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The Great Limp Bizkit Debate

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Rolling Stone

Music, Music Commentary, Music Interviews

4.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

With a Lollapalooza comeback and a new Woodstock '99 doc, the legacy of Fred Durst's band is a weirdly hot topic – Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield join host Brian Hiatt to weigh in Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now.

0:07.0

And today really is all about the He Said She Said Bullship, because we are doing a Limp Biscuit episode because the world is talking

0:17.6

about Limp Biscuit. It is 2021 and there are debates about Limp Biscuit. People are caring about Limp Biscuit.

0:26.0

Basically, if we had to trace why there is subject, there's a new documentary about

0:31.8

Woodstock 99 out that I actually have not watched because I just feel too close to it.

0:37.2

I just can't deal with it.

0:38.3

But shout out to my friend Stephen Haydn who was a consultant on that. I haven't watched it but you know it got people

0:45.4

talking that the producers of Woodstock I think again took the opportunity to basically blame

0:50.4

everything had happened at Woodstock 99 to un Fred Durst, which is absurd.

0:54.0

Although Rob and I will go on to disagree about what culpability Fred may have had for the stuff that happened during his own set.

1:02.0

But blaming the rise on him, blaming everything on him is ridiculously.

1:05.0

He wasn't even the same day as the riots is preposterous.

1:08.0

But so people were talking about that and then they also played at La Palusa and

1:11.4

Fred wore like a wig and did a dad dance and so that got attention and basically in this sort of horrible as it is the sort of circle of music people on Twitter music writers has been a

1:25.9

debate over sort of the essential worth of Limp Biscuit and I find the debate kind

1:31.8

of silly.

1:33.0

Unfortunately, my default reaction to most debates is like I hate both sides of this and that is where I am.

1:38.0

But maybe Brittany, what do you think of this debate and I know you're just kind of Olympus get fan,

1:44.8

like you're not even kind of...

1:46.8

Yeah, lifelong since birth.

1:49.8

So, you know, how do you see all this?

1:54.0

I mean, I don't know.

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