


After the three-song demo, the band came together and started writing new music. For the most part, he made a lot of Gangsta rap joke songs, resulting in a demo tape called Pooch Pound. The beats were inspired by old-school rock & roll or blues songs and he eventually started rapping over them. He bought some production equipment (a keyboard and then a sampler with the help of Styles Of Beyond’s producer Vin Skully) and started making beats and playing with MIDI and digital-based music. Their fifth album, Living Things, combines musical elements from all of their previous records. The band continued to explore a wider variation of musical types in their fourth album, A Thousand Suns, layering their music with more electronic sounds. fame with their debut album Hybrid Theory, which was certified Diamond by the RIAA in 2005 and multi-Platinum in several other countries. As the best-selling band of the 21st century and one of the world’s best-selling music artists overall, Linkin Park has sold more than 70 million records worldwide and has won two Grammy Awards. In 2014, the band was declared as the Biggest Rock Band in the World Right Now by Kerrang!. In 2012, the band was voted as the greatest artist of the 2000s in a Bracket Madness poll on VH1. 19 on the Best Artists of the Decade chart. In 2003, MTV2 named Linkin Park the sixth-greatest band of the music video era and the third-best of the new millennium.Billboard ranked Linkin Park No.

When he was 12, he started taking drum lessons and switched to playing drums full time. When he was 8 or 9 years old, Rob Bourdon and his brother used to play along to Aerosmith and Faith No More on their parents couch with a pair of drumsticks. Joe played violin in school for a few years and then played guitar for a bit before he started getting serious about DJ-ing in high school. Joe was born in Dallas, but moved to Glendale when he was 8.Like Mike and Dave, Joe had been a classically trained musician and brought new capacities for sounds to the band.
