SOMEBODY SHOOT ME IN THE FACE: MARTY FRIEDMAN JOINS LIMP BIZKIT
Fuck me naked with a spoon.
Last night we got what looked like a mass e-mail from someone claiming to be Wes Borland, announcing that he was, once again, out of Limp Bizkit. Upset that Fred Durst has apparently committed to direct another movie in August instead of touring North America with Bizkit, sissy cry baby face Borland complained in the e-mail that “Fred has once again proven that he does not view Limp Bizkit as a legitimate artistic endeavor but, rather, as a commodity… I will spend my summer touring with Marilyn Manson instead.”
We dismissed this e-mail as a terrible April Fool’s joke, as I’m assuming any other media outlets that received it have as well, as it I’ve yet to see it reported anywhere. And I wouldn’t have thought twice about it… if not for this series of tweets from one Mr. Frederick Durst:
wes couldn’t hang… out with the old, in with the new.
new guitarist is da bomb! yesterdayTwitterBerry
ever wonder what break stuff sounds like with an awesome shred solo? yesterday
let the countdown to egstinction [sic] begin! yesterday
Well, Durst’s horrific spelling aside, I was now more than a little nervous about all the classic Megadeth references and talk of “shred solos.” Since we get a press release every time the Japanese go ape shit because Marty Friedman farted or whatever, I shot his publicist an e-mail basically asking if she knew what the hell was going on. I honestly thought I’d get an e-mail back telling me she had no idea what the crap Durst was talking about and my pot-addled brain was reading way too much into the mindless ramblings of the mentally deficient.
But here is the absolutely horrifying response I got instead:
APRIL FOOL’S MOTHERFUCKERS!
I seriously hope none of you made it this far without assuming I was full of shit.
And if you did take me seriously, well… you got took.
-AR
