The feuding between CREED and LIMP BIZKIT continues as Fred Durst has once again sounded off after Creed called the singer's behavior at a recent concert "immature and egotistical." As we previously reported, Limp took the stage at Friday's KROCK Dysfunctional Family Picnic outside of New York late, and then proceeded to call Creed singer Scott Stapp an "egomaniac" and "a f***ing punk"...Durst slammed the singer further during a visit to MTV's "Total Request Live" on Monday, and Creed then responded on Tuesday charging that "Fred is manipulating the media and the truth by using Creed as a scapegoat for his own immature and egotistical actions." Specifically, the band claimed that Durst was disappointed with his band's placement on the KROCK bill, and as a result he and the band refused to go on stage on time. Now Durst has shot back in a statement that hardly backs off of his initial comments about Stapp. "What I said about Creed I meant," Durst reiterated in a statement issued late Tuesday. "The starting time of our New York show had nothing to do with my comments. I bet some fans who have tried to meet them would agree [with me]. I don't ever care about what other people in the business say. Our fans know what we're about and that's all that matters to me."
BARRIE LAPINS, the buyer for the Hard Rock Cafe, was the biggest spender at the recent KISS auction. He spent about $300,000 on 22 items for the chain's outposts around the world, including the as yet not open Hard Rock Hotel in Orlando, Florida. Nearly half of Lapins' budget went toward a set of four Psycho Circus tour costumes on mannequins that sold for $145,000.
COLD, whose second album 13 Ways to Bleed comes out September 12, will be on this summer's Tattoo the Earth tour, three of the OzzFest dates (August 24, 26, and 28) and possibly Family Values in the fall. The band will shoot a video for first single "Just Got Wicked" in Los Angeles on July 10-11 before heading out on the road.
