Coverwall

Executives at other record companies must be in tears. For three years, Linkin Park were rejected by every major label in the business and by a lot of indies, as well. Warner Bros. passed three times before finally signing the band in late ’99. Blue, who gave the group a development deal in 1997 after seeing just one show, recalls a Xero club date in Los Angeles packed with A&R scouts. They had all fled by the third song. “The place was empty,” says Blue, now a vice president of A&R at Warner Bros. and the executive producer of [Hybrid Theory]. “You could hear crickets.” When Bennington arrived in 1999, the band played forty-two showcases for labels and, the singer says, “got turned down by everybody.” … [Read more...] about Linkin Park: David Fricke Talks to Chester Bennington About ‘Hybrid Theory’ Success

What he is asking for is patently impossible, and therefore denied the validity of the court. But Manson is not the only person to have called the judicial system into question on grounds that it does not function in the absolute. In fact, Manson’s claim that a court that does not operate on cosmic law has been argued since law was first codified, and it is actually on this point that it is most vulnerable. The law does not pretend to dispense divine law; it claims to operate on a limited, finite system of values, but once you accept the premise, you are obligated to accept a fiction, in terms of justice. … [Read more...] about Charles Manson: Book Four