Sam Rivers of Limp Bizkit performs onstage at KROQ Weenie Roast & Luau at Doheny State Seaside in Dana Level, Calif. on June 08, 2019.
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Sam Rivers, bassist for rock band Limp Bizkit, has died. He was 48 years previous.
Rivers’ demise was confirmed by the band, who wrote on-line on Saturday: “immediately we misplaced our brother”.
“Sam Rivers wasn’t simply our bass participant — he was pure magic. The heartbeat beneath each track, the calm within the chaos, the soul within the sound,” Limp Bizkit stated in a social media submit Saturday. “He was a once-in-a-lifetime form of human. A real legend of legends. And his spirit will stay endlessly in each groove, each stage, each reminiscence.”
The band didn’t share any particulars about his demise.
Rivers’ final submit on social media was on Friday, during which he shared a “Save The Date” video for Limp Bizkit performing on the Rock for Folks pageant in Hradec Králové, a metropolis within the Czech Republic, in June 2026. Rivers and his bandmates final carried out in August on the Leeds Competition in the UK.
In 2015, Rivers left the band after affected by liver illness however rejoined the group in 2018.
“I received liver illness from extreme consuming … I needed to depart Limp Bizkit in 2015 as a result of I felt so horrible, and some months after that I spotted I needed to change every part as a result of I had actually dangerous liver illness,” Rivers stated throughout an interview with Selection. “I stop consuming and did every part the medical doctors informed me. I received remedy for the alcohol and received a liver transplant, which was an ideal match.”
The nu-metal band skyrocketed in reputation within the ’90s, being nominated for 3 Grammys. Their hits, together with “Rollin'” and “Nookie,” additionally landed on the Billboard Scorching 100 singles chart.
Fred Durst, fellow bandmate and frontman for Limp Bizkit, remembered the primary time he heard Rivers play at a Jacksonville, Florida bar whereas looking for bandmates to kind the group. Rivers was enjoying in a band on the bar and Durst stated he was “killing it on the bass.”
“I noticed Sam play and I used to be blown away,” Durst recalled in a video posted on social media Sunday morning. “He is enjoying a five-string bass too. I would by no means actually seen somebody utilizing a five-string bass… he was so easy and good and he stood out. I might hear nothing else however Sam… every part disappeared in addition to his reward.”
When he approached Rivers after his efficiency and informed him that he needed to kind a band, Durst stated the bassist did not hesitate.
“He checked out me and he says ,’Killer. I am in. Let’s do it’,” Durst recalled. “I’ve gone via gallons and gallons of tears since yesterday and… I am considering, ‘My God, Sam’s a legend….he did it. He lived it.'”
Limp Bizkit’s new single, “Making Like to Morgan Wallen,” topped a number of Billboard charts in September.
