_in_Honor_of_Chester_Bennington

Linkin Park and Friends: Celebrate Life in Honor of Chester Bennington

Linkin Park and Friends: Celebrate Life in Honor of Chester Bennington

2017 tribute concert

Linkin Park and Friends: Celebrate Life in Honor of Chester Bennington was a tribute concert by American rock band Linkin Park. The concert was held to honor their frontman, Chester Bennington, who died by suicide on July 20, 2017. The concert took place on October 27, 2017, at the Hollywood Bowl. This was Linkin Park's first and only live performance following Bennington's death. It remains their last. The concert featured various artists, including Blink-182; members of System of a Down, Korn, Avenged Sevenfold, Sum 41, Bring Me the Horizon, Civil Twilight, A Day to Remember, Yellowcard; and Kiiara.[1]

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Background

Right after the first leg of Linkin Park's One More Light World Tour, promoting their seventh studio album, One More Light, vocalist Chester Bennington was found dead from suicide by hanging on July 20, 2017, resulting in the cancellation of the rest of the tour.[2]

On August 22, Linkin Park announced plans to host a tribute concert in Los Angeles to honor Bennington.[3] Later, the band confirmed that the concert would take place on October 27 at the Hollywood Bowl, and would feature a number of bands and musicians. On September 23, the band announced that the concert had officially sold out.

On October 20, it was announced Linkin Park would livestream the concert on their YouTube channel.[4][5] As of October 2023, the concert has been viewed more than 24.4 million times.[6]

Performers

Linkin Park

  • Mike Shinoda – lead and backing vocals, rapping, rhythm guitar, keyboards, piano, synthesizers, samplers, bass on "Shadow of the Day" and "With Or Without You", lead guitar on "Waiting for the End"
  • Brad Delson – lead guitar, backing vocals, lead acoustic guitar on "Sharp Edges", keyboards on "Waiting for the End", synthesizer on "Burn It Down", not performed on "Castle of Glass" and "Rebellion"
  • Rob Bourdon – drums, not performed on "Castle Of Glass", "Sharp Edges", "One More Light", "Crawling", "Rebellion", "What I've Done" and "A Light That Never Comes"
  • Joe Hahn – turntables, samplers, keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals, not performed on "Sharp Edges".
  • Dave Farrell – bass, backing vocals, rhythm guitar on "Shadow of the Day", "With Or Without You" and "Leave Out All the Rest", rhythm acoustic guitar on "Sharp Edges", not performed on "Castle of Glass", "Rebellion" and "What I've Done"[7]

Special guests

Event Complications

The planned performance of "Castle of Glass" by No Doubt faced a change when lead vocalist Gwen Stefani withdrew two days before the event. Alanis Morissette, initially set to present her song "Rest," stepped in at the request of No Doubt members to replace Stefani. Morissette later expressed feeling nervous during the performance and frequently relied on the teleprompter.[14][15]

Set list

Linkin Park

  1. Medley: "Robot Boy" / "The Messenger" / "Iridescent"
  2. "Roads Untraveled" (live debut)
  3. "Numb" (instrumental only on live video and performed with an audience in concert)
  4. "Shadow of the Day" / "With or Without You" (U2 cover) (performed with Ryan Key of Yellowcard)
  5. "Leave Out All the Rest" (performed with Gavin Rossdale of Bush)
  6. "Somewhere I Belong" (performed with Takahiro Moriuchi of One Ok Rock)
  7. "Castle of Glass" (performed with Tony Kanal, Tom Dumont, and Adrian Young of No Doubt and Alanis Morissette)
  8. "Rest" (new song, performed by Alanis Morissette and Michael Farell without Linkin Park)
  9. "Nobody Can Save Me" (performed with Steven McKellar of Civil Twilight and Jonathan Green)
  10. "Battle Symphony" (performed with Jonathan Green)
  11. "Sharp Edges" (performed with Ilsey Juber)
  12. "Talking to Myself" (extended bridge with snippet of "All Along the Watchtower" by Bob Dylan; performed with Ilsey Juber)
  13. "Heavy" (performed with Julia Michaels and Kiiara)
  14. "One More Light" (performed by Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, and Dave Farrell)
  15. "Looking for an Answer" (new song, live debut by Mike Shinoda)
  16. "Waiting for the End" (extended intro with snippet of "Until It Breaks" by Linkin Park; extended outro; performed with Steven McKellar of Civil Twilight and Sydney Sierota of Echosmith)
  17. "Crawling" (performed with Oliver Sykes of Bring Me the Horizon and Zedd)
  18. "Papercut" (performed with Machine Gun Kelly)
  19. "One Step Closer" (performed with Ryan Shuck and Amir Derakh of Dead By Sunrise/Julien-K and Jonathan Davis of Korn)
  20. "A Place for My Head" (performed with Jeremy McKinnon of A Day to Remember)
  21. "Rebellion" (performed with Daron Malakian and Shavo Odadjian of System of a Down and Frank Zummo of Sum 41)
  22. "The Catalyst" (third chorus and bridge omitted; performed with Deryck Whibley and Frank Zummo of Sum 41)
  23. "I Miss You" (performed by Blink-182 without Linkin Park)
  24. "What I've Done" (performed with Mark Hoppus, Travis Barker, and Matt Skiba of Blink-182)
  25. "In the End" (performed with audience)

Encore

  2. "Iridescent" (reprise; bridge and outro only, performed with Jonathan Green)
  3. "New Divide" (2014 shortened version; performed with pre-recorded video and vocals of Chester Bennington from the 2014 performance at the Hollywood Bowl)
  4. "A Light That Never Comes" (performed with Steve Aoki, Frank Zummo of Sum 41, and Bebe Rexha)
  5. "Burn It Down" (performed with M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold)
  6. "Faint" (extended outro; performed with M. Shadows and Synyster Gates of Avenged Sevenfold)
  7. Medley: "Bleed It Out" / "The Messenger" (first half of "Bleed It Out" seguing into the outro of "The Messenger"; performed with all special guests; includes studio voice-over of Chester Bennington on his part of "Bleed It Out")[16]

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