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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Wes borland - Caught on Camera

23 years after they pulled out of the first ever Download, Limp Bizkit finally headline the UK's biggest rock festival - and they absolutely smash it

Metal's biggest party band bring the ruckus to Donington on Friday night

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“It won’t leave your tap water tasting of hot dogs. It won’t make your Hershey’s bar taste of starfish”: This week's hottest new guitar gear – featuring Wes Borland's Jackson and a Korn pedal

Jackson and Limp Bizkit's Wes Borland unveil the coolest metal guitar of the year, IK Multimedia go '60s Marshall mad, and someone put Korn's early sound in a pedal

Guitar World

“It’s about time!” Wes Borland’s Jackson King V went from factory floor reject to Limp Bizkit icon – now it’s been released as a signature guitar

Borland’s Custom Shop V started out as a left-handed factory reject – and this signature reissue replicates it in all its glory

Guitar World

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Limp Bizkit’s Wes Borland unveils his first Jackson signature guitar – and it’s a single-pickup King V with a headstock so reversed it’s “upside down”

Featuring one Seymour Duncan Invader, one Floyd 1500 Series vibrato, and one headstock that requires a double take

MusicRadar

"They were doing something totally unique and otherworldly. It was mysterious and thrilling." 10 songs that Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland wishes he had written

10 songs which shaped Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland's life and music

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"I never thought someone would actually run with that song title. I suppose it's all my fault." The story of the extremely silly but surprisingly poignant Limp Bizkit anthem that made them the biggest (and most hated) metal band of their generation

What seemed like a throwaway lyric tacked onto a catchy Bizkit banger actually had some profound meaning for Fred Durst

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"I had 20 kids on my doorstep looking in my windows. I couldn’t go to the grocery store." Tom Cruise, Eminem, the Twin Towers and a million sales in a week - the story behind the album that made Limp Bizkit the biggest rock band on the planet

For just a moment, this was the record that officially made metal the biggest genre in the world

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“I didn’t expect him to get busted in that bathroom. But his misfortune actually helped us. We couldn’t have asked for more of a buzz!”: How an unexpected arrest accidentally gave Limp Bizkit their big break

Metal Hammer

When I was 14, I thought Limp Bizkit were the coolest band in the world. At 38, I often still do

Love or hate them, you couldn't ignore them. Luckily, I loved them - and I still do

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“That bassline was the first thing that came out of my head. By the end of the soundcheck we had the whole song down”: Limp Bizkit remain one of the biggest nu-metal bands ever – but they wouldn't have taken those giant strides without bassist Sam Rivers

Limp Bizkit may be known for their planet-sized guitar riffs, but behind every monster moshpit there's a talented bassist

Guitar World

“He played the role of a bass player very musically. It would be like water, formless, and then crash, and then shape mountains”: Thundercat pays tribute to one of his bass heroes – Sam Rivers

“There’s a special place in my heart for Sam” bassist says

MusicRadar

Sam Rivers death: Limp Bizkit bassist dies, aged 48

Nu metal group say Rivers was ‘pulse beneath every song’

The Independent UK

Limp Bizkit pull the biggest crowd of the day at Reading Festival and, to the surprise of no one, absolutely smash it

Surely it's finally time for Limp Bizkit to headline a major UK festival?

Metal Hammer

“EET PHO”: Wes Borland cosplays as an ’80s-era James Hetfield while opening for Metallica – complete with a custom troll guitar

The attention to detail, right down to his guitar of choice and the 'mod' he's made to it, needs to be applauded

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Wes Borland cosplayed as James Hetfield during Limp Bizkit’s last concert with Metallica

Limp Bizkit’s run of North American shows supporting Metallica wrapped up last week

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"A cocktail of pure fire and creativity." How Limp Bizkit went from nu metal's whipping boys to a beloved cultural force (again)

Limp Bizkit have proven time and again they can roll with the punches

Guitar World

“He told me it had a reverse headstock, but when we opened the case it turned out to be a left-handed King V”: A labor of love, Wes Borland's beloved custom Jackson King V began life as a factory floor reject

Rather than a top-of-the-line custom job involving the best of the company's best luthiers, Borland's favored King V was brought to his attention by Jackson because, not in spite of, the quirks that led to its initial rejection

The Independent UK

Limp Bizkit sue Universal Music Group for enormous figure in unpaid royalties

Nu metal band frontman Fred Durst is seeking to void all contracts with UMG

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“Borland isn't just a guitarist. He’s redefining what it means to be a rock star”: Wes Borland’s go-to Limp Bizkit amps and effects pedals have made available as a signature Tonality plugin by STL Tones

Featuring three amps, five pedals and some meticulously crafted digital speaker cabinets, the plugin bottles Borland’s live rig for the digital realm

Metal Hammer

"Wes Borland still dresses like a hard rock Grace Jones and Fred Durst still holds 80,000 people in the palm of his hand." Limp Bizkit show Download why they remain metal's greatest party band

Download bears witness to why no one does it quite like Limp Bizkit

The Guardian - UK

Limp Bizkit review – nu-metal elders can still rock the party like it’s 1999

Fred Durst and co – whose notoriety was recently restoked by a Netflix series about Woodstock ’99 – pound out their irresistibly aggro rebel anthems with cheerful abandon

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“It would have been career suicide”: Fear Factory’s Dino Cazares on why he refused to audition for Limp Bizkit

The Fear Factory guitarist turned down an audition for Fred Durst’s nu metal giants in 2001, saying that “Limp Bizkit’s [sound] was already on its way down”

Guitar World

Wes Borland on how he ended up playing guitar like a trombone, why he loves four-string electrics, his “out-of-control” gear habit – and what's next for Limp Bizkit

One of metal's most idiosyncratic players is selling off a vast array of gear from his collection – he tells Guitar World about making the tough decisions, and what survived in his current epic guitar rig

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Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst and Wes Borland unveil bold new looks as Limp Bizkit launch European tour

Watch Limp Bizkit give a live debut to Barnacle as they launch their European tour in Munich

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Wes Borland is auctioning off a load of gear from your favourite Limp Bizkit songs

Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland has partnered with an auction house to sell off a collection of his most-prized gear

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