Newsgroup: it.arti.musica.metal
Titolo: Dal vangelo secondo Fred Durst....[Xtra long, ma importante]

Ecco quando possiamo unilateralmente affermare che un "musicista" è un
buco di culo, e la sua band un grottesco impasto di merda...
Premessa, i Biscottini hanno perso il chitarrista, e danno audizioni
in giro per tutti gli States cercando un rimpiazzo nei negozi di
musica...questo è ciò che succede durante queste selezioni,
testimoniato da due malcapitati partecipanti, ai quali vengo incontro,
in qualche modo, mettendovene a parte: 
Some of you may have heard about the Limp Bizkit guitarist search.
Basically, the band has been "touring" the country visiting Guitar
Center stores, holding auditions for a new guitarist to replace the
one who left the band.
The deal is this. From 7:00 to 11:00 AM you can sign up for a slot to
try out that day. The tryouts are from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. During
this time, they take you into a room to play your stuff. At the end of
that time, you leave. They call three to ten people at 5:30 to come
back to the place and play in front of Limp Bizkit. Out of those
people, one is selected to return at 9:00 to jam with the band, and
anyone who participated is invited to watch -- a free concert,
basically.
So I arrive there, with a copy of our band's full CD in hand. I'm with
a friend who wants to try out, so I go ahead and sign up too. We get
there at 5:00 AM and we're 83rd and 84th in line. Not incredibly bad.
Free Krispy Kreme donuts and coffee, so all isn't too bad.
10:00 rolls around. The line is moving slow, but that's to be
expected. We finally get up around the corner of the building to the
front of the line at about noon. Current total time there: 7 hours.
Get to the table, and I notice there's a waiver you have to sign. No
problem, standard stuff. Then I notice it's a three page contract.
This contract basically said that if you play, you must sign the
contract. Okay. No big deal here either. So I keep reading it. An
interesting note. Anything you play can NOT be copyright, and can be
used by Limp Bizkit in audio, video, or recorded form of any sort.
Other big words which basically translated to the fact that if you
play something, they are fully authorized to steal it and use it on a
CD. The artist agrees to zero compensation and zero rights over the
track, and will get their name in the liner notes "if possible."
This didn't sit well, as me and the guy I was with were planning on
playing something we wrote with Starfront. So we sign it and decide to
make something up. An annoyance at the very least, but we'd waited
seven hours to get this far.
Then we got to stand in the parking lot for another two hours. We
finally get inside at about 2:30, where it's another 30 minute wait
for your turn. Current total time there: 10 hours.
So then we get the "rules". They are outlined for us straight out. No
guitar solos. No playing cover songs. No playing copyrighted material.
No playing Limp Bizkit songs. This effectively means that you're
forced to play something that you made up, but don't have a copyright
for. You may see where this is going.
Entering the room, there's one guy. He's got a mute button under his
foot. His job is to make sure you follow the rules. If you break any,
you get muted and kicked out immediately. So I go in, and there's one
amp for me to plug into, and the settings are turned to "mud". It
sounded awful, and was not pleasing to the ears. And it was loud
enough that the awfulness didn't go away for some time. Then comes
another fun part.
"You have 60 seconds to play. Starting now."
One fucking minute?! I mean, fucking... okay. So since the thing I'd
been planning was two minutes and thirty seconds, I cut most of the
parts out. Kept it under time (about 57 seconds), but it still sounded
worse than a handful of ass due to that beautiful amplifier (hmm). And
I leave the room and the line proceeds. We're told that the winners
will be announced at 5:30. And that we are to remain in the front
parking lot until that time. No leaving. Period. This makes for
unhappy people. We're talking 200+ people here, plus any wives /
girlfriends / husbands / boyfriends / family / friends which
accompanied them. But what can you do? We stay until 5:30. Total
current time there: 12 hours, 30 minutes.
5:30 rolls around. People are getting ansi. The band management
promised "free pizza". It came, and there were two boxes of pizza. Two
large pizzas. For about two hundred people at least. No cool points
here either. Anyway, the clock keeps ticking, and it's 6:00 before we
notice anything going on. Guitar Center management flags all their
people and security to come inside to discuss something. They go in
there, and the guy in charge walks out with a megaphone. After getting
everyone's attention, the guy on the megaphone speaks:
"This competition has been called off effective immediately and will
not be rescheduled. The band will not be performing with nor for
anyone. They will not be signing autographs. This is beyond our
control, but please exit the area immediately."
The guy then proceeds to enter back inside the huge glass doors, and
two armed officers stand behind the door. They lock the building as
the massive amount of people head directly towards them. After
reaching the building, people start going apeshit. Cops are called in
basically a way to clear the crowd. After about an hour, most have
gone home or been "taken" home by the police. The radio station is
completely screwed, having brought their entire broadcast booths out
to cover it. Everyone is very, very pissed. Me and the other guy
stayed awhile to figure out what was going on. It's now about 7:30 PM.
FM99 is having a field day with it. They're referring to this as "Fuck
Fred Durst Friday", taking calls in from people who went. But unless
you've read this carefully, I don't think you understand what
happened.
Limp Bizkit now has over 200 guitar parts, written by various artists
around here, which are unowned and not copyrighted. Limp Bizkit now
owns these riffs. Limp Bizkit just stole 200 pieces of material right
out from under these guitarists' noses, myself included. If I'd played
something off our CD, I would be ABSOLUTELY pissed. I *am* absolutely
pissed. They have completely ripped off hundreds of people, and
they're getting away with it because they can. They're on their way to
Georgia, and the radio station here has given out request line numbers
for the stations down there for us to call and let them know what's
happening over the course of this event, to warn them. But people
aren't going to buy it. They're going to go and get their shit stolen
too.
Someone needs to beat the living hell out of him. He's an asshole, and
someone who doesn't deserve to be breathing the same air as a fucking
cockroach.
To add insult to injury, Guitar Center ran a contest where the winner
would get to watch the band play even if they didn't play guitar. One
person and a friend. That person also won an autographed Gibson Les
Paul Studio ($1500+ guitar) by the band. She showed up after a near
200 mile drive to the area. Guitar Center told her that the band
refused to acknowledge the contest at this point, and so not only did
she drive three and a half hours for no performance (which she took
her ten year old kid to see as his first concert), but apparently the
guitar wasn't given either. All because the band wanted to be one
giant collective asshole.
If any of you know anyone who's considering going to these tryouts,
show them this message. If they have any questions they can contact me
directly. I'm doing everything I possibly can to make sure this does
NOT happen to anyone else. It's not my stuff I'm concerned about --
our CD is copyrighted completely and legally -- but I'm guessing 90%
of the local bands who passed Durst a copy of their CD are going to be
fucked. Many bands, especially newer local ones, don't have the money
or know-how to copyright their stuff, and by giving it to them
tonight, they just basically tossed them a new Limp Bizkit CD if Fred
wants to do that. I wouldn't be surprised if he copyrights their shit
tomorrow.
It hurts to look around and see hundreds of people get excited at the
chance to be able to make something of their guitar work; to have a
shot at being in a popular band, making a living doing what they dream
of. Fred Durst and Limp Bizkit are taking that dream and fucking it
over. And anyone who wasn't there who just caught the coverage at noon
and 5:00 on the news just think everything is perfect. Happy Fred
Durst in front of the cameras behind the place, fenced off, saying how
good the turnout is and how happy everyone seems, and talking about
all the great shit he's hearing. That man is the true meaning of a
music label representative. He's the perfect salesman and nice guy in
front of the media, and turns around and screws everyone involved in
the ass without having to take any hit in his overall popularity, and
possibly gaining a shit ton of new music in the process that he's
ripped from people.
Not many things piss me off, but I'm pissed off. I'm not the only one.
All sorts of "this band is playing tonight at this place, and they'd
like me to announce to Fred Durst that if you're still in the area and
you come to this venue, you will be able to see what a REAL band is
like -- right before the real band beats your skull in." This radio
station is sick of the shit from this band, and so are its listeners.
If this keeps happening, I wouldn't be surprised if some shit goes
down somewhere really damn soon. If it does, I'll let you know. 
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After you're done screaming insults and plotting attacks against this
"band", please post this message (giving credit to the original
writer) on any forum you participate in. People must know.


