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  1. wax

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    1973 - Ron "Pigpen" McKernan - gastrointestinal hemorrhage
    1980 - Keith Godchaux - car accident
    1990 - Brent Mydland - drug overdose
    2006 - Vince Welnick - suicide

    And you thought Spinal Tap went through drummers!
    1969 - John "Stumpy" Pepys - bizarre gardening accident
    1972 - Viv Savage (band keyboardist, but, unknown to band until after death, was also a drummer) - swamp gas explosion
    1974 - Eric "Stumpy Joe" Childs - choked to death on someone else’s vomit
    1977 - Peter "James" Bond - spontaneously combusted
    1982 - Mick Shrimpton - mysterious on-stage explosion
    1982 - Joe "Mama" Besser - disappeared with equipment - either returned to jazz or died
    2000 - Richard (Ric) Shrimpton - disappeared, presumed dead
    Frames: http://spinaltapfan.com/atozed/
    "Broke" the frame: http://spinaltapfan.com/atozed/TAP00152.HTM

    Ric was the 13th drummer - any idea who the other 6 were?
     

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