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Brent Mydland (October 21, 1952 – July 26, 1990) was an American keyboardist, songwriter and singer. He was a member of the rock band The Grateful Dead from 1979 to 1990, a longer tenure than any other keyboardist in the band.
Brent Mydland (1952–1990), musician, keyboardist for the Grateful Dead [3] Eric Lynch aka Eric the Actor (1975–2014), actor, member of Howard Stern 's Wack Pack [ 4 ] Leonard Michaels (1933–2003), American writer of short stories, novels, and essays [ 5 ]
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (second from left) as part of the Grateful Dead in 1970.. Along with Garcia and second guitarist Bob Weir, McKernan was a participant in the predecessor groups leading to the formation of the Grateful Dead, beginning with the Zodiacs and Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions. [12]
He awoke five days later but took months to recover. During this time drummer Bill Kreutzmann and keyboardist Brent Mydland formed the band Go Ahead. The two had performed briefly in a band called Kokomo during the summer of 1985. [3] Go Ahead played a number of gigs in December 1986; soon afterwards, the Grateful Dead resumed performing.
Mckernan died in 1973 and the group had various additional members over the years, including keyboardist Brent Mydland. They eventually disbanded in 1995 following Garcia’s death that year at ...
Bags, 45 Grave, The Gun Club: 31–35: June 28, 1990: Heroin overdose [30] Trouble T Roy Hip-hop dancer for Heavy D: 22: ... Brent Mydland The Grateful Dead: 37: July ...
The Grateful Dead: (l-r) Jerry Garcia, Bill Kreutzmann, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Brent Mydland perform on April 5, 1980. / Credit: Getty Images.
Welnick was born in Phoenix, Arizona, the great-grandson of Prussian immigrants. He started playing keyboards as a teenager. He joined a band, the Beans, which eventually morphed into the Tubes, a San Francisco-based theater rock band popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s and noted for early live performances that combined lewd quasi-pornography with wild satires of media, consumerism and ...