Co-founding the 1990s stoner metal band Kyuss, drummer Brant Bjork revealed the early influences he dubbed "low desert punk" that shaped their heady hard rock.
“I grew up in Connecticut and my mom was a hippie and we listened to a lot of ... We had a schism because I liked a lot of punk rock and he hated that – but we both agreed on Steve Howe ...
The John Marchant Gallery described him as an "artist, iconoclast, anarchist, punk, hippie, rebel and romantic", adding: "Jamie leaves behind a beloved daughter Rowan, a granddaughter Rose ...