Quick Interviews and updates post

Crazygirl let me know about an interview with Mike where he very briefly mentions Anna (part 1 of the interview is here).

Chester did a podcast with DJ Fresh and in it he mentioned his family. You can check out all 5 parts here. Thanks Tensh_iie!

And while I am here, updates at beefstewnoodles.com and annashinoda.com ;)

More of the Shockhound interview

I found extra interview questions from the Shockhound interview. Here is an exerpt, click the Read More link for the rest.


You’re remarried, so I’m assuming that the romantic “Give Me Your Name” was written for your second wife?
It was not written for my first wife. Actually, I look back at my previous marriage and don’t know how I remained married. It was so turbulent and so unhealthy. We both deserve happiness and both deserve to find the best people we can, and the two of us were like oil and water. We just couldn’t mix correctly, but luckily for me I did find the right person. I met my wife Talinda, fell in love with her quickly, and we had an amazing romance. We got married and had a beautiful child together. She’s an amazing step mother to my other children, and my family has become even closer. It’s amazing what the right person will do for you if you find them.

While tumultuous relationships can be exciting at times, they can also be emotionally draining.
That’s a good way of putting it. [laughs] Even in the worse moments people can find something good in it, and I think that’s one of the reasons why people try to stick through bad relationships because sometimes there’s something worth fighting for. But how long are you going to fight for it? Eventually the fighting stops, and usually that means you need to split. That’s what happened [with me], and because of it life has gotten a lot better.


This album has been a long time in the making.
It has, it has. It seems like it’s been forever, but really when I look at it the album actually didn’t take very long to make, it was the three years that Minutes To Midnight sucked up [in] between working on the album.
You’ve known a lot of your band members a lot longer, haven’t you?
I’ve known Ryan [Shuck] and Amir [Derakh] for 10 years, maybe more. I met them when they were working on Vapor Transmissions with Orgy and Linkin Park was still making Hybrid Theory.

A lot of people create side projects that sound like their main bands, but this one really crosses over a lot of different genres and styles.
Yeah, it does. It’s kind of grungy and it’s kind of got some punk elements to it as well, but at the same time it’s really poppy. It’s also got this alternative electronic sensibility to it. The album sounds like a whole album — it doesn’t feel too scattered — but it’s definitely diverse, and that was my goal, to make something that was more rock and just the kind of music I make, in addition to the kind of stuff that we write with Linkin Park.
“Crawl Back In” was used for a promo for TNA Wrestling. It seems like that dark tune would be appropriate for the dour world of the film The Wrestler rather than the larger-than-life atmosphere of pro wrestling. It makes me think of how many rock and metal fans don’t always know the lyrics to songs they like. Have you found that often with Linkin Park’s music, that some people don’t actually know what your songs are about or perhaps misinterpret them?
I do that actually. I’ve been listening to bands for 20 years of my life and probably couldn’t tell you the correct words to any of their songs, with the exception of a few. When I listen to music I just listen and just like the melody. Sometimes I get so lost in the melody and the music that when I sing along I’m just going “da-na-na-na” to the melody and don’t even know what the fuck they’re saying. Some people love to pay attention to that stuff. Some people love to sit down and listen to it and read the lyrics. Some people don’t care about any of it because they just want to listen to the guitar parts. It’s such a unique experience for everybody. I’m sure there are many people whose favorite song is “In The End” but they don’t know the words.

This album is allowing you to express a lot of other ideas that you don’t get to share through Linkin Park. Was it important for you to expand musically in as many different directions as possible?
It was almost like an accident because my intention was to write songs for Linkin Park and only Linkin Park. I have no desire to go and start another band. These songs are so different from Linkin Park in some very obvious ways and in some very subtle ways. I knew that but still felt they were good songs, even though I knew that LP would be like, “It’s a good song but it’s not really our thing.” In the beginning I took that as they were being nice and telling me they didn’t like the songs in a very nice way, but as I kept playing the songs for people — whether they were hanging out backstage and I had a guitar or if I was having at a party at my house and was playing around a campfire — people really seemed to be drawn to the songs I was writing and liked them. So I felt like I should give these a shot.
Is it true that you originally wrote a lot of these songs on acoustic guitar?
That’s my studio. I write everything on acoustic guitar. Every single one of these songs was written on my acoustic at home, and then I brought them in [to the studio]. My theory is if I can sit down with an acoustic guitar and sing a song and people love the song, then the work is done. Now it’s just a matter of going out — you’ve made the cake, and now you can put whatever icing you want on it.

How much touring are you going to do besides these three initial shows? Are you also going to record more music in the future?
I would like to tour as much as I can. It’s definitely something that rests upon the ability and availability to tour. Obviously I’m not going to stop doing Linkin Park [in terms of] writing or business because I’m doing Dead By Sunrise. The timing here is perfect, which is why we’re putting out the record now. But I do want to do as much touring as I can squeeze in. We’re all taking this project very seriously, and we really are a band who plans on making more records. I’ve already started writing stuff for what will be the next Dead By Sunrise album. We’re in the process of making the next Linkin Park record. This is what I do. I love making music, and I’m going to keep making music as long as much and as often as possible. Performing it is obviously the ultimate goal — when you write music, you want to get out and play it for people.

