Chester lays down a sick riff and Mike works his magic to make it sound even cooler. Sad to know those two will never create another song or write lyrics together ever again
@@galacticpondofficial Nah, it was Chester messing around on guitar, they mention it briefly during Frat Party at the Pankake Festival and the making of Meteora
I was wondering how it all played out in the end but now I know.... I fell in love with this intro the first time I heard it!!!! I still blast this joint whenever I FEEL LIKE IT!!!! and if a punk got a problem with it he can take it up with me!!!!!
Watch the making of Meteora you will hear the story of how on the tour bus in 2001, Chester came up with this part. The band thought it was too “folky” and didn’t know what to do with the recording so they flipped it back and cut it into 4 pieces and played it in the order it was originally recorded in. Great story.
So, when Chester actually came up with that part on guitar, it sounded like it does in the song. They didnt like the acoustic sound so they reversed it, but because they liked the original progression, they cut up the sound into 4 measures, and put them back in the original order. Basically, Mike cut the reversed track, which would be going 4 3 2 1, and pasted it as 1 2 3 4.
that makes sense and I always suspected that was the case. the forward version just doesn't sound quite right, it's a kind of strange series of chords to use and it's not the kind of riff you'd expect in a linkin park song.
Fun fact : the reversed intro of "somewhere I belong" is how actually it was supposed to sound like, but then they reversed it so the tempo would've been 4-3-2-1 and to make it sound cooler :)
I never noticed this, and this sounds like Chester when he would play on his acoustic guitar and I'm only making this theory as he had did the same while in the studio with the 'Unicorns and Lollipops' skit.
