Linkin Park's Rough Road to Success

Can an ego be big enough for one to “trip over?” Ego-tripping is something undertaken to boost or draw attention to a person’s own image or appraisal of himself, and or something done primarily to satisfy one’s vanity. Nikki Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee on June 7. 1943. She graduated with honors from her grandfather’s alma mater Fisk University. The poem Ego-Tripping is about what she perceives as the true identity of an African American women. She explains how being powerful can open so many doors for a person if they just believe in themselves. This poem was written when Giovanni took her first trip to Africa in 1972, the same year the poem was written. The poet explains her past experience to show how lost she was during

     During the late 1970s and early 1980s, there was a new wave a British Heavy Metal entering the cassette and 8-track decks of people everywhere. Over in Denmark, current Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, was a hug fan of this type of music. So obsessed with this music, Lars Ulrich wanted to start a heavy metal band... a band that he could play his favorite

Linkin Park is a new metal band from Los Angeles, California. It has been an active band since 1996. Their labels are Warner Brothers Records and Machine Shop Recordings. The six members are Chester Bennington, Mike Shinoda, Joseph Hahn, Brad Delson, Rob Bourdon, and Dave Farrell. Mike Shinoda and Brad Delson recorded the band's first material in 1996. The two had attended high school together, where they met the band's drummer, Rob Bourdon. Mike Shinoda hooked up with DJ Joseph Hahn while studying illustration at Art Center College in Pasadena. Meanwhile, attending UCLA, Brad Delson shared an apartment with bassist Dave Farrell, who left the band after college and returned a year later. At this point, they named themselves Xero and

Taylor Swift surprised all her public with her recent album "1989" that was release on October 24,2014.. Not a lot of musical artist would dare to reinvent their sound so drastically. Taylor Swift's new album "1989" was made in a very different way apart from the country style Swift has on her past songs. Although she is still singing about relationships and love songs, this album is a definitely the end to her country style.

In the book Anthem, Equality 7-2521 (Equality) lived in a society where everyone was equal and treated with disrespect. The society had no tolerance for being different and having their own opinion and ideas. People couldn’t even pursue the career they dreamed of having. They were punished for disobeying any of these “rules”. Despite Equality’s strict society, his motivations in conducting his experiments are finding individuality, starting a new revolution, finding freedom, and trying to become a scholar.

Nickelback is a rock band from Hanna, Alberta, Canada formed in 1995. It’s one of the most successful Canadian rock groups. They having sold about 30 million records worldwide, and is ranked 11th as the bestselling music act of the 2000s. They also ranked as the 2nd bestselling foreign act in the United States for the 2000s.

When Los Lobos perform in concert today, audiences in the thousands cheer them on. It’s hard to believe that the group started out as just another garage band playing popular rock-and-roll tunes from the radio. In 1974 four high school friends from East Los Angeles formed Los Lobos (Spanish for “The Wolves”). David Hidalgo and César Rosas played guitar, Conrad Lozano played bass guitar, and Louie Pérez played drums.

Rivers Cuomo, Patrick Wilson, Matt Sharp, and Jason Cropper formed the alternative rock group known as Weezer in 1992 in Los Angeles, California. The band went through several names before lead singer Rivers Cuomo christened the band as Weezer after his childhood nickname due to his asthma.

The group was formed in 1965 by bluegrass - enthusiast Jerry Garcia on guitar and vocals, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan on vocals and organ, Bob Weir on guitar and vocals, classical music student Phil Lesh on bass and vocals, and Bill Kreutzmann on drums. From the beginning, they brought together a variety of influences, from Garcia's country background to Pigpen's feeling for blues (his father was an R&B radio DJ) and Lesh's education in contemporary serious" music. Add to that, the experimentation encouraged at some of the group's first performances at novelist Ken Kesey's

Van Halen took heavy metal to new heights. After more than two decades of playing sold-out concert halls, selling millions of albums and enduring various lineup changes and solo projects, Van Halen is recognized as one of the most resilient and successful rock bands to emerge from the 1970s and continue into the 1980’s. Eddie and Alex Van Halen were raised in Pasadena, the children of Dutch immigrants who immigrated to California in 1967. The Van Halen brothers grew up taking classical piano lessons.

Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh were childhood friends,They Grew up in the same Long Beach neighborhood. Wilson’s father taught Bud how to read music and play the drums. Wilson and Gaugh together with future Sublime manager Michael Happoldt, formed a three-piece punk band called The Juice Bro’s during their highschool years. By this time, Bradley Nowell who had recently dropped out of the University of California, Santa Cruz joined the band. Nowell

“In The End”, written by the band Linkin Park, the band speaks about the hard times he faced throughout the entirety of his life. Although, numerous people speak of their trials and tribulations, Linkin Park speaks of the trials they’ve faced and how they tried to get through them, but he began to lose faith and now believes there is no reason to try.

Korn was formed in 1993 originally called LAPD in Bakersfield, California where all the guys are from. They started out with Brian “Head” Welch, James “Munky” Skaffer, Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu, and David Silveria. They later stumbled upon front man Johnathon Davis who was the lead singer of a local group called Sexart. Korn has impacted the world of rock music with its unique sound and intense message. Many of the members of the group have stated that the groups that influenced them are Metallica, Pink Floyd, Nirvana, Led Zeppelin, Alice in Chains, Sepultura, Faith no more, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Soundgarden, Duran Duran, Fear Factory, Cathedral, Living Color, Helmet, Rage Against the Machine, Slayer, Primus, Tool, Ministry, Mr. Bungle, and

that of The Beatles. The Bay area was known for creating great bands, but more and more psychedelic bands were beginning to form all over the world, including Pink Floyd, a band from Europe (Scaruffi).

From the start there were clear intercultural clashes. Bill refused to address the group by their name, referring to them instead as ‘that group’. He also tried to attack their authenticity as a punk band because they had got a £40,000 advance when they signed a record deal with