Linkin Park

Their first Collision Course hit single 'Numb/Encore' reached #1 at the Free Record Shop Download Charts in Holland. The following is a partial discography; a comprehensive discography is available [3] (http://www.iainmatthews.com/disco.htm) on Matthews' personal site. In Holland Collision Course made it to a 7th place. Since that time, Matthews has had a moderately successful career, releasing records on a number of small labels in Germany, the UK, and the U.S., before moving to Amsterdam in 2000, where he continues to be involved in various indy projects and collaborations, including the Sandy Denny tribute band No Grey Faith and yet another revival of Plainsong. Collision Course debuted at #1 in the US, but only got to # 17 in the UK. He also appeared with Andy Roberts at the 1992 Cambridge Folk Festival, which led to the first of what were to be several reformed version of Plainsong. On November 30, 2004, Linkin Park released Collision Course, a collaboration with rapper Jay-Z featuring rap-style remixes ("mash-ups") of songs from Meteora and Hybrid Theory using lyrics from Jay-Z's repertoire. It also led to his first truly solo performances: his previous "solo" outings had always been as a front man for a one-shot band.

They also had a travelling DJ, Z-Trip with them, along with Irvin the Urban Action Figure. It led, however, to hooking up with producer Mark Hallman — a longtime fan — moving to Austin, Texas, and recording several albums for a series of German independent labels. In 2004, Linkin Park was touring with Snoop Dogg, The Used, Korn, and Less Than Jake on the main stage, and No Warning, Ghostface, Funeral For A Friend, M.O.P., and Downset on the second stage as part of Projekt Revolution 2004. This led to Walking a Changing Line (1988) on Windham Hill, an unlikely album-length tribute to Jules Shear of Jules and the Polar Bears. This tour included Linkin Park, P.O.D., Hoobastank, and Story of the Year. Matthews was invited to join them to perform, both with them and in other configurations, at the 1986 Cropredy Festival. In 2004, Linkin Park created the Meteora World Tour. Since 1974, Fairport Convention had been staging the annual Cropredy Festival; since 1979, this annual reunion had been pretty much their only activity as a band, but in the mid-1980s several of them were interested in reviving the band and had done some recording.

This set contains tracks from their three previous records, and was filmed on location at their Summer Sanitarium performances in Dallas and Houston, Texas . He worked for a while in an A&R capacity at Island Music and then new-agey Windham Hill Records. From this tour, Linkin Park released a new CD/DVD set called Live in Texas. Neither this nor a return to solo recording in England turned his luck. Later in the year, they joined forces with fellow nu-metal band Limp Bizkit and Metallica for the Summer Sanitarium Tour 2003. Soul" and Prince's "When U Were Mine". In 2003 their new studio album was released, titled Meteora, which debuted at #1 in the US and UK, and #2 in Australia. It contained the singles, "Somewhere I Belong", "Faint", "Numb", "From The Inside" and "Breaking The Habit". As Matthews' official web site writes, at this point he "had been struggling for nearly 15 years now and was still living hand to mouth, with nothing to show for his efforts but a string of out-of-print albums, and the loyalty of those musicians and fans who shared his vision." [2] (http://www.iainmatthews.com/bio.htm) He moved from Los Angeles to then-inexpensive Seattle, where he teamed up with David Surkamp, formerly of the Seattle band Pavlov's Dog, to form the New Wave band Hi-Fi, whose repertoire included Matthews originals, but also covers of Neil Young's "Mr.

In 2002, they released a remix album of their Hybrid Theory album, called Reanimation, as well as releasing a remix version of their song, "Points Of Authority". Label-owner Shelly Siegel, died suddenly in 1979, leaving the label rudderless. Linkin Park were part of the Ozzfest in 2001, touring along side Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, Crazy Town, Papa Roach, and Disturbed. Linkin Park have also created their own tour - Projekt: Revolution, and on it have toured with Cypress Hill, Adema, DJ Z-Trip, Xzibit, Mudvayne and Blindside. However, the North American rights for his album were held by the small Canadian label Mushroom. The album is notable for its absence of profanity, in contrast to many other nu metal bands' songs. He bounced from Elektra to CBS Records, to the small Rockburgh label, where he finally scored a hit single in 1978 with a cover of Terence Boylan's "Shake It", and a moderately successful follow-up covering Robert Palmer's "Gimme an Inch". It was the top-selling album in the United States and New Zealand in 2001, with the hit singles "One Step Closer", "Crawling", "Papercut", "In The End" and "Points of Authority". After Plainsong collapsed due to a bandmate's alcohol problem, and with his career now based in Los Angeles, he released several more albums with ad hoc bands, including one produced by ex-Monkee Michael Nesmith, but none met with commercial success.

