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IN THIS FEATURE:

Mike & Chester on...
going platinum
being fans and having fans
coming "Closer" live
ninjas, tunnels and fire
head like a pimple
the secret of the next single
concept masters
double your frontmen
rewarding the fans
"touring with Deftones"
Watch Linkin Park...
"One Step Closer" [RealVideo]
"One Step Closer" live [RealVideo]
Listen to Linkin Park...
"Papercut" [RealAudio]
"One Step Closer" [RealAudio]
"With You" [RealAudio]
"Points Of Authority" [RealAudio]
"By Myself" [RealAudio]
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MTV: How did you find the video-making process?

Bennington: Fun, but really tiring. That is one of the most physically challenging things to do, because you're not just going in for your little part. You go in and you pretty much put in a 20-hour day. You're working for the entire time the shoot is going on, 'cause they have to do it very fast.

Shinoda: One of the special things that was going on in our video was it was underground, very far underground. It was really dirty and dusty under there...

Bennington: So there was no oxygen. Just lots of mold and dust.

Shinoda: Yeah. Lots of dust. Meanwhile, while we're playing our song a hundred times over and over, we're also breathing in dirt and not breathing in oxygen.

Bennington: There's nothing like screaming "Shut up" for seven hours straight, upside down. That was another thing — when they hung me upside down, all the blood in my body rested in this small space in my head, 'cause I don't have that big of a melon. It was the most excruciating thing. I felt like my head was going to explode like a pimple. It was kind of gross.

MTV: Do you know what your next single's going to be?

Shinoda: No, what is it going to be? Oh, I thought you were going to tell us.

Bennington: Yeah, what do you think it should be?

MTV: "Points of Authority."

Shinoda: That's weird. Why would he say something like that?

Bennington: I have no idea.

Shinoda: Do you like that song? Is that a good song?

MTV: Yeah.

Shinoda: OK. Thanks!

MTV: You guys really don't know what your next single's going to be?

Bennington: We have no idea.

Shinoda: Good job, Chester. Good boy.

MTV: Any songs you'd like to see released as the second single?

Shinoda: We can't go into it, really.

Bennington: I have to plead the Fifth.

MTV: No problem. I guess that means no video plans for the second single?

Shinoda: Oh, the video's all planned out. We just don't know what song it's going to be for.

Bennington: Yeah. We totally have the concept and we've scouted out the location and —

Shinoda: We've basically begun shooting already.

Bennington: The treatment's been written and we've already begun filming, we just don't know what song it's going to be for.

Shinoda: We'll shoot a video for all the songs, and then just pick according to whatever single we release. It will be really inexpensive.

Bennington: It'll be like "Version 1," "Version 2."



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