“Anything I could spit out of my mouth - ‘Try this! Do this!’ – Sam could do it and do it a thousand times better than I could hear it in my head”: Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst hails the "magical" powers of late bassist Sam Rivers

Sam Rivers.

Limp Bizkit bassist Sam Rivers was hugely instrumental in helping singer Fred Durst create the band and lead it to multiplatinum success.

Following the announcement of Rivers’ death aged 48 on 18 October, Durst paid tribute to his bandmate in an emotional eight-minute-long video posted on Instagram.