Remembering Chester Bennington Part 2
When a musician dies, there\u2019s a light that goes out in fans\u2026it\u2019s not like we knew this person, you know, personally\u2026but it might feel that we did\u2026that\u2019s because the art they created expressed feelings and concepts and thoughts that we couldn\u2019t articulate ourselves\u2026it\u2019s through their music that we are able to learn more about ourselves\u2026that\u2019s why we need artists\u2026\n\nAnd we often don\u2019t realize how deeply their music affected us and in what ways it has worked into our lives and psyches until that person is gone\u2026\n\nWe saw this when bowie died...it happened when prince left us\u2026same thing with Chris Cornell and Gord Downie and any other musician you wanna mention\u2026and it happened again when Chester Bennington died\u2026\n\nLinkin Park sold tens of millions of records, many on the strength of Chester\u2019s abilities to express how he felt, feelings that resonated with so many others\u2026and now that he\u2019s gone, we\u2019re looking at how he did that on his own, with Linkin Park and with some of his side projects\u2026\n\nThis is remembering Chester Bennington, part 2\u2026\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices