Subject:  look how fucked up fred durst is |
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Date Posted: 18:21:38 02/06/02 Wed
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 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 fucking minute?! I mean, fucking... 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 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 "Fuck
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.
> 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.
> 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 fucking
> 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.
> 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 fucked. 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 shit 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 fucking 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 shit 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 shit 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 shit
from
> this band, and so are its listeners. If this keeps happening, I wouldn't
be
> surprised if some shit goes down somewhere really damn soon. If it does,
> I'll let you know." plus he said all the guitar players from the new england area sucked
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