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William Frederick "Fred" Durst (born August 20, 1970) is an American director, actor and musician, known primarily as the founder of the nu metal band Limp Bizkit.
t was born in Jacksonville, Florida on December 4, 1970, and was raised in Gastonia, NC. After high school he served a stint in the U.S. Navy before returning to Jacksonville at age 20 to pursue a career as a tattoo artist.
t formed Limp Bizkit in 1994 with Sam Rivers and John Otto.
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William Frederick "Fred" Durst (born August 20, 1970) is an American director, actor and musician, known primarily as the founder of the nu metal band Limp Bizkit.
Early life
Durst was born in Jacksonville, Florida on December 4, 1970, and was raised in Gastonia, NC. After high school he served a stint in the U.S. Navy before returning to Jacksonville at age 20 to pursue a career as a tattoo artist.
Limp Bizkit career
Durst formed Limp Bizkit in 1994 with Sam Rivers and John Otto. Wes Borland joined soon after, and DJ Lethal, formerly of the Hip hop group House of Pain, joined the band in 1995.
Limp Bizkit's first hit, a cover of George Michael's late '80s hit "Faith", gained traction due to heavy airplay on MTV, especially during the first year of Total Request Live. The band's other major hits include "Nookie", "Break Stuff", "Re-arranged", "Counterfeit", "N 2 Gether Now", "Take a Look Around", "Rollin'" and "My Generation." Durst has directed most of Limp Bizkit's music videos, as well as videos for Korn ("Falling Away from Me"), Deadsy ("The Key to Gramercy Park"), Cold ("No One"), Puddle of Mudd ("Blurry"), and Staind ("It's Been Awhile" and "Just Go"), among others.
Other professional interests
Durst has dabbled in acting with a minor role in the 2005 TV miniseries Revelations, playing the role of Odgen. He had a small role on the FOX drama House, M.D. and he also starred in the movie Population 436 with Jeremy Sisto, as police officer Bobby Caine.
Durst also chairs his own record label, Flawless Records, a division of Geffen Records. It has signed such bands as Puddle of Mudd, The Revolution Smile, Ringside and She Wants Revenge.
In recent years, he has also shown interest in directing films. He directed the film The Education of Charlie Banks, which was concluded July 25, 2006. Durst made his feature film directorial debut in The Longshots in July 2008. The film stars Ice Cube and tells the real-life story of the first girl to compete in the Pop Warner football tournament.
Controversy
Live performances
In 1999, the media portrayed his performance of "Break Stuff" during Woodstock 1999 as contributing to many of the festival's problems with violence and vandalism. Despite being asked to help defuse an already volatile situation by concert promoters, Durst told the crowd, "I don't think you should mellow out. This is 1999, motherfuckers - stick those Birkenstocks up your ass!" Allegedly in response to the song, which would later become a hit, concert-goers committed acts of vandalism, tearing planks from the stage and throwing garbage at an MTV crew.
At the K-Rock (WXRK) Dysfunctional Family Picnic concert in 2000, Limp Bizkit and Durst were criticized on stage by Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots for taking the stage an hour late. At the same concert, when Durst took the stage, he erupted in a furious rant about Creed singer Scott Stapp, saying:
"I want to dedicate this next song to the lead singer of Creed.... That guy is an egomaniac. He's a fucking punk, and he's backstage right now acting like fucking Michael Jackson. Fuck that motherfucker, and fuck you too.... And if you want, there's going to be a booth with pillows and blankets for when Creed comes on."
During Creed's set, Stapp responded by saying "It takes a lot more guts to say something to somebody than from behind their backs."
Durst was also criticized for his comments related to the death of Australian teenager Jessica Michalik, who was crushed to death during Limp Bizkit's set at the 2001 Big Day Out concert in Sydney. Durst claims that he made his concerns about security known days before the incident, but they fell on deaf ears. Durst was videotaped telling the crowd "Safety first, if someone falls down pick them up", but was later criticized by the coroner for "alarming and inflammatory" comments during the rescue effort.
For a full week leading up to Limp Bizkit's support slot in Metallica's Summer Sanitarium 2003 concert in Chicago, Mancow Muller mocked Fred Durst on his radio show, inviting fans to attend the concert with anti-Durst placards. This was in response to Durst's behavior at a Guitar Center competition in which hundreds of people showed up to audition for the spot of Limp Bizkit's new guitarist, only to have Durst show up late, give the crowd the finger and then leave. When Mancow's fans complied by showing up with the placards, openly taunting the singer, booing him and pelting him with refuse, Durst erupted in a profanity-laced homophobic tirade and left the stage only 17 minutes into the show. Durst was eventually sued for breach of contract (for not completing the show) by Chicago lawyer Michael Young.
Slipknot
Durst was embroiled in controversy with the band Slipknot after lead singer Corey Taylor heard from a friend that Durst referred to their fans as "the fat ugly kids" in a Spin magazine interview.
