Splitting the DNA - Geek Moment
Sep. 12th, 2003 01:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lady_t_220So recently I came into a bunch of unusual recordings... (courtesy of the boywonder, who I believe got them off Radio-boy, who got them off Ram-Air. That being one of the perks of working in Radio and all)
Linkin Park - Splitting the DNA, so it says. 2 disks of... well... really REEEALLY early Linkin Park. So early in fact that they weren't even Linkin Park. In fact they weren't even in the same band.
For the interested, or for those who may care about such things, should you happen to stumble across it Disk 1 is bootlegged copies of work Linkin Park did while they were still calling themselved Hybrid Theory. It has early stuff (ie, pre-Chester), a couple of record lable demos (post-Chester) and some bootlegged live performances. Disk 2 is the work of Grey Daze, the band Chester was in before Linkin Park.
It's of interest to fans more than anyone else I would guess. The quality's not bad at all considering that a lot of the stuff on disk 1 is bootlegged, but the music itself leaves something to be desired. Grey Daze are unremarkable for their genre and Pre-Linkin Hybrid Theory are... well... OK. Not great but, OK. The demos are of interest mostly I would guess, just to illustrate the lyrical differences between the demos and what actually ended up on the Hybrid Theory album.
You can, however, get a certain amount of interest comparing the musical sound of pre and post-Chester. It lacked oomph, or should I say it lacked melody, even if that melody is mostly in the form of screaming.
So there you go. Evolution of the band. Of interest to fans and music geeks only.
Though I would like to say that while in the course of researching this information (It's not listed in any official discography, as it IS technically bootleg) I was deeply traumatised by someone randomly posting a gratuitous picture of themself stretching their ass open wide enough to insert something roughly the size of a jam jar. I don't know WHY they posted this in the middle of a message board thread about Grey Daze, but there you go. The internet's full of strange, strange people who have digicams, really big assholes and way the hell too much time on their hands.
Linkin Park - Splitting the DNA, so it says. 2 disks of... well... really REEEALLY early Linkin Park. So early in fact that they weren't even Linkin Park. In fact they weren't even in the same band.
For the interested, or for those who may care about such things, should you happen to stumble across it Disk 1 is bootlegged copies of work Linkin Park did while they were still calling themselved Hybrid Theory. It has early stuff (ie, pre-Chester), a couple of record lable demos (post-Chester) and some bootlegged live performances. Disk 2 is the work of Grey Daze, the band Chester was in before Linkin Park.
It's of interest to fans more than anyone else I would guess. The quality's not bad at all considering that a lot of the stuff on disk 1 is bootlegged, but the music itself leaves something to be desired. Grey Daze are unremarkable for their genre and Pre-Linkin Hybrid Theory are... well... OK. Not great but, OK. The demos are of interest mostly I would guess, just to illustrate the lyrical differences between the demos and what actually ended up on the Hybrid Theory album.
You can, however, get a certain amount of interest comparing the musical sound of pre and post-Chester. It lacked oomph, or should I say it lacked melody, even if that melody is mostly in the form of screaming.
So there you go. Evolution of the band. Of interest to fans and music geeks only.
Though I would like to say that while in the course of researching this information (It's not listed in any official discography, as it IS technically bootleg) I was deeply traumatised by someone randomly posting a gratuitous picture of themself stretching their ass open wide enough to insert something roughly the size of a jam jar. I don't know WHY they posted this in the middle of a message board thread about Grey Daze, but there you go. The internet's full of strange, strange people who have digicams, really big assholes and way the hell too much time on their hands.
