Former Devo drummer Alan Myers dies after cancer battle

Alan Myers, the long-time drummer for the US new wave band Devo, has died, aged 58, after suffering from cancer.

Myers died on Monday in Los Angeles, the band said.

He was Devo's drummer from 1976 to 1985, when they produced the influential album, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, and released the hit, Whip It.

One of the band's two founders, Gerald Casale, called Alan Myers "the human metronome".

"People watching him thought we were using a drum machine," he told the Associated Press. "Nobody had ever drummed like that."

Myers played on classic Devo tracks such as Mongoloid, Jocko Homo and the band's minimalist version of The Rolling Stones' Satisfaction.

The comments were echoed by Mark Mothersbaugh, Devo's co-founder.

"I think he probably influenced a lot of drummers that are out there now because he was really great at being very precise and minimalist," he told the Reuters news agency.

Myers parted company with Devo after their album, Shout, to pursue jazz and music "off the beaten path", Mothersbaugh said, adding: "We always regretted it when he left."

Source: BBC

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