(FOX40.COM) — Greg Brown, a founding member of Sacramento rock band Cake, has died after a “brief illness.”
The band announced Brown’s death Saturday on social media. Brown co-founded Cake in 1991 alongside current band members John McCrea and Vince DiFiore, along with other musicians.
Brown, the band’s guitarist at the time, wrote Cake’s most popular song: “The Distance,” off the band’s 1996 album Fashion Nugget…