Green, who had been the band’s drummer, had been diagnosed with cancer ‘a short while ago’
Green, 45, helped found the post-grunge outfit in the early nineties in Washington state but soon they became a fixture of the less abrasive Portland, Oregon, music scene.
Their staple, songs described by Spin magazine in 2000 as being “about being stranded in boom-time America”, made them what it called an “indie torch-bearer”. Green and Brock had originally met on the way to a free meal sponsored by a group of followers of the Hare Krishna movement. The magazine described the band as a rare thing – “a charismatic rock band from the chaste upper north-west indie scene”. The article described the mice, other than Brock, as “quieter than Belle and Sebastian’s doorbell”.As their name suggested, they came from modest beginnings, and had rehearsed their music in a shed.
It wasn’t until 2004’s Good News for People Who Love Bad News that Modest Mouse broke through to the mainstream. Though Green was not on that album, and Modest Mouse went through numerous lineup changes, he had been a consistent member.
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