“He was my brother and the greatest drummer I’ve ever seen," wrote Rascals guitarist Gene Cornish. "I am devastated at this moment.I love you brother.”
His percussion virtuosity was a key to the band’s many hits of the late 1960s, including the chart-topping “Good Lovin’,” “Groovin’” and “People Got to Be Free.”
The founding member of the I Ain t Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore band has been announced on social media to have passed away at the age of 78 in New York City.