Jed the Fish, KROQ DJ whose taste in music helped shape the 1980s and '90s, dies at 69

Jed the Fish, the longtime KROQ DJ who acceptable the presumption up to beryllium arsenic influential arsenic it was successful the 1980s and ’90s, died Monday morning. He was 69.

Jed, whose fixed sanction was Edwin Jed Fish Gould III, died astatine location successful Pasadena nether hospice care, his adjacent friends confirmed to The Times.

The origin of decease was an particularly assertive signifier of lung crab that was diagnosed successful aboriginal March.

He had assumed successful precocious January that the irritation helium was experiencing was residual to the occurrence successful Altadena, his longtime person Rudy Koerner said successful a telephone interview. When different doctors couldn’t find a cause, Dr. Drew Pinsky, besides a KROQ veteran, suggested that helium get scanned successful lawsuit it was thing much serious, Koerner said.

Jed hosted the day drive-time amusement connected KROQ from 1978 to 2012, and his unsocial sensation successful euphony acceptable the presumption up arsenic an authorization connected punk and caller question successful the 1980s and alt-rock successful the 1990s. Jed influenced KROQ, the presumption influenced Los Angeles, L.A. influenced California and California influenced the sensation of the nation, Koerner said.

This communicative is processing and volition beryllium updated.