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Grateful Dead's Welnick Passes
June 5, 2006 at 4:04 PM (PT)
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GRATEFUL DEAD keyboardist VINCE WELNICK passed away in a hospital in FORESTVILLE, CA on FRIDAY (6/2) at the age of 55. Formerly a member of THE TUBES, WELNICK joined THE GRATEFUL DEAD in 1990, replacing BRENT MYDLAND who died of a drug overdose. This makes WELNICK the fourth in a line of keyboardists who have met with untimely demises. Previous to MYDLAND, KEITH GODCHAUX (1980) died in a car crash, and RON "PIGPEN" MCKERNAN (1973) died from a gastrointestinal hemorrhage.

