Dead Drummer !!!!!

[Lizard]

Update :-}

Robert Dorsey, 58, "various bands", cancer ? died Jan. 9th, 2005
Spencer Dryden, 66, "Jefferson Airplane", cancer ? died Jan. 11th, 2005
Mark Evans, 48, "Warrior Soul", strangulation ? died Jan. 26th, 2005
Jim Capaldi, 60, "Traffic", cancer ? died Jan. 28th, 2005
Keith Knudsen, 56, "Doobie Brothers", pneumonia ? died Feb. 8th, 2005
Dick Thyne, 59, "Sandelles", motorcycle accident ? died Feb. 11th, 2005
Chris Curtis, 63, "The Searchers", natural causes ? died Feb. 28th, 2005
Larry Bunker, 76, "various bands", stroke ? died Mar. 8th, 2005
Jakson Spires, 53, "Blackfoot", brain hemorrhage ? died Mar. 16th, 2005
Ken Johnson, 53, "Steve Miller Band & The Chi-Lites", diabetes ? died Mar. 19th, 2005
Russell Hayes-Cook, 52, "The Geritones", heart attack ? died Mar. 24th, 2005
Paul Hester, 46, "Crowded House", suicide ? died Mar. 28th, 2005
Barry Stern, 27, "Zoetrope", complications from surgery ? died Apr. 1st, 2005
Stan Levey, 79, "various bands", cancer ? died Apr. 19th, 2005
Frankie LaRocka, 51, "Bryan Adams", heart surgery complication ? died May 11th, 2005
Basil Kirchin, 77, cancer ? died June 18th, 2005
Michael Dahlquist, 39, "Silkworm", car accident ? died July 14th, 2005

[steve56]

let there be drums.

[spider]

No Ringo Starr or Phil Collins in the list unfortunatly !

[Ace]

They're all from last year Liz, come back with some up-to-date ones that haven't been covered by Steve56 or myself, THEN I'll be impressed

[planeterotica]

Looks like to much banging brings on an early death, well thats it im going celibate !sad!

[Guilbert]

Of course Spinal Tap (the fictional rock band) have gone through a load of drummers.

The Wikipedia site has a "history" of the band, including all the drummers


They are listed as:

John "Stumpy" Pepys (1964-1969) Died in a bizarre gardening accident
Eric "Stumpy Joe" Childs (1969-1974) Choked on vomit (possibly not his own)
Sammy "Stumpy" Bateman (2000) Died in a freak tricycle accident jumping over a pool of sharks.
Peter "James" Bond (1974-1977) Spontaneous combustion
Mick Shrimpton (1977-1982) Onstage explosion
Joe "Mama" Besser (1982) Missing, presumed dead or playing jazz
Richard "Ric" Shrimpton (1982-1999) Allegedly sold his dialysis machine for drugs, presumed dead
Plus 14 other drummers at various times of whom all are dead

[hattertim]

Here's another one...

[Guilbert]

Sandy West was already reported here on 25th October

[hattertim]

Guilbert wrote:

> Sandy West was already reported here on 25th October
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Darn...that'll learn me to check whether stuff's been posted already!

Thought it was relevant to this thread, though...

[Lex Luger]

No Lars Ulrich too, sadly.