“I do apologize for Limp Bizkit. I really do. I feel really bad that we inspired such bullshit,” says Rage Against The Machine bassist Tim Commerford in a soon-to-be-published interview with Rolling Stone. Commerford is referring to his dislike of the rap-rockers’ choice to cover Rage’s classic “Killing In The Name” on more than 100 occasions, as well as their general style.
“They’re gone, though. That’s the beautiful thing. There’s only one left, and that’s Rage, and as far as I’m concerned, we’re the only one that matters,” he says, blissfully ignorant to the fact that Limp Bizkit still tours.
Later on in the interview, Commerford talks to RS about his infamous stunt at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards, when he climbed the award show’s backdrop as Limp Bizkit accepted their award for Best Rock Video for “Break Stuff”, beating out Rage’s “Sleep Now In The Fire”. Commerford was perched 20 feet in the air with every security guard in the building trying to get him down!
He ultimately went to jail for the night but says he only has one regret about the incident: “I wish I would’ve swung on that thing and brought it to the ground and just destroyed it…If I could do it all over again, I would’ve ripped that thing to the ground and shredded it.”
[Via Rolling Stone]