Saratoga Springs woman picked to perform onstage with Limp Bizkit at Utah concert
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- This image taken from video shows Sabriah Fausett onstage during a performance with rock group Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024, at Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre.
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- This image taken from video shows Sabriah Fausett onstage during a performance with rock group Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024, at Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre.
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- This image taken from video shows Sabriah Fausett onstage during a performance with rock group Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst on Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024, at Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre.
Aug. 18, 2024, is a date 18-year-old Sabriah Fausett of Saratoga Springs likely will never forget. While attending a recent concert, she got the opportunity many only dream of: to perform with one her favorite bands.
Fausett said she’s been a fan of the alternative rock group Limp Bizkit for as long as she can remember. “My mom played it in the car so often when I was a kid, I started listening to more rock and metal and that type of thing when I was 14, and then I started liking them more and more and more,” Fausett told to the Daily Herald.
Late last year, the band announced their headlining 2024 Loserville Tour with special guests Bones with Eddy Baker & Xavier Wulf, including a stop at Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre (formally known as USANA Amphitheatre) in West Valley City.
During a segment of the show, lead singer Fred Durst threw out a challenge to the crowd to see how well they knew one of the band’s songs off their 2000 album “Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water.”
“They were just playing the riff for the song. And then he was going around the pit (section) and asking people if they knew what song it was,” Fausett recounted.
But she said no one seemed confident in knowing the selection.
Then, the unexpected happened to Fausett, who was at the concert with her boyfriend and actually knew the lyrics of the song. “When he came over to me, the guy in front of me and my boyfriend had a bunch of people pointing at me, and he asked me, and I said, ‘Full Nelson.’ And then he told me to come up onstage,” Fausett explained. “So, I climbed over the barrier, and then two dudes lifted me up. It was crazy.”
A link from a poster on the Saratoga Springs Link community Facebook page shared a video of the experiences.
Durst hands Fausett a microphone and asks, “Are you scared?” Fausett shakes her head no. “Just follow my lead,” he tells her before beginning the chorus.
In the YouTube clip, Fausett is seemingly fearless onstage, backing Durst up with vocals in front of thousands of other fans for over five minutes.
As the song comes to end, the two snap a photo together as she walks off the stage. “She crushed it,” Durst says as the crowd cheers for what she just accomplished.
Fausett described it as a near out-of-body experience. “I didn’t think I was awake, ‘There’s no way that this is happening,'” she recalled.
The 18-year-old said it also was pretty exciting for her parents to hear about, but some of her closest friends aren’t too familiar with the band’s music.
“When I went to work and I was talking to them about it, they thought I posted a picture with my dad,” Fausett said.
Limp Bizkit is just one of a handful of concerts Fausett has attended recently. “I went to Guns N’ Roses last year. I went to Red Hot Chili Peppers in June, and then I have Korn coming up in October,” she said.
She’s not sure if something like that will ever happen again, but for now she’ll cherish the experience of performing live with a world-renowned rock group. “I guess I’m just lucky,” she said.
