Modest Mouse drummer Jeremiah Green dead at 45

Jeremiah Green, the drummer and a founding member of the band Modest Mouse, died Saturday, days after he was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. He was 45.

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The band announced Green’s death on its social media accounts on Saturday.

“I don’t know a way to ease into this: Today we lost our dear friend Jeremiah,” Modest Mouse wrote. “He laid down to rest and simply faded out.

“I’d like to say a bunch of pretty words right now, but it just isn’t the time. These will come later, and from many people. Please appreciate all the love you give, get, have given, and will get. Above all, Jeremiah was about love. We love you.”

Modest Mouse just finished a tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of its 1997 album, “The Lonesome Crowded West,” the Los Angeles Times reported.

Modest Mouse was founded in Issaquah, Washington, in 1992, according to the newspaper reported. Green has remained the band’s drummer with the exception of the 2004 album, “Good News for People Who Love Bad News.”

Green joined the band when he was barely in his teens, joining guitarist Isaac Brock and bassist Eric Judy, Rolling Stone reported.

According to The Associated Press, the group’s name was derived from a passage by Virginia Woolf, who once described everyday individuals as “modest mouse-coloured people.”

The band originally rehearsed in a shed, honing their sound and influenced by XTC, Pavement and Pixies, Rolling Stone reported. They moved from the Seattle area to Portland, Oregon.

Their group’s debut album, “This Is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About,” was released in 1996, according to Rolling Stone.

Green’s mother, Carol Namatame, initially revealed the news of his cancer in a Facebook post on Dec. 25, adding that it was at the stage 4 level.

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