Philadelphia, March 11 -- Dave Blood, bassist for the Philadelphia rock band the Dead Milkmen, reportedly committed suicide, Billboard.com reported Thursday. Blood's sister, Kathy, informed fans of her brother's Wednesday death on the band's official Web site Thursday, Billboard said. Milkmen drummer Dean Clean confirmed the news in another post to the site. "This morning Dave Blood is no longer with us," his sister wrote. "Since the breakup of the band David has never really found his niche in life." "I'll miss Dave as a friend and a bandmate," Clean wrote. "He helped make lots of folks here very happy with the music we all made together." The Dead Milkmen formed in 1983 and gained popularity in the college radio circuit with their 1985 debut album, "Big Lizard in My Backyard." The album included the cult-classic "Bitchin' Camaro." The band's "Punk Rock Girl" in 1988 became a regular showing on MTV. The band dissolved in 1995. Blood had stopped playing bass in recent years due to extreme tendonitis in his hands. He enrolled in the mid-'90s at Indiana University, studying Yugoslavian culture, and traveled to the county to spend time there from August 1998 until April 1999.
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