Sam Rivers, Limp Bizkit Co-Founder & Bassist, Dies at 48

Sam Rivers, longtime bass subordinate and a founding subordinate of Limp Bizkit, has died. He was 48.

The set (Fred Durst, Wes Borland, John Otto and DJ Lethal) revealed the news of Rivers’ decease Saturday nighttime (Oct. 18) successful a tribute to the instrumentalist titled “In Loving Memory of Our Brother, Sam Rivers,” successful a post connected Instagram.

“Today we mislaid our brother. Our bandmate. Our heartbeat,” Limp Bizkit wrote connected Saturday of Rivers, who was calved successful Jacksonville, Florida, successful 1977 and was 1 3rd of the archetypal enactment of Limp Bizkit successful 1994, alongside vocalist Durst and drummer Otto. (Borland and DJ Lethal joined successful 1996.)

“Sam Rivers wasn’t conscionable our bass subordinate — helium was axenic magic,” his set members said. “The pulse beneath each song, the calm successful the chaos, the psyche successful the sound. From the archetypal enactment we ever played together, Sam brought a airy and a bushed that could ne'er beryllium replaced. His endowment was effortless, his beingness unforgettable, his bosom enormous.”

Their connection continued: “We shared truthful galore moments — chaotic ones, quiescent ones, beauteous ones — and each 1 of them meant much due to the fact that Sam was there. He was a once-in-a-lifetime benignant of human. A existent fable of legends. And his tone volition unrecorded everlastingly successful each groove, each stage, each memory. We emotion you, Sam. We’ll transportation you with us, always. Rest easy, brother. Your euphony ne'er ends.”

DJ Lethal near an further remark connected Instagram, writing, “We emotion you Sam Rivers. Please respect the family’s privateness astatine this moment. Give Sam his flowers and play Sam Rivers basslines each day! We are successful shock. Rest successful powerfulness my brother! You volition unrecorded connected done your euphony and the lives you helped prevention with your music, foundation enactment and friendships. We are heartbroken. Enjoy each millisecond of life. It’s not guaranteed.”

Rivers’ origin of decease has not been revealed.

He was diagnosed with liver illness successful 2011 and received a liver transplant successful 2017. Within this clip period, helium took a abbreviated hiatus from his enactment with Limp Bizkit — but was backmost with the set by 2018.

Limp Bizkit’s breakthrough came with the nu metallic band’s 1997 debut album, Three Dollar Bill, Y’all, which featured their screen mentation of George Michael’s “Faith,” which picked up vigor airplay and had a euphony video successful rotation connected MTV and the network’s then-popular TRL (Total Request Live). But it was their 1999 sophomore medium Significant Other that reached No. 1 connected the Billboard 200 for the archetypal time, and the acceptable received 3 Grammy nominations — successful the categori...