Jeremiah Inexperienced, the drummer for Grammy Award-winning rock band Modest Mouse, has most cancers.
The 45-year-old’s mom Carol Namatame confirmed as a lot in a Fb put up on Christmas Day. She requested followers to “ship therapeutic vibes for my son” who’s “battling stage 4 most cancers” and lauded him for “hanging in there.” It stays unclear what sort of most cancers Inexperienced has.
Modest Mouse concluded the twenty fifth anniversary tour of their second album, “The Lonesome Crowded West,” on Dec. 20, in keeping with Individuals. Footage on-line confirmed Inexperienced taking part as their founding drummer as lately as Dec. 1 throughout a Los Angeles tour date.
Whereas the band is ready to tour South America subsequent yr with dates in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Brazil in March and Mexico in April, Marco Collins — a Seattle radio persona for KEXP and a pal of Inexperienced’s — confirmed on Fb that Inexperienced received’t be there.
“Simply discovered my pal Jeremiah Inexperienced (Modest Mouse) has pulled off the band’s tour as a result of he’s at present present process chemo remedies to battle Stage 4 Most cancers,” Collins wrote on Monday. “Regardless of having a stage 4 prognosis, his prognosis is nice!”
Collins added that Inexperienced’s oncologist was an enormous fan of the band, “so he’s bought that in his nook!” The band confirmed the information on to followers on Instagram.
Inexperienced helped kind Modest Mouse with frontman Isaac Brock in Seattle in 1992. He’s appeared on each album except for “Good Information for Individuals Who Love Dangerous Information” in 2004, as he took an in depth hiatus from the group — after having a nervous breakdown.
“I went on antidepressants, and I bought all manic and bizarre,” Inexperienced instructed Excessive Occasions in 2018. “I simply blew up someday. I used to be appearing hella bizarre. I ended up within the hospital for six hours and realized fairly fast I didn’t need to be there.”
Inexperienced instructed the outlet that it took him “a very long time” to succeed in out to his bandmates after that, “as a result of I used to be embarrassed.” He mentioned when he “bought again to regular,” he believed he had “ruined” his life and “sat round depressed for like a yr” earlier than his colleagues invited him again.
Whereas Brock instructed NMW final yr that Modest Mouse was engaged on a follow-up to their 2021 launch “The Golden Casket,” it at present seems unlikely that Inexperienced will contribute to the yet-untitled challenge. As evident by rabid posts on social media, his followers definitely hope so.