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Limp Bizkit’s tour manager said today (March 1) that a Sydney concert where a teenage girl was killed was understaffed and poorly managed. Alexander Murdoch MacLeod was the first person from the Fred Durst-led band’s management to appear at the Australian inquest into the death of 15-year-old Jessica Michalik, who was caught in a crowd crush and suffered a heart attack at the concert on Jan. 26, 2001. She died five days later. Six other people were hospitalized after the multi-band Big Day Out show, which drew a crowd of 65,000. Limp Bizkit pulled out of its Australian tour afterward… Read more »

Limp Bizkit’s nationwide search for a new guitarist has come to a close, and the hard rock group has invited several of its favorite picks from the auditions to continue jamming, in hopes that seeds for a new album will soon be planted. “We are so excited to bring several of the people we jammed with on the tour back to L.A. to see what could possibly become of it,” says frontman Fred Durst on the group’s official Web site. “You just never know. I am sure that this will be our best album yet.” Durst, a VP at Interscope… Read more »

Limp Bizkit is taking its time finding a guitarist because it wants to make the follow-up to Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water count. Durst revealed about finding chemistry and creating music that will not be outdated. “The word ‘timeless,’ [means] music that you know can stand the test of time. People who know what that means know that we’re not making it right now…We want to be able to touch people emotionally, a whole new set of people, a whole new generation of people.” Durst added about being timeless: “You can’t really project that unless you’re a… Read more »

The always-evocative Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst weathered another round of negative reaction in the last few weeks, this time related to its nationwide audition tour for a new guitarist. Some trying out reportedly complained about the process, including having their 60 seconds in the spotlight cut short, while one would-be Bizkit member even suggested in a much-forwarded email that the group was potentially stealing individuals’ music by having them sign off on a release form. Speaking to LAUNCH at the close of the audition tour, Durst offered a solution to the group’s critics, or “haters,” as he prefers to… Read more »

Limp Bizkit’s Put Your Guitar Where Your Mouth Is tour wrapped up Monday (February 11) at the Guitar Center in Hollywood. The band’s manager, Peter Katsis, revealed that the band may or may not find its new guitarist from the talent auditioned during the tour. “It was never a contest. We’ve always called it an audition because that’s what we’re doing, we’re auditioning guitar players,” he explained. “All we set out to do was to take the opportunity to the people rather than limit it to the available pool from the recording industry.” Some who have gone out for the… Read more »

After hearing thousands of unknown hopefuls in a series of minute-long auditions, hard rock band Limp Bizkit may ask a few potential bandmates back to see if any strike the right chord, the group’s manager said on Tuesday. The band, fronted by Fred Durst and best known for its raging blend of punk, heavy metal and hip-hop, may sign a new guitarist through the open-call “Put Your Money Where Your Guitar Is” tryouts, which began in January. But the group has never guaranteed it would fill the spot left vacant when Wes Borland quit last fall. Of the nearly 5,000… Read more »

Limp Bizkit manager Peter Katsis revealed the band earnestly tried to reschedule a Northern California date for the Put Your Guitar Where Your Mouth Is audition. It was first slated to take place in early January, but when word of the search at Concord, California Guitar Center reached the owner and the other tenants of the strip mall, they weren’t too pleased. Katsis revealed an Incubus in-store gone awry two months ago rained on Limp’s parade. “Incubus had done an in-store at the Tower Records inside the same strip-mall,” he said. “There was considerable damage to several of the surrounding… Read more »

After an extended rivalry and a couple of physical challenges, Creed’s Scott Stapp and Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst will finally get in the ring. No, they’re not gonna come to blows on pay-per-view, but their songs will play over the PA while WWF superstars beat the testosterone out of one another. Creed’s “Young Grow Old,” which was previously available only as a bonus track on the Australian and Japanese pressings of Human Clay, and a new remix of Limp Bizkit’s “Rollin’ ” will coexist on the next WWF album, WWF Forced Entry, which comes out March 26. A Kid Rock… Read more »

Limp Bizkit’s New York guitar search at the Long Island City Guitar Center on Monday (January 28) was an example of the early birds getting a shot at the worm. More than 600 people showed up to the store to audition for the vacant guitar spot in the band, but only the first 319 people got to strut their stuff. Of that 319, two were chosen to jam with Fred Durst and the rest of Limp Bizkit, said the Long Island City Guitar Center manager Mark Lahey. Meanwhile, Limp Bizkit has rescheduled its postponed Northern California stop of the “Put… Read more »

The more time Wes Borland spent in Limp Bizkit, the more things around him turned black. First his wardrobe – draping cloaks that brought to mind one of his favorite characters, Darth Vader. Then his eyes – gripping contacts that, next to his flaring nostrils, made him look like a guitar-toting monster. His heart was the next to go. “Bells start going off, like, ‘This is what it feels like to sell out,’” Borland recalled. “I’m enjoying all the perks of [Limp Bizkit], but I feel my heart is going black, because this is not what I’m called to do.… Read more »