Vince Welnick "I'm Only Sleeping"

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"This October, more Grateful Dead memorabilia goes on the auction block as the estates of manager Rock Scully and keyboardist (and founding Tubes member) Vince Welnick come up for sale at a Bonhams & Butterfields auction in San Francisco..."

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Vince Welnick

Today is the second anniversary of Vince Welnick's passing. Vince died at his own hand on this date in 2006 after suffering from depression for several years.

Vince has pretty much been the worst-maligned member of the Dead since his arrival on the scene, which one would have to imagine contributed to his depression...in fact, Vince served the role of making many previously-skeptical Dead Heads actually miss Brent Mydland (the runner-up for "worst-maligned", and even less deservingly so)...

I'd rather not contribute to that dialogue one way or the other. All I know is the story had a sad ending for the guy. So on to the music...

There is a ton of Vince music available for downloading and streaming at the Live Music Archive and a sampling of his output with the Dead here:

Grateful Dead: Eyes of the World
from Dick's Picks, Vol. 17: Boston Garden, Boston, MA, 9/25/91 (though this track is from the bonus cuts at the end, recorded 3/31/91)...

Silver Apples of the Moon
from Infrared Roses

Visions of Johanna
from Fallout from the Phil Zone (recorded 3/18/95)

No MSG Jam
from Dick's Picks, Vol. 9: Madison Square Garden, New York, NY, 9/16/90