On August 22, Linkin Park announced plans to host a tribute concert in
Los Angeles to honor Bennington.[3] Later, the band confirmed that the concert would take place on October 27 at the
Hollywood Bowl, and would feature a number of bands and musicians. On September 23, the band announced that the concert had officially sold out.
On October 20, it was announced
Linkin Park would livestream the concert on their
YouTube channel.[4][5] As of October 2023, the concert has been viewed more than 24.4 million times.[6]
Mike Shinoda – lead and backing vocals, rapping, rhythm guitar, keyboards, piano, synthesizers, samplers, bass on "Shadow of the Day" and "With Or Without You", lead guitar on "Waiting for the End"
Brad Delson – lead guitar, backing vocals, lead acoustic guitar on "Sharp Edges", keyboards on "Waiting for the End", synthesizer on "Burn It Down", not performed on "Castle of Glass" and "Rebellion"
Rob Bourdon – drums, not performed on "Castle Of Glass", "Sharp Edges", "One More Light", "Crawling", "Rebellion", "What I've Done" and "A Light That Never Comes"
Joe Hahn – turntables, samplers, keyboards, synthesizers, backing vocals, not performed on "Sharp Edges".
Dave Farrell – bass, backing vocals, rhythm guitar on "Shadow of the Day", "With Or Without You" and "Leave Out All the Rest", rhythm acoustic guitar on "Sharp Edges", not performed on "Castle of Glass", "Rebellion" and "What I've Done"[7]
Special guests
Jonathan Green – additional guitar on "
Shadow of the Day", "
Nobody Can Save Me", "
Battle Symphony" and "
Iridescent"; keyboards on "Iridescent / The Messenger", "Roads Untraveled", "
Papercut" and "
The Catalyst"; vocals on "Nobody Can Save Me", "Battle Symphony", "Iridescent", "Iridescent / The Messenger", "Roads Untraveled" and "Papercut"
The planned performance of "
Castle of Glass" by No Doubt faced a change when lead vocalist
Gwen Stefani withdrew two days before the event.
Alanis Morissette, initially set to present her song "
Rest," stepped in at the request of No Doubt members to replace Stefani. Morissette later expressed feeling nervous during the performance and frequently relied on the teleprompter.[14][15]
Set list
Linkin Park
Medley: "Robot Boy" / "The Messenger" / "
Iridescent"
"Roads Untraveled" (live debut)
"
Numb" (instrumental only on live video and performed with an audience in concert)
"Looking for an Answer" (new song, live debut by Mike Shinoda)
"
Waiting for the End" (extended intro with snippet of "Until It Breaks" by Linkin Park; extended outro; performed with Steven McKellar of Civil Twilight and Sydney Sierota of
Echosmith)
"Iridescent" (reprise; bridge and outro only, performed with Jonathan Green)
"
New Divide" (2014 shortened version; performed with pre-recorded video and vocals of
Chester Bennington from the 2014 performance at the Hollywood Bowl)
"
Faint" (extended outro; performed with M. Shadows and
Synyster Gates of Avenged Sevenfold)
Medley: "
Bleed It Out" / "The Messenger" (first half of "Bleed It Out" seguing into the outro of "The Messenger"; performed with all special guests; includes studio voice-over of Chester Bennington on his part of "Bleed It Out")[16]