He was only 48??? Ugh that’s so young.. RIP Dude was a phenomenal bassist and so underrated. What an absolute legend.
I immediately went to Boiler, but yeah…Re-Arranged for sure I just saw them in May too, damn this really sucks
Gonna binge the Bizkit in his honor, starting with Three Dollar Bill, and I don't know that I ever listened to this album in its entirety, because this extended jam on Everything is a fucking trip. Also, ears picked up the shoutout to Grundig on Indigo Flow, the original name of the band Cold. Lovely.
RIP As others mentioned - a phenomenal bass player and was in one of the best nu-metal rhythm sections. Just unreal, fun parts between him and Jon.
Damn, that was a beautiful tribute Fred gave. He’s really come such a long way in his older years of expressing himself and being more vulnerable. Love that. My heart goes out to the guys. You can tell how heartbroken they are over this if you go on their socials and they’re having this career resurgence but now one of the founding members are gone.. it’s just tragic. Time to put on Three Dollar Bill Y’all and listen to Sam absolutely crush it.
So I've continued with Significant Other, and I'm firmly in the camp that it is not as good as Three Dollar Bill for multiple reasons, but the one that's currently haunting me are the lines in Show Me What You Got about Worcester and Pasadena.
Significant Other is both a vital album from the band and era/scene as it is a ridiculously frontloaded album.
my ass memory holed Significant Other and thought the big tracks were on Chocolate Starfish lmao. I felt dumb
Significant Other is the album I've connected with the least (Results May Vary aside, but we don't talk about that one), should fix that Feels weird to imagine Limp Bizkit without Sam. Him and John were always so locked in and he came up with so many iconic basslines over the years. Wonder how far along they were with the new stuff and if we'll get to hear final material with his recordings, if that's not too soon to wonder.
So I moved on to Chocolate Starfish and Rollin is still in my mind the quintessential Bizkit track, even more than Break Stuff or Nookie. Also, that outro, that bit with the laugh is hypnotic in how it's extremely irritating and frying my brain and yet I can't stop listening. Maybe I'm braindead.