Girl at the Rock Shows

I didn’t get approved to cover the show on Tuesday night, so why am I here writing this at the crack of dawn the day after the show? I saw Limp Bizkit for the first time ever, and I feel like I have to write about it, if only so I can look back and remember just how much fun I had out at the Somerset Amphitheater in Somerset, Wisconsin, with my friends.

First off, if you know me personally, you know I’m a workaholic so me writing this will be no surprise to you. You know that I have lost the ability to go to a show and not think about the hook that I would use for a blog post or take notes throughout the night on things I witnessed. Whether or not I was actually “working” the Limp Bizkit show on Tuesday night, I was hyper-aware of what was happening around me, and I just had to pour all of these thoughts into a rambling, albeit short, blog post.

Since I wasn’t actually covering the show, my friends and I spent the first couple of sets having drinks and snacks in the van while we let the sounds of Corey Feldman and N8NOFACE waft from the stage to our parking spot. I know what you’re thinking. How in the heck could we pass up the opportunity to see Corey Feldman on stage? Honestly, it was a simple decision. My friends and I saw him perform last year at Riot Fest in Chicago, and, truthfully, it left a bit to be desired, and the novelty of seeing him perform wore off instantly.

Personally, I adore N8NOFACE, but the fact that we had a cheap beer in the van and snacks rather than paying worse-than-festival prices for beer we didn’t really like and food that wasn’t going to satisfy our hunger meant that we also spent his set out at the van. Part of me is super bummed about this as I haven’t seen N8NOFACE perform since I caught him back in April of 2022 when he opened for H09909 but, again, cheap beer and better-than-festival food.

My friends and I didn’t make the trek into the actual ground of the amphitheater until the final opening act, BONES, and even then, we were still chatting away to the point where we didn’t catch much from BONES’ set other than the sheer intensity that was being displayed on stage. I want to apologize to all of the opening acts and Riff Raff (who was DJing between sets) for not paying more attention and giving them a full review. Honestly, it was one of those nights where time spent with friends felt more appropriate than analyzing every move in the audience and on the stage alike.

The anticipation was real as the stage was turned over for headlining act, Limp Bizkit. This legendary and pioneering nu-metal band has been around since 1994 and has been on my bucket list to see live for decades. I honestly don’t know how I’ve never seen them before, and I am definitely bummed I didn’t get to see them in their heyday, but their performance on Tuesday night proved to me that their heyday isn’t over, and although they seem to be the butt end of many jokes, they still have it and are still unapologetically Limp Bizkit.

I’ll be the first to joke about this band. They have a bad rep, and their style of music is, well, it’s nu-metal. It’s a genre that was merely a flash in the pan in the grand scheme of things, and although I see bands trying to kick it back up these days, I don’t think it will ever really hit. I don’t know why this genre is the laughingstock of the music world. It’s catchy, it’s aggressive, it’s angsty, and it’s perfect and nobody does it better than Limp Bizkit. Sure, we can talk about the disaster that was their set at Woodstock ’99 (you should really watch the documentary on that festival on Netflix whether or not you remember the festival happening because it shines the light on what really went done), or we can talk about vocalist Fred Durst and, well, I’ll just leave it there, but when push came to shove on Tuesday night and they were playing through their fifteen song set, I couldn’t help but have this feeling of admiration for the band.

It was a bit odd to see Fred Durst sporting a Bob Ross-inspired wig (or maybe that was his actual hair, but I highly doubt it), and the fact that Limp Bizkit played “Break Stuff” twice is laughable at best, but that’s exactly what I expected from seeing Limp Bizkit. A bit of campiness, a bit of quirkiness, and a whole lot of excited people screaming along to songs that soundtracked an entire generation for a brief amount of time. What I wasn’t expecting was their truly well-done cover of Rage Against The Machine’s “Killing in the Name” or the sheer musicality that came from the rest of the band.

Whether or not you believe in Limp Bizkit or think they are a joke, I highly urge you to go to this tour if it’s coming to a city near you. Let yourself be free, let yourself be a loser (in reference to how this tour is called the ‘Loserville’ tour), and have fun.

Line Up:

Riff Raff

Corey Feldman

N8NOFACE

BONES

Limp Bizkit

Venue: Somerset Amphitheater

Smell-O-Meter: Cigarettes and Mini Donuts

Average Age of the Crowd: 42

Crowd Surfers- Wasn’t Paying Attention

Stage Divers- 0

Mosh-ability- 9 out of 10

Amount of Beer Spilled On Me While Walking Around- $0

Broken Bones- None

Spotted Flying Through The Air- Wasn’t Paying Attention

Fights- None Witnessed

Pukers- 0

Passed Out People- 0

Idiots Taken Out By Security – 0

How Many Times I’ve Seen These Bands Before (or at least how many times I can remember)-

Riff Raff – 1

Corey Feldman – 1

N8NOFACE – 1

BONES – 0

Limp Bizkit – 0

Celebrity Sightings – None

Overall Score – 9.2 out of 10

Show on Deck — Moken / Zoë Says Go / theyself

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