Pollution: Watch Limp Bizkit play a set in a Kansas City parking lot in 1997

It wasn’t that long ago that band like Korn, Linkin Park, and Limp Bizkit were selling hundreds of thousands of albums every single week. In fact, it was less than two decades ago! The days of alternative metal and even nu-metal bands touring arenas really aren’t that far gone.

Still, there’s something very interesting seeing some of the bands from that era play their first shows in obscure locations – like a hole in the wall bar, or even a parking lot in Kansas City, like Limp Bizkit did in 1997. Filmed shortly after the release of their debut full-length 3 Dollar Bill, Y’all, this was the beginning of Limp Bizkit’s seemingly endless touring in support of this album – one that would just a year later see them touring with Korn on the successful Family Values tour.

The best part of the video is around the 7 minute mark, where Fred Durst discusses the possibility of touring with Deftones – whose 1997 album Around The Fur remains one of nu-metal’s (except it was so much more than nu-metal) best albums overall. How prophetic, really, considering this was a band that went from a parking lot to Woodstock 1999’s huge crowds in just 2 years.