The Larimer County Coroner’s office still isn’t sure or isn’t saying why Tickle Me Pink bass player and song writer Johnny Schou is dead at 22.
A spokesman for the coroner’s office could not be reached this evening. An autopsy on Tuesday was inconclusive in determining a cause of death. Earlier today Diane Fairman,Larimer County’s chief deputy coroner, told the Associated Press that results of toxicology and other tests would take weeks.
A founding member of the up-and-coming band was found dead in a home the indie rockers share in Fort Collins Tuesday morning.
Schou formed Tickle Me Pink in 2005 with lead singer Sean Kennedy, drummer Stefan Runstrom and guitarist and singer Steven Beck.
The band has played hundreds of dates across the country, releasing two previous albums — 2005’s “If Only We Were Twenty One” and “Half Seas Over” in 2006 — before the release this week of “Madeline,” which the band describes as “a cautionary tale of substance abuse.”
Schou attended Colorado State in 2005 and 2006, after graduating from Fort Collins High in 2005.
He worked as an engineer at the Blasting Room Studios, a music recording studio, in Fort Collins, where he had worked since he was 17, according to the band’s biography.
“I have a no bulls–t approach to life,” Schou says in the band’s webpage.
Joey Bunch: 303-954-1174 or jbunch@denverpost.com
