David Roach, singer and founding member of the late-Eighties hard-rock band Junkyard, died Friday after a battle with cancer. Junkyard formed in Los Angeles in 1987, with Roach as frontman, Chris Gates on guitar, and, for a brief moment, skateboarding pioneer Tony Alva on bass. Roach and the group returned to the studio, with Ramones and Living Colour producer Ed Stasium, to record 1991’s Sixes, Sevens & Nines. Junkyard were a victim of that sea change and Geffen dropped the band, who split up in 1992. “We lost a singer of a true rock & roll band,” he said.