Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda Gets Honest About Chester Bennington's Death

nobody knew the depths of it Mike Shinoda is opening up about losing his Linkin Park bandmate Chester Bennington the musician died by suicide in 2017 and just months before his passing the 41 year old opened up about his battle with depression during an interview with waking up Dad on Wednesday Mike got candid about the death of his friend during an honest conversation with Sirius xm's the Howard Stern Show revealing that those close to Chester weren't aware just how severe his depression had been but did it scare you in other words did you say to yourself at that time no it was let me actually let's go back to the beginning when I met Chester I didn't know his stories as I got to know him I would find myself oftentimes saying that's I've never heard such a crazy upbringing like such a crazy childhood like running wild like in the streets and and doing hard drugs on the roof of his high school just like complete like just barely staying out of jail but because he had his issues was he a difficult guy to deal with the whole time was it like oh gee no no no early day is more difficult because we were still we didn't know how it was going to go like on early days Hybrid Theory we were still getting started and we'd have we'd get a win here we'd get a loss there we sent the song to the radio they're playing it oh the show is going to be a kind of a small show it's gonna be hard to get there you're gonna have to drive all night it's gonna be tough you're gonna be exhausted oh by the way we all just got sick like it was hard and so in the midst of all of that having a guy who would sneak out he'd just go missing and come back obliterated that you couldn't even talk to him he's just so wasted um but also funny the 46 year old told the host that following Chester's death he contemplated never making music again yeah horse 100 100 it's like for me it just felt like too much like to to get back on it and try and do some version of music and also be seen through the lens of what had happened yeah for that to be attached it was like being a member of a club that I didn't want to join earlier this month the band dropped a previously unreleased sinkhole titled lost that included the voice of the late singer and while chatting with Howard about their hit song In the End Mike emotionally reflected on Chester's career he was born for this I feel like I feel like this him singing vocals on albums and on stage was as happy as it got like that was as good as it got so I think I feel good I always feel good about that [Music]

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Length: 3min 6sec (186 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 16 2023