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Last fall, Vince Welnick joined The Grateful Dead as its regular keyboardist after Brent Mydland, who had been with the band for 10 years, died of a heroin overdose. At the time, he was faced with the daunting task of learning over 100 songs before The Dead's annual fall tour...
Despite the band's enormous playlist, the complexity of its signature improvisational jams and the fact that Deadheads are some of the most attentive fans in popular music, Welnick says he was not frightened at the job that lay before...
...departure from what I had been doing previously, which was accompanying Todd Rungren on several albums and tours--but it was not frightening," Welnick says. "Everyone in the band stressed that we were all in this for the the fun of it, for the pleasure of playing...
Best known for his keyboarding in the now-defunct band The Tubes, Welnick is starting to get adjusted to his new role working on the world's top-grossing concert attraction...