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10-08-2003, 12:23 PM
Frankie posted this over at the pit. Thanks Frankie :)
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/entertainment/...nment-headlines (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/entertainment/news/celebrity/chi-0310080339oct08,0,4112714.story?coll=sfla-entertainment-headlines)
Irked by short show, fans to file lawsuit against Limp Bizkit
By Greg Kot
Tribune rock critic
Posted October 8 2003
A summer concert in which angry fans pelted Limp Bizkit singer Fred Durst with garbage and routed him from the stage at Hawthorne Race Course in Stickney has prompted a lawsuit against the band that is expected to be filed Wednesday in Cook County Circuit Court.
The breach-of-contract suit seeks damages for at least 165 concertgoers who will claim that top-selling rock/rap act Limp Bizkit instigated the uprising and then left the stage after less than 30 minutes, though they had contracted as part of a multi-act rock concert to play 90 minutes, said Chicago attorney Michael Young.
He said he hopes to get class-action status for the suit, to cover about 40,000 fans who attended the show, which would bring potential damages to $1 million.
The suit is expected to ask that a percentage of the total ticket sales be refunded, or about $25 per patron. Tickets were $75 for the July 26 show headlined by Metallica.
The backdrop for the suit is a long-running feud between Durst and WKQX-101.1 FM disc jockey Mancow Muller. Muller has disparaged Durst on his morning show. The concert was sponsored by Muller's radio station.
According to reports, fans showed up at the show with signs disparaging Durst. The singer responded with signs, shown on giant video screens flanking the stage, that denounced the radio personality with homophobic insults.
Concertgoers greeted Durst's appearance with boos, and the singer and the audience exchanged obscenity-laden taunts. Fans hurled plastic water bottles and debris at the stage. After performing for 30 minutes, Durst exited, though he continued to denounce Muller and the audience for several more minutes over a microphone from behind the stage.
The suit will contend that Durst and not the fans instigated the incident. The legal proceeding originated when Muller invited Young on his radio show after the concert. The disc jockey's Web site includes a description of the concert and gives out Young's office number.
"When I left the station I had no intention of filing a suit, but then people started to call and I realized how upset many of them were that they had paid a lot of money and felt ripped off," Young said.
Durst and his management company could not be reached for comment.
The suit is similar to one filed against the rock band Creed by four fans who accused the band's singer, Scott Stapp, of appearing to be too intoxicated to perform well at a concert in December at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont. A Cook County judge dismissed the $2 million class-action suit last month.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/entertainment/...nment-headlines (http://www.sun-sentinel.com/entertainment/news/celebrity/chi-0310080339oct08,0,4112714.story?coll=sfla-entertainment-headlines)
Irked by short show, fans to file lawsuit against Limp Bizkit
By Greg Kot
Tribune rock critic
Posted October 8 2003
A summer concert in which angry fans pelted Limp Bizkit singer Fred Durst with garbage and routed him from the stage at Hawthorne Race Course in Stickney has prompted a lawsuit against the band that is expected to be filed Wednesday in Cook County Circuit Court.
The breach-of-contract suit seeks damages for at least 165 concertgoers who will claim that top-selling rock/rap act Limp Bizkit instigated the uprising and then left the stage after less than 30 minutes, though they had contracted as part of a multi-act rock concert to play 90 minutes, said Chicago attorney Michael Young.
He said he hopes to get class-action status for the suit, to cover about 40,000 fans who attended the show, which would bring potential damages to $1 million.
The suit is expected to ask that a percentage of the total ticket sales be refunded, or about $25 per patron. Tickets were $75 for the July 26 show headlined by Metallica.
The backdrop for the suit is a long-running feud between Durst and WKQX-101.1 FM disc jockey Mancow Muller. Muller has disparaged Durst on his morning show. The concert was sponsored by Muller's radio station.
According to reports, fans showed up at the show with signs disparaging Durst. The singer responded with signs, shown on giant video screens flanking the stage, that denounced the radio personality with homophobic insults.
Concertgoers greeted Durst's appearance with boos, and the singer and the audience exchanged obscenity-laden taunts. Fans hurled plastic water bottles and debris at the stage. After performing for 30 minutes, Durst exited, though he continued to denounce Muller and the audience for several more minutes over a microphone from behind the stage.
The suit will contend that Durst and not the fans instigated the incident. The legal proceeding originated when Muller invited Young on his radio show after the concert. The disc jockey's Web site includes a description of the concert and gives out Young's office number.
"When I left the station I had no intention of filing a suit, but then people started to call and I realized how upset many of them were that they had paid a lot of money and felt ripped off," Young said.
Durst and his management company could not be reached for comment.
The suit is similar to one filed against the rock band Creed by four fans who accused the band's singer, Scott Stapp, of appearing to be too intoxicated to perform well at a concert in December at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont. A Cook County judge dismissed the $2 million class-action suit last month.