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Loveline audio download

Chester, Ryan, Amir and Talinda were on the Loveline radio show last night and LPTimes has an audio rip HERE. Talinda comes into a conversation on Part 2 and then helps out a girl about halfway through. She comments and laughs a lot in parts 3-5. Here are a few quotes...

"Here's something I tell my kids all the time - if you think it's wrong, then it probably is." -Chester

"Talinda is not in the band" -Chester

"She's the unofficial seventh member." -Ryan

Revolver Interview with Chester

There is online exclusive interview with Chester at the Revolver magazine website. He talks about the drugs, the divorce and Talinda. You can read it all HERE.

I know I talk a lot about it, but the reality is, I came out on the other side. I made a great record with Linkin Park, made a good record with Dead by Sunrise. I’m good dad, I’m a good husband, I have a lot of friends.

Chester interview with Taipei Times

Here is an excerpt from an interview with Chester. Read the rest here.

TT: Tell me about your own solo project, Dead by Sunrise. How did you come up with that name?

CB: I came up with the name after experiencing many days where I thought I was not going to live to the next day. I was definitely going through a very rough time in my life during certain phases of making this record. One [phase] was in the beginning process of making this record, being divorced. My band was on hiatus and fighting with the record company ... in 2005, 2006 ... and around that period I was drinking whisky like ... it was ridiculous. I literally was not leaving my house, I locked myself in my closet, suffered from delirium tremors, on a daily basis; I thought I was really going to die. I was gray and sickly looking, on the verge of turning yellow, and my liver was swollen. It was horrible.

And then I got remarried and figured out that that was not the way to live. And at the same time while going through all of that, I was also experiencing new, beautiful things — a great, healthy relationship in a loving environment, rediscovering my bandmates through sobriety, and finding out who I really am through all of that, too. So there’s a very dark element to the record, a very personal element to the record, and there’s a very bright shiny element to it as well.

Chester on Kevin and Bean show

JoeyDC wrote down a few bits from the interview that Chester did at KROQ earlier today where he talks about twitter and Talinda.

He talked about Basketball and how people look at him weird when he cheers for L.A. Lakers instead of Phoenix Suns. He said he is a Lakers Fan. He also mentioned his camping with his family for four days. When they came back and he walked through his door, the basketball game started. Kevin & Bean said to Chester that they once saw his tweet about his wife: "My wife is super hot, and I love her so much!" and mentioned to him that he obviously wasn't a good boy and posted this tweet to make up for it. Chester said he was really into tweeting in the beginning, and then forgot all about it. But Talinda would be still very much into it. So Chester never really responded to Talinda's tweets anymore, and that was when he posted that tweet about her to kinda make up for it :).

Energy Star Talk Transcript and download

Lptimes has the full translated transcript from Chester's interview on Energy Star Talk. You can download the audio interview here.

Chester mentioned Talinda

Chester got interviewed by a German radio station called "ENERGY" and one of the question was:

ENERGY: Coolest woman ever?
Chester: My wife

edit: you can find the whole translated text on joehahn.org

Interview with Chester

Parts from the Etnies interview with Chester:

RB: How old is your, is it son, you have a son?

CB: Yeah, I have four boys.

RB: Four boys.

CB: Got a litter of kids!

RB: What’s the oldest, and the youngest?

CB: My oldest is 11, and his brother is gonna be 10 in November. And I have a 5-year-old, and my youngest just turned one, a couple weeks ago.

RB: So throughout all this, like the music career, the rock star, the everything, how does fatherhood affect that, as far as whether it be creating music or . . .

CB: No I think I’ve really figured it out. I figured it out that I wasn’t always the best dad, you know what I mean? My kids love me, I love my kids, but the reality is that my career always took front seat for a long time. And so I really kind of figured it out, like how to balance being a dad and running a company, and trying to create new companies, and . . . I have another company called Level 7 that is a music and technology-based company, and people will start hearing about that in the next couple of years, but that’s been also a lot of work too, building that, recruiting people for that type of thing too. So it’s been a lot of work too. But, it’s interesting, because somehow I figured out how to do it all. I don’t know exactly when it happened, but I spend more time with all my kids than I ever have. I’ve been married for, I’ve been with my wife for a little over two years. I got divorced a couple years ago, but it was interesting because I spend more time with everybody now. Like, I spend more time with my band, I spend more time with my wife, spend more time with my kids, and I spend more time working than I ever have.

.........And I have this crest across my chest that has my initials, my wife’s initials and the initials of my boys underneath it. And it’s right over my heart; I think that one’s my most sentimental piece. I love it. It’s really simple, there’s not any color; it’s just black and greys. It means a lot to me. . .

Thanks Ma! ;)

VMA Interview with Chester&Talinda transcript

COLTRANE: You guys are doing the same color pattern. I see the orange and orange. Did we work on that?

CHESTER: Absolutely, we did it all together. Put our minds together and come up with a Miami theme. We had to look hot.

COLTRANE: Is he taking all the credit?

TALINDA: He actually is, he picked out my entire outfit.

COLTRANE: I figured that. I gotta say you guys look sexy and that's a beautiful accessory right there. (Ring on her finger)

TALINDA: Thank you very much.

COLTRANE: That rock ain't to shabby itself.

TALINDA: [laughs] No it's not.