Currently on tour with House of Pain, DJ Lethal discusses two huge anniversaries & Limp Bizkit’s set at Woodstock ’99.
I know your 2001 MTV VMA moonman was stolen. Did you ever get it back?
Nah, man. It’s probably sitting on some kid’s toilet as a trophy.
I got a feeling one day it’s gonna pop up somewhere in some pawn shop, or on eBay, or something, and somebody will let me know. It’s all good. I have another one.
A huge moment for you guys, which has become part of pop culture history, was the Woodstock ’99 show. What do you remember from that night, that set, and everything that ensued?
Shit, I’ma be real honest with you, that day was fuckin’ NUTS. We had this rock doc that used to come out on the road, he was a dentist, so he would bring a huge thing of nitrous. Backstage we had that shit set up. We had about 50 people in the backstage area just suckin’ on the nitrous. I think Dennis Rodman was back there, Carmen Electra was like going into convulsions. It was crazy.
That show was big, dude, and they tried to blame the whole riot thing on us, but they were charging like $20 for waters, and then the Chili Peppers handed out lighters.
We got blamed for just rockin’ too hard. We were their scapegoat. That’s how I feel. They tried to blame the whole shit on us. Yeah, put us on after Alanis Morissette, what do you think’s gonna happen?
(The Chili Peppers) happened the next day. (People) tried to blame us for the whole shit. Literally, Chili Peppers handed out lighters to the whole crowd.
Let’s close things out by talking about the present. You’re currently on tour. After you’re done on the road, what’s in the works for you for the rest of 2017?
We got probably 40 more shows with House of Pain for the whole summer, maybe more. Everlast has a couple projects. I got a couple projects. Danny Boy bought the house The Outsiders movie was filmed in, and around, and he’s building a museum around that. I got a side project with Sid Wilson (DJ Starscream from Slipknot). I got a project with Bumpy Knuckles. There’s some other stuff floating around, too. You never know when me and Fred might drop something … or maybe not. You never know.
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