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Read this its funny, found it on another board 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 83rd and 84th in line. Not incredibly bad. Free Krispy Kreme 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 with Starfront. So we si |
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This didn't sit well, as me and the guy I was with were planning on playing something we wrote with Starfront. 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 ****ing minute?! I mean, ****ing... okay. 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 band management promised "free pizza". It |
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The band management promised "free pizza". It came, and there were two boxes of pizza. Two large pizzas. For about two hundred people at least. No cool points here either. Anyway, 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: "This competition has been called off effective immediately and will not be rescheduled. The band will not be performing with nor for anyone. They will not be signing autographs. This is beyond our control, but please exit the area immediately." The guy then proceeds to enter back inside the huge glass doors, and two armed officers stand behind the door. They lock the building as the massive amount of people head directly towards them. After reaching the building, people start going apeshit. Cops are called in basically a way to clear the crowd. After about an hour, most have gone home or been "taken" home by the police. 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. FM99 is having a field day with it. They're referring to this as "**** Fred Durst Friday", taking calls in from people who went. But unless you've read this carefully, I don't think you understand what happened. |
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n]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 Georgia, 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 shit stolen too.[/n] Someone needs to beat the living hell out of him. He's an asshole, and someone who doesn't deserve to be breathing the same air as a ****ing cockroach. 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 asshole. |
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jesus-are limp bizkit the worst band ever-ooohhh they're up there with robbie bastard williams in my book. |
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damn thats fucking terrible! throw fred durst in the shit pile with bin laden! |
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That's really funny! You can tell they love their fans! Fred's a whining paranoid little weasel. |
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there is no fucking way fucking fred fucking durst is a fucking musicien FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKK i am so fucking mad stupid fred durst ... mumbling offf |
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I think Orphecks looks a bit like the departed Limp Bizkit guitarist. |
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I hate to say it, but I also see that resemblance. Nothing against ya phecks...I know your a better man than that..... you got my respect.... Oh and by the way, how in the hell did this post even get allowed on this board?.... Jesus that band and that guy make me sick. |
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Yeah ophecks, are you actually wes borland? Did you leave so you could spend more time posting on this mb? Monoid: I think tha'ts fucking awful, you should organise a web-protest where everyone connects at the same time to the limp bizkit website (DoS attack) to crash it. |
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ya what assholles! and losers.. but i already knew about the loser part but who would want to join that horrible band anyway? |
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i think it's really gay that band's like that or rock bands in general put scratching in there songs |
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I think Mike looks more like Borland And that just goes to show, you should avoid the Bizkit whatever happens! |
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ya sometimes they even have fucking djs standing around w/ their band on stage/in videos even if there isn't even scratching in the song! the turntablelists might as well be card-board cut outs! and even in the songs have have scratching.. its a pretty lame attempt to look cool.. theres like one little scratch, taht was probably made in a studio by their producer anyway... these fucking loser bands pis me off! (well i have better reasons than just the DJ thing!) |
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I can't believe that ANYONE could possibly stoop down to that level, that is really awful. Totally outrageous and unacceptable behaviour. It is still pretty funny though. |
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yeah thats pretty funny, but i think its even more funny that everyone still signed the contract and still tries out for their shitty band. is the money really worth being in a shitty band? isn't that y wes left? |
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Hey, i read an interview with Wez Borland and he reckons he's a fan of Aphex and that he left due to musical differences. So HE can't be all bad, especially as he left. Durst really sucks tho. |
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Fred Durst is a pathetic little prick. I can't stand their music, especially that god dawm 'rollin' song. Complete sonic torture>:0 |
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yep wes was the high light of the limp bizkit set at the '99 family values tour. (and all he did was play a min long cut off master of puppets in the middle of one of bizkits shitty significant other songs) |
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www.romp.com Play the rock show one, and if you navigate it right, you get to kick the shit out of fred durst! Wow, that would be so much fun! I'de be laughing the whole time as I stomped him... |
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Now that is fucked up! |
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limp bizkit is not a band, they are shit, with shitty ass music... i play the drums and it took all of one hour to conquer their crappy songs they suck ass, they suck horrible sweaty fat ass cheaks |
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I have a friend who is very talented in the art of basket weaving !!!!!!!maybe he could stay at you house sometime ????THE BARON HAS SPOKEN!!!!!!!I WILL TRADE A WEEK OLD MILKSHAKE FOR KEY TO THE CITY !!!!!! |
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this is such a good post, i'm gonna show it to everyone i know, fred durst should disappear completely, anyway, i heard on mtv he struck back, don't know how though, anyone? |
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Fred Moron Asshole Durst=PlayboyManson=LuckyBastard! Damn I bet he doesn´t even subscribe to mag. |
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What a good idea, if I was uncreative and needed some input this would be ideal. It is a similar sinareo when companys invite people to send designs in to them. Quite frequently I will see adverts that read. "Logo/web/magazine format designs being accepted for XXXXXXX company" In this situation they will select their favorates and ask their own designers to create someting, thus not paying anyone apart from the designers they already use. The corperate world is a horrible place, I am surprised Limp Bizkit have done this so publicly. |
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You can call Durst a fag (which he is, x1000000), but he is a clever business man and is very good at selling things. Example: KoRn support, get an underground image by supporting big new band. Example 2: Use cunning techniques to get women into buying albums. Example 3: Go on family Values tour and become biggest band in US easy. Example 4: Ally with hip hop people for cred with the entire 12-16 age group (Also biggest buying people). There are loads more, but in a essance, Fred Durst uses his "music" to make him rich. |
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limp bastards more like! fred durst and even that painted up tart should be strung up by the knackers and turned into one of those clickety clackety office toys! |
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Limp Bizkit are crap, but I find Big Dumb Face strangely enjoyable |
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