Ric Parnell, real drummer in a famous fake band, dies at 70
Ric Parnell, a real drummer best known for playing in a fake band, the one chronicled in Rob Reiner's fabled 1984 mockumentary, "This Is Spinal Tap," died May 1 in Missoula, Montana, where he had lived for some two decades. He was 70.
Source: texarkanagazette.com