Limp Bizkit
will be one of the many artists on hand at New York City's Lincoln Center
Thursday night for the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards, where the group will
not only be presenting an award, but will also be vying for a pair of silver
moonman statuettes, as "Nookie" is nominated for Best Group Video and Best
Rock Video. Aside from announcing plans to headline this year's Family
Values tour, the band has kept a relatively low profile since its raucous
performance at Woodstock '99. Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst talked to MTV News
in between rehearsals for the VMAs, and he said that the group had just
finished work on a video he scripted for the band's new single, "Re-Arranged,"
which will deal with the fallout from Bizkit's Woodstock appearance.
"We went into
press silence after Woodstock," Durst told MTV News, "because everybody
was trying to pinpoint [the blame] on us. So I decided my press release
would be my video, so 'Re-Arranged' is our press release [for what happened]
at Woodstock. And the concept, well, you'll just have to watch it and see
what it's about."
"But it is about
being persecuted for something you're not guilty of," he added. "No matter
how hard anybody tries to get rid of Limp Bizkit, which everyone is trying
to, we're gonna live forever. Whether we die, whether we go to heaven or
whatever, the CD is there, it's not going anywhere."
"What we did
at Woodstock," Durst said, "was we went and did a Limp Bizkit show, and
our shows are pretty intense. Our crowd, the maximum we've ever played
for at a normal show is like 25-30,000. You multiply that times the 300,000
[that were there], you have to think like that, and no one thought like
that." "The living conditions were terrible, but I'm sorry," he concluded,
"I didn't realize what was happening, but we're still gonna be Limp Bizkit
and do what we do." . |