Jeremiah Green, drummer for Grammy Award-winning rock band Modest Mouse, has cancer.
The 45-year-old’s mother, Carol Namatame, confirmed this in a Facebook post on Christmas Day. She asked fans to “send healing vibes for my son” who is “battling stage 4 cancer” and praised him for “hanging in there.” It is unclear what type of cancer Green has.
Modest Mouse wrapped up the 25-year anniversary tour of their second album, “The Lonesome Crowded West,” on Dec. 20, according to People. Online footage showed Green participating as a founding drummer as early as December 1 during a tour in Los Angeles.
While the band is set to tour South America next year, with dates in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Brazil in March and Mexico in April, Marco Collins — Seattle radio personality for KEXP and friend of Green — confirmed on Facebook that Green will do it. win” should not be there.
“Just found out that my friend Jeremiah Green (Modest Mouse) has pulled out of the band’s tour as he is currently undergoing chemotherapy for stage 4 cancer,” Collins wrote Monday. “Despite having a stage 4 diagnosis, his prognosis is good!”
Collins added that Green’s oncologist was a big fan of the band, “so he’s got him in his corner!” The band confirmed the news directly to fans on Instagram.
Green helped form Modest Mouse with frontman Isaac Brock in Seattle in 1992. He appeared on every album except 2004’s Good News for People Who Love Bad News while taking an extended hiatus from the group – after suffering a nervous breakdown.
“I went on anti-depressants and became manic and weird,” Green told High Times in 2018. “One day I blew up. I was acting strange. I ended up in the hospital for six hours and I realized pretty quickly that I didn’t want to be there.”
Green told the station that it took him “a long time” to get in touch with his bandmates afterwards, “because I was embarrassed”. He said that when he “got back to normal” he thought he had “ruined” his life and “was depressed for about a year” before his colleagues coaxed him back.
While Brock told NMW last year that Modest Mouse were working on a follow-up to their 2021 release “The Golden Casket,” it currently seems unlikely that Green will contribute to the as-yet-untitled project. As can be seen from her rabid social media posts, her fans certainly hope so.
