MIKE SHINODA was AFRAID LINKIN PARK’s reunion wouldn’t be a success.

MIKE SHINODA was AFRAID LINKIN PARK’s reunion wouldn’t be a success.

While speaking to Pollstar in a recent interview, Linkin Park co-lead singer Mike Shinoda opened up about reuniting the band, and how in the beginning he questioned whether fans would even care if they came back.

“We had a million questions about what Linkin Park was, about what our friendship was,” Shinoda said. “Are we going to just sail off into the sunset and let people listen to the catalog and be cool with that? It’s a great option, a huge thing to just be able to do that. We’d be lucky.”

He continued: “I remember having one of the more pivotal conversations with Joe Hahn. I remember sitting at this wooden table at breakfast, and I was like, ‘If we went back out there, there’s no guaranteeing we headline. Like, we can come back out and people could be like, I don’t like that, I don’t like what they’re doing, and the fanbase could be smaller.'

“Joe didn’t even flinch. He just looked me right in the face and said, ‘Oh, I’d totally do that.’ I was like, OK, this band is very much alive. I wasn’t thinking about answering my own question. I was just saying it out loud, and the fact that he came back, and he wasn’t wavering in his response, I was so impressed by that. It really galvanized the effort going forward.”