LIMP BIZKIT bassist Sam Rivers has died on the age of 48.
On Saturday, October 18, the Fred Durst-fronted outfit shared a put up on Instagram saying that Rivers had handed away earlier within the day. No explanation for demise was revealed.
“Immediately we misplaced our brother. Our bandmate. Our heartbeat,” the band wrote within the caption, alongside a photograph of Rivers performing onstage.
“Sam Rivers wasn’t simply our bass participant — he was pure magic. The heart beat beneath each tune, the calm within the chaos, the soul within the sound,” the band continued. “From the primary be aware we ever performed collectively, Sam introduced a light-weight and a rhythm that might by no means get replaced. His expertise was easy, his presence unforgettable, his coronary heart monumental.
“We shared so many moments — wild ones, quiet ones, lovely ones — and each certainly one of them meant extra as a result of Sam was there,” LIMP BIZKIT continued. “He was a once-in-a-lifetime form of human. A real legend of legends. And his spirit will stay ceaselessly in each groove, each stage, each reminiscence.”
“We love you, Sam. We’ll carry you with us, at all times. Relaxation straightforward, brother. Your music by no means ends,” the put up concluded, signed by Durst, drummer John Otto, guitarist Wes Borland and turntablist DJ Deadly.
In a remark beneath the put up, Deadly requested the LIMP BIZKIT followers to respect Rivers‘s household’s privateness.
“Give Sam his flowers and play Sam Rivers basslines all day!” the DJ wrote. “We’re in shock. Relaxation in energy my brother! You’ll stay on by way of your music and the lives you helped save together with your music, charity work and friendships. We’re heartbroken. Take pleasure in each millisecond of life. It is not assured.”
A founding member of LIMP BIZKIT, Rivers left the band in 2015 for well being causes that he later revealed had been liver illnesses because of alcohol abuse.
“I obtained liver illness from extreme ingesting … I needed to go away LIMP BIZKIT in 2015 as a result of I felt so horrible, and some months after that I spotted I needed to change all the pieces as a result of I had actually unhealthy liver illness,” Rivers revealed in Jon Wiederhorn‘s e book “Elevating Hell (Backstage Tales From The Lives Of Metallic Legends)”. “I stop ingesting and did all the pieces the medical doctors instructed me. I obtained remedy for the alcohol and obtained a liver transplant, which was an ideal match.”
Rivers recalled medical doctors warning him that he would die with out quitting alcohol. “It obtained so unhealthy I needed to go to UCLA Hospital, and the physician mentioned, ‘In the event you do not cease, you are going to die. And proper now, you are trying such as you want a brand new liver.'”
Sam rejoined LIMP BIZKIT in 2018 and remained within the group till his demise.
Rivers based LIMP BIZKIT with Durst and Otto in Jacksonville, Florida in 1994.
