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The 10 Best Moments of Linkin Park’s Triumphant NYC Performance
Linkin Park returned to Brooklyn - here were the 10 best moments from the concert.
And Shinoda, bassist Dave Farrell and DJ/turntablist Joseph Hahn (along with drummer Brittain and touring guitarist Alex Feder) sounded and looked reinvigorated while swaggering together onstage, diving back into their rich catalog while mining the opportunities of a new era and extra time. At the Los Angeles show last week, Shinoda unveiled a mash-up of “When They Come for Me” and “Remember the Name” — songs released under different artist banners (the former on Linkin Park’s A Thousand Suns, the latter on his lone Fort Minor album The Rising Tied) that nevertheless fit well together as a presentation of his bar-stacking ability. The sole discrepancy between the Los Angeles and Brooklyn set lists came midway through the concert, when Living Things electro-rap opener “Lost in the Echo” was swapped out for the Hybrid Theory body-smasher “A Place for My Head” — and with that tweak, Linkin Park unwittingly created one of the most thrilling runs of hard-rock songs of the evening, with “Given Up” and “One Step Closer” immediately following.
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