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Report: LINKIN PARK's PROJEKT REVOLUTION Tour Brings Out Diversity In Concert Crowds

August 24, 2004

Justin Gest of the Houston Chronicle reports: When LINKIN PARK and KORN shared the stage with hip-hop star SNOOP DOGG at The Woodlands Pavilion Sunday, it was an eclectic bill. The only thing more diverse was the audience jumping around in front of them.

Israel and Jorge Gutierrez, brothers from Alief, are major KORN fans. But that doesn't mean that they weren't also bobbing their heads to SNOOP's bass and lip-syncing the lyrics to LINKIN PARK's hit single "Somewhere I Belong".

Indeed, the metal rage mixed with clean beats was appreciated by nearly every other member of the 16,000-strong crowd — a colorful microcosm of the Houston metropolitan area itself.

Still today, the genre of concert music can be so predictable of the audience that background checks aren't necessary to blindly guess each fan's basic traits of race, age and socioeconomic group.

LINKIN PARK lead singer Chester Bennington has taken notice of the trend. "I hate to say it, but I didn't see any black people at Ozzfest," he said of the 2003 tour featuring OZZY OSBOURNE. "On this tour, there is quite a mix of ethnic diversity, but also among genres. There seems to be some sort of segregationalism, saying that you can't love OZZY if you love JAY-Z. That's totally ridiculous." Read more.

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