''Rock im Park 2001'' is a

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and DVD by the American

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band

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. Released in 2008, it features a performance from June 1, 2001, by the band at the

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festival in

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, Germany. In the UK, it was released as an album with a bonus DVD containing video of the performance, while the video was solely released as a DVD in the United States.

Production and content

Limp Bizkit's set at the

festival in

, Germany was filmed and recorded. The video portion of the album featured one of the band's last performances with

Wes Borland Wesley Louden Borland (born February 7, 1975) is an American rock musician. He is best known as the current guitarist and backing vocalist of the rap metal band Limp Bizkit, the lead vocalist and guitarist of the alternative and industrial rock ...

before he left the band in 2001. The band performed some of their best known and hit songs, accompanied by a dancer dressed as one of the creatures on the cover of their album ''

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''. During the performance, Borland wore

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, and

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performed a portion of the set in the audience.

Music and lyrics

The music of ''Rock im Park 2001'' has predominantly been described as

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and is noted for "kinetic, frenzied energy". On this compilation,

DJ Lethal Leor Dimant ( lv, Leors Dimants, russian: Леор Григорьевич Димант, ; born December 18, 1972), better known as DJ Lethal, is a Latvian-American Turntablism, turntablist and producer and is best known as a member of the groups ...

functions as a

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er for the band, shaping their sound. According to Lethal, "I try and bring new sounds, not just the regular chirping scratching sounds. ..It's all different stuff that you haven't heard before. I'm trying to be like another guitar player."

's guitar playing in this performance is experimental and nontraditional, and is noted for creative use of a

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. His guitar playing makes use of octave shapes, and choppy, eighth-note rhythms, sometimes accompanied by muting his strings with his left hand, creating a percussive sound. Borland's guitar playing also has unevenly accented syncopated sixteenth notes to create a disorienting effect, and hypnotic, droning licks. Durst's lyrics are often profane, scatological or angry. Much of Durst's lyrical inspiration came from growing up and his personal life. His breakups have inspired the songs "

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" and "

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Reception

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writer Greg Prato panned the release. Prato in particular was critical of Durst's performance on the set, writing, " eseems not all that interested in working the crowd or putting his heart into the performance at hand." Prato concluded, "Perhaps it's best to look at ''Rock in the Park 2001'' as

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-esque footage that, years from now, will either become an

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hit due to its absurdity or an inadvertent "time period relic" à la ''

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''."

Track listing

Personnel

- vocals *

- guitar, backing vocals * Sam Rivers - bass, backing vocals * John Otto - drums, percussion *

- turntables, samples, keyboards

References

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