Fred Durst Pays Tribute to Late Limp Bizkit Bassist Sam Rivers: ‘What He’s Left Us Behind Is Priceless’

Limp Bizkit proceed to wage tribute to precocious bassist Sam Rivers. After the afloat set issued a connection announcing that the rap-rock group’s longtime bass subordinate and founding subordinate had passed distant astatine 48 implicit the weekend, vocalist Fred Durst posted a idiosyncratic memorial to his person and bushed conception anchor.

“Sam Rivers, the legend,” began Durst successful an affectional video remembering his compatriot that began with a agelong sigh. “Truly, specified a gifted, unbelievably saccharine and fantastic person.” Durst shared their root story, explaining that he’d enactment unneurotic a fewer versions of a set helium was trying to commencement years agone successful his autochthonal Jacksonville, Fla. that helium conscionable couldn’t get rather right. So, helium went retired successful hunt of the close players by going to a tiny pub wherever a set was playing erstwhile helium stumbled connected Rivers.

“There Sam was connected the signifier with his band, sidesplitting it connected the bass. And I went, ‘Oh my gosh, this guy’s amazing,'” Durst recalled reasoning of the instrumentalist who was playing a five-string bass, thing the vocalist had ne'er seen before. “In my mind, you had to commencement with the bushed section, the bass and the drums… I saw Sam play, and I was blown away.”

Impressed by however “smooth and good” Rivers was and however helium stood retired among the different musicians connected stage, Durst said helium could perceive “nothing other but Sam” that night. “Everything disappeared beside his gift. I went up to Sam aft the show, and I said, ‘Hey man, you’re unbelievable, I got this thought for a set I wanna do.’ I kinda threw it retired there, and I told him what I wanted it to be, and helium looked astatine me, and says, ‘Killer, I’m in. Let’s bash it!’… That’s kinda however things started to travel together.”

Once helium and Rivers began jamming, the bassist suggested his cousin, jazz drummer John Otto and the radical started coming together. “It’s truthful tragic he’s not present close now,” said Durst, apologizing for his thoughts being a spot scattered arsenic helium attempted to talk coherently though his grief. “I’ve gone though gallons and gallons of tears since yesterday and I’m thinking, ‘my God, Sam’s a legend,’ you know? He did it. He lived it.”

With the set precocious returning to signifier and playing to ample crowds astir the world, Durst lamented that Rivers’ decease came conscionable arsenic things were heating up again for the nu-metal radical who archetypal broke done successful 1997 with their debut album, Three Dollar Bill Y’all, which featured their breakthrough hit, a rocked-up screen mentation of George Michael’s “Faith.”

“Here we are conscionable having an unthinkable moment, and it’s going truthful beautifully smooth, and Sam was conscionable really, truly blessed astir it,” Durst said of playing arenas, stadiums and festivals astir the satellite together. “I cognize wherever Sam is present he’s smiling and feeling like, ‘I did it. I did it.’ And antheral did helium bash it. What he’s near america down is priceless.”

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