One of my FB friends posted he was invited by Mike Shinoda to audition in Hollywood and he took an all-expense paid trip from Georgia to LA.
He even posted this:Okay... do you want to know what a musician, especially a singer's life is like? I'll give you a sample. I was notified yesterday that a video of myself doing a VERY basic and simple cover of Linkin Park's song, One More Light, the original of which featured the late singer, Chester Bennington's, vocals on it. Well, my COVER of that song (quite literally just a COVER of the song, which means that it was, in essence, a karaoke-styled version of the song, sung by me) had suppo[/size]sedly reached original founding member, Mike Shinoda's desk. I was then given a phone number to call, and called it... and was subsequently invited on an all-expenses paid, complete round trip to Los Angeles, so that I could participate in a formal audition process for Mike Shinoda and the other members of the band. They offered to put me up at the Sunset Marquis, which, if you know anything about LA, you know that that is a VERY nice hotel. So, I had no reason to believe they were scamming me or anything of the like (other than the bizzarro-world nature of BEING INVITED TO REPLACE POSSIBLY ONE OF THE GREATEST LEAD SINGER'S OF ALL LEAD SINGERS ON THE FACE OF THE PLANET (think of the Arnel Pineda situation with Journey and you have some idea of what it was like for me)! Anyway, so... I just found out that, not only has LP been auditioning lead singers on a fairly regular basis, following Chester Bennington's death (I'd been lead to believe that mine was a once-in-a-lifetime chance), but that they've also been looking for additional band-members, and perhaps even two ADDITIONAL vocalists, in addition to Mike Shinoda, as well as the possibility that Shinoda might be interested in stepping down from the vocal-side of the process, completely, depending on how the auditions go, etc! Okay, so, not only was virtually EVERYTHING I was told over the phone COMPLETELY WRONG, BUT it was also NOT JUST WRONG, BUT OUT-AND-OUT MISLEADING!!! Anyway, it seems that I am STILL to fly out to LA for the audition, but that, even if I get it, it's entirely possible that I'll, essentially, be forming a different band. Anyway, if anyone has heard anything else about LP auditioning vocalists, I'd be mighty glad to find out about as much as possible in advance....
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