Bennington’s voice needed to be perfected just the way he would have recorded an album today. The songs were recorded without proper production. He’s not with us, but we can put this music out there for his fans to hear.”ĭowdell could have released the unfinished Grey Daze music as it was, but it didn’t feel right. “That song embodied the entire mood and emotion of the project,” he says. The album title comes from the piano-driven “Morei Sky.” Meanwhile, a twin guitar collaboration with Brian “Head” Welch and James “Munky” Shaffer of Korn gives “B12” a push-and-pull drive.” On the starkly poignant “Soul Song,” Bennington’s son Jaime joins him on vocals for the first time along with Bush guitarist Chris Traynor. The music has a plethora of special guests. She kept telling me, ‘Chester is trying to tell you that he needs you to be patient.’ We were very, very patient and we did it the right way.” “There were certain times where I felt him almost pushing me like, ‘Oh, do it this way.’ My wife is very spiritual, and she would get messages. He just happens to not be standing here.’”ĭowdell says he felt Bennington’s presence as he finished the record. Of course he would want me to enjoy this. “I almost felt guilty, like I shouldn’t be enjoying this.
Once I did that, I started enjoying the process of working on this and finishing it. I had to come to terms with that all over again and I understood it a little bit better. I understood that Chester had some dark pain. “It just came to a deeper understanding, listening to it over and over and over again. “I started to have this understanding of my friend, even on a much deeper level, even though he and I wrote the lyrics together and I knew these lyrics for 20 years,” Dowdell says. But after about three months, it proved to be healing. Listening to Bennington’s voice over and over was painful, Dowdell says. I pretty much set aside a chunk of money and said, ‘We’re going to get this thing done and I don’t care who stands in the way.” Once I set my mind to that, I was going to complete it. It was a friendship mission and it was a musical mission. I figured we’d get this thing done and put it out there. “I wasn’t trying to get a record deal or anything like that.
“I woke up one day and told my wife, ‘Look, I’m just going to finish the record,’” recalls Dowdell, a partner in Bennington’s Club Tattoo. Dowdell says the project “gnawed” at him every day, with a voice telling him he had to finish it. He says it was an emotional process, but one that was necessary. Bennington traveled to Los Angeles and he never made it back to Phoenix to start Grey Daze rehearsals.Īfter a six- to eight-month mourning period, Dowdell started working on the project again. They used Bennington’s original vocal tracks with re-recorded music, modernizing the music and bringing it to a level they feel Bennington would be proud of.ĭowdell spoke to Bennington two days before he died by suicide. That never came to pass.įor the last two years, Dowdell (drums and backing vocals), Mace Beyers (bass), Cristin Davis (guitar) and a group of Bennington’s friends worked on fulfilling that dream to finish the work titled “Amends,” which is due out April 10. Prior to Bennington’s death, he announced via social media that he and his Grey Daze bandmates were reforming, taking a select number of songs from their independently released, mid-’90s albums and re-recording them in a proper format. Just scroll down to sign up, add your comment or view what others are saying about this hymn.When Chester Bennington died in 2017, he left behind a slew of broken hearts, unrealized dreams and half-finished projects.ĭowdell and Bennington were in the Valley band Grey Daze together before the singer joined Linkin Park. Meanwhile, you might like to subscribe to my ezine or add your comment to this page. Great Christian Hymns homepage Ezine and Your Comments It was there by faith I received my sight, Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.Īt The Cross Lyrics ~ Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Chorus ~ Ralph E. Scripture Verseįor there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus The main subject of this hymn is Salvation.
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