The legendary rock icon, Linkin Park, is selling more than 200 items from their music gear. The band used all these equipment while making great music for almost two decades.
On Wednesday, April 4, fans of the Grammy-winning group will have the chance to own the instruments used by the band including guitars, keyboards, and megaphones. The keytar featured in the music video for "What I've Done," from the 2007 album Minutes to Midnight, is among the items which will be up for sale.
Proceeds will go to Music for Relief, a program founded by Linkin Park in 2004 as a response to the Indian Ocean tsunami. The initiative, in partnership with the Entertainment Industry Foundation, has responded to more than 24 natural disasters around the world, including Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the devastating earthquakes in Haiti in 2010.
"Throughout the last 13 years, Linkin Park fans have been incredibly generous supporters of Music for Relief, truly enabling our mission to help survivors and communities in the wake of natural disasters," said Whitney Showler of Entertainment Industry Foundation in a statement.
Other key pieces that fans will be able to nab are the AmpliVox S602M Megaphone that lead guitarist Brad Delson used throughout a tour in 2011, a Moog Etherwave Plus Theremin that rhythm guitarist Mike Shinoda used for live performances throughout 2010, and a road case covered in various stickers.
For the complete list of Linkin Park items that will go on sale on Wednesday, visit Reverb.
The online marketplace also worked with Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins and Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day among others.
Future Of Linkin Park
The items will be especially valuable now that the future of the band is uncertain. Last year, vocalist Chester Bennington took his own life after a long and tough battle with depression and drug abuse. His loss left the Linkin Park devastated and in a state of limbo.
Shinoda, who announced his solo album, Post Traumatic, admits that he has no idea how to proceed without Bennington.
"There's really just no answer, and it's funny because if I even say anything about the band's future, that becomes the headline, which is stupid because the answer is there is no answer," he said in an interview with Vulture. "Fans think they want to know what the future is: Believe me, I want to know what the answer is. But there just isn't one."
