Mark Morton työskentelystään Linkin Parkin Chester Benningtonin kanssa ennen tämän kuolemaa: ”Oli mahtava huomata, kuinka innoissaan hän oli kappaleestani”

Yhdysvaltalaisen metalliyhtye Lamb Of Godin kitaristi Mark Morton on julkaisemassa uransa ensimmäistä sooloalbumia nimeltä ”Anesthetic” maaliskuun 1. päivä. Mortonin tulevan sooloalbumin avauskappaleessa ”Cross Off” vierailijana kuullaan Linkin Parkin edesmennyttä laulajaa Chester Benningtonia, ja nyt Morton on tuoreessa Metal Hammerin haastattelussa kertonut hieman siitä, kuinka Chester päätyi mukaan albumille, ja millaista työskentely studiossa hänen kanssaan oli. Mortonin mukaan hän ei aluksi voinut edes kuvitella, että Chesterin kaltaista supertähteä kiinnostaisi tulla mukaan albumille, ja hän olikin todella yllättynyt Chesterin suostuessa siihen ja huomatessaan, kuinka innoissaan Chester kyseisestä kappaleesta oli. Aiheesta hän kertoi seuraavaa:

“I had my people call his people! It was one of those things where we were listening to the song like, ‘Who in our world would we have singing this?’ And Chester was the name that came out.

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So we almost didn’t try, because it’s Chester Bennington, he’s such a superstar. We were kind of like, ‘Come on, we can’t get him.’ But if we hadn’t tried, we wouldn’t have got him, so we tried, we got his ear, I was surprised to find I was on his radar and all, but through Lamb I was.

He heard the song and he was in. It is a really good song. I’m sorry, I don’t know if I’m allowed to say that, but it’s a good goddamn song, right?

We had to iron out a couple of things legally and all that kind of stuff, but on the creative side, he was in from the jump. And I didn’t realize how in he really was, but when he showed up I did, and that was humbling for me.”

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Morton kertoi haastattelussa työskentelystä Chester Benningtonin kanssa studiossa seuraavaa:

“Chester Bennington. He just had a lot of creative input at the ready when he came into the studio. That was my initial like, ‘Wow’. He had told me he really liked the song, and we had communicated, but I’d never really hung out with Chester until when we started tracking.

I was really impressed for a guy at his level, at the place in the career he was at, someone of his stature and celebrity, to have that level of humility and commitment to come in there and treat this like it would be a Linkin Park song, or his own song or whatever.

I was pretty blown away by that. And it was immediate. Fifteen minutes after we met, we were standing over a table, one on either side, each with scraps of paper and pencil, crossing off words and trying different rhyme schemes and stuff.

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And then after the track was laid out, then we took a breath and started talking about more personal stuff – real-life shit. And yeah… he surprised me the most.”