Courtney Love launched a vicious verbal attack on Fred Durst at a concert on Saturday, blaming the Limp Bizkit star for "the worst years in rock history".

Love was appearing onstage with her band Hole at the Edgefest festival in Dallas, Texas, and took the opportunity to rant about Durst, who was headlining the event with his band.

Wrapping up her set, the outspoken rocker was heard mocking the lyrics to Limp Bizkit's 1999 hit Nookie.

She raged, "I have to say, as much as I like Fred, he brought about the worst years in rock history. That just be (sic) a fact, OK? That just be a fact. 'I did it for the nookie!' I did not do it for the nookie (sex), I did it for the rock! I'm just saying, man, he's a nice guy, but Jesus!"

Love then called out to a concertgoer wearing a hat similar to the trademark baseball cap Durst wore at the height of his fame, before giving him the middle finger.

She said, "I see (a) guy with (a) backwards baseball cap. Dude, you! You scare me! You make me feel like you're going to rape me or something, and all my children! You did it for the nookie, dude in the red baseball hat! Do you know one word to one (Hole) song? That is so lame. I'm so sorry, you're here for the nookie! I could beat your a**."

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Courtney Lovehole should also keep in mind that she had a part in helping ruin rock & roll back in the 90's. Grunge started out as a healthy underground hybrid of metal, punk, and psychedelic rock in the late 80's and helped redefine what was heavy and making it trippier and different. And just as her husband's band Nirvana hit the peak of success, along with Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, and countless others. Just as the grunge movement hit its peak, all the big-name bands who served as the "alternative" to that disgraced 80's metal--and suddenly all the bands started to sound UN-heavy, and even tried to deny the influences of metal and hard rawk. It was uncool for them to admit they were fans of KISS back in the day (and did anyone know that Kurt Cobain was a huge fan of Celtic Frost?--AND that the first concert he ever went to was Sammy Hagar at the Seattle Center Coliseum in 1982?).

So suddenly there was all this politically correct posturing in rock and roll, when everyone started playing all mellow, radio-friendly acoustic alternative songs, and bands began championing so many socially aware causes, such as saving the trees and sticking it to Ticketmaster for excessive ticket prices. Instead of partying like Poison and living the life of sex, drugs, and rawk 'N' roll, everyone started acting like making a ton of money and being popular was a huge evil. Gene Simmons of KISS wondered why all these bands dressed like lumberjacks in flannel and started whining about how they hated being successful. Being a "rock star" was a bad thing, and they must have "sold out" by being at the top of the charts. So after Kurt Cobain's suicide (allegedly over such concerns), rock's popularity took a nosedive and fans began to listening to rap and hip-hop.

So a few years later, after Korn began the NU-metal trend with heavy 7-string guitars combined with rap rhythms and abrasive lyrics about personal issues, soon Limp Bizkit arrived on the scene with tons of posturing and the whole image of "rappers with guitars". Fred Durst played the "w***er* image to the hilt, and won him lots of fans at places such as the Playboy Mansion. Interestingly, this sound from these doofus upstarts was called "metal". The idea was that anything that sounded heavy must be considered metal. Not quite. Metal purists condemned the whole hackneyed sound, and by 2003 Limp Bizkit were replaced by more cutting edge metal bands such as Slipknot, Lamb Of God, and Shadows Fall. True metal was back, and for a while, the Viagra-deficient Bizkits were forgotten.

Courtney Love did have a point that Limp Bizkit were promoting rape in their lyrics--as after all, the band was playing while acts of violence were going on during their set at Woodstock 1999, including a sexual assault on a girl. Shades of Altamont. Limp Bizkit may not have started the ruin of rock & roll,
but they completed a cycle of musical decline in the 90's. In the first few years of the 2000's, there was the trend of NU-metal offshoots such as Papa Roach, Linkin Park, and Mudvayne. It was huge for a while, but then was superceded by the wave of New American Metal with LoG, Shadows Fall, Killswitch Engage, and others.

i don't know if they ruined it but they sure do suck.

...and I have absolutely no use for any of that "NU-metal" crap, at least Kurt Cobain could WRITE songs.

Did Limp Bizkit ruin rock & roll? Well, they sure helped ruin it. It got very disturbing how all these white kids all started dressing in the oversized clown pants with the boxers showing and the backwards caps, all acting tough and dorky. They played tunelessly and the whole NU-metal thing got very old and tiresome very quick.

I agree with every sentiment expressed in this thread so far. But I'll take it a step further. Someone I can't stand even more than Limp Biskit is Kid Rock.

At least Limp Bizkit writes their own songs as far as I know. Kid Rock has always irritated me, but he topped himself last year in the infamy sweepstakes.

One day last year on the radio, I heard the familiar music of Warren Zevon's classic, "Werewolves Of London." All of a sudden, instead of hearing Warren Zevon, I hear Kid Crock singing these other lyrics. And to top it off, he throws in a little bit of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" into the mix as well.

How many kids who heard Kid Crock's "All Summer Long" realize or even care that that it's a ripoff of Warren Zevon? Now he's so lazy, he just writes new lyrics to existing songs and tries to pass them off as his own. Lame.

Courtney, those who live in glass houses...

I agree with every sentiment expressed in this thread so far. But I'll take it a step further. Someone I can't stand even more than Limp Biskit is Kid Rock.

At least Limp Bizkit writes their own songs as far as I know. Kid Rock has always irritated me, but he topped himself last year in the infamy sweepstakes.

One day last year on the radio, I heard the familiar music of Warren Zevon's classic, "Werewolves Of London." All of a sudden, instead of hearing Warren Zevon, I hear Kid Crock singing these other lyrics. And to top it off, he throws in a little bit of Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" into the mix as well.

How many kids who heard Kid Crock's "All Summer Long" realize or even care that that it's a ripoff of Warren Zevon? Now he's so lazy, he just writes new lyrics to existing songs and tries to pass them off as his own. Lame.
I HATE Kid Crock, and I especially hate that ripoff of Warren Zevon and Lynyrd Skynyrd. It makes me think it's what they call a mashup. Amazing people still take him seriously.

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