Numb (All I want to do is become more like me and be less like you)

chester in concert linkin park 3

 

“The hardest part of ending is starting again.”

 

“Waiting for the End”

 

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Aw man.

 

chester linkin park 1Chester Bennington <Linkin Park lead singer> committed suicide this morning. Age 41.

 

That sucks.

 

Chester was it.

He was the man with the voice.

 

As I have written before … Linkin Park was one of my musical guilty pleasures.

And part of my pleasure was Chester’s singing style. To me he set himself apart in whatever musical genre they were in by singing melody and seamlessly shifting into angry scream along with the fact you could actually understand what we was singing.

 

In a generation of lead singer ‘mumblers’ and lazy diction he seemed to know that words had power and he sang them in a way you could hear each word, feel each word and store away some phrases as if they were your own thoughts.

 

In their first two albums they took anger and disaffection  and shared relatable emotional struggles in a way that made people sense that someone understood them.

 

And Chester did it within a wall of grinding sound interspersed with rap.

 

I will never tire of listening to Numb, Faint, One Step Closer, In The End & Breaking The Habit and on many of them I can actually sing along word by word, phrase by phrase, with Chester.

 

Linkin Park is one of those bands with a perfect mix of members where each member plays a significant role in their sound … but Chester was at the core.

 

I struggle to find another singer in this generation who was able to capture all aspects of pain, poignancy, thoughtfulness, angst and personal insight through his delivery of melody, rap and scream.

 

 

“It’s like I can’t stop what I’m hearing within”

 

 

What a fucking sad day.chester linkin park scream 2

 

It reminds me of a voice to voice comparison with his friend Chris Cornell.

 

Two months ago, Chris Cornell’s suicide had Linkin Park Chester Bennington sing Hallelujah at the funeral.

Two voices of two different generations lost within two months.

 

Damn. Chester was it. He and Linkin Park was the voice for millions of people and a sense of what they were going through as tens & young adults. Every generation deserves a voice like this.

Sad day.

 

 

All I want to do is become more like me and be less like you

 

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Written by Bruce