{"id":974466,"date":"2020-01-16T08:58:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T15:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=938699"},"modified":"2020-01-16T08:58:13","modified_gmt":"2020-01-16T15:58:13","slug":"watch-chester-bennington-fronted-grey-dazes-first-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/watch-chester-bennington-fronted-grey-dazes-first-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Chester Bennington-Fronted Grey Daze\u2019s First Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/grey-daze-eye-chester-bennington.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>In the mid-Nineties, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/chester-bennington\/\" id=\"auto-tag_chester-bennington\" data-tag=\"chester-bennington\">Chester Bennington<\/a> fronted a grungy Arizona band called Grey Daze that split up around the time that he joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/linkin-park\/\" id=\"auto-tag_linkin-park\" data-tag=\"linkin-park\">Linkin Park<\/a>. Now, two years after the singer\u2019s death, the band will be putting out its first widely released record, which contains vocals Bennington recorded as a teenager.<\/p>\n<p>The first single, \u201cWhat\u2019s in the Eye,\u201d finds the 17-year-old Bennington crooning and screaming over a moody mix of murky clean guitar and pile-driving riffs: \u201cDon\u2019t go too fast, my friend\/Before you lose control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The as-yet-untitled LP \u2014 which contains reworked recordings from the group\u2019s independently released records (a project Bennington got behind shortly before his death) \u2014 will come out in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the years we\u2019d become more knowledgeable, more experienced and had more resources, so we decided to pick a selection of songs from our previously released albums and re-record them the way they deserved to have been treated back in the Nineties when we initially wrote and released them,\u201d the group\u2019s surviving members said in a joint statement. \u201cBy February 2017, we started recording and in June, Chester and Sean [Dowdell] announced the reunion, with a live performance planned for that fall. Unfortunately, as we all know, that never happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bennington wrote the lyrics for \u201cWhat\u2019s in the Eye\u201d with the group\u2019s drummer, Dowdell; the song recalls a friend of theirs who died in a car accident. The band, which was active between 1993 and 1996, reworked it for this release with producers Chris Traynor (Bush, Helmet), Kyle Hoffman (Rob Zombie, Escape the Fate) and Jay Baumgardner (Papa Roach, Coal Chamber).<\/p>\n<p>An exact release date for the album has yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/chester-bennington-grey-daze-938699\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the mid-Nineties, Chester Bennington fronted a grungy Arizona band called Grey Daze that split up around the time that he joined Linkin Park. Now, two years after the singer\u2019s death, the band will be putting out its first widely released record, which contains vocals Bennington recorded as a teenager. The first single, \u201cWhat\u2019s in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-28 01:26:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}