Shawn Crahan, one of Slipknot's percussionists, threatened violence against him if he criticized their fans again, and Taylor later said in an interview with MuchMusic that he saw Durst as a great businessman, but not as an artist. In a 2001 post on Limp Bizkit's website, Durst disputed the perceived ill will against Slipknot. He was quoted as writing, "We really like Slipknot and are very happy that they hate us, because it makes their music heavier, angrier and real!" This quote angered Chris Fehn, one of Slipknot's other percussionists. Fehn later described Durst as being "...scared of us (Slipknot) and that he didn't know until then that Clown (Shawn Crahan) was being serious about what he implied."
Zakk Wylde
Zakk Wylde of Black Label Society, during the Aqua Teen Hunger Force show, said he cannot stand Limp Bizkit and in particular Durst, not for personal reasons, but because Wylde criticizes his enormous celebrity in the world of music business and gossip. Wylde often showed his hatred of both Durst and Limp Bizkit during live performances. BLS's Alcohol Fueled Brewtality album has Wylde yelling "Limp Bizkit sucks dick" during the song "Superterrorizor". Fred refused to comment on the situation with BLS even though many felt that he started the situation.
Christina Aguilera
In 2000, speculation about pop singer Christina Aguilera having oral sex with Fred Durst and TRL host Carson Daly began after Eminem stated that it happened in his song "The Real Slim Shady". At first, Durst told MTV News that it was not true, but months later Durst said during an MTV special that the reason he got on stage with Christina Aguilera during her performance at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards was all for the "nookie". Aguilera responded to Durst's comment on MTV's Diary and stated "He didn't get any nookie".
Britney Spears
In 2003, paparazzi photos were released showing Durst with pop star Britney Spears and rumors began to spread that the two were dating. This struck a nerve with some fans on the Limp Bizkit website. Durst had not mentioned anything about it, and it seemed out of character for him to be dating a pop singer like Spears. It was revealed that Durst was hired to help write and produce tracks for Spears' upcoming album In the Zone, released later that year. The issue intensified when Spears appeared on TRL and denied the affair, saying she barely knew Durst, and that he was not her type.
Durst later appeared on Howard Stern's nationally-syndicated radio program to set the record straight. He claimed that, while they were never dating, they did have a sexual relationship while working with her on the album. He also mentioned that after Britney appeared on TRL he decided not to allow her to use his contributions on the album, though a spokesperson for Spears directly contradicted him, saying that it was her decision not to use the material, not Durst's.
While Durst claimed he only came forward with details about the relationship due to the paparazzi photos, he went into great detail on the radio show, including intimate details about Spears' body, in response to Stern's continued prodding. Spears later claimed that she regretted ever getting involved with "someone like Durst."
Several songs from Limp Bizkit's Results May Vary were allegedly written about the affair and its aftermath, including the album's first single "Eat You Alive". Lyrics from the song include "Hey you, Ms. Too-good-to-look-my-way" and "I'm sorry, your beauty is so vain." Though Durst denies any of the songs being directly about Spears, he did leak a song titled "Just Drop Dead" onto the internet in retaliation to some of Spears comments, and its lyrics do pertain to events that happened during the affair.
Placebo
As revealed on the Once More With Feeling DVD Extras, whilst on tour in South America, the two bands played the same evening. Trouble occurred when Placebo's manager would not let Durst on stage as he did not recognize him and thought he was simply a fan trying to get an autograph. After eventually getting on stage, Durst began the chant "Placebo sucks." Placebo roadie Adam Okrasinski, was later charged with aggravated battery when he allegedly punched a member of Durst's entourage in an altercation that took place after the show between members of both band's camps. Charges were later dropped in lieu of community service.
Sex tape
In February 2005, a three minute composite of video clips of Durst having sex with a 20 year old model for Abercrombie and Ralph Lauren, Niki Coyne from North Carolina was leaked to the Internet after the video clip was taken from his computer's hard disk. Some fans, Niki and her family suspected that he released these himself for publicity. The video was said to be done by the T-Mobile Hacker and put up on the then well known site twistedtopics.com.
Suspended sentence
In 2007, Durst was given a suspended 120-day jail sentence after he hit two people with his car while driving drunk in Orange County, CA.
Discography
Music: Featured Appearances
- Bleed from the Soulfly album Soulfly (1998).
- All In The Family from the KoRn album Follow The Leader (1999).
- Get Naked from the Methods of Mayhem album Methods of Mayhem (1999).
- Our House from the Eminem album Off The Wall.
- Turn Me Loose from the Eminem album Off The Wall.
- Bring Tha Noise from the Compilation album Take a Bite Outta Rhyme (2000).
- Forever from the Snot album Strait Up (2000).
- Them Girls from the Run-DMC album Crown Royal (2001).
- Lay It On Back from the Kurupt album Space Boogie: Smoke Oddessey (2001).
- Rock Away Remix from the Lazee album Setting Standards (2008).
- Famous from the Rock album Veteran dayz (2004).
- Human Pinata from the Videodrone album Videodrone (1998).
Filmography
Music videos
Films
Television
- Fastlane (2002), cameo
- House M.D. (2008), guest star
As director
Video games
Durst was included as a hidden playable character in the WWF video games SmackDown! Just Bring It and WWE Raw in exchange for the use of "Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)", the theme song of the Undertaker at the time.
Durst was also a bonus character in the Fight Club video game.
Durst was also featured in a Tony Hawk video game.
See also
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