How They All Came Together

The band saw it all beginning in emcee/vocalist Mike Shinodas small bedroom studio. This was where Mike and Delson had recorded the band's first material in 1996. They had both attended high school together. At that high school they met the band's drummer, Rob Bourdon. Mike, Brad and Rob had hooked up with DJ Joseph Hahn while studying illustration at Art Center College in Pasadena. While attending UCLA, Brad shared an apartment with the bassist Phoenix, who had left the band after college but yet later returned after a year. The band was not complete till they met their to be lead singer, Chester Bennington, a transplanted Arizona native who had started making records when he was only sixteen. Chester had said, When he was two, he used to run around singing Foreinger songs, he has tapes of him doing that. Since He had learned how to talk he was telling everyone he would grow up to be a singer. This was a dream come true for the boys.

STATS

NAME: Chester (Chazy Chaz)
DOB: March 20, 1976
INSTRUMENT: Vocals

GEAR:
Audio Technica Wireless Mics
Yamaha SPX 990
Takamine guitars
DVS/Matix action figure steelo

NAME: Mike Shinoda
DOB: February 11, 1977
INSTRUMENT: Vocals, Beats + Samples, Keyboards, Guitar

GEAR:
(on stage)
Audio Technica wireless mic
PRS guitars
Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier heads
Mesa Boogie cabinets
(studio)
Digidesign Protools software & hardware
Anteres software
Waves software
Emagic hardware
Roland keyboard modules
AKAI S-900 & MPC 2000 samplers

NAME: Joe Hahn
DOB: March 15, 1977
INSTRUMENT: Turntables, Samples, Beats, & Sounds

GEAR:
Motor-driven Turntables
Rane TTM 54 DJ mixer
AKAI MPC 2000
Emagic Logic Audio
Various effects
Shure M44-7 needles
Custom-made vinyl

NAME: Brad Delson
DOB: December 1, 1977
INSTRUMENT: Guitar

GEAR:
Ibanez guitars
PRS guitars
Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier heads
Mesa Boogie cabinets
D'Addario strings (10XL)
Boss Pedal effects
D'Addario cables
Dunlop picks (.83)
Shure wireless

NAME: David Michel Farrell (Pheonix)
DOB: February 8, 1977
INSTRUMENT: Bass

GEAR:
Ernie Ball Music Man Sting Ray basses
Ampeg SVT Classic heads
Ampeg SVT Classic cabinets
Dean Markley Blue Steel strings
Dunlop Picks (.88)
DBX 160 compressor
Monster cables
Sans Amp
Boss pedals
Whirlwind direct boxes
Shure wireless

NAME: Rob Bourdon
DOB: January 20, 1979
INSTRUMENT: Drums

GEAR:
Gretsch kit
Gibraltar Hardware
Zildjian cymbals
Remo heads
Vater sticks
Rane headphone amp
Alesis DM-5 drum module
Shure E-1 in-ear monitors
D-drum trigger pads