This was unexpected... Drive Like Jehu had an enormous inpact on me as a teen.
Sad day.

RIP Rick

Damn. DLJ was also that band for me, one of those bands that changed the way I looked at punk music. Such expressive vocals and expansive songwriting. Hot Snakes was rad too!

RIP Rick.

Absolutely devastating news. RIP to one of the greats

Now that's worth shedding a tear. Several big acts of my childhood right there.

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Holy shit one of my favourite vocalists and songwriters, wtf happened

Whoa, no way! RIP

Awful news, RIP

Oh my God nooooo, 55 is so young! RIP legend

Such a talented guy, the whole Hot Snakes discog is crazy overlooked. Really looking forward to that new album.

Yeah I prefer the snakes to Jehu actually, although it's all stellar

F K

RIP Champ

RIP, I'm gonna need to jam some Drive Like Jehu in his honor.

Oh shit, this is a heavy RIP. Legend

Rest easy king. I'll jam Yank Crime for the rest of my days.

this fucking sucks

55 years old.
Natural causes.

oh no :[ rip

Terrible news, 55 too young. RIP

This fucking sucks bad. Yank crime is one of my favorite albums ever. I was just in san diego last week and all I was playing in the car was jehu and hot snakes. Fucking bummer. Dude was also an incredible artist. If anyone is curious, it was an undiagnosed heart condition. RIP.

https://youtu.be/Wp7cvOETZFw got a bunch of covers up of the Snakes. Froberg and Reis really wrote some god-tier riffs/songs, I hope they finish and release that last record in tribute to Rick.

"55 years old.
Natural causes."
Sure seems like another case of "suddenly died too young of natural causes", a lot of that going around

Fucking hard rip hot snakes was an amazing band

damn this, RIP, Drive Like Jehu were legend!

Died suddenly.
55 years old.
Natural causes.

hah, nope.
hrd rip

Or just ignore my post about it being an undiagnosed heart condition. I follow him on instagram and his wife/girlfriend idk was posting on his behalf.

Froberg and Reis were the ultimate duo. Guitar legends.

speculating on the factuality of how someone died right after they died is fucking gross and disrespectful, it's really none of our business how he passed

RIP to one of the greats and one of the dudes who made me pick up a guitar in the first place, this hurts

Heart conditions happen and it’s easy to go through life not getting regular check ups. Doesn’t mean there’s a conspiracy or anything

no way. RIP Rick.

Biggest RIP in a long time for me.

Natural causes at 55 if you have some sort of defibrillating chronic disease. Otherwise it could have been an aneurysm or SADS. People randomly die at 18…

sucks. legendary guy. also feel sad for John Reis, they made history together and we’re practically inseparable from the start. RIP

Lot of "died suddenly" in the last few years, particularly with people that shouldn't be dying of natural causes at their age. Wish more people would admit what they know to be the truth.

lmao

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Oh boy, another one of those morons! Anyway, sadly never listened to any of those groups although I intend to listen to Drive Like Jehu. Sad to hear of his passing, that's definitely younger still. R.I.P.