Limp Bizkit

[crashNUMBERS]

I know you guys are going to gang up on me, but I love this guy. What do you think of him?? Do you like him?? I just don't like the fact that he tries to be gangster, though I feel he's a decent rapper. This guy's funny and cool. Discuss...

[radyk05]

This guy's funny and cool.... not!!

[crashNUMBERS]

Your opinion, bud...

[Dreddz]

crap, and im not putting into fact that I dislike rock.......

[crashNUMBERS]

XD Why do <I>you</I> hate him??

[Destai]

From-whatI-read-from-his-other-thread-hes-an-asshole.Also-I-think-his-musics-crap.

[Chris]

How could you possibly love a band called Limp Bizkit? :(

[DMKA]

"They're a band with some form of popularity and therefore sucks cause I'm too good to listen to mainstream music even though people like me are quickly becoming the mainstream." - 99% of the posts there will be in this thread.

I liked a handful of their songs, "Build A Bridge" being my favorite. Fred Durst is an idiot though.

[Dreddz]

XD Why do <I>you</I> hate him??
I dont like him because he rates himself too high
And of course, I hate his music.......

[Destai]

"They're a band with some form of popularity and therefore sucks cause I'm too good to listen to mainstream music even though people like me are quickly becoming the mainstream." - 99% of the posts there will be in this thread.
what

[DK]

They have some decent songs, Re-Arranged and My Way spring to mind. However, Fred Durst doing collaberations with other rappers is a bad idea because it just shows him up for the terrible rapper that he is. The bass player and the drummer are both quite talented, though.

[crashNUMBERS]

I forgot what Limp Bizkit meant, but I know it had to do with spurm and a certain food. I love the song "Breaking Stuff"...

[Trumpet Thief]

chaos: I never actually knew who he was, until Wrestlemania XIX. He had two performances there, and he did the theme song for that pay-per-view.

Rubedo: I like his music. :)

[DK]

It's not a he, as much as durst would like it to be, it's a Band.

[Meat Puppet]

crash I think people are going to gang up on you more for your prediction on the outcome of the thread rather than the actual thread itself

anyway
I don't "hate" soggy biscuit
i just haven't gotten into any of their stuff
that's not to say that I will pour chemicals into my ears after listening to them
like I have to with some others :joey:

[Trumpet Thief]

It's not a he, as much as durst would like it to be, it's a Band.

chaos: :(

[Rye]

They have a very few good songs. I like Nookie and Rollin' but even if they were a good band, it wouldn't change the fact that Fred Durst is an idiot and a pretty bad rapper.

[ff7+ff10 gurl 100]

They have a very few good songs. I like Nookie and Rollin' but even if they were a good band, it wouldn't change the fact that Fred Durst is an idiot and a pretty bad rapper.
This is exactly waht i was gonna say :up:

[Meat Puppet]

io heard he made b.spears look bad which is a plus

EDIT: damn you chris why are you rarely wrong >:{

[Chris]

Britney made Britney Spears look bad.

[Strider]

I say Limp Bizkit took a turn for the worse when Wes Borland left. The last two albums are basically a compilation of how awesome Fred Durst is and how no one had better mess with Fred Durst and Fred Durst talkin' smack on everyone that hates on Fred Durst. He's gotten just a tad egotistic.

[Captain Maxx Power]

I assume you mean Fred Durst the person, as opposed to Limp Bizkit, the collective. Fred Durst is like a small scottish terrier in your neighbours backyard. He'll bark at you all day long, but you can easily ignore him with the minimum of annoyance to yourself.

[DK]

Wes was back in for the last album they put out I think. I didn't hear any of it anyway.

[Breine]

I think Fred Durst is really annoying and it was a wise choice by Wes Borland, who is the only talented one in the band, to leave Limp Bizkit back in 2003... therefore it was also shocking to find out that he's now back with Durst and the others.

[Sephex]

"They're a band with some form of popularity and therefore sucks cause I'm too good to listen to mainstream music even though people like me are quickly becoming the mainstream." - 99% of the posts there will be in this thread.


Actually, most people hate the band because of how Fred Durst's ego became bigger than the universe the second Limp Bizkit broke into the mainstream. Before everyone heard of them, I remember hearing stuff off their first album thinking that it was okay. I didn't care for that cover of "Faith", but Wes Borland played some mean bass n some other tracks. Then "Significant Other" came out...and Fred became possibly the biggest moron in music in the late 90's.

