Chris Cornell to Open for Linkin Park

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edited April 2008 in Other Music
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http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003784993

Linkin Park Snags Cornell, Bravery For Projekt Revolution
Linkin Park

April 03, 2008, 8:00 AM ET

Mitchell Peters, L.A.
Linkin Park, Chris Cornell, the Bravery and Ashes Divide (featuring A Perfect Circle's Billy Howerdel) will perform on the main stage of the 2008 Projekt Revolution tour, set to begin July 16 at the Tweeter Center outside Boston.

The fifth installation of the Linkin Park-reared trek is scheduled to visit 24 U.S. cities this summer and wrap Aug. 24 at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Houston. Atreyu, 10 Years, Hawthorne Heights, Armor For Sleep and the Street Drum Corps will appear on the smaller Revolution Stage.

For a limited time beginning tomorrow (April 4), Linkin Park and tour producer Live Nation say they will absorb service fees for tickets purchased through the band's fan club, lpunderground.com, or livenation.com.

"As a thank you to our fan club, we're picking up part of the tab for their tickets to this summer's Projekt Revolution," Linking Park co-frontman Mike Shinoda said. "We'll be paying the service charge on fan club pre-sale tickets, which will save each fan roughly $8-$11. Our fan club has been incredibly loyal and supportive, and we hope this gesture lets them know how much we appreciate them."

Tickets for select dates go on sale to the general public beginning April 11 via linkinpark.com and livenation.com. Ticket prices for the trek have not yet been released, but Linkin Park will donate $1 from each ducat to Music for Relief, which supports disaster relief efforts and the reduction of global warming.


Projekt Revolution tour sponsors include Major League Baseball, Monster Energy Drink, Verizon Wireless and Nowwhat.com. Last year's outing featured My Chemical Romance, Taking Back Sunday, HIM, Placebo, Julien-K, Mindless Self Indulgence, Saosin, the Bled, Styles Of Beyond and Madina Lake.

Linkin Park will be on the road promoting its newest album "Minutes to Midnight," which dropped last May via Machine Shop/Warner Bros. The album, Linkin Park's first in four years, has sold 2.3 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan
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  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Chris, your officially a fucking pussy!! ProjeKt revolution?!?!?!?!?!?!? get a life. that "festival" is a fucking joke!!!! cmon, its spelt with a "K". Your officially a waste of talent, go sing on american idol next year.
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  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    Fine. Nice to see he's musically open-minded and not as prejudiced as some.
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

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  • digster
    digster Posts: 1,293
    I'm no big Cornell fan, but considering PJ played a show with Linkin Park also, I don't think we should be so quick to judge.
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    12345AGNST1 wrote:
    HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Chris, your officially a fucking pussy!! ProjeKt revolution?!?!?!?!?!?!? get a life. that "festival" is a fucking joke!!!! cmon, its spelt with a "K". Your officially a waste of talent, go sing on american idol next year.

    Do you remember 'Superunknown'? It's not even a word. Neither is 'Spoonman.' In fact those lyrics are ridiculous. Great album though.
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

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  • Mike_Muse_Rage
    Mike_Muse_Rage Posts: 677
    Uh, Chris already played a whole bunch of shows with Linkin Park last year. Old news. Seriously.
  • mattosborne
    mattosborne Posts: 339
    At the risk of being torn to shreds, This is actually a huge step up from the previous few Projekt tours. I don't care much for Linkin Park but, at least its not My Chemical Romance and Taking Back Sunday like last time. And, picking up service fees for fan club members is a cool thing to do.
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  • blackredyellow
    blackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    Sheesh, this guy gets flack for everything around here.

    I've never been a big fan of his (except for maybe Euphoria Morning), but people around here are so judgmental living up on their soapboxes.
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  • Joe2TheRevenge
    Joe2TheRevenge Posts: 904
    Still not as bad as Jerry Cantrell opening for Creed.
    You can't spell "dumb" without DMB
  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    blackredyellow wrote:
    Sheesh, this guy gets flack for everything around here.

    I've never been a big fan of his (except for maybe Euphoria Morning), but people around here are so judgmental living up on their soapboxes.

