 2000, Cub Coda, leader of Brownsville Station who wrote their big hit Smokin' in the Boys' Room, dies in Chelsea, Michigan of complications from kidney disease. He was 51. Though he continued in other bands following the end of Brownsville Station in 1979, Coda gained a large following as a writer for music magazines, especially his long-running column The Vinyl Junkie for Goldmine and Discoveries.