{"id":161102,"date":"2025-11-30T18:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T18:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/161102\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T18:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T18:37:07","slug":"limp-bizkit-pay-tribute-to-sam-rivers-at-first-show-since-bassists-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/161102\/","title":{"rendered":"Limp Bizkit Pay Tribute to Sam Rivers at First Show Since Bassist&#8217;s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We\u2019re going to honor the life you lived and the love you spread with every show we play. You&#8217;ll always be with us,&#8221; drummer John Otto writes to late bassist ahead of Mexico City show<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/limp-bizkit\/\" id=\"auto-tag_limp-bizkit\" data-tag=\"limp-bizkit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Limp Bizkit<\/a> paid tribute to their late bassist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sam-rivers\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sam-rivers\" data-tag=\"sam-rivers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Rivers<\/a> on Saturday during the band\u2019s first concert since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sam-rivers-limp-bizkit-bassist-dead-1235449987\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rivers\u2019 death<\/a> in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe group, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/limp-bizkits-tour-continue-as-planned-sam-rivers-death-1235452074\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previously pledged to continue their tour<\/a> as planned following Rivers\u2019 death, returned to the stage Saturday in Mexico City to kick off their Latin American tour. During the show, Limp Bizkit screened a tribute video featuring clips of Rivers onstage and backstage with his band mates, who watched along with the audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cSam Rivers, our brother forever,\u201d the video noted at the end. \u201cSam Rivers, we love you forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tRivers died October 18 at the age of 48; no cause of death was provided. For the band\u2019s Mexico City gig, bassist Richie \u201cKid Not\u201d Buxton \u2014 who also plays in the tour\u2019s opening act Ecca Vandal \u2014 filled in on bass, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blabbermouth.net\/news\/watch-limp-bizkit-plays-first-concert-following-bassist-sam-riverss-death\" target=\"_blank\">Blabbermouth reports<\/a>. \u201cNow we\u2019re gonna do this shit Limp Bizkit style. Tonight, this one\u2019s for Sam Rivers,\u201d Fred Durst said as the band launched into \u201cBreak Stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tPrior to the Mexico City show, Limp Bizkit drummer John Otto remembered Rivers on social media, \u201cToday is going to be tough. A first I never wanted to experience. Especially not now. You\u2019ve been there for so many major firsts in my life. Some of my earliest memories were made with you. We grew up together. Laughed together. Realized our dreams together. And traveled the world together. You\u2019ve always been there. The godfather to my girls, my best friend \u2014 my brother. There will never be another you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOtto continued, \u201cWe\u2019re going to honor the life you lived and the love you spread with every show we play. You\u2019ll always be with us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We\u2019re going to honor the life you lived and the love you spread with every show we play.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,17818,57934],"class_list":["post-161102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-limp-bizkit","tag-sam-rivers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}