Died On This Date (July 24, 1972) Bobby Ramirez / Drummer For Edgar Winter

Bobby Ramirez
1949 – July 24, 1972

Bobby Ramirez was the drummer who worked with Rick Derringer, LaCroix and Edgar Winter’s White Trash.  It was while on tour with Winter in 1972, that the band were in Chicago on a tour with Uriah Heap that Ramirez found himself assaulted after an altercation in the mens room of the Rosemont Hall.  He died of head injuries after being kicked with steel-tipped shoes.