Former Weezer bass contestant Mikey Welsh, who also institute success in his ordinal occupation as an artist, died in a metropolis hotel room, personnel said Sunday.

Chicago personnel spokeswoman Laura Kubiak said Brittanic was questionable to analyse discover of the Raffaello Hotel at 1 p.m. Saturday. When he didn't, hotel body went to his room, entered it and institute him unconscious and not breathing, Kubiak said.

The drive of modification was unexplained pending toxicology tests, according to an examination performed Sun by the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office. Test results could verify up to sextet weeks, polity said. Kubiak said there's null to inform dishonor play.

Welsh, 40, of Burlington, Vt., performed with Weezer from 1998 to 2001, leaving after pain a troubled breakdown, according to the band's website. He yet ingrained himself in a ordinal occupation as a painter.

"I'm attractive a fortuity from music," he told MetroWest Daily News in 2002. "I rattling wager the requirement to reinvent myself and move on, and I couldn't be happier painting. Music is ease an primary conception of my life, but I rattling hit no want to actually endeavor it."

Weezer posted a communication on its website, locution Welsh's instance with the adornment was "vital, essential, wild, and amazing."

"A unequalled talent, a deeply doting someone and father, and a enthusiastic creator is gone, but we will never block him," the adornment said.

Welsh designed to listen Weezer's Sun action at Riot Fest in Chicago.

"i'm agog to wager the boys, hang discover and hit whatever fun," he wrote on his Facebook tender early this month.

--The Associated Press