Plus, that whole guitarist thing was a disaster. For those of you who don't know about this story, Fred Durst stopped in a few cities to hire a new guitarist while back. He held auditions for thousands of people. Sounds cool, right? WRONG. Fred had people sign legal papers that let Limp Bizkit steal whatever an auditioning guitarist played. Part of the deal was whatever a guitarist played belonged to Limp Bizkit, and he/she could not ever use whatever they played in their own band. So if some poor kid wasn't paying enough attention, he just gave away the rights to his/her music in a matter of minutes. In the end, Fred wasn't looking for a new guitarist. The uncreative prick was trying to trick hardworking guitarists into giving away ther hard work.

Here. I couldn't find the article link itself, but after a quick google search, I found a music forum where someone copy and pasted the article. It explains things much better than I did.

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"Some of you may have heard about the Limp Bizkit guitarist search. Basically, the band has been "touring" the country visiting Guitar Center stores, holding auditions for a new guitarist to replace the one who left the band.

The deal is this. From 7:00 to 11:00 AM you can sign up for a slot to try out that day. The tryouts are from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. During this time, they take you into a room to play your stuff. At the end of that time, you leave. They call three to ten people at 5:30 to come back to the place and play in front of Limp Bizkit. Out of those people, one is selected to return at 9:00 to jam with the band, and anyone who participated is invited to watch -- a free concert, basically.

So I arrive there, with a copy of our band's full CD in hand. I'm with a friend who wants to try out, so I go ahead and sign up too. We get there at 5:00 AM and we're pretty far back in line. Not incredibly bad though. Free donuts and coffee, so all isn't too bad.

10:00 rolls around. The line is moving slow, but that's to be expected. We finally get up around the corner of the building to the front of the line at about noon. Current total time there: 7 hours.

Get to the table, and I notice there's a waiver you have to sign. No problem, standard stuff. Then I notice it's a three page contract. This contract basically said that if you play, you must sign the contract. Okay. No big deal here either. So I keep reading it. An interesting note. Anything you play can NOT be copyright, and can be used by Limp Bizkit in audio, video, or recorded form of any sort. Other big words which basically translated to the fact that if you play something, they are fully authorized to steal it and use it on a CD. The artist agrees to zero compensation and zero rights over the track, and will get their name in the liner notes "if possible."

This didn't sit well, as me and the guy I was with were planning on playing something we wrote. So we sign it and decide to make something up. An annoyance at the very least, but we'd waited seven hours to get this far.

Then we got to stand in the parking lot for another two hours. We finally get inside at about 2:30, where it's another 30 minute wait for your turn. Current total time there: 10 hours.

So then we get the "rules". They are outlined for us straight out. No guitar solos. No playing cover songs. No playing copyrighted material. No playing Limp Bizkit songs. This effectively means that you're forced to play something that you made up, but don't have a copyright for. You may see where this is going.

Entering the room, there's one guy. He's got a mute button under his foot. His job is to make sure you follow the rules. If you break any, you get muted and kicked out immediately. So I go in, and there's one amp for me to plug into, and the settings are turned to "mud". It sounded awful, and was not pleasing to the ears. And it was loud enough that the awfulness didn't go away for some time. Then comes another fun part.

"You have 60 seconds to play. Starting now."

One @#%$ minute?!

So since the thing I'd been planning was two minutes and thirty seconds, I cut most of the parts out. Kept it under time (about 57 seconds), but it still sounded worse than a handful of ass due to that beautiful amplifier (hmm). And I leave the room and the line proceeds. We're told that the winners will be announced at 5:30. And that we are to remain in the front parking lot until that time. No leaving. Period. This makes for unhappy people. We're talking 200+ people here, plus any wives / girlfriends / husbands / boyfriends / family / friends which accompanied them. But what can you do? We stay until 5:30. Total current time there: 12 hours, 30 minutes.

5:30 rolls around. People are getting ansi. The clock keeps ticking, and it's 6:00 before we notice anything going on. Guitar Center management flags all their people and security to come inside to discuss something. They go in there, and the guy in charge walks out with a megaphone. After getting everyone's attention, the guy on the megaphone speaks:

"he competition has been called off effective immediately and will not be rescheduled. The band will not be performing with nor for anyone. They most likely will not be signing autographs. This is beyond our control, but we are ending it."

The guy then proceeds to enter back inside the huge glass doors, and two cops stand behind the door. They lock the building. After about an hour, most have gone home. The radio station is completely screwed, having brought their entire broadcast booths out to cover it. Everyone is very, very pissed. Me and the other guy stayed awhile to figure out what was going on. It's now about 7:30 PM.

