Drummer Sean Dowdell and Bennington’s widow, Talinda, on how they made a star-studded new album using the late singer’s vocals
shocked the world, he reached out to Dowdell and said he wanted to get the band back together for some reunion shows and rethink their music. At the time, he had just stepped away from performing with one of his favorite bands from his youth, Stone Temple Pilots, and was refocusing his attention on Linkin Park.
The decision to return to the project wasn’t easy for Dowdell either. He and Chester had started work on the next chapter of Grey Daze in early 2017, when they picked about four songs to recut and sent Davis into the studio to work on them. Chester made a video message to his fans announcing the project — Talinda remembers him flubbing the script a few times and getting frustrated until speaking with Dowdell calmed him down — and they made a plan to rehearse in July for a September gig.
Talinda says that giving the project her blessing was easy because she trusts Dowdell implicitly, and she knew what Grey Daze meant to Chester. “He wanted to do Grey Daze again because the music was awesome, he loved it back then, and he was excited to be able to create,” she says. “Doing it now that he had all this experience under his belt — he had accomplished so much and come so far since then — he was excited about it. I can hear him now.
But as fun as it had been to talk about the songs with Chester, Dowdell found it incredibly hard to hear his voice day in and day out as Grey Daze worked onafter the singer’s death. “It was torturous, but it was also healing,” he says. “The first four months were like, ‘Holy crap. This is tough to listen to over and over.’ I thought that I had been thinking about him every day before we started the record, but then when you’re working on it, that’s all you’re thinking about.
The “Morei Sky” lyrics specifically make Dowdell think about Chester’s death by suicide. “Goddamn, that’s so powerful and poignant and relevant to what happened,” he says. “After Chester passed, being a close friend, you carry this amount of guilt, like, ‘What did I miss? What did I not see? How could I have let this happen to my friend? How could I have prevented this?’ You go through these emotional roller coasters.
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