{"id":2101683,"date":"2025-10-19T11:40:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2101683"},"modified":"2025-10-19T11:40:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T11:40:40","slug":"limp-bizkit-announces-death-of-bassist-founding-member-sam-rivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/limp-bizkit-announces-death-of-bassist-founding-member-sam-rivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Limp Bizkit announces death of bassist, founding member Sam Rivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 The Rock Band Limp Bizkit announced the death of their bassist and backing vocalist, Sam Rivers at age 48 on Saturday in a post on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cToday we lost our brother. Our bandmate. Our heartbeat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The band, hailing from Jacksonville, Florida, wrote in a caption, accompanying a photo of Rivers performing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cSam Rivers wasn\u2019t just our bass player \u2014 he was pure magic.<br \/>The pulse beneath every song, the calm in the chaos, the soul in the sound.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They did not release a cause of death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Rivers was one of the founding members of the popular musical group, known for songs including \u201cBehind Blue Eyes, and \u201cTake a Look Around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><i>Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 The Rock Band Limp Bizkit announced the death of their bassist and backing vocalist, Sam Rivers at age 48 on Saturday in a post on Instagram. \u201cToday we lost our brother. Our bandmate. Our heartbeat.\u201d The band, hailing from Jacksonville, Florida, wrote in a caption, accompanying a photo of Rivers performing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2101684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[397358,305292,319377,354332,397359],"class_list":["post-2101683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-backing-vocalist","tag-limp-bizkit","tag-post-on-instagram","tag-sam-rivers","tag-wfla"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Limp-Bizkit-announces-death-of-bassist-founding-member-Sam-Rivers.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2101683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2101685,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101683\/revisions\/2101685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2101684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}