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Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland has reflected on comments he made recently about the fans attending his upcoming set at ShipRocked Cruise.
The outlandish band member made his distaste for the festival and nu-metal scene pretty clear on his Instagram page last week saying:
"Can’t wait to see me some roided out tribal tattooed spray tanned Jell-O shot filled bohunks do their best drunk MMA impressions in the top deck mosh pit...I’d like to give a shout out now to all the other over-the-hill late nineties/early 2000s bands going on the cruise: Let’s give these people the raging alcohol fueled nostalgia fest they’re paying for guys! I know we can do it if we tune down low enough!"
Speaking to NME, he expanded on the meaning of his comments saying he will retract them o nly if: "I don't see a big muscly frat boy moshing in the pit I think that is going to happen though so I feel safe.".
"When I first read the description of the cruise I realised it is what it is and I thought I'd have some fun with it. I'm turning 40 next week and I think it's funny that I'm spending the last week of my 40s on ShipRocked. It's funny to me. It's a joke with truth in it. I just don't want our fans to get all butthurt and thinking I'm criticising them, because I'm not."
Borland, when asked whether the audience would be Limp Bizkit fans says: "I don’t know what they are. I'm casually dropping online what my expectations are based on the descriptions of the bands online. I'm at the beginning of my mid-life crisis and this cruise sounds like 'Let's leave the kids at home and go listen to a bunch of nu-metal bands and have tonnes of alcohol.' it doesn't feel real. I want to call a spade a spade and have some fun with it."
He then says: "I'm not immune to criticism, for god's sakes - I'm the guitarist in Limp Bizkit. I'm used to it by now."
Good luck out there Wes. Just focus on that money.
