He had this emptiness inside that I don’t think he could really explain to a lot of people. He had some sexual abuse as a child, and that always weighed on him, and that kind of culminated into this thought process where Chester never felt good enough or never felt appreciated or never felt like he was worth it. So I think that really contributed to part of his head spot. “I don’t understand what makes somebody be a fan of Chester‘s, and you love everything he did, or most everything he did, and then he does a song that you don’t like, that you feel like you have to badmouth him or tell him he sucks and all this kind of crap,” Sean added. It’s, like, what have you done with your life? But it’s that five percent of people that just, and they spend so much time - these losers in their basement, I like to call ’em - where all they have is just time to sit there and write on a keyboard about what a loser you are. And then when they put out an album like ‘One More Light’, and still 95 percent of the people like the music. “For those guys, they worked so hard on putting those records together, and they’re so used to having these accolades and this adulation from their fanbase. And I would tell him: ‘Dude, don’t let these people bring you down. He would just be so bummed out and he would blast people on Twitter, and he would get upset. When they did the ‘One More Light’ album, just two months before Chester‘s death], it wasn’t received the way they thought it was gonna be received, or at least the way Chester thought it was gonna be received, and he got a lot of negativity from fans, and it really bothered him. And not that I wanna bring the Linkin Park guys into the conversation, but I think they would agree with this. It may not be very popular, but it’s the truth. I saw it several times, of course, throughout life, but it was not something that stuck around for long periods of time. The pain he was feeling he didn’t outwardly share. He had this brighter-than-the-sun-type attitude when he was around you. Guys like Robin Williams and Anthony Bourdain, they had this amazing personality, outward personality, and Chester was very similar that way. And that’s the way, I think, depression works - the person that you see outwardly 99 percent of the time are high on life and good spirits and are fun to be around and they’re laughing all the time. First of all, he was a very happy person most of the time. “We talked about some of those issues he had several times, of course. Sean said that Chester didn’t take the negative response of Linkin Park album, ”One More Light”. Those reinventions (and later albums’ demand for front-to-back playthroughs) make a ranking of Linkin Park’s finest individual songs a tricky, lop-sided affair.Ex Linkin Park drummer, Sean Dowdell, spoke to Kaaos TV about Chester Bennington state before his death. Even as the Los Angelenos’ extended hiatus (following the passing of iconic frontman Chester Bennington) sprawls out over another year, the genre-melding design of their patented Hybrid Theory feels ever more relevant to rock’s continued evolution and cross-pollination with other cutting-edge styles.ĭismissed by closed-minded critics as a ‘pop’ band with guitars, and by many apparent fans as ‘sell-outs’ following their numerous reinventions, retrospect has been kind, with the burning authenticity, machine-tooled efficiency and unabashed accessibility enduring long after the bluster has dissipated. It feels impossible to overstate the impact of Linkin Park on modern rock.
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