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Britney's diss yields Durst's response: 'Just Drop Dead' ...
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Summer Sanitarium Tour is announced
"We got [Swedish metal guitar virtuoso] Yngwie Malmsteen," Fred Durst tells reporters at a press conference to announce an upcoming tour with Metallica, Linkin Park, the Deftones and Mudvayne. He's kidding, of course. Limp Bizkit are still without a guitar player or a finished album and are now suddenly on a deadline to find one.
"They're showing us these schedules," bassist Sam Rivers says, "and me and [drummer] John [Otto] are going, 'We don't have a guitar player and I'm seeing dates now.' "
The pressure has the band panicking, but it will later prove to be just the added push Limp Bizkit needed.
"Something about pressure to me equals delivery," Durst says.
Snoop Dogg crashes the studio
Durst and DJ Lethal both had wanted to work with Snoop for years, but he is notoriously tough to pin down. With a deadline looming and the headache of not yet having a guitar player, Limp Bizkit manager Peter Katsis gets a call from Snoop's wife saying he's on his way to the studio.
Katsis, doing everything he can to ensure Snoop actually shows up, asks what to stock the place with and is told, "Champagne and orange juice." The combination of the two, a drink called a mimosa, has a magical effect on the musicians, who instantly bond over the beat that would become the blueprint for "Red Light, Green Light."
When Snoop enters the sound booth, he actually sings a little, but Durst wants to hear him rap and asks him to freestyle. Snoops drops a few smooth verses that have the party in the control room jumping up and down.
"It's the LB connection — Limp Bizkit, Long Beach," Snoop tells the group, which he's been making laugh for hours.
The night yields a standout track (which Bubba Sparxxx also records a verse for, although it is scratched), but more importantly it lifts Limp Bizkit's spirits and reminds the band how much fun making music can be.
"That night was classic," Durst recalls. "Snoop was funnier than sh--. It was one of those moments where you're constantly asking yourself, 'Is this really happening?' "
Mike Smith returns to jam with the band
As Durst so eloquently puts it, "What the f--- am I doing? I'm not a guitar player." But after auditioning as many as 11 guitarists, including none other than Eddie Van Halen, the frontman finds himself, along with engineer Michael "Elvis" Baskette, strumming the songs for the new record. With live shows around the corner, that has to change.
So Durst calls a guitarist he remembers feeling chemistry with a year earlier and asks him to come back. Mike Smith, formerly of Snot, jams with the band for 20 minutes before he gets the invitation to join.
"He's what we've been looking for," Durst says. "We need an actual guitar player."
"I feel like I play really well with these guys," Smith says.
Limp Bizkit would later liken their guitar search to a relationship, saying they could not commit to someone else until they had completely gotten over Borland.
Label boss suggests Limp Bizkit keep recording
With Smith on board and a desire to write some heavier material, the band pens four new songs to tack onto the finished album. Upon completion, Durst plays them for Interscope/Geffen/A&M chairman Jimmy Iovine.
"Even though you've had different hits over the past, what people think you do is that," Iovine says, bobbing his head to a song in the same vein as "Nookie."
"If we're going to do that, we need to make an album as a band," Durst responds, referring to the new lineup.
"This point should not be ignored, because what everybody loves about Limp Bizkit is that it is a band," Iovine continues. "[I say] we put out pure aggression, blow them the f--- out."
Durst then calls a band meeting to share Iovine's idea to push the album back to September and record another batch of new, even heavier songs.
"I think it's perfect for us," Rivers says. Lethal reminds Durst that he'd wanted more time anyways.
"Now there's no pressure," Durst adds. "The pressure is how badass and raw can the music get."
Go behind the scenes of Results May Vary all this week on "MTValbumLAUNCH," airing Monday through Friday at 6 p.m. ET/PT.
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