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Wavy Gravy on Turning 80: 'In 20 years, I’ll be 100'

Edit Rollingstone 10 May 2016
Wavy Gravy will forever be associated with Woodstock, but from the moment you start talking with the clown prince of the counterculture, the former Hugh Romney makes it clear he isn't a relic from the '60s. "Did you like my haiku?" he asks, referring to one he's just penned in honor of Prince. "A sexy God weeps/Soft wet tears fall on St. Paul/A purple rainbow." "I enjoyed Prince," Wavy says ... I believe I was under Keith [Godchaux] ... ....

'Be Malleable, Pay Attention and Listen'

Edit Billboard 30 Dec 2015
Billboard. What was your Grateful Dead experience prior to joining Ratdog in 1997?. Chimenti ... You are now the longest tenured keyboard player in the history of the Grateful Dead family [original keyboardist Ron "Pigpen" McKernan died in 1973 two years shy of 30; Keith Godchaux was killed in a car accident in 1980; and Brent Mydland died of a drug overdose in 1990]. Does sitting in the hot seat make you nervous?....

Grateful Dead's Phil Lesh diagnosed with non-aggressive bladder cancer

Edit The Examiner 19 Oct 2015
"I am very fortunate to have the pathology reports show that the tumors are all non-aggressive, and that there is no indication that they have spread," Lesh said in the statement ... The other official members of the band are Tom Constanten (keyboards 1968–1970), Keith Godchaux (keyboards 1971–1979), Donna Godchaux (vocals 1972–1979), Brent Mydland (keyboards, vocals 1979–1990), and Vince Welnick (keyboards, vocals 1990–1995) ... ....

Grateful Dead's farewell: A bad trip or will music save the day?

Edit Lexington Herald-Leader 29 Jun 2015
No matter if you feel love, hate or indifference toward them, the Grateful Dead mattered. They were indisputably one of the most important and influential bands in rock history, in part because they defied convention at almost every turn ... Even though the band's farewell shows are still a few days away, some of the reviews are already in, and they've been brutal ... Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Keith Godchaux and Brent Mydland ... ....

DRUMMER’S BOOK LOOKS BACK AT THE DAYS OF THE DEAD

Edit U~T San Diego 21 Jun 2015
inline-left " >. “Deal. My Three Decades of Drumming, Dreams, and Drugs With the Grateful Dead”. Bill Kreutzmann with Benjy Eisen. St. Martin’s Press; 416 pages; $27.99. Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann doesn’t mince words ... In other chapters of “Deal ... And he implies that more than one of the Dead’s members slept with singer Donna Godchaux while she and her husband, keyboardist Keith Godchaux, were both in the band ... Q ... A ... Q ... A. Oh, man ... Q ... A ... Q....

The Grateful Dead's Legacy 50 Years and Counting

Edit Huffington Post 19 Jun 2015
The Grateful Dead performing in Pittsburgh by Robbi Cohn, courtesy of Da Capo Press ... from the Dead running their own independent record company during the '70s to employing the latest audio technology onstage ... You hear many stories of the road crew and the whole survival-of-the-fittest atmosphere that really got the best of people like [late keyboardists] Keith Godchaux and Brent Mydland, who had tried to keep up with that in a way ... ....

Grateful Dead's Bill Kreutzmann drums up his autobiography

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 11 May 2015
IT'S OFTEN said that those who claim to remember the 1960s weren't there. Well, Bill Kreutzmann was there, and he does remember them - or at least some parts thereof. Others, he admitted during a recent phone call, needed some fact-checking during the writing of Deal ... Martin's Press ... ... He was the first of three Dead keyboardists to pass away while in the band; the others were Keith Godchaux and Brent Mydland ... "I love to play music ... ... Blog....

David Browne's 'So Many Roads' recounts Grateful Dead successes, travails

Edit Lexington Herald-Leader 29 Apr 2015
"So Many Roads. The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead" by David Browne; Da Capo Press (496 pages, $30) ... David Browne's "So Many Roads ... Browne's an unabashed fan of the band's music, but he's also unafraid to point out weak spots and bad behavior ... Browne dismisses the notion that Dead's keyboard chair was cursed, but four men who held it - McKernan, Keith Godchaux, Brent Mydland and Vince Welnick - died young and troubled ... ....

Trey Anastasio on Dead Reunion Shows: 'I Don't Want to Just Copy Jerry'

Edit Rollingstone 17 Feb 2015
"I learned so much from seeing those guys – about the feel, the vernacular of the songs. But I never really sat and studied what Jerry actually played, until now." Sidebar. Inside the Grateful Dead's Final Ride » ... Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Keith Godchaux, Brent Mydland and Vince Welnick ... But Anastasio expects to come away from the experience, back to Phish, his Trey Anastasio Band and other projects, enriched and challenged....

Grateful Dead reuniting for 50th-anniversary shows

Edit CNN 16 Jan 2015
(CNN)The Grateful Dead is planning on making one final splash -- or should that be "Ripple"? ... Guitarist Jerry Garcia died in 1995. The band has also lost other members, including Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, a singer, organist and harmonica player who died in 1973, and keyboardist Keith Godchaux, who died in 1980 ... 1 of 6 ... John Entwistle, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey and Keith Moon -- are shown on the San Francisco stop of their first U.S ... ....

Grateful Dead: From the Archives '74, '76, & '79

Edit All About Jazz 26 Apr 2014
The sound quality emanating from the 'Wall of Sound,' here in its third instance of usage, puts the listener right in the midst of the band (a sextet with single drummer Bill Kreutzmann) within a stereo spectrum marked by bassist Phil Lesh on one side and keyboardist Keith Godchaux on the other ... bass guitar, vocals; Keith Godchaux ... drums; Donna Jean Godchaux ... bass guitar, vocals; Keith Godchaux ... bass guitar, vocals; Keith Godchaux....

Phil Lesh's Long Strange Trip to Brooklyn

Edit Rollingstone 16 Apr 2014
Phil Lesh opened his April 15th concert at the Brooklyn Academy of Music – the second of two shows there – with a romp through memoir, rendered in the present tense, facing forward ... And Lesh is not done looking ... Great Escapes ... Over a long, jamming resolution into the Traffic song, Medeski played free, seething raptures at the piano, closer to Cecil Taylor than Keith Godchaux, then swung into a roadhouse stomp in the chorus ... ....

Fight Sound With Sound: Grateful Dead's Arena Combat

Edit National Public Radio 31 Mar 2014
The same week that Neil Young introduced his Pono music player designed to spark a huge boost in audio fidelity, I listened for the first time to a recording of a Grateful Dead concert I attended almost 40 years ago ... Today, the lo-fi medium is MP3s through earbuds ... Just as surprising, keyboardist Keith Godchaux and his wife, singer Donna, are at their most precise and restrained; their ability to enrich the band's sound is evident ... ....
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