# RIP Dallas Taylor, Drummer
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dallas-taylor-drummer/743589
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 19, 2016, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dallas-taylor-drummer/743589 "2016-01-19T17:27:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2016, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dallas-taylor-drummer/743589/1 "2016-01-19T17:27:00Z")
And we lose yet another one this week. Dallas Taylor, best known as the drummer for CSNY during their marquee years passed away on Monday.
While Taylor was well known for his drug issues, he had cleaned up and turned his life around in recent years. Evidently, though, it came too late.
Taylor was 66.
(Apologies if this is a duplicate. I didn’t see another posting)
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### Author:  [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2016, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dallas-taylor-drummer/743589/2 "2016-01-19T17:48:56Z")
> [@stillownedbysetters](#):
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> And we lose yet another one this week. Dallas Taylor, best known as the drummer for CSNY during their marquee years passed away on Monday.
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> While Taylor was well known for his drug issues, he had cleaned up and turned his life around in recent years. Evidently, though, it came too late.
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> Taylor was 66.
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> (Apologies if this is a duplicate. I didn’t see another posting)
You are a year too late. How did you do that? You must be looking at rock and roll deaths on Wiki and got the year wrong?
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### Author:  [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2016, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dallas-taylor-drummer/743589/3 "2016-01-19T18:41:13Z")
Well that will teach me to listen to musician friends who text me at 7 am. lol
He attached a link to an article that worked this morning but now leads nowhere.
Apologies for any confusion.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2016, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dallas-taylor-drummer/743589/4 "2016-01-19T19:35:23Z")
At least **stillownedbysetters** isn’t alone. 🙂
[Crosby, Stills & Nash drummer dies in 2015; Internet finds out just now.](http://www.alternativenation.net/crosby-stills-nash-drummer-dies-in-2015-internet-finds-out-just-now/)
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### Author:  [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2016, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dallas-taylor-drummer/743589/5 "2016-01-20T01:47:56Z")
I’ve had several friends post this on Facebook, so you’re and your friend aren’t alone.
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### Author:  [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2016, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dallas-taylor-drummer/743589/6 "2016-01-20T22:05:34Z")
A month or so ago I was browsing Wikipedia articles about CSNY stuff. I know I read [Greg Reeves page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Reeves) (quite interesting). I sort of remember glancing at [Taylor’s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Taylor_(drummer)) but the fact that he had died didn’t stick.
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### Author:  [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2016, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dallas-taylor-drummer/743589/7 "2016-01-20T22:50:19Z")
> [@Helena330](#):
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> I’ve had several friends post this on Facebook, so you’re and your friend aren’t alone.
Yeah, I think Facebook is fueling lots of old death notice resurrections. I’ve seen Bob Denver die about three different times over there.
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### Author:  [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2016, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dallas-taylor-drummer/743589/8 "2016-01-20T23:04:57Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#):
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> Yeah, I think Facebook is fueling lots of old death notice resurrections. I’ve seen Bob Denver die about three different times over there.
Ravi Shankar’s death has been making the rounds lately for some reason. Often these things pop up on the anniversary of the person’s death, but Shankar died three years and one month ago.
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### Author:  [@Cardboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardboard)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2016, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dallas-taylor-drummer/743589/9 "2016-01-21T01:25:44Z")
I have a cousin in Texas who mends clothes for a living.
He is a Dallas tailor.
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### Author:  [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2016, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-dallas-taylor-drummer/743589/10 "2016-01-21T02:15:53Z")
Maybe not as well-known as Taylor but we’ve just lost _Mott the Hoople’s_ 67-year-old drummer Dale “Buffin” Griffin.
[Cite](http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/dale-buffin-griffin-mott-the-hoople-drummer-dead-at-67-20160118)
The article points out that Griffin died a week to the day after David Bowie, who wrote and produced _Hoople’s_ biggest hit, _All the Young Dudes_.