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"The Anger Management
Tour"
Limp Bizkit and Eminem
talk a tough game, but work the same side of tracks . Thousands of bouncing,
slam-dancing, crowd-surfing, fist-pumping, screaming young people vented their
pent-up energy, anger and frustration Sunday night at the Arco Arena.
.....After 4½ hours of
nearly nonstop hip-hop/punk rock, a sweaty, tired mass of the multipierced and
tattooed were clearly drained. The "Anger Management Tour" featured
three of the hottest bands currently exploiting teen scene. Limp Bizkit,
Eminem and Papa Roach - along with up-and-coming rapper Xzibit.
.. ...
Limp Bizkit clearly was the star of the show. Just last month, its
"Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water" album sold more
than 1 million units the week it was released, making Limp Bizkit the reigning
champ of teenage bad-boy rock. Band leader Fred Durst is clearly savoring his
time at the top (he's smart enough to know it probably won't last long) by
giving the fans the biggest, loudest, most outrageous show possible. Both
performers offer varying degrees of sophistication in their recordings, but
these musical attributes were reduced to lowest common denominator posturing on
stage. Durst's clumsy rapping and wheedling voice couldn't be redeemed in any
environment, but his band had its moments of twisted new-metal aplomb, thanks
to guitarist Wes Borland's acrid chords and Sam Rivers' seismic bass lines.
Dozens of enormous explosions set off during the show; they shook the whole
building. There were more pyrotechnics than at any other rock show here ever,
including multistory pillars of flame, statewide showers of sparks and
fire-breathing robots. The finale of "Nookie" was marked by cannon
fire of streamers and confetti. It was more a party than a concert, with the
big crowd taking advantage of the opportunity to let off steam. Limp Bizkit's
songs are almost all
 rants, like the stomping "Break Stuff," the feisty
"Full Nelson.
......Eminem is much more
original and talented, with a gift for word play and storyteller. Eminem's
"The Marshall Mathers LP" has racked up 7 million sales in six
months, is receiving the most media attention at the moment because of his
violent, profanity-laced raps, his arrests and court cases.
..... But he has the same
problem as most rappers - watching a guy walk back and forth across the stage
spewing words to a recorded beat soon gets stale. The addition of four other
rappers, called D12, didn't help much either. This is not talent really ,
Eminem's attempts to inject to his fans that being tough is cool gets old too.
For the record Eminem is interesting CD but Live he's a bore. I don't know why
audiences still get hyped up by hearing the Fuck word, but it still works every
time. Both Limp Bizkit and Eminem used it constantly. They should really grow
up.
.....Papa Roach warm everyone
up with lead vocalist Coby Dick racing on stage blasting their latest hits,
what a electrifying performance. This Northern California punk/hip-hop band has
an infectious, powerful hit, "Last Resort," that's pushing its
"Infest" CD up the charts. The CD deals with such troublesome topics
as divorce ("Broken Home"), alcohol ("Binge") and Attention
Deficit Disorder ("Thrown Away"). By Randy Cohen
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Who
was There: !
s Limp Bizkit , Eminem,
Papa Roach and Xzibit
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.....11/18/00
Sacramento