Limp Bizkit’s tour plans will remain on schedule despite the death of founding bassist Sam Rivers, organizers hosting one of the band’s upcoming shows informed fans this week.
The group is scheduled to return to the stage on Nov. 29 at Mexico City’s Explanada Estadio Aztec as part of its Papa Gringo Tour. On Monday, organizers MusicVibe posted a statement on Instagram telling concertgoers, “In such a significant moment for the band and its fans, Limp Bizkit has decided to continue with its performance on November 29th.”
“That night, every riff and every scream of the crowd will resonate in honor of the great legacy Sam offered to Nu-Metal, because his energy will never cease,” the organizers continued.
Limp Bizkit’s Papa Gringo Tour will then continue southward into South America through December with shows lined up in Colombia, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil.
Rivers, Limp Bizkit’s founding bassist and the “pulse beneath every song,” as the band said in a statement, died Saturday. While the cause of death was not immediately revealed, more details have emerged in recent days, including a report that emergency services in St. Johns County, Florida, responded to a “nonresponsive person in cardiac arrest” call, TMZ reported.
Additionally, authorities said they “responded to an attended death at that address,” suggesting that Rivers was under the care of a medical staff at the time; following Rivers’ death, Limp Bizkit’s DJ Lethal shared a photo of the bassist on tour wearing a “Fuck Cancer” shirt, along with the hashtag #FuckCancer. An official cause of death has not yet been released.
“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,” Limp Bizkit wrote on social media this weekend. “We love you, Sam. We’ll carry you with us, always. Rest easy, brother. Your music never ends.”
“With Limp Bizkit, we’ve been on such a journey, it’s been a massive roller coaster, and here we are just having this incredible moment, man, and it’s going so, so beautifully smooth. And Sam was just really happy about it,” Fred Durst wrote in a separate statement. “Rocked stadiums together, been around the world together, shared so many moments together. And I know that, wherever Sam is right 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.”
