The Limp Bizkit: a live in Italy after 9 years
After nine years of absence The Limp Bizkit return to Italy, On March 29, tonight, at the Unipol Arena in Bologna. Sold out the building for the group US RAP/NU METAL MUSICformed in Jacksonville in 1994 and led by the eccentric frontman Fred Durst. At the beginning of the career, Durst climbed on the grates and threw himself on the public, today he has a white beard and is much more cautious in the movementsbut the band’s sound, as the warmth of the Italian public also shows, is far from off. With millions of records sold globally and a repertoire with hundreds of millions of streams that includes cult songs such as “Rollin ‘”, “Break Stuff” and “My Way”, the Limp Bizkit, in fact, continue to sail stages from all over the world.
Their ability to merge rap, metal and alternative influences has conquered, consecrating them as one of the symbolic bands of the 90s and 2000. The group is made up of Fred Durst under the voice, Wes Borland on guitar, famous for its disguises, DJ Lethal to the dishes, John Otto on drums and Sam Rivers on bass. LIFE Bizkit achieve great success with their first album, “Three Dollar Bill, Y’Al”which contains their personal reinterpretation of “Faith”, George Michael’s song that leads them to the top of the rankings. In the end their debut album sells more than one and a half million copies all over the world. Their participations in the Warped Tour, the Ozzfest and the Family Values Tour are the prelude to the processing of a new project, which arrives in 1999 and is titled “Significant Other.” However, international visibility comes only in 2000, with the contribution to the soundtrack of “Mission Impossible 2”, “Take a Look Around”based on the well -known theme of the film. The song is included in “Chocolate Starfish and the hot dog Flavoured Water”album released in October of the same year.
A record chapter, for those who love genre, almost filler: Most of the pieces has become a successful single. Attached to the status of superstar practically at the four corners of the globe, the LIMP Bizkit machine, however, begins to show signs of instability: how a lightning bolt arrives, between 2001 and 2002, the defection of the guitarist Wes Borland, eclectic and picturesque musical engine of the band, arrives. Durst accuses the blow, but does not give up, and a colossal recruitment campaign begins in US shopping centers in search of the “guitarist next door”, which will end with nothing done: In the meantime, the former Jacksonville tattoo artist, Florida, will make himself talk about himself as one of Britney Spears’ post-justin boyfriends. After almost a year of postponements and rethinking, it arrives in the shops, at the end of 2003, “Results May Vary”. In 2004 Borland returned to the formation, which recorded an EP, but between rejection of the project, controversy and negative reviews on the following discs, the group’s light fades. In 2011 he almost gets off.
In June 2011, a new record chapter was published six years after the latest work: “Gold Cobra”, the first in ten years with original training. Only ten years later “Still Sucks” arrives, in 2021. The staircase of the tour, including that of Bologna, draws on full hands from the first works, in particular by “Chocolate Starfish and the hot dog Flavoured Water”but there are also covers and snappets, often different, used to pay homage to bands and artists who have inspired Fred and members. In some European dates it has varied, but they remain of the cornerstones. It starts with “Break Stuff”after a couple of pieces the unleashed arrives “My Generation” and “Take A Look Around”. Space also, not in sequence, a “Rollin ‘(Air Raid Vehicle)”, to “Behind Blue Eyes”, cover of the WHOs, “Nookie”, “My Way”, “Boiler”, “Faith”cover of George Michael ”and an encore of “Break Stuff”with which they usually close all the live.
