Wednesday, June 26, 2013

ITP V.013 ONLY ONE PER COFFIN: ALAN MYERS (DEVO-DRUMMER)

ALAN MYERS, longtime drummer of nu wave rock legends DEVO has expired of  brain cancer.
MYERS "metronome" and drumming time signatures inspired what we know as "break beats" in electronic music as DEVO's 1976 Brian Eno produced debut "We are Not Men, We are Devo" is considered a ground breaking, genre classic.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-long-time-devo-drummer-alan-myers-has-died-20130626,0,238028.story

FROM DEVO:
DEVO mourns the passing of Alan Myers, who we liked to call "The Human Metronome". R.I.P.

FROM CAUSTIC:
R.I.P. Alan Myers of DEVO

Dammit.


FROM JOHN FREESE (CURRENT DEVO DRUMMER):
RIP Alan Myers. 1 of my all time favs. An underrated/brilliant drummer. Such an honor playing his parts w/Devo. Godspeed Human Metronome."

Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-