Sam Rivers of Limp Bizkit performs onstage at KROQ Weenie Roast & Luau at Doheny State Seashore 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 He was 48 years outdated.
Rivers’ dying was confirmed by the band, who wrote on-line on Saturday: “at this time we misplaced our brother”.
“Sam Rivers wasn’t simply our bass participant — he was pure magic. The heart beat beneath each music, the calm within the chaos, the soul within the sound,” Limp Bizkit mentioned in a social media submit Saturday. “He was a once-in-a-lifetime sort of human. A real legend of legends. And his spirit will dwell ceaselessly in each groove, each stage, each reminiscence.”
The band didn’t share any particulars about his dying.
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 bought 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 little thing as a result of I had actually unhealthy liver illness,” Rivers mentioned throughout an interview with Selection. “I stop consuming and did every little thing the docs advised me. I bought remedy for the alcohol and bought 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 trying to find bandmates to type the group. Rivers was enjoying in a band on the bar and Durst mentioned 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 may hear nothing else however Sam… every little thing disappeared in addition to his present.”
When he approached Rivers after his efficiency and advised him that he wished to type a band, Durst mentioned 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 by means of gallons and gallons of tears since yesterday and… I am pondering, ‘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.