drummer

The death of Petersen, the bestselling group’s original drummer, was announced Monday in a post on the Best of the Bee Gees Facebook page.

In December 1949, he was the drummer with the group that opened the room — the Charlie Parker Quintet, with guest vocalist Harry Belafonte.

Bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry grew up together in Macon, Ga., where they played Southern boogie rock, and moved to Athens to attend college at the University of Georgia.

“He has this smile on his face, and somehow that got there because of music,” Doors drummer John Densmore said when I introduced him to Hideg at Stein on Vine.

“Two drummers and zero gongs is a nice, strong boundary, I think.”