Runnin With The Devil
Many of the best stories in music have to be heard with some skepticism and don’t come out until years later in a tell all book, which is exactly the case with an exchange between Fred Durst and Eddie Van Halen. Limp Bizkit needed a guitar player and it was suggested they work together, Durst responded: “That would be hilarious. The greatest guitar player ever plays with the worst band ever,” but Van Halen said “Fuck it, let’s jam.” But it didn’t go well and Van Halen got pissed the band was smoking weed and stormed off without his gear. It was far from over because Van Halen showed up at Durst’s in a military assault vehicle that he had bought at an auction. “He got out wearing no shirt, his hair in a Samurai bun on top of his head, his jeans held up with a strand of rope and combat boots held together by duct tape. And he had a gun in his hand,”
“That asshole answered the door,” the author quotes Van Halen in the book. “I put my gun to that stupid fucking red hat of his, and I said, ‘Where’s my shit, motherfucker?’ Durst has an employee start grabbing his stuff and loading it in the military vehicle. “Eddie Van Halen stood on the front lawn of a residential home in Beverly Hills in broad daylight, smoking a cigarette while holding a gun on Fred Durst as he went back and forth from the house to the assault vehicle, lugging amps and guitars.”
Album of The Week
Dongs of Sevotion - Smog (2000)
“Oh dress sexy at my funeral my good wife”
“Oh God, by being quiet, I hope to alleviate my death”
Bill Callahan performs under the band name Smog, presumably because his name sounds like he would own a used Honda dealership. This album was his eighth and has a more produced and complex sound than many of his others.
Diagnosis
“I’ve not left the house in a while
I’ve not felt a glimpse of ease”
Can’t Cool Me Down
“Having trouble breathing
Getting high on nothing
Taking credit for nothing”
Cruel Summer
“It’s a cruel (Cruel), cruel summer
Leaving me here on my own”
Alone
“‘Till now I always got by on my own
I never really cared until I met you
And now it chills me to the bone”
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