Eddie Van Halen Allegedly Pulled a Gun on Fred Durst
At some point, surely, everyone in the entire world has wanted to shoot Fred Durst. And, hey, I’m a Cannibal Corpse fan — I don’t think there’s anything wrong with violent fantasies, so long as they remain fantasies.
Still, it’s hard not to wish I had been there that time Eddie Van Halen allegedly pulled a gun on the Limp Bizkit frontman.
The story comes from Andrew Bennett, author of the new book Eruption in the Canyon: 212 Days & Nights With the Genius of Eddie Van Halen. Bennett confirms an old rumor — that Eddie Van Halen jammed with Limp Bizkit sometime in-between when Wes Borland quit that band and Mike Smith took his place. (At the time, it was reported that the legendary Van Halen “tried out” for Limp Bizkit. As if!) In Bennett’s version of the story, Van Halen met Durst at some industry shindig, and Durst thought it would “hilarious” if “The greatest guitar player ever plays with the worst band ever.”
Van Halen agreed to a jam session, which eventually took place at a house in Beverly Hills. According to Bennett, Van Halen would later say that the session was “like being a scholar amongst kindergartners.” The guitarist left abruptly when someone broke out some weed — of which he is apparently not a fan — leaving all his equipment behind.
Van Halen then reached out to Durst about retrieving that equipment the following day… and got no reply. Van Halen was understandably incensed… and that’s when things got, uh, interesting.
Bennett writes:
“Eddie once bought an assault vehicle from a military auction. It has a shine gun mount on the back and is not legal. Eddie drove that assault vehicle through L.A., into Beverly Hills, then parked and left it running on the front lawn of the house Limp Bizkit was rehearsing in. He got out wearing no shirt, his hair in a Samurai bun on top of his head, his jeans held up with a strand of rope and combat boots held together by duct tape. And he had a gun in his hand.”
Bennett goes on to quote Van Halen himself…
“‘That asshole answered the door. I put my gun to that stupid fucking red hat of his, and I said, ‘Where’s my shit, motherfucker?’ That fucking guy just turned to one of his employees and starts yelling at him to grab my shit.’
…before concluding:
“Eddie Van Halen stood on the front lawn of a residential home in Beverly Hills in broad daylight, smoking a cigarette while holding a gun on Fred Durst as he went back and forth from the house to the assault vehicle, lugging amps and guitars.”
And the moral of the story is, DO NOT FUCK WITH EDDIE VAN HALEN.
Regardless of whether or not the story is true, the excerpt has obviously been released in order to help sell copies of Bennett’s book… and, hey man, I think it’s working. I’m about to buy myself a copy, and I bet I’m not the only one. Who knows what other crazy shit is in there?
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