    Actually, I mostly see people worshiping him here. Opening for Linkin Park is career suicide in my opinion. Pretty embarrassing gig for him.
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  • Joe2TheRevenge
    Joe2TheRevenge Posts: 904
    The RHCP get blown off the stage nightly by their openers, so Chris will get to do the same to Linkin Park

    i think it's good Chris is exposing himself to younger crowds. Maybe they will turn in the Linkin Park CDs for Soundgarden albums.
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  • fragileblake
    fragileblake Posts: 716
    Seems about right, Cornell has officially cemented his place as the Rod Stewart of the grunge movement.
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  • holtz
    holtz Posts: 509
    Joe2TheRevenge wrote:
    The RHCP get blown off the stage nightly by their openers, so Chris will get to do the same to Linkin Park

    i think it's good Chris is exposing himself to younger crowds. Maybe they will turn in the Linkin Park CDs for Soundgarden albums.

    Sad thing is most people at Linkin Park shows probably don't know who Chris is. It is good for him to show some younger music fans who he is and how great his voice is. I saw Chris last year and the younger fans went crazy for Audioslave stuff but just stood still for Soungarden stuff, minus Outshined, and seemed to not know the songs.
  • gtrplyr
    gtrplyr Posts: 115
    Joe2TheRevenge wrote:
    Still not as bad as Jerry Cantrell opening for Creed.
    I don't see whats so bad about that.

    Actually, I saw Creed on their first tour and they kicked all kinds of ass.
  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    gtrplyr wrote:
    I don't see whats so bad about that.

    Actually, I saw Creed on their first tour and they kicked all kinds of ass.

    Dude. Watch your back around here, seriously. ;)
    'We're learning songs for baby Jesus' birthday. His mum and dad were Merry and Joseph. He had a bed made of clay and the three kings bought him Gold, Frankenstein and Merv as presents.'

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  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    Dude. Watch your back around here, seriously. ;)

    Lol, I hear Scott Stapp is into kicking his wife's ass, but that's about it!
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    gtrplyr wrote:
    I don't see whats so bad about that.

    Actually, I saw Creed on their first tour and they kicked all kinds of ass.
    Even if they weren't terrible, which they were (excepting My Own Prison which is just mediocre so I guess you saw them at their best time), Jerry opening for them is insane. Creed wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the "grunge" "scene" that Jerry helped create.
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  • nuffingman
    nuffingman Posts: 3,014
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    Actually, I mostly see people worshiping him here. Opening for Linkin Park is career suicide in my opinion. Pretty embarrassing gig for him.
    Yeh, I agree with this. So much drooling over him it's sometimes embarrassing. Let the piss takers have their fun. :)
  • clarefromscotland
    clarefromscotland Posts: 154
    CC opened for Linkin Park on their Australia/NZ tour last year. I gather Chester Bennington from LP is a longtime fan of CC so presumably that's why they've asked him to tour with them again in the US.

    Undoubtedly some of their younger fans in Australia didn't have a clue who he was or what bands he'd been in, but isn't that a good way of introducing yourself to new people? Preaching to the converted all the time is a better recipe for "career suicide" than reaching out to new and different audiences, if you ask me....
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  • mole1985
    mole1985 Posts: 1,119
    clarefromscotland wrote:
    CC opened for Linkin Park on their Australia/NZ tour last year. I gather Chester Bennington from LP is a longtime fan of CC so presumably that's why they've asked him to tour with them again in the US.

    Undoubtedly some of their younger fans in Australia didn't have a clue who he was or what bands he'd been in, but isn't that a good way of introducing yourself to new people? Preaching to the converted all the time is a better recipe for "career suicide" than reaching out to new and different audiences, if you ask me....

    Amen sister...
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  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    clarefromscotland wrote:
    CC opened for Linkin Park on their Australia/NZ tour last year. I gather Chester Bennington from LP is a longtime fan of CC so presumably that's why they've asked him to tour with them again in the US.

    Undoubtedly some of their younger fans in Australia didn't have a clue who he was or what bands he'd been in, but isn't that a good way of introducing yourself to new people? Preaching to the converted all the time is a better recipe for "career suicide" than reaching out to new and different audiences, if you ask me....

    Ah the voice of reason! If Chris didn't take risks in his career, he would have been washed up a long time ago.

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