Alex Honnold, the 22-year-old featured in this week’s Weekly Feature, made one of the most impressive free solos ever recorded on April 1 of this year (read the April 7, 2008 NewsWire) when he ran up Moonlight Buttress (V 5.12+, 9 pitches, 1,200′), Zion National Park, Utah in an extraordinary eighty-three minutes.
Over the phone Honnold told Alpinist: “I turned on my iPod at the beginning, played my Top 25, rocked that to the top, and had a couple songs to spare.” So, of course, we asked: “What was on that playlist?” Below, he shares the magic. –Ed.
As for my playlist, I’d be happy to share. It’s my Top 25… Always happy to force some angry rock on people.
Here it is, a full testament to my boredom (and I’m fiddling with iTunes anyhow):
New Dark Ages Bad Religion
Humanoid Chevelle
Fuck Authority Pennywise
Can’t Repeat Offspring
Something Wrong With Me Pennywise
Who’s On Your Side Pennywise
Plug In Baby Muse
Sky Is Over Serj Tankian
I Get It Chevelle
Read My Mind The Killers
New Born Muse
The Fad Chevelle
Happy? Mudvayne
Forget To Remember Mudvayne
Tarantula Smashing Pumpkins
Falling Down Atreyu
A Single Second AFI
Empty Walls Serj Tankian
ATWA System Of A Down
He Who Laughs Last AFI
Chop Suey System Of A Down
Prayer Of The Refuge Rise Against
The Good Left Undone Rise Against
Fall Children AFI
Pushing Me Away Linkin Park