Robert Broderick James McIntosh (6 May 1950 – 23 September 1974) was a Scottish drummer from Dundee who was a founder-member of the Average White Band (AWB).
While working with the AWB, he also recorded two tracks that appear on the Herbie Mann album London Underground (1973).
McIntosh died of an accidental heroin overdose[1] at a party following a concert at the Troubadour in Los Angeles.
According to a contemporary report in Time,[2] McIntosh and fellow band member Alan Gorrie took what they thought was cocaine, but was in fact heroin laced with morphine.
The party host, 30-year-old millionaire Kenneth Moss, was subsequently indicted for murder by a grand jury.