Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst Shares New Video Reflecting On The Late Sam Rivers: “What He is Left Us Behind Is Priceless”

“Sam Rivers, the legend. Actually. Such a gifted, unbelievably candy and great individual. How I met Sam is, I put a few iterations of an thought of a band I used to be making an attempt to make occur in Jacksonville, Florida, I had this concept and imaginative and prescient for this specific sort of fashion and sound, and I simply couldn’t get it collectively proper.

And so I made a decision, ‘I’m gonna exit and discover the suitable gamers to do that and convey this factor collectively.’ And I’d gone into this little tiny bar/pub the place this band was taking part in at Jax Seaside known as Pier 7. And there Sam was on the stage together with his band, killing it on the bass. And I went, ‘Oh my gosh, this man’s superb.’ In my thoughts, you needed to begin with the rhythm part: the bass and the drums.

And I didn’t know who I used to be gonna meet first to place this concept collectively — I didn’t know if it’d be the drummer or the bass participant — but it surely was the bass participant. I noticed Sam play and I used to be blown away. He was taking part in a five-string bass too, I’d by no means actually seen somebody utilizing a five-string bass. And he was so easy and good and he stood out, and I might hear nothing else however Sam. Every thing disappeared in addition to his reward. And I went as much as Sam after the present and I mentioned, ‘Hey, man, you’re unbelievable. I acquired this concept for this band I wanna do’, and type of threw it on the market and instructed him what I wished it to be. And he checked out me and he says, ‘Killer. I’m in. Let’s do it.’ I used to be, like, ‘Oh my God. Effectively, let’s do it.’ And uh, you understand, that’s type of how issues began to come back collectively. I had a bass participant.

After me and Sam had been jamming round and messing round for a bit, I began trying round for different gamers and issues, and Sam mentioned, ‘Effectively, my cousin John‘s a killer drummer. He’s a jazz drummer, and he ought to jam with us.’ And I mentioned, ‘Effectively, jazz can be nice as a result of it’ll give us that type of beat we would like, that type of swag.’ And so I met Sam — sorry, I met John — via Sam and noticed that John had the factor — he had it.

So me, John and Sam are jamming in Sam‘s storage. I’m taking part in the guitar on the time and type of rapping and singing, and I can’t actually play guitar properly, so it’s tuned to Drop D and I’m one-finger noodling it and Sam‘s filling it in and holding it up, ’trigger clearly I couldn’t. And John and Sam, it was a magical factor, the 2 of them. And I felt like, ‘That is it. That is it. That is what I’ve been in search of.’

And Sam had this factor about him the place something I might spit out of my mouth — ‘do that’, ‘do that’, ‘do that’ or ‘this’ — Sam might do it, and do it a thousand instances higher than I might hear it in my head. And in addition Sam and I shared an affinity, a love for grunge music. That’s one thing that we have been each actually on the identical web page about. Sam actually liked Mom Love Bone and Alice In Chains and Stone Temple Pilots and that entire Seattle grunge motion. And he had this sort of capacity to drag this lovely unhappiness out of the bass that I’d by no means heard. I imply, he would play chords. He was simply so gifted. I can’t clarify it. I do know I’m far and wide right here. I’m simply…

Simply excited about him, it’s so tragic that he’s not right here proper now. And I’ve gone via gallons and gallons of tears since yesterday, and I’m considering, ‘My god, Sam‘s a legend.’ He did it. He lived it.

With Limp Bizkit, we’ve simply been on such a journey. It’s been an enormous rollercoaster. Right here we’re simply having this unimaginable second, man, and it’s going so, so fantastically easy. And Sam was simply actually, actually glad about it. We’ve rocked stadiums collectively, been around the globe collectively, shared so many moments collectively. And I do know that wherever Sam is correct now, he’s smiling and feeling, like, ‘Man, I did it. I did it.’ And man, did he do it.

What he’s left us behind is priceless. He was such a particular individual. And Sam was a really non-public individual too. So the few those who have been in a position to be shut with him and round him know what I’m saying to be true. He was a really, very particular, real individual. And when he acquired on that stage, simply that Sam-I-am, that Sam Rivers got here out and he was a beast. Simply a tremendous, superb individual. And after I assume again to how I met him and the way all this sort of got here collectively, Sam was the primary man, the primary man that basically got here in and helped make this dream come true.

And he didn’t assume twice about it. He was simply, like, ‘Yeah, let’s go. Sounds nice to me. Let’s do it.’ And I used to be 25-years-old and he was 18-years-old and younger and simply had all that fireplace in him and all that expertise. And I simply knew that I used to be very, very, very lucky, very lucky to have him in my life. And I’m so grateful, so extremely grateful to have shared a part of this journey with Sam Rivers — an enormous a part of this journey, an enormous a part of my journey.

I’m tremendous, tremendous grateful and I miss him terribly already. And all of the help and love on the market I’ve seen on-line, it’s overwhelming. He actually did have an effect on the world, and his music and his reward is the one which’s gonna carry on giving. And I simply love him a lot.”