Teresa Taylor, Longtime Drummer for Punk Band Butthole Surfers, Dies at 60
- Teresa Taylor, known as Teresa Nervosa, died peacefully in her sleep at age 60 after struggling with lung disease.
- Taylor was the drummer for the Butthole Surfers from 1983 to 1989 and again in 2009, leaving the band briefly due to health issues including a brain aneurysm.
- Outside of music, Taylor had a memorable cameo in Richard Linklater's 1990 film "Slacker."
- After overcoming her health struggles, Taylor joined a Butthole Surfers bandmate in a group called Rubble.
- Taylor had been clean and sober at the time of her passing, according to her partner Cheryl Curtice.