After being signed to Warner Brothers in 1999 their first album, Hybrid Theory, was released in 2000. It also included "Even the Guiding Light", a spiritually positive answer to Thompson’s powerful but bleak "Meet on the Ledge". Working with an independent label, the band recorded the album Hybrid Theory EP, which featured "Carousel", "Technique", "Step Up", "And One", "High Voltage", "Part of Me". The album included a cover of Dave McEnery's "Amelia Earhart's Last Flight", plus a song of Matthews' own, "True Story of Amelia Earhart's Last Night" based on the research that suggest that Earhart on her round-the-world flight may have been spying on Japanese bases in the Pacific islands. However, it has also been suggested that the name "Linkin Park" was suggested so that the band would appear right next to Limp Bizkit at record stores. After solo two albums on Vertigo Records, under the sponsorship of former Yardbird Paul Samwell-Smith and surrounded by a who's who of likeminded British semi-folkies (notably another ex-Fairporter, Richard Thompson), he formed Plainsong, who signed to Elektra Records and in 1972 produced In Search of Amelia Earhart, which solidified Matthews' songwriting reputation with the critics, if not with the general public. However the domain "lincolnpark.com" cost more than the band could afford, so they changed the spelling to Linkin Park. The band went through several different lineups and toured extensively for the next two years, to general critical acclaim but no great commercial success.

Eventually, they settled on Lincoln Park, suggested by Bennington because after band practice he would have to drive past there to get home. With Thompson, Nicol, and Hutchings from Fairport, plus drummer Gerry Conway (of Fotheringay, and later to join Fairport) and pedal steel player Gordon Huntley, he formed Matthews Southern Comfort, whose sound was rooted in American country music and rockabilly; this was his first significant experience as a songwriter, although the band also covered the likes of Neil Young and Ian and Sylvia. Some discarded ideas (serious or not) were Clear (the band's favorite), Probing Lagers (which they thought was the lamest), Ten PM Stocker (because they would record every night at 10 pm at a place on Stocker Street) and Platinum Lotus Foundation. In 1969, as Fairport's music veered more toward British folk influences, Matthews was booted out. The band called itself Hybrid Theory after the addition of Bennington (the idea being that they were a hybrid of rock and rap), however, due to a trademark issue with a band called Hybrid, they were forced to change their name. He recorded a couple of singles there in 1967 with a pop band called Pyramid, before being recruited by Ashley Hutchings as a male vocalist for Fairport Convention, where he duetted first with Judy Dyble, but more famously with Sandy Denny. since I learned how to talk I've been telling everybody I was gonna grow up to be a singer." laughs Bennington. He moved to London in 1966, taking a job in a Carnaby Street shoe store.

"When I was two, I used to run around singing Foreigner songs - there's tapes of me doing that.. Matthews grew up in a working class family in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, where he sang with several minor bands during the British pop music explosion of the mid-1960s. They got Chester Bennington(in substitution of Mark Wakefield), a transplanted Arizona native who started making records when he was 16. He later had a solo career and fronted the bands Plainsong and Matthews Southern Comfort. [1] (http://www.richieunterberger.com/matthews.html). Then Shinoda decided to hire a vocalist, and put out an ad. Influenced by both rock'n'roll and folk music, he has performed mainly as a solo act, alghouth he was a member of Fairport Convention during the early period where they were heavily influenced by American West Coast folk rock. They never got signed, and the project floundered. Iain Matthews (known in the 1960s first as Ian MacDonald, and from the late 1960s until 1989 as Ian Matthews) is a British musician and songwriter.

At this point, they named themselves Xero and recorded several demo tracks. Plainsong, Pangolins (2003) Blue Rose. Meanwhile, attending UCLA, Delson shared an apartment with bassist Phoenix, who left the band after college and returned a year later. Iain Matthews and Elliot Murphy, La Terre Commune (2001) Blue Rose / rfect Pitch / Eminent. Shinoda hooked up with DJ Joseph Hahn while studying illustration at Art Center College in Pasadena. Iain Matthews and Elliot Murphy, The Official Blue Rose Bootleg (2001) Blue Rose. The two had attended high school together, where they met the band's drummer, Rob Bourdon. No Grey Faith, Secrets All Told — The Songs of Sandy Denny (2000) Perfect Pitch / Unique Gravity.

