When the main singer Chester Bennington died in 2017, many people expected his group Linkin Park to call him.
Instead, the group took an extended break from the public and tried to understand things.
The Socal Nu -Metal Act would reappear in September 2024 – things have understood a lot – with the addition of Sara Emily Armstrong’s co -founder sharing microphone tasks with Mike Shinoda.
Linkin Park then followed two months later with “From Zero”, the eighth outing of the group’s studio – and its first with Armstrong – which was both a critical and commercial success.
Linkin Park’s return continued with a winning show at the Sap Center in San Jose, which attracted a massive crowd of some 17,500 fans – a good 2,000 to 3,000 more than a typical closed window concert – Monday evening (September 15). The additional capacity was made possible by the group’s decision to go with a 360 degree adjustment “around”, which allows seats on all sides of the stage and many more tickets sold.
Of course, all eyes were on Armstrong in San Jose to see how she would try to fill the huge Bennington shoes, the famous singer in a high voice died by suicide.
Wisely, Armstrong did not openly try as much filling of the Bennington shoes that she tried to cut her own distinct path on the song during the set of 26 songs in the group. She adopted a much more important melodic approach to the voices, especially earlier in the series, than we got from Bennington. Over the evening, however, she went up the bet and delivered her own mark of howls and cries to some of the group’s best known songs.
As powerful as Armstrong was on the microphone, however, she simply could not exceed the voice choir of the crowd. Sometimes it seemed that the 17,500 people of the building sang, at the top volume, to music, stressing how these songs of anxiety and alienation continue to resonate with generations of listeners.
There was a solid contingent of 30 and 40 years old, people who probably disturbed the classic beginnings of Renkin Park Rap -Rock – the “hybrid theory” certified in diamonds – on CD during its first outing in 2000. But there was also a lot of younger fans, those who hung the group because of its continuous relevance and popularity in the world of the shopping center.
By taking the scene just after 8:30 pm, Linkin Park started in the past, fueling the solid versions of “SomeWhere I belong” to the second -year effort of the “Meteora” of the “Métiède” of the “hybrid theory” and “hybrid theory”.
The group – which consists of Armstrong, singer -Keyboardist -Guitaist Shinoda, the main guitarist Brad Delson, DJ Joe Hahn, bassist Dave Farrell and drummer Colin Brittain – then zoom towards the present for “Taché”, one of the nine numbers occurs “from Zero”.
In general, the new offers – including “the vacuum machine”, “two -sided” and, in particular, “Igyeih” – seemed just as strong as the older material. Of course, there have been notable exceptions – largely because of the way in which the energy of the crowd would propel music to incredible heights on fans like “one more” and “weak”.
The configuration of the scene was quite simple and, according to today’s standards, simple – essentially just a rectangular space, under two large video screen blocks, allowing a breathtaking view of the group from all sides. There were neat laser effects, but somewhat underused, but nothing that really had an impact on the global program.
The musicians were quite stationary for a large part of the night – which, of course, has a total meaning with regard to a drummer parked in a kit or a DJ with turntables, but not so much when you talk about a pair of singers. Armstrong and Shinoda did much more homelessness later in the evening – especially the first, which spent the last quarter of the show that was running and on the stage.
I look at Linkin Park in concert since the very first headliner of the group, which brought the group to the legendary Fillmore in San Francisco in January 2001. What I remember most about this first show was not music, but the way the group treated its fans – spending time to sign autographs, breaking their hands and taking other measures important and appreciated.
Some 100 million albums sold later, Linkin Park is still on four to prioritize his connection with fans. It was obvious in San Jose when Shinoda was released in the pit, between the stage and the barriers of the crowd, and walked to touch their hands and share moments with the public. He would even give a fan a six -year -old fan.
The group closed the main set with a vague of great songs, sandwich in the new album “Good Things Go” between the favorites of all time “Numb” and “In the End” before finishing with a “fail”. Linkin Park then returned for a reminder of three songs highlighted by the jewel of “hybrid theory” “Papercut”.
At the end of the show, one thing was perfectly clear:
This restarted Linkin fleet seems to start.
Linkin Park Setlist:
1. “Somewhere I belong”
2. “Points of authority”
3. “stained”
4. “New division”
5. “The empty machine”
6. “The catalyst”
7. “Burn it”
8. “At the bottom of the bottom”
9. “Where did you go”
10. “While waiting for the end”
11. “Glass castle”
12. “Two face”
13. “When they come for me” / “Remember the name”
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15. “One more step”
16. “Lost”
17. “Unshatter”
18. “What I did”
19. “Overflow”
20. “Number”
21. “Good things go”
22. “In the end”
23. “Make”
Bis:
24. “Papercut”
25. “The example is the crown”
26. “Raise it”
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