tl19990927_000 "e Weil Monday www.towson.eduitowerlight/ ht Published twice weekly by students of Towson University g 9/27/99 Large cabinet equals events hi! 3 HFStival soars into millennium 11 Baseball stadi-um expansion 17 TU can't catch Columbia 17 Departments HMS 3 SGA preview 6 Nation 8 Technology 7 A&E. IN � ION. ��� 11 Sound Bites 15 Sports .17 Fast Break 17 Athlete of the Week 20 Rap rocks Todd Jacobson The Towerlight WASHINGTON � It's 11:30 p.m. Saturday and Fred Durst, alternative music's everyman, is obliging a feu) _hundred of his adoring fans with autographs. It's nearly an hour after Limp Bizkit capped off the 1-IFStival Fall edition, rockin' the wind out of RFK Stadium's 60,000-plus fans with its hard-to-categorize, hard-rockin' hybrid of heavy metal, rock, hip-hop and rap. Durst stands patiently in front of the chain link fence outside RFK's Gate C, signing shoes, cell phones, baby T-shirts � virtually anything handed him. Decked out in a pair of camouflage shorts and a black T-shirt and standing roughly 5-feet-7-inches tall, the former tattoo artist does-n't seem imposing, but his influence on the alter-native rock scene is unmistakable. � � � Just four years ago, Durst was as anony-mous as his many fans. Gigging around his home of Jacksonville, Fla., Durst and Limp Bizkit were going nowhere fast until Durst sprung a demo tape on Korn's bassist Reginald ""Fieldy Snuts"" Arvizu and guitarist Brian ""Head"" Welch when Korn passed through Northern Florida. Korn passed the demo tape along to pro-ducer Ross Robinson, and the rest for the eclectic band, made up of bass player Sam Rivers, drummer John Otto, guitarist Wes Borland and DJ Lethal (House of Pain), has been history making. After its debut album ""Three Dollar Bill, Y'all$,"" which went platinum, Limp Bizkit hit it big with ""Significant Other,"" which went triple-platinum, surpassing the success of fellow rockin' rappers Kid Rock and Korn. ""Not too long ago, I was just like the fans there,"" said Durst, motioning to a gathering of high school and college students beckon-ing him to come over. ""I'm just lucky enough to be on this side of the fence."" ""We can't believe it,"" said Borland, the group's guitarist known for his black contact lenses, intricate face makeup and costumes. ""This a dream. Most people don't ever think their dreams would ever come true � we didn't. We thought it was enough just to be at a level where our record went gold ['Three Dollar Bill, Y'all$'1. And even then, that was like 'Oh my Gosh, our record's gold'... It just kept going and going and getting bigger and bigger. We just can't believe the response we've gotten, especially for the type of music that we are. We never thought it would catch on as a big thing, but somehow it did."" Pioneered by Run-DMC and Aerosmith in the late 80s, ""rockin' rap"" is nothing new, nor is it out of the blue, Durst said. Kid Rock, Korn and Rage Against the Machine have all found success in the genre � just not to the extent that Limp Bizkit has. ""CD collections are a lot different than they were JO years ago,"" Durst said. ""Ten years ago you couldn't find hard rock and hip-hop albums in the same collection ... The lines are getting a little blurred as the genres get closer to each other. The world is a crazy place and you never know what's going to hit next."" Building on the work of its predecessors, Limp Bizkit has been able to meld rock and rap together effectively, balancing funky bass grinds, jazzy percussion, hip-hop grooves See LIMP BIZKIT, page 16 Pimps hy Msgr. Debrawnts Tswerhght Today High 73 Low 57 �-� Tuesday High 76 Low 59 Wednesday High 76 - -- Low 60 Thursday High 77 Low 55 "
