That came true when the members of STP fired Weiland and teamed with Bennington for a tour and five-track EP, High Rise, credited to ”Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington.” ”I grew up listening to these guys,” Bennington told L.A. In multiple interviews, Bennington had said that being a member of the Stone Temple Pilots was his lifelong dream. This morning, in response to Bennington’s death, Cornell’s wife Vicky tweeted, “Just when I thought my heart couldn’t break any more…”īennington’s relationship to Weiland was different-the Linkin Park co-founder replaced him as the singer in Stone Temple Pilots in 2013. STP and LP met on the 2001 Family Values Tour, but Bennington had absolutely idolized STP and Weiland as a kid. “You have inspired me in many ways you could never have known,” Bennington wrote to Cornell in an open letter after his death. … I’m just like, ‘What world do I live in, ‘cause this can’t be real?’”īennington later became the godfather to Cornell’s son and sang Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” at the grunge rocker’s funeral in May. I think that’s the most important aspect of why I do what I do and how I do it,” Bennington told Rolling Stone in 2008. ”I’ve got to play with a lot of guys that I’ve grown up loving I get to sing on stage with Chris Cornell.
Linkin Park and Cornell met in 2007 on tour and teamed up in 2008 on the Projekt Revolution tour Bennington would often join Cornell to sing the Temple of the Dog classic “Hunger Strike” and even led the crowd in singing “Happy Birthday” to celebrate Cornell’s 44th birthday in 2008. Linkin Park's Chester Bennington Dead at 41īennington, like Cornell, was found dead by hanging just two months after the Soundgarden frontman’s death.
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