Pop Quiz: Linkin Park

Pop Quiz: Linkin Park

Aidin Vaziri | The only people who listen to rock music anymore are World War II veterans. Everybody else listens to Linkin Park because it has taken hoary guitar music and modernized it with beats, samples and graffiti spray, selling 12 million copies of its 2001 debut, "Hybrid Theory," and logging more than 70 weeks on the pop charts with its latest release, "Meteora." The band is currently on the Projekt Revolution Tour with Korn, Snoop Dogg, the Used and Less Than Jake.



Chester Bennington of Linkin Park
Q: Maybe if you stocked your tour bus with a few things Snoop would like -- some weed, a couple porn videos -- instead of just video games and books, he might want to hang out with you a little more.
A: Perhaps I should re-evaluate my whole strategy here. So it's not just about the bud? I've got to get the bud, the booze and the bitches.
Q: Correct. You need a complete tour bus makeover.
A: That's kind of hard because I have a 2-year-old. I don't know if the coke and the strippers would go over that well. I have to pretend I'm a dad and stuff. But I'm sure we could work something out.
Q: I don't know. That sounds a little boring. And you are a former drug addict.
A: Well, we do say that there's no smoking and no weed backstage, or anything really that you can smell. We don't want anything to travel into our dressing room.
Q: So shooting up is OK?