Mike Shinoda says Linkin Park won’t perform with a Chester Bennington hologram: “Those are creepy”

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Mike Shinoda has revealed in a new interview that Linkin Park will not perform with a hologram of late frontman Chester Bennington.Speaking to 94.5 The Buzz, Shinoda shared his thoughts on holograms of musicians when interviewer Theresa said she would pay “good money” to see Bennington as a hologram. “Those are creepy.

Even if we weren’t talking about us, if we weren’t talking about Chester, which is… that’s a very sensitive subject, and we would have our feelings about how we would represent that.

For me, that’s a clear no. I’m not into that.”Watch the interview below.Theresa and Mike Shinoda Talk New Single 'In My Head' & Linkin Park's April ReleaseWhat are his thoughts on a Hologram Chester show?

Meteora 20th Anniversary Release is on April 7th. Is he also in Scream VI besides making 2 songs for the film? check it out.#altrock #rock #mikeshinoda #Theresa #TheresaRockFace #linkinpark #scream #ScreamVIPosted by 94.5 THE BUZZ on Friday, March 10, 2023He added: “Even as a viewer of, like, just a fan of another band — like I heard ABBA, for example, they’re doing a hologram show, and they’re still alive.Then you get to have an opinion about it based on, like… They’re all still here, and yet they wanna do it this way because they wanna transport you back to that moment in time where those songs were new and it was whatever era it was.”“I get that.