A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
David Gans VINCE WELNICK SUCCUMBS TO THE CURSE OF THE KEYBOARDS The Dreadful Great, among our other bad habits, had a reliable propensity for killing off keyboard players. It was a kind of ritual sacrifice, I suppose, but the really terrible aspect of these departures was the bottomless sorrow that drove out of the physical world Ron … Read more
I’ll be posting more as I continue to gather material for the June 14 tribute. Vince Welnick & David Gans 3/17/99 live in the KPFA Performance Studio What’s Your Name? Emperor’s Suit A Day in the Life Cosmic Charlie
Basically, we’re screwed. The Congress was supposed to save us from the executive branch, and the Supreme Court was supposed to save us from both, and now all three are playing some game that does not involve protecting citizens, spending money wisely or making sense.
I learned more about harmony from Vince playing his music than I ever learned anywhere else. But through it all, he was possessed of a nervous, lonely energy that always seemed to be on the verge of teetering out of control.
This is my reply to an email on the GD Hour mailing list. The guy I was replying to is Lenny Stubbe, but as I say in the message, I’m not singling him out in my argument. The boys sang about a lot of shit for a LONG time. Smiling, being kind, treating your brothers … Read more
Posted by The Rolling Rider on philzone.com: 2/21/51 – 6/2/2006 Our Brother Vince Welnick “Every song I’d learn was like opening a new Christmas present. I’d go home and listen to tapes and sometimes I’d be so elated that I’d have tears running down my face”. -Vince Welnick on learning the Dead’s repertoire Elie Wiesel, … Read more
“I just thought it was really strange that the keyboard tech would have more say over the sound than the actual player.”
I took this photo on August 12, 1984, when I was working for Mix magazine. Vince and other members of The Tubes were playing on a Todd Rundgren album.
Week of June 5, 2006 Part 1 29:01 Grateful Dead 10/28/85 Fox Theater, Atlanta TERRAPIN-> DRUMS Part 2 27:19 Grateful Dead 4/17/69 (Download vol. 12) DARK STAR Bobby “Blue” Bland, from The Music Never Stopped: Roots of the Grateful Dead TURN ON YOUR LOVELIGHT Support for the Grateful Dead Hour comes this week from: The … Read more
SFGate has an AP story on Vince, with some nice quotes from Mickey Hart: “The big thing about Vince was that he had that fearlessness to be able to go and just jump into our madness and just operate on it like it was a normal, everyday procedure,” Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart recalled Saturday. … Read more