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Chester Bennington

Band Position: Vocals

Date Of Birth : 3/20/'76

What Chester says about tattoos:
"Tattoos are permanent and a lifelong commitment, the same as marriage. I figure if I'm gonna make a lifelong commitment with a person then I need to respect their boundaries. I've actually discussed every piece I've had done except the first because that was done before I met her. But at the same time I'm still my own person and I wanted to get the album cover done and I didn't discuss that with her. She saw it and fell in love with it but she said 'Don't ever do that again!' I'd definately recommend tattoos for everyone, but just respect yourself and respect the idea of what you're doing to yourself." - Chester

Chester was addicted to cocaine when he was a teenager. He was also addicted to amphetamines.

Chester's former band was Grey Daze, however he quit because he got no credit for the lyrics (I believe). Grey Daze now have a new female singer and have changed their name to Waterface.

Chester is originally from Phoenix, Arizona. He lives in the Los Angeles area now.

Mike Shinoda

Band Position: Emcee, Guitar (Crawling)
Date Of Birth : 2/11/'77
Mike is from Agoura,CA but lives in Los Angeles now.
Mike is half Japanese (his middle name is Kenji).
Mike graduated from Pasaden Art College of Design.
Mike designed the cover for the bands Hybrid Theory EP.
Mike says Gizmo the Mogwai and Spike the Gremlin are the cartoon characters that represent him best because every time he's not on stage he's Gizmo, he's a silly little shit, than he gets on stage and he's not.

Brad Delson

Band Position: Guitar
Date Of Birth : 12/1/'77
Brad is short for Bradford.
Brad is Jewish.
Brad is from Agoura,CA, but lives in the Los Angeles area now.
According to Brad,the strangest thing a fan has ever requested was linkin park's pubic hair. Fans in the UK actually brought tape to put it on. He previously said that the strangest request he ever got from a fan was to sign body parts that shouldn't be signed (ie. boobs, which they don't sign anymore,lol).
Brad talking about his headphones:
"I will say that it has something to do with the matrix. Not the movie, the actual matrix and being connected with it. Mr. Hahn has been rubbing off on me. I'm starting to integrate sci-fi humor into my schtick. It probably isn't too popular with a mass audience. But I won't give him credit for the headphones.

Joseph Hahn (That's 'Mr' to you!)

Band Position: DJ/Mixer
Joe was born in America, however his parents are Korean so this makes him Korean too.
Date Of Birth : 3/15/'77
Joe is from Glendale, CA but lives in Los Angeles now.
Joe has a split personality called Remy (any LP fan knows this lol) and this guy Remy talks on the beggining of Cure For The Itch. Now however, Joe completely denies Remy's existence. He's lying lol.
Joe and Mike both majored in illustration. They were both interested in painting and Joe stayed at the college for a year then he got into motion pictures. He worked on Sphere and Phantoms. He worked on monsters in movies.

Rob Bourdon

Band Position: Drums
Date Of Birth : 1/20/'79
Rob is from Calabasas, CA, but lives in Los Angeles now.
Rob is also Jewish.
Rob went to highschool with Incubus.
Rob is the technical guru of the band, pointing out imperfections in the videos etc.

Dave 'Phoenix' Farrell

Band Postition: Bass Guitar
Date Of Birth : 2/8/'77
His real name is David Michael Farrell.
Phoenix was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
After moving to CA, he joined a band called 'Tasty Snax'. The band later changed their name to 'The Snax'.
While Phoenix was with The Snax he changed from guitar to bass guitar and has stayed with it ever since.
His mum taught him how to play guitar and she is his greatest inspiration.
Phoenix and Brad we college room-mates, and they occasionally played together.
Phoenix uses both 4 and 5 string Ernie Ball Sting Ray Bass Guitars and uses SWR Amplifiers.

Thanks to Pushmeaway.com for some of the information.

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