cazzo..che gente di merda!

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Maledetti bastardi. Fred Durst mi è sempre sembrato un coglione, ma non
credevo così tanto...
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 in qualche modo, mettendovene a parte:
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Fondamentalmente son cazzi loro... io non andrei mai a fare audizioni per
suonare in un gruppo di merda simile, e cmq il contratto potevano anche non
firmarlo, al di là del tempo perso...
Pikkio

 ha scritto nel messaggio
news:3c5dcd23...@news.citiesonline.it...
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Fotti il tuo prossimo come non fotteresti te stesso. ^__^
Ciao
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GrEgOrIuS VeNeFiCuS
"...This is the end, beautiful friend,
This is the end, my only friend, the end..."
"... Ooh how I loved you
a beauty, a vile whore..."

Bloodycross kirjoitti viestiin: 
[8<]
Beh, che sia una truffa schifosa non lo metto  in dubbio.....pero'
dico.....il contratto l'avevano letto quegli sfigati, perche' cazzo
hanno accettato???
Comunque, che i Limp fossero gente di merda lo si sapeva gia' da
tempo, pero' finche' li si considera solo come musicisti possono anche
piacere.
E inoltre quel fesso di Fred Durst mi ha regalato due grandi bands:
Disturbed e Staind.
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Aze, [=7a99=]
 "Le imprese che compiamo in vita 
riecheggiano per l'eternita'".
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 Disturbed e Staind.
Dehihihih i Disturbed son quelli col cantante pelato giusto??
E gli Staind... ma non son quelli del video con la tipa in macchina
che rimane senza chiavi?? Se sono loro ditegli di attaccare i jack
delle chitarre prima di registrare altrimenti non si sente niente (no,
per dire, intensita' = 0).
NP: il cane
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beast '84
STAY ROTTEN!!

per dire, intensita' = 0).
Non capisco il nesso tra il jack e l'intensita'. L'intensita' la vedi
dalle composizioni e dall'interpretazione, non certo dal volume o
dalla distorsione!
Forse ho capito male, ma per me gli Staind sono intensissimi, davvero
struggenti. Mentre i Disturbed mi infogano come un fesso, mi fanno
saltare e si cantano che e' un piacere.


 Non capisco il nesso tra il jack e l'intensita'.
Ma no era per dire che sono ammorbiditissimi, non sono neanche un po'
intensi.


intensi.
Beh, dipende molto da cosa hai sentito......alla radio e alla tv
passano molto le ballatone come "it's been awhile" o "outside", ma non
e' quella la vera anima del gruppo. 
Se ascolti pezzi come "open you eyes" oppure "waste" o "for you"
capisci che di morbido non hanno quasi niente! Forse giusto le linee
vocali, ma per il resto sono parecchio pesanti come suono.
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