Linkin Park?

[Avenant]

Were they really formed in the same style as a boy band was, in that they were “type casted” for their part in the band?

[Duck_Duck_Goose]

Google, “Linkin Park”, the official website.

LINKIN PARK | Official Website

ORIGINS
The band saw its beginnings in emcee/vocalist Mike Shinoda’s small bedroom studio, where he and Delson recorded the band’s first material in 1996. The two had attended high school together, where they met the band’s drummer, Rob Bourdon. Shinoda hooked up with DJ Joseph Hahn while studying illustration at Art Center College in Pasadena. Meanwhile, attending UCLA, Delson shared an apartment with bassist Phoenix, who left the band after college and returned a year later. The final piece of the puzzle was singer Chester Bennington, a transplanted Arizona native who started making records when he was 16.

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The band immersed itself in the writing process until the spring of 2000, when they inked with Warner Bros. Records and immediately went into the studio.

[dead0man]

Kind of but not really. From a Rolling Stone magazine I have sitting here.

Chester Bennington answered the phone on March 20th, 1999, at his home in Phoenix. The guy on the other end of the line, Jeff Blue, vice president of A&R at Zomba Music in Los Angeles, came straight to the point: “I’m going to give you your big break. I have a great band for you.” The band was Xero, and they needed a singer. The happened to be Bennington’s twenty-third birthday; Blue called him the middle of a suprise party.

I dont know how common this is. I think Pearl Jam had a kind of the same start. So no, they werent “formed” the way a boy band is. They were signed by Warner Bros in late 99. You might get that immpression of them because they may look rough(although they seem to be fairly clean), they sound like Wus Rock. A disturbing trend indeed.
dead0man