Limp Bizkit guitarist Wes Borland caused a stir earlier this week when he posted a lengthy anti-metal message on Instagram. Now he's saying the post was a joke, but he'll still have plenty of angry fans waiting for him on the forthcoming ShipRocked cruise.
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Borland recently explained his thought process to Stereogum.
"When [I thought about] the idea of a cruise with a bunch of bands from that time period, [I thought], 'Oh, I'm turning 40, I'm gonna spend the last week of my 30s on a metal cruise with a bunch of, like, middle-aged wasted people,'" he said. "And instead of despairing about it, I thought it would be funny to make fun of it."
The 39-year-old has never really fit perfectly into Bizkit's "bro" image, but he doesn't dislike being in the group.
"I don't hate being in Limp Bizkit," he said. "I'm very aware of my band. You know, I totally get tons of people don't like it and think it's a joke. And then we have a really strong fan base that are great."
Still, Borland said he doesn't listen to "that genre of music," and took a lengthy hiatus from Fred Durst and co. in the mid-2000s.
"I had all these presumptions about what life after Limp Bizkit would be, and boy did I get my ass handed to me, because if you are known for one thing and then depart and go do something else, it doesn't always work out because you have a fan base that is not going to accept what you're doing," he said.
Borland still plays with other groups — he worked with Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails during his time away from LB — and is currently the guitarist for Queen Kwong, an indie group that features his girlfriend, Carré Calloway.
Looking back, Borland thinks that Limp Bizkit was both a positive and negative influence on the music scene in the early 2000s.
"I think both," he said. "I think that Fleet Foxes is a negative influence on music, for Christ's sake. It's just how you look at it. People have been moshing and behaving badly at concerts, at heavy concerts, for years and years and years, and I think that Bizkit kind of took more aggressive heavy riffs along the lines of Suicidal Tendencies and Pantera and simplified them a little bit and added a little of bit of melody and ending up having something that got popular, you know?"
Tickets are sold out for the cruise, which runs Feb. 2–6. ShipRocked will feature Bizkit, Chevelle, Black Label Society, and plenty of similar head-banging bands on the open sea.
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