Limp Bizkit honoured late bassist Sam Rivers at their first live performance since his loss of life on Saturday (29.11.25).
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The nu steel star sadly died on October 18, on the age of 48, after struggling cardiac arrest. And, because the Break Stuff rockers returned to the stage at Mexico Metropolis’s Estadio Fray Nano, they performed a transferring tribute video to their bandmate.
The phrases “Sam Rivers, our brother without end” and “Sam Rivers, we love you without end” popped up.
Earlier than the live performance, drummer John Otto admitted he was dreading the primary present with out Rivers.
He mentioned in a press release on Instagram: “At the moment goes to be powerful. A primary I by no means wished to expertise. Particularly not now. You’ve been there for thus many main firsts in my life. A few of my earliest reminiscences have been made with you. We grew up collectively. Laughed collectively. Realized our desires collectively. And traveled the world collectively.”
The band confirmed his passing in a press release posted to Instagram, calling him “our brother, our bandmate, our heartbeat.”
Frontman Fred Durst paid a touching tribute to his beloved bandmate following the devastating information, admitting he’d “been by means of gallons and gallons of tears”.
He concluded that the “overwhelming help and love” from followers world wide exhibits the “affect” he had.
He added: “I used to be very, very lucky to have him in my life, and I’m so extremely grateful to have shared a part of this journey with Sam Rivers, an enormous a part of my journey. I’m tremendous, tremendous grateful and I miss him terribly already. All of the help and love I’ve seen on the market on-line is overwhelming, he actually did have an effect on the world. His music and his present is the one which’s going to maintain on giving. I simply love him a lot.”
The award-winning musician left Limp Bizkit for some years in 2015, on account of liver illness from “extreme ingesting”.
He informed creator Jon Wiederhorn for the e-book Elevating Hell: “I give up ingesting and did every thing the medical doctors informed me.
“I received remedy for the alcohol and received a liver transplant, which was an ideal match.”
