IN THE 1980’S YOU HAD MIXED TAPES AND IN THE 90’S THE BURNT CD’S IF YOU WANTED TO SHARE MUSIC WITH FRIENDS AND THEN IN JUNE OF 1999 THE WORLD WAS INTRODUCED TO A PEER TO PEER MP3 FILE SHARING PLATFORM CALLED NAPSTER AND THEY WERE FACED WITH A TON OF PUSH BACK FROM THE MUSIC WORLD FROM BANDS LIKE METALLICA WHO ALLEGED COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT, BUT AS THE METAL MASTERS WERE WORKING TO PROTECT MUSICIANS, THE FLORIDA NU METAL RAP/ROCK BAND, LIMP BIZKIT ANNOUNCED ON THIS DATE IN 2000 THAT THEIR BACK TO BASICS TOUR WAS BEING SPONSORED BY NAPSTER! LIMP BIZKIT’S FRONTMAN, FRED DURST WAS A VERY OUTSPOKEN ADVOCATE OF FILE SHARING AND THE NAPSTER SPONSORED TOUR LEANED INTO IT WITH FREE SHOWS AND THE BAND PERFORMING IN A METAL CAGE! SO WHAT DO YOU THINK MOTIVATED THEM TO LEAN INTO THE FILE SHARING SERVICE? DID THEY DO IT ALL FOR THE NOOKIE? IT IS A DISTINCT POSSIBLITY! HA! TODAY’S ROCK REWIND IS THE 1ST SINGLE OFF LIMP BIZKIT’S 2ND ALBUM RELEASED IN 1999…”NOOKIE”…TURN IT UP…IT’S 105.7 THE X IN THE 5 O CLOCK FREAK OUT!
