Death
Jones was a lifelong smoker. He was once said to have gotten through the average workday on coffee and cigarettes. He was never the picture of health and heavy smoking likely contributed to his developing emphysema. His already thin frame deteriorated, to the point where he used an oxygen tank offstage, and onstage he was confined to a seat behind his drum set. He died at the age of 53, and is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California.
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