| Author | Message | ||
| tom_z
Senior Member Username: tom_z Post Number: 403 Registered: 7-2004 |
Grateful Dead keyboard player, Vince Welnick, passed away today, June 2. May the four winds blow you safely home.  | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 1346 Registered: 7-2004 |
Vince was a really down-to-earth nice guy. I had the pleasure of meeting him a few times and even got to jam with him. He covered a wide range of music - many forget that before the Dead he did some great stuff with the Tubes. I'll be singing one for him this afternoon at a party in the coastal mountians my band is playing. "like a steam locomotive, rolling down the track. He's gone. He's gone, and nothing's gonna bring him back. He's gone" Farewell Vince. Bill, tgo | ||
| pace
Advanced Member Username: pace Post Number: 235 Registered: 4-2004 |
 What a shame..... He played down the road from me a couple of time last year, using Gent Treadly as his backup band.... The shows were low-key, but well attended and musically intense~ it was obvious he was giving it his all. I hope you're at peace Vince. | ||
| smokin_dave
Advanced Member Username: smokin_dave Post Number: 268 Registered: 10-2002 |
Oh Noooooo, The Tubes are one of my all time favorite bands and when Vince started to play with the Dead it was a dream come true.This just bums me right on out since I am finding out he passed on my birthday no less.An amazing talent that will be missed by many. Fare thee well oh my brother,fare thee well. | ||
| yggdrasil
Intermediate Member Username: yggdrasil Post Number: 130 Registered: 5-2002 |
sorry to hear about Vince's passing - what is it with keyboard players & the Dead, anyway? | ||
| ajdover
Advanced Member Username: ajdover Post Number: 366 Registered: 11-2003 |
The Tubes are one of my all time favorites as well. Vince and Michael Cotten did some amazing stuff with them. Personally, I don't get the whole Dead thing (never did like them), but I'm sure his contributions to them were equally amazing. He will be sorely missed for sure. | ||
| keavin
Senior Member Username: keavin Post Number: 840 Registered: 12-2002 |
Forum...http://www.vincewelnick.com/index.php?module=pnForum&func=viewforum&forum=1 | ||
| flaxattack
Senior Member Username: flaxattack Post Number: 1131 Registered: 4-2004 |
this is sad......having to fill brents shoes was soemthing few could do and the apparent chill the dead put on him after jerry died no longer surprises me. sometimes i wonder if weir feels anything but a bulge in his wallet. | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 1349 Registered: 7-2004 |
Yea, cold knees. Bill, tgo | ||
| flaxattack
Senior Member Username: flaxattack Post Number: 1133 Registered: 4-2004 |
i can never figure it out.. i care about MY friends.. and i do open my mouth my i see "abuse" so many roads to lead me home..... rest peacefully vince.... you have found the way to go home. | ||
| lidon2001
Intermediate Member Username: lidon2001 Post Number: 164 Registered: 4-2005 |
Reading how the others in the band treated Vince after Jerry's death, let alone the Rattdog incident, makes me DAMN glad I'm not a dead head. It seems to me those guys who treated Vince like that are d*ckheads, not deadheads. I guess we now know why Phil Lesh didn't know Alembic was still in business. Out of touch with reality. Talk to ya later, Vince. I don't want to hear it again tonight. T | ||
| bigredbass
Senior Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 811 Registered: 9-2002 |
I'm probably the most illiterate person here vis-a-vis the Dead, the whole ensuing follow-on jam band scene. I never knew of Mr. Welnick, but these posts prompted me to do a little searching around the net to 'catch up'. I've been around way too much death and misery this year, and for this poor soul to have battled cancer, lung disease, substance abuse, and evidently an emotionally-crushing boot-over-the-fence from the surviving Dead crew, is a really bleak picture that's truly heartbreaking. God Rest His Soul. J o e y | ||
| applejuice
Junior Username: applejuice Post Number: 31 Registered: 1-2006 |
Rest in peace my friend. | ||
| flaxattack
Senior Member Username: flaxattack Post Number: 1145 Registered: 4-2004 |
phil has posted comments at philzone.com why is it i just dont believe a word of it.... | ||
| kmh364
Senior Member Username: kmh364 Post Number: 1917 Registered: 9-2003 |
This is a very touchy subject indeed! Regardless of what may or may not have happened, and who or whom did what to who, Vince Welnick was a true member of the (IMHO) greatest musical institution ever, a great musician and just plain good guy and, as such, he has my ultimate respect. RIP, Vince! | ||
| phylo
New Username: phylo Post Number: 10 Registered: 10-2005 |
Flax, There is at least one factual error in Phil's post. Vince's first couple of shows were without Bruce. Phil incorrectly states that Vince's first 'solo' show was after Horsby had 'moved on.' As to the rest of it..... | ||
| staemius
Member Username: staemius Post Number: 63 Registered: 12-2004 |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn7UB2FtrIE&search=grateful%20dead Vince's story with the band has been a reality check for all those that love the remaining Dead. It's not pretty. | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 3976 Registered: 5-2002 |
Wow! That may be the best live Grateful Dead vocals ever! Thanks James! | ||
| paulman
Junior Username: paulman Post Number: 32 Registered: 2-2005 |
i heard that many years ago, to see it was stunning!! Thanks a bunch! | ||
| tom_z
Senior Member Username: tom_z Post Number: 410 Registered: 7-2004 |
There was a nice tribute to Vince on David Gans' Dead to the World radio broadcast from June 14. At just after 1:34:00 of the stream is an interview with Weir and a cut (Welnick's "Long Way to Go Home") from his recent Ratdog appearance at the Health and Harmony Festival in Santa Rosa last weekend. | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 1435 Registered: 7-2004 |
Here is a well reseached insightful story about Vince that appeared in yesterday's San Francisco Chronicle: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/30/DDG12JM4F61.DTL&hw=welnick&sn=001&sc=1000 Bill tgo | ||
| davehouck
Moderator Username: davehouck Post Number: 4013 Registered: 5-2002 |
Thanks Bill. | ||
| kmh364
Senior Member Username: kmh364 Post Number: 1941 Registered: 9-2003 |
Very sad indeed. | ||
| billy_v
Member Username: billy_v Post Number: 56 Registered: 9-2002 |
This link from Vinnie's board gives another side of the Chronicle story. http://www.vincewelnick.com/index.php?module=pnForum&func=viewtopic&topic=479 | ||
| kmh364
Senior Member Username: kmh364 Post Number: 1942 Registered: 9-2003 |
Wow! This is an ugly story that keeps getting uglier all the time. This is a no-win situation that's spiraling out of control. I feel sorry for Vince and all his loved-ones as the muckraking is in high gear. It also casts the remaining Dead members in a questionable light. Can't we all just get along guys and make great music together before it's too late to do so? I thought old age was supposed to bring wisdom? Apparenty, it hasn't for the GD family. Pity. |
