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Limp Bizkit Searches 23 Cities For New Guitarist

Aired January 15, 2002 - 05:48   ET

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COSTELLO: Also this morning, a grunge version of "Star Search." Metal superstars, Limp Bizkit, have sold millions of CDs, but now they are on a nationwide search for a new guitar player.

Their quests for riffs stopped in Seattle on Monday, and this morning, Kathy Kiomora of CNN affiliate, King TV, goes behind the music.

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KATHY KIOMORA (voice-over): Rock star wannabes jam a Seattle sidewalk, all waiting to put their guitars where their mouths are.

More than two hundred musicians are here to impress the fist- pumping rock group Limp Bizkit.

Limp Bizkit is holding auditions in Seattle and in 22 other cities to find a new guitarist.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Whatever they're looking for, it's me, it's me. If it's not, well, then it's not.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have nothing else to lose, I'm going to give her a try. I'm going to make some noise.

KIOMORA: Amy Stolzenbach from Seattle strums her stuff.

What will she add to Limp Bizkit?

AMY STOLZENBACH, GUITARIST: Some estrogen.

KIOMORA (on camera): All right. What does it take to be a Limp Bizkit? They're not looking for a cookie-cutter musician. They're looking for someone with that special extra something.

FRED DURST, LIMP BIZKIT: I'm looking for everything you'd look for in a brand new girlfriend. There's something special about you that, you know, maybe you can go to the next level and jam with the band.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We go through 300, maybe 400 people a day.

KIOMORA (voice-over): How many wannabes fall into that something special category? Maybe three or four in each of the 23 cities on the audition tour. And only a fraction will make the final Limp Bizkit selection round next month.

Remember Amy? She has it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're definitely like ahead of the pack.

STOLZENBACH: Thank you, man.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's great. I appreciate it. Thanks a lot, OK?

STOLZENBACH: Thank you man, I totally appreciate it.

KIOMORA: In Seattle, Kathy Kiomora, King Five News.

COSTELLO: You go girl! Amy! Doing some riffs for Limp Bizkit!

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