Linkin Park appears to have been auditioning NEW singers

[Blue]

Lots of possibilities. Mike is an absolute master at medleys/mashups. In The End is already played with the crowd singing the chorus acapella, so that one is ready to go. Numb and Breaking the Habit? Piano versions, which have already been done. We will see what happens but there are ways to play the singles. Iridescent is no problem. They can't do One Step Closer but there are quite a few that can be done.

Unless I'm mistaken, those piano version were sung by Chester... Who can sing those songs in key. If you have video, any video, of Mike singing one of Chester's LP songs on key, please share it.

[Pingfah]

hahinator, would you be upset if they replaced Chester?

It seems like the obvious move to make, why try and retool all the performances rather than get somebody who can sing Chester's parts? They are still pretty young guys (horrified to discover Shinoda is younger than me), and an active creative unit as far as albums etc go. They don't need to go the reality show route or anything tacky like that, there must be a shit ton of legit singers who have been in good bands who would want the job and could take the band forward.

Although I would have thought they'd want a hiatus to pull themselves together rather than just steam right ahead with it.

[Sklashboombash]

I don't doubt Shinoda's steering of LP's sound, production and song-writing. Lately though, I've heard a lot about how he wrote much of what Chester sang. Is this so? I always assumed they each wrote what they sang respectively (with, of course, the occasional collab).

On one hand, with his recent death, folks say "listen to the pain in his lyrics" but then others say Shinoda wrote most of the stuff. Which is it? Just curious.