The band saw its and first beginings in emcee/vocalist Mike Shinoda's small bedroom studio, where he and Brad Delson recorded the band's first material in 1996. Iain Matthews, Excerpts from Swine Lake (1998) Blue Rose. Linkin Park is a six-piece California nu metal band in the vein of Korn and Limp Bizkit. Iain Matthews, Skeleton Keys (1992) Line. Won Artist of the Year — Rock Radio; 2004 Radio Music Awards. Ian Matthews, Walking a Changing Line (1986) Windham Hill. Won Song of the Year — Rock Alternative Radio (Numb); 2004 Radio Music Awards. Hi-Fi,Moods for Mallards (1982) First American Records; live mini-album.

Won Viewer's Choice Award (Breaking The Habit); 2004 MTV Video Music Awards. Hi-Fi,Demonstration Record (1982) First American Records; live mini-album. Nominated for Best Rock Video (Breaking The Habit); 2004 MTV Video Music Awards. Ian Matthews, Siamese Friends (1979) Rockburgh. Won Best Rock Video (Somewhere I Belong); 2003 MTV Video Music Awards. Ian Matthews, Stealin' Home (1978) Rockburgh. Nominated for Favorite Artist - Alternative Music; 30th Annual American Music Awards; Sept 1, 2002. Ian Matthews, Hit and Run (1977) CBS.

Nominated for Best Video, Best Album, Best Band in the World. Ian Matthews, Go For Broke (1976) CBS. Won Best International Newcomer; 2001 Kerrang Awards. Ian Matthews, Some Days You Eat the Bear...Some Days the Bear Eats You (1974) Elektra. Won Best Foreigner Artist of The Year; Finland's 2001 Emma Awards. Plainsong, In Search of Amelia Earhart (1972) Elektra. Nominated for Best Rock Album, Best New Artist. Ian Matthews, Tigers Will Survive (1972) Vertigo.

Won Best Hard Rock Performance (Crawling); 2001 Grammys. Matthews Southern Comfort, The Essential Collection (1997) Half Moon (a retrospective of 1970s recordings). Won Best International Nu-Metal/Alternative Artist; ECHO 2002 awards in Germany. Matthews Southern Comfort, Later That Same Year (1970) MCA. Nominated for Best Video of the Year (In The End), Best Group Video (In The End). Matthews Southern Comfort, Second Spring (1970) MCA. Won Best Rock Video; 2002 MTV Video Music Awards (In The End). Fairport Convention, Heyday(1986) BBC - a release of recordings from 1968/1969.

Won Best Foreign Rock; Swedish Hit Music Awards; November 17th, 2002. Fairport Convention, What We Did On Our Holidays(1968) Polydor. Nominated for Best Website. Fairport Convention, Fairport Convention(1968) Island. Won Best Group, Best Hard Rock; 2002 MTV Europe Music Awards. Pyramid, "The Summer of Last Year"/"Summer evening" (1967) Deram Records; his first recording. Won Favorite Artist - Alternative Music; 31st Annual American Music Awards; Sept 16, 2003.

Points of Authority/99 Problems/One Step Closer (live). Numb/Encore (live). Breaking The Habit, traditional anime. From The Inside (International).

Numb. Lying From You (Live in Texas). Faint - monochrome concert-like footage, directed by Mark Romanek. This video for features some surrealistic creatures moving from a painting that may have been inspired by Salvador Dalí's works - possibly The Temptation of Saint Anthony (1946) or The Elephants (1948).

Somewhere I Belong - live-action plus CGI. Wth>You (With You Remix), photographic animation. FRGT/10 (Forgotten Remix), CGI. P5hng Me A*wy (Pushing Me Away Remix).

Enth E Nd (In The End Remix). Pts.OF.Athrty (Points Of Authority Remix), CGI. Points Of Authority Live footage (International). In The End.

Papercut (International). Crawling (The Brothers Straus). Crawling (at the Dragon Festival). One Step Closer.

2004 "Numb/Encore" (with Jay-Z) #1 US, #14 UK. from "Collision Course"