RIP Buddy Miles

Buddy Miles, the drummer in Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys and a hitmaker under his own name with the song "Them Changes," died Tuesday at his home in Austin, Texas. He was 60.

Miles suffered from congestive heart failure, his publicist, Duane Lee, said, according to Reuters. Lee said he did not know the official cause of death.

Buddy Miles, to you youngsters out there, was one of the great drummers out there, most famously as a part of Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys. He was part of the soundtrack of my youth, providing the beat behind many of Hendrix's legendary guitar riffs.

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