{"id":2102409,"date":"2025-10-19T20:08:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2102409"},"modified":"2025-10-19T20:08:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T20:08:05","slug":"sam-rivers-bassist-and-founding-member-of-limp-bizkit-dies-aged-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/sam-rivers-bassist-and-founding-member-of-limp-bizkit-dies-aged-48\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Rivers, bassist and founding member of Limp Bizkit, dies aged 48"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"ArticlePage-aside\">\n<aside class=\"ArticlePage-aside-content\">\n<div class=\"form-wrapper\" data-align-center=\"false\">\n<div class=\"form-wrapper-heading-container\">\n<h3 class=\"form-wrapper-heading\">Keep up with LAist.<\/h3>\n<p>If you&#8217;re enjoying this article, you&#8217;ll love our daily newsletter, The LA Report. Each weekday, catch up on the 5 most pressing stories to start your morning in 3 minutes or less.  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<ps-form-ajax class=\"Form\" data-ps-form-ajax=\"\">\n<\/ps-form-ajax>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Sam Rivers, bassist for rock band Limp Bizkit, has died. He was 48 years old.\n<\/p>\n<p>Rivers&#8217; death was confirmed by the band, who wrote online on Saturday: &#8220;today we lost our brother&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sam Rivers wasn&#8217;t just our bass player \u2014 he was pure magic. The pulse beneath every song, the calm in the chaos, the soul in the sound,&#8221; Limp Bizkit said in a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DP-BwbbCQdT\/?igsh=czhmZ3FvNmZ1eTl4\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\"><u>social media post<\/u><\/a> Saturday. &#8220;He was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of human. A true legend of legends. And his spirit will live forever in every groove, every stage, every memory.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>The band did not share any details about his death.\n<\/p>\n<p>Rivers&#8217; <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DP7OCOTAaMc\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">last post on social media<\/a> was on Friday, in which he shared a &#8220;Save The Date&#8221; video for Limp Bizkit performing at the Rock for People festival in Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9, a city in the Czech Republic, in June 2026. Rivers and his bandmates last performed in August at the Leeds Festival in the United Kingdom.\n<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Rivers left the band after suffering from liver disease but rejoined the group in 2018.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>&#8220;I got liver disease from excessive drinking \u2026 I had to leave Limp Bizkit in 2015 because I felt so horrible, and a few months after that I realized I had to change everything because I had really bad liver disease,&#8221; Rivers said <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/music\/news\/limp-bizkit-co-founder-bassist-sam-rivers-dead-1236556317\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\"><u>during an interview with <\/u><i><u>Variety<\/u><\/i><\/a>. &#8220;I quit drinking and did everything the doctors told me. I got treatment for the alcohol and got a liver transplant, which was a perfect match.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>The nu-metal band skyrocketed in popularity in the &#8217;90s, being nominated for three Grammys. Their hits, including &#8220;Rollin'&#8221; and &#8220;Nookie,&#8221; also landed on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.\n<\/p>\n<p>Fred Durst, fellow bandmate and frontman for Limp Bizkit, remembered the first time he heard Rivers play at a Jacksonville, Florida bar while searching for bandmates to form the group. Rivers was playing in a band at the bar and Durst said he was &#8220;killing it on the bass.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I saw Sam play and I was blown away,&#8221; Durst recalled in a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DP_mMorDgZz\/?igsh=aHo1bGszMHp6bXJ3\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">video posted on social media Sunday morning<\/a>. &#8220;He&#8217;s playing a five-string bass too. I&#8217;d never really seen someone using a five-string bass\u2026 he was so smooth and good and he stood out. I could hear nothing else but Sam\u2026 everything disappeared besides his gift.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>When he approached Rivers after his performance and told him that he wanted to form a band, Durst said the bassist didn&#8217;t hesitate.\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He looked at me and he says ,&#8217;Killer. I&#8217;m in. Let&#8217;s do it&#8217;,&#8221; Durst recalled. &#8220;I&#8217;ve gone through gallons and gallons of tears since yesterday and\u2026 I&#8217;m thinking, &#8216;My God, Sam&#8217;s a legend\u2026.he did it. He lived it.'&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>Limp Bizkit&#8217;s new single, &#8220;Making Love to Morgan Wallen,&#8221; topped several Billboard charts in September.<br \/>\n<br \/>Copyright 2025 NPR <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '252516806593564',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\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 laist.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep up with LAist. 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