NEW YORK – Jeremiah Green, founding drummer for rock band Modest Mouse, has died just days after the band announced the band’s cancer diagnosis. He was 45.
“Today we lost our dear friend Jeremiah. He has gone to rest and just faded out,” read a statement posted to the band’s social media accounts on Saturday. “Please appreciate all the love you give, receive, have given and will receive. Jeremiah was all about love.”
Green was barely a teenager when he joined the newly formed Modest Mouse, which included vocalist/guitarist Isaac Brock and bassist Eric Judy, among others. Modest Mouse was originally based in Issaquah, a Seattle suburb, and later relocated to Portland. Its name comes from a passage by Virginia Woolf that once described the common man as “modest, mousy people”.
Influenced by Talking Heads and XTC, among others, Modest Mouse debuted the 1996 album This Is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About and amassed a sizeable critical fan base before launching their fourth release Good News for People Who Love Bad News” and the singles “Float On” and “Ocean Breathes Salty”.
Green had a breakdown around the time of Good News for People Who Love Bad News, which was released in 2004, and briefly left the band. He’s been back for more recent albums, including Strangers to Ourselves and The Golden Casket, which were released in 2021.
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