Mike: Interview with the Chemist.

Chester: I’m the prankster.

Mike: What night is tonight, Chemist?

Chester: The Chemist says that tonight is the last night of the Euopean tour with Taproot and Deftones.

- What’s up?

Chester: And it’s also the night that the Chemist and his associates devised a meticulous plan to destroy the Deftones. The idea was initally brought up by my associate Spike Minoda, who is undercover from the KGB. His idea was to destroy the Deftones by replacing their water with vodka. Once I apprehended the virgin waters, I therefore, took them to the „laboratory”.

- What in the… what’s going on?

Chester: We took place in… something very… devious.

- Was Abe sick or something?

- So, that’s why he got the bucket.

Chester: The bucket.

- The bucket’s, like, for garbage my urine and his throw.

- Yeah, how was that water?

Mike: Interj� a ’Vegy�sz’-szel.

Chester: �n vagyok a cs�nytev�.

Mike: Milyen este a mai, Vegy�sz?

Chester: A ’Vegy�sz’ azt mondja, hogy ez az este az utols� est�je a Taproot-tal �s Deftones-zal k�z�s eur�pai turn�nak.

- Mi �js�g?

Chester: Ugyanakkor ez az az este, amikor a Vegy�sz �s t�rsai kidolgoztak egy apr�l�kos tervet a Deftones elpuszt�t�s�hoz. Az �tletet el�sz�r Spike Minoda t�rsam hozta fel, aki a KGB titkos�gyn�ke. Az �tlete az volt hogy tegy�k t�nkre a Deftones-t, azzal, hogy kicser�lj�k a viz�ket vodk�ra. �n �vakodom a tiszta v�zt�l, �gy h�t elvittem �ket a „laborat�riumba”.

- Mi a… mi t�rt�nik?

Chester: Elvitt�k �ket valami nagyon istenh�tam�g�tti helyre.

- Abe beteg vagy mi?

- Teh�t ez�rt kellett neki a v�d�r.

Chester: A v�d�r.

- A v�d�r, hogy belevizelhessek, meg hogy � beler�k�zhasson.

- Na, hogy �zlett a v�z?

Phoenix: In the world of rock bands there’s pros and cons of getting free stuff. The pros is that you don’t really have to shop you don’t have to buy your own clothes. The cons is, for instance after we just finish an interview you go back to your bag you grab the first shirt off the top and what happens? You have twin Ts.

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Mike: There’s nothing less cool than being the two guys in the band that are onstage that are dressed the same accidentaly.

Phoenix: A rock band�k vil�g�ban annak, �hogy ingyen cuccokat kapsz vannak j� �s rossz oldalai. A j� hogy val�j�ban nem kell elmenned a boltba �s megvenned a saj�t ruh�id. A rossz oldal, p�ld�ul, hogy miut�n befejezel egy interj�t, gyorsan elm�sz a t�sk�dhoz, kikapod bel�le az els� p�l�t ami a tetej�n van �s mi t�rt�nik? Ugyanolyan p�l�t vesztek fel.

Mike: Enn�l m�r csak az a kir�lyabb, amikor ketten a band�b�l v�letlen�l ugyanabban a cuccban mennek fel a sz�npadra.

Phoenix: About five-and-a-half years ago I met Brad in college. Brad had been making music with Mike and they had known each other since junior high. Mike had met Joe, our deejay, in art school.

Joe: You know you’re styling when you’re rolling with Mr.Hahn.

Joe: Mike and Brad, they came up with the first group of songs in the bedroom on Mike’s little four track little drum machine, real ghetto equipment but it sounded really dope.

Phoenix: Rob, our drummer, had played with some of Brad’s bands back in high school and that kind of thing. So, when we graduated, I had been committed to a band I had been playing with since high school. So, I started touring with them full-time. I left the band for about right between a year and a year and a half.

Rob: When Chester came in, I remember playing songs and there was, like, certain part sin, like, the music we were playing that we kind of hard for most of the vocalist to hit and Chester just, like, nailed it.

Chester: I got the demo and I was really excited about it and I thought it was fresh. And I felt that I could really help, um, strengthem the music.

- Let’s see a wheelie, Chester.

Rob: There was somebody actually in the studio that was trying out, also. They just heard Chester sing, and they just left.

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Chester: You know, people ask me „What do you so to, like, maintain your voice and stuff?”. And honestly, I probably do everything that you shouldn’t do.

�– How many of you are pissed right now? See, in America, that means your mad, but here, it means your happy. Whoo! –

12 years of abuse – it’s built up a lot of scar tissue.

Joe: Platinum plaques and gold plaques and all of that, it means nothing. You know you’ve made it once someone makes a skateboard out of you. This is the official Linkin Park skateboard. How dope is that?

- I’m going to tell you. Linkin Park, you’re the… Because there’s nobody else that’s better than them a s far as goes a new band. ’Cause there’s nobody else like them. Nobody else goes and touched them. Nobody’s better than them. Nobody. Nobody else. Linkin Park get the…

Brad: Can we get security?

- All right. Pan right. Don’t pan right.

- Joe wants you to film him, Brad.

