Hit Parader, Nov. 1999
Quotations From Chairman Fred By: Aaron Baxter
With the break-out success of LB's latest disc, Significant Other - wich follows hot on the heels of their platinum debut effort, Three Dollar Bill, Y'All$ - this Florida resident has solidified his place as one of the leaders of hard rock's new generation. With all that in mind, we thought we'd just turn these pages over to Mr. Durst, and let him expound some of his unique life philosophies. We like to think of it as Quotations From Chairman Fred.
"Everybody who comes out with a hip hop influenced heavy rock album after Significant Other will just be riding our coat-tails. No one else has this kind of credibility with all their musical elements."
I believe in God. I pray three or four times a day. Sometimes I see on TV where a lot of people are saying that our music is bad. At the same time the evangelists that are saying such things are making a lot of money. It's hard to tell if they're real or phony. They tell us that our music is nothing but noise - noise pollution. They say it's not the way of the Lord. It makes you wonder about what you can really believe in."
"Maybe I'm a magnet for bad relationships and a magnet for everything. I don't really know. But I do know that we deal with a lot of that in the music we make - especially on the first album. We had a song called Leech which was about a couple of guys who were constantly around us. They were bugging us, giving us demo tapes. Everywhere we'd go they'd show up and they'd be hangin' out. Nobody liked them, nobody was their friend, but they were just always around."
