DU Deadheads: Sad, sad Welnick Obituary :(

[Taverner]

Vince Welnick lived the dream, playing music with the Grateful Dead, but depression dogged him to his final days

Joel Selvin, Chronicle Senior Pop Music Critic

Friday, June 30, 2006



When Vince Welnick signed on to play keyboards for the Grateful Dead, some people said it probably saved his life. He had five good years with the band, five fat years. But then Jerry Garcia died and the Dead was no more. Welnick spent the next 11 years dreaming that the band would reunite, with him, once again, at the keyboards.

That dream died on the cloudless morning of June 2, when the 55-year-old musician stood on a hillside behind his Forestville home and drew a knife across his throat in front of his wife.


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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/30/DDG12JM4F61.DTL

[SteppingRazor]

1. Funny how Bobby and the rest come out so positively in the story...

they sure as hell don't on vincewelnick.com:

http://vincewelnick.com/index.php?module=pnForum&func=viewtopic&topic=315

[mitchum]

2. Never ever play keyboards for the Grateful Dead

[WritingIsMyReligion]

3. No fucking shit.

How many have they lost now?

:crazy:

[China_cat]

4. All of them

Pigpen, Keith, Brent, Vince

And not one of them from drugs, unless you count Pig's alcoholic liver.