Joe: Cut. Give it to me. I’ll give it back to you.

- Joe wants you to film him, Brad.

- Do the hand thing. They like that.

Joe: Give it back.

Joe: We have , like, six creative minds in the band. Everyone’s, like, constantly, like, coming up with ideas, like…

Mike: This is the cover from the Hybrid Theory CD when we were called Hybrid Theory. I did this one, and Joe did another one that was, like, basically, the mirror image of this except scary.

Brad: We’re very collaborative on everything we do including our writing process.

- Okay, boys, you ready?

Mike: Chester and I usually, when we do lyrics like, we sit down and we talk about them first.

Chester: And work out a way for both of us to get out what we’re thinking and what we’re feeling.

Joe: What makes people relate to them is, like, how they come together and the way they come together is on that plane that everyone can relate to.

Brad: Whenever I’m doing something underneath Mike either I play something and we sample it or I’m playing a line that’s repearing. And that’s my cell phone and rule number one in interviews is you’re supposed to turn your cell phone off. Should I answer it, see who it is? Hello? – Brad – Hey.

Mike: We try and stick to kind of universal stories and universal emotions.

Mike: It sucks to be the guy that has to wear one of these, huh?

Joe: Can you tell us where we are again?

- Wesley Chapel, Florida.

Joe: Have you heard of a band called LP?

- Yes, I have.

Joe: What do you think of them?

- Yeah, I didn’t go, but one of my co-workers went and she said LP was awesome ’cause her and her son went all the way to the front when they were onstage.

Chester: Well, it’s difficult for me to think that our succes came overnight because, um, personally I’ve been doing this for 12 years. So, it’s… that’s one long night.

Joe: About five years’ worth of nights.

Shifty (Crazy Town): I think that, whenever a great band surfaces more power to them. I mean, they’re selling records. You know, I get a little jealous sometimes but it’s all good, you know?

Brad: If you’ve never seen anything about our band and all of a sudden, you’re hearing, you know, three songs on your local radios station, I’m sorry. Um, you might think that this is an extremely new phenomenon. And in one sense, yeah, it’s been very fast because everything we’ve done has been becoming more intense exponentially, in terms of our schedule in terms of all the things that we’re trying to do relating to the band. However, we started out as a band over five years ago.

- One of the best things about being out here is you can go cow tipping.

Brad: This is our standard Joe Hahn Interview Form and we’re going to have Cassidy sign this. You’re also saying, with this, that you think that we’re funny as opposed to annoying or obnoxions which a lot of people think.

Chester: The only goal that I really had with this group it was to make a record that I enjoyed listening to.

Mike: I want to make something that I could, you know, listen to at any point in my life and say that that was something I was proud of and I think we achieved that.

Phoenix: Kb. 5 �s f�l �ve tal�lkoztam Brad-del a f�iskol�n. Brad akkor m�r Mike-kal zen�lt, akivel m�r a k�z�piskola els� �vei �ta ismert�k egym�st. Mike Joe-val, a DJ-nkel a m�v�szeti suliban tal�lkozott.

Joe: St�lusoss� v�lsz, ha Mr.Hahn-nal tekersz.

Joe: Mike �s Brad j�ttek el� az els� csokor dallal a h�l�szob�ban, Mike-nak volt n�gy dala, egy kis dobg�pe, komplett kis felszerel�se de ez el�gg� gyeng�n hangzott.

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Phoenix: Rob, a dobosunk, Brad band�j�nak n�h�ny tagj�val j�tszott a k�z�piskol�ban. Mikor elv�gezt�k a sulit, elk�teleztem magam a band�val, a k�z�piskola �ta vel�k j�tszom. Eleinte minden id�nkben turn�ztunk. Ezek ut�n kb. egy-m�sf�l �vre otthagytam a band�t.

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Rob: Amikor Chester elj�tt, eml�kszem n�h�nyszor direkt kem�nyebb zen�t j�tszottunk, hogy az �nekes is �t�s legyen, �s Chester pont eltal�lta, � kellett nek�nk.

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Chester: Meghallgattam a demojukat �s nagyon izgatott lettem t�le, gondoltam hogy nagyon friss lehet. �gy �reztem, hogy igaz�n seg�thetn�m, meger�s�thetn�m a zen�t.

- Hadd l�suk, hogy gurulsz Chester!

Rob: Voltak m�g n�h�nyan a st�di�ban, akik szint�n a meghallgat�sra j�ttek. Azt�n hallott�k Chestert �nekelni �s egyszercsak elt�ntek.

Chester: Az emberek mindig megk�rdeznek „Hogy tartod karban a hangod?”. �s becs�letszavamra, val�sz�n�leg minden olyat teszek, amit �k nem tenn�nek.

�– H�nyan r�gtak be k�z�letek? Amerik�ban ez a sz� azt jelenti, hogy d�h�sek vagytok, de itt a boldogs�gotokat jelenti. Nem semmi! – 12 �v az er�szakb�l – ez sok sebet hagy maga ut�n.

