![]() He wrote it on piano when he was 11 or 12 for a contest his piano teacher ran and won first place (15 dollars prize). He was into Dungeons & Dragons, so his first song was inspired by videogames and medieval themed movies. He made his first performances at piano recitals when he was 6 or 7 and later started singing at a youth theater group with his friends. His mother made him start taking piano lessons when he was about 6 years old. Mike's first instrument was an upright piano his family had in the house. When you hear Redman do a song with Roni Size, or Busta Rhymes with Ozzy, you know something’s happening." They did ‘Bring the Noise’ together, and I was like, ‘That’s the most amazing thing I’ve ever heard.’ Everybody in our band -– and our fans, too -– has just been raised on different styles of music. The first show I went to was Anthrax and Public Enemy. "When we started, we wanted to play something that we weren’t hearing. Shinoda was so inspired by the musical melding that when he decided to form his own group, he wrote with both rhymes and rhythms in mind. Guitarist Scott Ian said, "I had one of the dudes from LINKIN PARK, a long time ago, one of them told me he was at the ANTHRAX/PUBLIC ENEMY show in Los Angeles on the tour, and he loved it, and it was a very important night for him. When Mike Shinoda was 15, a friend’s dad chaperoned them to a Anthrax and Public Enemy show during Anthrax' Attack Of The Killer B's tour in 1991. ![]()
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