"Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero" (sampsonite24)
07/21/2017 at 09:27 • Filed to: None
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"Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero" (sampsonite24)
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So I’ve been struggling to put into words exactly what Chester Bennington’s passing means to me. Linkin Park was really my first rock band. Before them all I had ever listened to was country. The thunder can only roll for so long before you get bored and go looking for new music and when a friend loaned me Hybrid Theory for a 2 week long road trip it was like opening my eyes for the first time. 2 weeks in a motorhome with my grandparents and cousin out to Wyoming and the only CD I brought was this burned copy of Hybrid Theory and I was hooked. This was back in middle school when I was dealing with a lot of bullies and it really spoke to me. The lyrics were something I could relate to and to be quite honest I had never had music before that I could relate to. There’s not a lot of late 90’s early 00’s country music that a kid growing up in the suburbs could listen to and say yeah this is exactly how I feel. But there was linkin park, with Hybrid Theory and Meteora a few years later, that spoke to me in ways that music has never happened before. I was late to the group to actually see them live, with my first Linkin Park concert coming in 2014 when they played Piqniq but it was easily the best concert I had ever been to. They played a lot of their older stuff, the stuff that I grew up with while mixing in a few of their newer songs and even a track or two off collision course. Obviously there was no Jay-Z but that didn’t matter. It was a great show and I got to see it with my beautiful wife who was 3 months pregnant. We almost didn’t even see the show since they wouldn’t let us bring in our own lawn chairs but I’m thankful they moved us up to the ADA seating for free so we could stay. Hell Linkin Park was one of the reasons my wife and I started talking and I’m pretty sure I still owe her a copy of A Thousand Suns which I’m sure I’ll make good on sooner than later. My point in all this rambling is without Chester I feel like there’s a void in my soul, they meant so much to me growing up and I’m so sad to see his life come to an end. My heart goes out to his family and kids, and the band as well. Depression is a tricky thing, I myself have been dealing with it off and on the past decade, but there’s always help around the corner and I hope if anyone who reads this feels like all hope is lost that they reach out, to anyone, cause there are people out there who’ll listen and understand . R.I.P Chester Bennington 3/20/1976-7/20/2017
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Dave the car guy , still here
> Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
07/21/2017 at 09:55 |
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Well written. You did a great job there. I’m older but listened to them too. Have lost a lot of my rock idols. The first that made me hurt was Lennon. Not sure why Hendrix, Allman or Joplin didn’t bother me as much as Johns death but it was a depressing time. The key thing is to try and not be depressed about it but celebrate what they did while they were here.
ShrimpHappens, née WJalopy
> Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
07/21/2017 at 10:24 |
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Man, you’ve put into words the exact same reason I stopped listening to country music as a kid. Never really given it much thought until now.
And you’ve also made me remember that 13 years ago, the first face-to-face interaction my now-wife and I had with each other outside of school was exchanging burned copies of Hybrid Theory and Meteora.
When looking back on Hybrid Theory and Meteora, we clown on it some for being melodramatic, but really, like you said, it was the right music at the right time.
TheJMan92
> Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
07/21/2017 at 13:41 |
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This is similar to my situation. I only ever really listened to country until I found a copy of Hybrid Theory in the back of an older cousins car that was going to be used for demo derby. It wasn’t the first thing other than country that I’d ever listened to but it was a revelation and certainly helped my through some tough times in middle/high school. The only other album the really hit me hard like that was Foiled by Blue October, when I discovered them a year or so later.
I still listen to Hybrid Theory ever now and again.