Grey Daze, the late Chester Bennington's pre-Linkin Park band, has posted a video of a teenage Bennington singing Nirvana's “Polly.” The video shows a group of people sitting around and jamming, with a curly-haired Bennington nodding and singing along to the song.
Grey Daze's album honoring Bennington, Amends, is due out June 26th. Amends features newly recorded music with remastered vocals from the two long out-of-print LPs Grey Daze released independently.
Bennington himself and his music with Grey Daze could perhaps be the focus of a live tribute at some point, since drummer Sean Dowdell has no interest in taking Grey Daze on tour: “If we were to do anything, it would be in a tribute fashion, where we would bring in a couple of guest singers to sing the songs like Chester, for Chester and in honor of Chester. I would not want to try to replace him as a singer and go out and do a big tour and try to pass it off as the new Grey Daze. That's not really interesting to me.”
The album was made with the blessing of Chester's widow, parents and family. Guests on the LP include Korn's Brian “Head” Welch and James “Munky” Shaffer plus Bush's Chris Traynor and others, as well as Chester's 23-year-old son Jaime.