North Florida Music Hall of Fame

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Original guitarist for Limp Bizkit; Borland formed the band Big Dumb Face as a side project. BDF released an album on Fred Durst’s Flawless Records (distributed by Interscope) in 2001, After leaving LB, Borland and his brother, Scott Borland (LB’s keyboardist), formed the short-lived Eat the Day with former Filter singer Richard Patrick. After a [...]

Durst made his mark as front man for Jacksonville rap-rock outfit Limp Bizkit, and almost immediately began putting his connections to use scouting other acts. After Bizkit’s signing with Jordan Schur’s Flip Records, Durst talked his way into an A&R position at the label. His first signing was Jacksonville Beach rock band Cold, now on [...]

Kurzweg, a Tallahassee native, was signed as a singer to Atlantic Records when his then-girlfriend was transferred to Jacksonville in 1988. She and Kurzweg lived in the San Marco area for about a year. Instead of touring to promote his Atlantic album, however, he abandoned the project to join bar-band Synergy (which also featured future [...]

Underdogs on the Jacksonville scene until frontman Fred Durst met bassist Fieldy from rap-metal band Korn after a show at Jacksonville’s Milk Bar in 1994. Durst, a tattoo artist, offered to do some free work for the band members, and they went over to his house. Durst gave a demo tape to the Korn members, [...]

A Jacksonville native, Pete Thornton graduated from Bishop Kenny High and earned an associate in science degree from Full Sail School of Recording in Orlando in 1994. While working as an engineer at Jasmine Recording in Jacksonville, pal Donnie Smith (former road manager for The Outlaws) brought Thornton an unknown band he was managing named [...]