Career
He left the music industry in the early 1990s and became a computer programmer. He later played bass in his son"s band The Indestructible Beat of Palo Alto (IBOPA). Stewart died on November 13, 2002, reportedly a result of "a long illness." However, Jamie Stewart has acknowledged that his father"s death was, in fact, a suicide.
The track "Mike" from Xiu Xiu"s album Fabulous Muscles concerns Jamie"s reaction to his father"s death.