Limp Bizkit now has over 200 guitar parts, written by various artists around here, which are unowned and not copyrighted. Limp Bizkit now owns these riffs. Limp Bizkit just stole 200 pieces of material right out from under these guitarists' noses, myself included. If I'd played something off our CD, I would be ABSOLUTELY pissed. I *am* absolutely pissed. They have completely ripped off hundreds of people, and they're getting away with it because they can. They're on their way to their next stop, and the radio station here has given out request line numbers for the stations down there for us to call and let them know what's happening over the course of this event, to warn them. But people aren't going to buy it. They're going to go and get their @#%$ stolen too.

To add insult to injury, Guitar Center ran a contest where the winner would get to watch the band play even if they didn't play guitar. One person and a friend. That person also won an autographed Gibson Les Paul Studio ($1500+ guitar) by the band. She showed up after a near 200 mile drive to the area. Guitar Center told her that the band refused to acknowledge the contest at this point, and so not only did she drive three and a half hours for no performance (which she took her ten year old kid to see as his first concert), but apparently the guitar wasn't given either. All because the band wanted to be one giant collective @#%$.

If any of you know anyone who's considering going to these tryouts, show them this message. If they have any questions they can contact me directly. I'm doing everything I possibly can to make sure this does NOT happen to anyone else. It's not my stuff I'm concerned about -- our CD is copyrighted completely and legally -- but I'm guessing 90% of the local bands who passed Durst a copy of their CD are going to be @#%$. Many bands, especially newer local ones, don't have the money or know-how to copyright their stuff, and by giving it to them tonight, they just basically tossed them a new Limp Bizkit CD if Fred wants to do that. I wouldn't be surprised if he copyrights their @#%$ tomorrow.

It hurts to look around and see hundreds of people get excited at the chance to be able to make something of their guitar work; to have a shot at being in a popular band, making a living doing what they dream of. Fred Durst and Limp Bizkit are taking that dream and @#%$ it over. And anyone who wasn't there who just caught the coverage at noon and 5:00 on the news just think everything is perfect. Happy Fred Durst in front of the cameras behind the place, fenced off, saying how good the turnout is and how happy everyone seems, and talking about all the great @#%$ he's hearing. That man is the true meaning of a music label representative. He's the perfect salesman and nice guy in front of the media, and turns around and screws everyone involved in the ass without having to take any hit in his overall popularity, and possibly gaining a @#%$ ton of new music in the process that he's ripped from people.

Not many things piss me off, but I'm pissed off. I'm not the only one. All sorts of "this band is playing tonight at this place, and they'd like me to announce to Fred Durst that if you're still in the area and you come to this venue, you will be able to see what a REAL band is like -- right before the real band beats your skull in." This radio station is sick of the @#%$ from this band, and so are its listeners. If this keeps happening, I wouldn't be surprised if some @#%$ goes down somewhere really damn soon."

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Yeah. Limp Bizkit sucks.

[crashNUMBERS]

They have a very few good songs. I like Nookie and Rollin'
Love both of them as well...


"What wrong with the nookie?? I'll get a cookie, And stick it up your :eek:!!"

Gotta censor these sorts of things. For the reocrd it was "ass"...

[Jebus]

Limp Bizkit as a whole sucks. Fred Durst is the biggest douche I have ever had the misfortune to lay eyes upon. And if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't have started my little crusade against cover songs due to their god-awful covers of "Faith" and "Behind Blue Eyes"

[escobert]

"They're a band with some form of popularity and therefore sucks cause I'm too good to listen to mainstream music even though people like me are quickly becoming the mainstream." - 99% of the posts there will be in this thread.

I liked a handful of their songs, "Build A Bridge" being my favorite. Fred Durst is an idiot though.
I agree with DMKA, when they came out I liked em. Everyone did. But now it's like linkin park. A fad to not like them.

[Flamethrower]

WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE PUNK, TAKE A LOOK AROUND, IT'S LIMP BIZKIT FUCKING UP YOUR TOWN!

In all seriousness, Fred Durst actually isn't a bad vocalist when he isn't attempting to rap. He just happens to be a douche bag so everything he does is automaticly dismissed.

[Rusty]

Really don't like them.

[Captain Maxx Power]

Limp Bizkit as a whole sucks. Fred Durst is the biggest douche I have ever had the misfortune to lay eyes upon. And if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't have started my little crusade against cover songs due to their god-awful covers of "Faith" and "Behind Blue Eyes"

Would you like to vote for him in the Biggest Douche in the Universe contest?

[Pure Strife]

Fred's a douche, everything after Siginificant Other was God awful, and the new stuff sounds a bit Rage Against The Machine-ish. The actual band behind Fred is pretty solid, though it'd be nice if Wes threw out a few solos now and then.