Joe: Platinalemez, aranylemez meg minden… ezek semmit sem �rnek. Mikor id�ig eljutsz, valaki egyszer k�sz�t neked egy g�rdeszk�t. Ez a hivatalos Linkin Park g�rdeszka. Hogy tetszik?

- Most megmondom nektek! Linkin Park, te egy… Mert senki sem jobb n�luk mi�ta �j bandak�nt el�j�ttek. Mert senki m�s nem hasonl�t r�juk. Senki m�s nem k�zel�ti meg �s nem �ri fel �ket. Senki sem jobb n�luk. Senki. Senki m�s. LP menj a…

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Brad: Kaphatn�nk biztons�giakat?
- Rendben. V�gj j� pof�t! Ne most ne!

- Brad, Joe azt akarja, hogy filmezd �t.

Joe: Ereszd el! Add ide! Vissza fogom adni.

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- Brad, Joe azt akarja, hogy filmezd �t.

- Mutasd azt a k�zfigur�t. Azt kedvelik.

Joe: Add vissza!

Joe: Hat kreat�v elme van a band�ban. Mindenki �lland�an �tletekkel j�n el�.

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Mike: Ez a Hybrid Theory CD bor�t�ja, akkor m�g Hybrid Theory volt a nev�nk. Ezt �n csin�ltam, a t�bbit Joe. Alapvet�en ez egy t�k�rk�p… kiv�ve a borzalmas r�szeket.

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Brad: Mindenben nagyon egy�ttm�k�d�nk, a sz�veg�r�st is bele�rtve.

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- Rendben, k�szen �lltok?

Mike: �ltal�ban, mikor Chester �s �n sz�veget �runk, el�sz�r le�l�nk �s besz�lget�nk a leend� sz�vegr�l.

Chester: Kidolgozunk egy m�dot, hogy mind ketten kifejezhess�k, hogy mit gondolunk, mit �rz�nk.

Joe: Amit az emberek elmondanak, hogy hogyan j�ttek �ssze �s milyen m�don, azt mindenki �gyan�gy elmes�lheti ak�rkinek.

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Brad: Valah�nyszor, amikor csin�lok valamit Mike mellett, vagy lej�tszok valamit �s pr�b�lgatjuk azt, vagy lej�tszok m�g vmit, amivel kijav�tjuk. �s ez a mobilom, �s az els�sz�m� t�rv�ny egy interj�ban, hogy kikapcsolod a tel�d. Mindj�rt v�laszolok, megn�zem ki az. – Hell� – Brad – Szia –

Mike: Pr�b�lunk el�adni �s ragaszkodunk is egy univerz�lis t�rt�nethez �s �rz�shez.

Mike: Ciki olyan sr�cnak lenni, akinek ilyent kell haszn�lnia, nem?

Joe: Elmondan�d m�gegyszer hol vagyunk?

-- Wesley Chapel, Florida.

Joe: Hallott�l m�r az LP nev� band�r�l?

- Igen.

Joe: Mit gondolsz r�luk?
- �n nem mentem, de az egyik munkat�rsam �s a fia elment az egyik koncertj�kre, �s a koll�g�m mondta hogy a Linkin Park megd�bbent�en klassz..

Chester: Nos, neh�z azt gondolnom, hogy ez a siker egy �jszaka alatt tal�lt r�nk, mert �n szem�ly szerint 12 �ve csin�lom ezt… �gyhogy, … ez egy hossz� �jszaka.

Joe: Kb. 5 �v �jszak�inak �rt�ke.

Shifty: Azt gondolom, hogy nagy teljes�tm�nnyel ak�rmikor felt�rhet egy nagyszer� banda. �k most j� sok lemezt adnak el. N�ha irigy vagyok, de ez t�k j� dolog.

Brad: Ha m�g soha nem hallott�l a saj�t band�dt�l semmit, �s hirtelen 3 dal hangzik el a helyi r�di�ban, – Sajn�lom. – olyankor azt gondolhatod, hogy ez egy m�dfelett ritka t�nem�ny.

Bizonyos �rtelemben, minden nagyon gyors, mert minden, amit tesz�nk �s tett�nk egyre ink�bb felgyorsul, a napirend�nk �s minden olyan dolog szempontj�b�l amit megpr�b�lunk vagy megpr�b�ltunk tenni a band�val kapcsolatban. Ak�rhogy is, kb. 5 �ve mi egy egyszer� bandak�nt indultunk.

- Itt az egyik legjobb dolog hogy felbor�thatod a teheneket.

Brad: Ez a mi szabv�nyos Joe Hahn – Interj� �rlapunk, �s ezt most al��rjuk. Evvel azt is mondhatod, hogy viccesek vagyunk vagy �pp ellenkez�leg, azt, hogy bosszant�ak �s ellenszenvesek, mint azt sokan gondolj�k.

Chester: Az egyed�li c�lom ezzel a band�val egy olyan lemez k�sz�t�se volt, amit sz�vesen meghallgatok.

Mike: Olyat akartam csin�lni, hogy amikor visszan�zek az �letem e pontj�ra, b�szke lehessek r�, �s azt hiszem, hogy ezt siker�lt megval�s�tanunk.