Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley Questioned If He Would Fill In for Chester Bennington With Linkin Park

Will we ever get extra music from Linkin Park after the 2017 demise of Chester Bennington, and if that’s the case, what would that future look and sound like? These are questions that come up ceaselessly, and provided that the band’s final present was a memorial tribute with a few of rock’s greatest names enjoying with the group to honor Chester, the query will seemingly persist if we have already seen an individual who would possibly step in with the band.

Sum 41‘s Deryck Whibley was one of many performers honoring Bennington on Oct. 27, 2017 and he is since performed a Linkin Park tune alongside Mike Shinoda at 2018’s Studying Pageant, so the query was posed to him by The Jasta Present host Jamey Jasta if he would ever take into account enjoying with Linkin Park ought to they ever return.

The singer responded (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), “I feel that is an unimaginable process; I feel these are unimaginable sneakers to fill. I do not know in the event that they’re ever gonna do something. I don’t know what that is gonna appear to be or who that may very well be.”

Jasta in flip advised that Whibley may very well be a great vocal match, to which the musician said, “I am going to take that flatter. I do not know if I may do this. I do not know if I agree with you on that.”

When requested additional if it is one thing he would take into account, Whibley supplied, “That’s such a non-possibility that it is too bizarre to even, like, kind of ‘joke assume’ about it. [Laughs] I do not know. I do not understand how somebody may fill these sneakers. I feel it might be powerful.”

Through the 2017 tribute present, Whibley and Sum 41 drummer Frank Zummo, together with Jon Inexperienced, joined Linkin Park onstage to carry out “The Catalyst.” A 12 months later, Sum 41 have been scheduled to carry out on the 2018 Studying Pageant and welcomed Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda to the stage to cowl Linkin Park’s “Faint.” (as seen under).

In a throwback put up on Instagram earlier this 12 months, Whibley mirrored on that pairing with Shinoda, giving some behind-the-scenes perspective of the way it got here collectively.  “We had solely determined to carry out this tune collectively a couple of week earlier than the present. We had no rehearsal in any respect. On the day of the present we (@sum41) have been caught at customs coming into the U.Ok. and it didn’t appear to be we have been even going to make it to the present. After hours of ready we have been lastly cleared and needed to attempt to make our means via all of the live performance site visitors which ended up getting us to the competition 45 minutes earlier than our present time,” recalled Whibley.

“We rapidly mentioned howdy to @m_Shinoda outdoors of our tour bus, confirmed we have been nonetheless going to carry out collectively, spoke very briefly about how the association would go after which scrambled to prepare for our set,” says Whibley of the rapidly organized collaboration.

“It was such a blast to carry out this tune, (which is one my favorites) but additionally nerve racking on the similar time. With no rehearsal and solely working towards in a lodge room on my own just a few nights earlier than the present, all I wished to do was to return in with the utmost respect and take a look at my greatest to honor the music, Chester, Mike, @linkinpark band members and the LP household. Nobody will ever come near @Chesterbe and that’s not what it was about for any of us. It was purely simply in regards to the love of the music. As you possibly can see by the grins on all of our faces we have been having a lot enjoyable!”

Linkin Park haven’t carried out collectively because the 2017 tribute live performance held for Bennington on the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Within the time since, co-vocalist Mike Shinoda has turned his focus to solo efforts in addition to producing and collaborating with different artists. Over the weekend, Shinoda gained a Grammy for Greatest Remixed Recording for his work on Deftones’ tune “The Passenger.”

Final October, Shinoda was questioned about Linkin Park’s future and shot down the thought of ever performing with a hologram of Bennington. “Damaging one million %,” said Shinoda when the thought was posed, “I hate the thought of doing a Linkin Park hologram factor. It’s terrible.”

He would later add in the identical Tuna on Toast With Stryker interview, “Now is just not the time [for the band’s return]. We don’t have the deal with it. We don’t have the mathematics labored out. And I don’t imply that by financially math, I imply that like emotional and inventive math.”

He continued, “Our bar for like, the edge for what could be acceptable is excessive. Identical to all the time. For our band, something that we do, it’s prefer it’s gotta be, it’s gotta clear a sure bar. So there’s no, nothing has cleared the bar.”

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