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January 3, 2023 9:51 AM

Jeremiah Green, founding member and drummer for Modest Mouse, has died at age 45. Green performed only at the start of the band's 25th anniversary tour of their much-acclaimed album, The Lonesome Crowded West, and left to undergo treatment for cancer.
posted by MisantropicPainforest (43 comments total)

"It takes a long time, but God dies too, but not before he'll stick it to you."

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posted by credulous at 10:02 AM on January 3, 2023 [5 favorites]

Damn, that's horrible.

He's up there wth Jim White as one of my favorite drummers ever. His work on LCW is extraordinary.
posted by dobbs at 10:13 AM on January 3, 2023 [3 favorites]

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posted by pianoblack at 10:18 AM on January 3, 2023

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Oh man, this hits. I had fairly standard listening habits in my early-to-mid teens and then one day when I was seventeen I went into a record store, flipped through the new arrivals rack, picked out The Lonesome Crowded West and Beta Band’s Three EPs, and after checking them out at the listening station walked out with both. A week later I had become the sort of person who listened to that kind of music and only that kind of music, an indie kid, and largely remained that way for the next decade. A lot of bands I listened to a lot in those days have fallen by my musical wayside, but Modest Mouse never did. A while ago I was wondering why that was, and one thing that struck me as different about Modest Mouse was how inventive and surprising the drumming was, and the rhythm section of Green and bassist Eric Judy was among the best in indie rock, and just rock music in general. There are many great drum parts I could link to, but the one I used to play back in the day to show Modest Mouse off to my friends, was when the drums come on on Styrofoam Boots/It’s All Nice on Ice.
posted by Kattullus at 10:20 AM on January 3, 2023 [5 favorites]

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posted by flamk at 10:21 AM on January 3, 2023

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Just shocking to me that LCW was written when they were 20/21 years old.
posted by MisantropicPainforest at 10:22 AM on January 3, 2023 [8 favorites]

So sorry to hear this. May his memory be a blessing.
posted by epj at 10:24 AM on January 3, 2023 [1 favorite]

Fuck this. When I was 15 a new kid in school named Blake introduced all of us to Lonesome Crowded West, and it blew us all away. I've seen them live maybe a half dozen times over the years and he was always tremendous. The drum intro from Trucker's Atlas still plays in my head every time I think of the word "party." A huge talent gone way too soon.
posted by saladin at 10:29 AM on January 3, 2023 [2 favorites]

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posted by hydra77 at 10:37 AM on January 3, 2023 [1 favorite]

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posted by coolxcool=rad at 10:43 AM on January 3, 2023

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posted by dismas at 10:44 AM on January 3, 2023

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posted by adekllny at 10:53 AM on January 3, 2023

Fuck cancer.
posted by humbug at 10:56 AM on January 3, 2023 [3 favorites]

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posted by WalkingAround at 2:42 PM on January 3, 2023

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I saw them at Riotfest and they were fantastic live. Snoop was doing a 25th anniversary tour of Doggystyle, and his performance was delayed due to audio issues. When the time came for Modest Mouse to go on, Snoop was still on stage. The kids who were there to see Modest Mouse started booing really loud, and shook Snoop. He could not believe it!
posted by indianbadger1 at 2:49 PM on January 3, 2023 [1 favorite]

My absolute favorite performance of theirs.
posted by MisantropicPainforest at 3:14 PM on January 3, 2023 [1 favorite]

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posted by DingoMutt at 5:37 PM on January 3, 2023

WHAT THE FUCK oh man. I know Jeremiah locally and this is the first time I've learned about someone's death like this first via MetaFilter or the internet and I just started yelling.

He wasn't the rocks star drummer to me. He was this really nice, shy nerdy dude I used to see out around town at bars and like to talk about synths.

What the fuck!?
posted by loquacious at 5:59 PM on January 3, 2023 [6 favorites]

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posted by WyrdByWord at 6:45 PM on January 3, 2023

Ok, I've talked to some local people and apparently they kept his diagnosis secret until just days before his passing, which makes sense about why I didn't even hear about it, or anyone in our close knit community. His partner had a really cute gift shop in town which closed a few weeks ago and rather suddenly, and this all makes that all make more sense, too.
posted by loquacious at 7:00 PM on January 3, 2023 [3 favorites]

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posted by schyler523 at 5:34 AM on January 4, 2023

What a loss man.

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posted by bxvr at 5:42 AM on January 4, 2023

Oh my, Modest Mouse. Such beautiful, raucous romanticism.

I saw them at Sit & Spin in 1997 or so (1998?). They were awful! Isaac Brock drunk and stumbling, every song loose and sloppy. It was fantastic anyhow: a big splashy mess of rock and roll energy.

Those guys knew how to tap into life-force energy and make it sing, crashing and sweet all at once. My 20-something years were better for it.


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