LINKIN PARK sued by ex-bassist over unpaid royalties and songwriting credits

Linkin Park is being sued by the bassist Kyle Christner over unpaid writing credits and royalties from material written in the late 1990s.

According to his reports Bloomberg Law and Rolling Stonethe lawsuit was filed in the District Court for the Central District of California on November 8. Christian said he was a former member of Linkin Park who “collaborated and recorded numerous songs with the band”. Furthermore, Christian claimed that the bonus material contained in 20^th-anniversary box edition a Linkin Parkhis 2000 album Hybrid theory features his writing and performance on “more than twenty songs”, including a previously unreleased track called “Could Have Been”.

“Actually, Christian appears to have been played on at least tracks 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 of Forget demostracks 1, 2, 7, 13, 14, 16, 17 from LPU raritiesand track 7 from Rarities B-sidesas well as Hybrid theory EP, (within the box),” the lawsuit states.

Christian claims that “he was never paid a penny for his work with Linkin Parknor was he properly credited, even though (his former bandmates) benefited from his creative efforts,” further stating that Linkin Park removed his name as early as the 2001 reissue of the “fan club edition”. Hybrid theory.

The lawsuit claims that Christian was initially informed that his bass parts had been replaced, which he later discovered was not the case: “Although Christian was once under the mistaken impression that his bass parts were re-recorded on the EP after he left the band, he has, upon closer examination, identified his bass playing on the boxed edition of the EP,” reads the – part of the process.

Linkin Park members Mike Shinoda, Rob Bourdon, Brad Delsonand Joseph Hahn are listed as defendants alongside Machine Shop and Warner Records.

Christian is listed as session and touring musicians who played for Linkin Park between 1998 and 1999 as they changed their name from Xerox TO Hybrid theory. This is also the time when the vocalist Chester Bennington joined the band, replacing Mark Wakefield who left in 1998.