SANTA ANA, Calif. - Tool. Foo Fighters. Red Hot Chili Peppers. Rage Against the Machine.
Chester Bennington would love to tour with whatever or all of them someday.
But "a lot of it has to do with the bands," he mentioned by phone last week, just now before the Albuquerque plosive speech sound on the Projekt Revolution 2008 spell, once once more headlined by Bennington�s circle, Linkin Park. "When you put together bands care (us) and Red Hot Chili Peppers, somebody has to headline and mortal is gonna be the supporting act, and a lot of times bands don�t consider eye to eye on those things."
Granted, he adds, "I doubt Linkin Park would have a hard time opening for Red Hot Chili Peppers. But there are times when, for whatever reason, a band simply doesn�t want to spell with some other band like us."
So for now, the group - one of the well-nigh successful outfits in action mechanism, and arguably the most salable hard-rock band of its generation - continues to further its third proper album, "Minutes to Midnight," by carrying on with Projekt Rev, as Bennington refers to it.
For the outing�s fifth incarnation, the banding has enlisted former Soundgarden and Audioslave vocalist Chris Cornell, rapper Busta Rhymes, New York synth-rock group the Bravery, Ashes Divide (featuring A Perfect Circle�s Billy Howerdel) and several more acts.
Bennington, who side by side plans to record a solo record album, had deal to read about all of the above in our chat - and hinted that perhaps one day Projekt Rev power become a stand-alone weekend festival a la Coachella.
Orange County Register: I strike it�s been a good tour for you so far. But are you able to gauge how the former bands are going over with your fans?
Chester Bennington: I think they�ve in reality been received well. People are sightedness a match of these bands for the first time, so they�re not gonna be spazzing out when they�re watching. But they�re gainful attention and listening. Usually it�s a good polarity if they�re not throwing things at you.
OCR: What�s better roughly going taboo on Projekt Revolution as opposed to your own tour, or is it better the other way around?
CB: I like acting arenas a lot more than playing outside. I just feel like whether it�s freeze outside or whether it�s hot, you�re in a place where you bathroom control the elements. It�s dark. Everyone gets a light show. But the advantage to playing outside is that you bum have more bands. It�s kinda the lesser of two evils. There�s a reason wherefore we merely do it once a year (laughs), not all year long.
Amphitheaters are a tricky thing to recreate. Only the last deuce bands that play start out to really take advantage of output, so cipher gets a light show until the headliner. Second, if it�s 100 degrees outside, and 90 per centum humidity, it�s a tough day - which bum deter people from lacking to come, especially in a bleaker economy. You�ve already got that to fight back.
OCR: Has it dawned on you that you�re really one of few bands these days that privy carry a tour like this?
CB: Yeah, you know, we do understand that. We could have easily gone kayoed and done an scene of action tour and played with one other band. But when we were growing up, we had Lollapalooza, we had Ozzfest - and those just aren�t happening anymore, with the exception of this class, where everyone is doing some summer outdoor festival tour.
For us, this is the one place where you john go and it�s diversified enough and has a really cool feel. That�s really been our vibe the whole time - we want to bring lots of different styles of music together, and give multitude a rattling good show.
OCR: What do you still want to do with it? And what about in the studio?
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