Funviralpark Jeremiah Green, founding member and drummer of American rock band Modest Mouse, died Saturday after being recently diagnosed with cancer.
“I don’t know how to take this easy. We lost our dear friend Jeremiah today,” Modest Mouse wrote on his Instagram account. “He laid down to rest and just faded out.”
Last week, frontman Isaac Brock admitted that Greene was “diagnosed with cancer some time ago”, but did not give details of his condition. It is said that he canceled the tour because he was undergoing chemotherapy.
Green, 45, helped form a four-piece post-grunge band in Washington state in the early ’90s, but quickly became a fixture of the Portland, Oregon music scene.
Their staple song, described by Spin magazine in 2000 as “about being stuck in boom America,” has earned them what they called “indie torchbearers.” Green and Bullock originally met on the way to a free meal hosted by a group of followers of the Hare Krishna movement.
The magazine described the band as unusual – “a charismatic rock band from the chaste Northwest indie scene”. doing.
“I’d rather hide than be the center of attention,” Greene told the magazine.
As their name suggests, they were from humble origins and used to rehearse music in a hut. In 1996, the band released the song “This Is a Long Drive for someone With Nothing With Think About” and a year later released what is generally considered their finest album, The Lonesome Crowded West. Did.
It wasn’t until 2004’s Good News for People Who Love Bad News that Modest Mouse entered the mainstream. Green wasn’t on that album, and Modest Mouse went through a number of line-up changes, but he was a consistent member.
