(Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images), The Grateful Dead performing at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey on June 19, 1995. Keith Godchaux replaced him at keys until 1979, when drug use forced his departure. Tuesday, Aug 31 We went home, looked in the paper and saw that Garcias band was playing at the Keystone, so we went down, of course. (Note that on some tracks Keith can hardly be heard, being too low in the mix.) Then, according to his official website, he fell ill in August 1992 due to exhaustion, forcing the band to cancel an upcoming fall tour. Keith Godchaux was born on July 19, 1948 in San Francisco, California, USA. The couple's work helped to fundamentally shape the sound of the band during what many . This seems superhuman, though it means his first day with the full Dead would have been the 27th. Thursday, Sept 16 July 19 Horoscope More Rock Singers Arnel Pineda Jon Bon Jovi David Byrne Robert Smith Even though hed never played any Grateful Dead tunes before[he] picked up the songs practically the first time througheverything he played fit perfectly in the spaces between [our] parts. Mr. Oct. 19: Keith on the keys: Keith Godchaux plays his first show with the Dead as keyboardist. But the band had forgotten to tell Jerry that the rehearsal had been called off, so Jerry was down there by himself. He played the piano and keyboards in the rock band "The Grateful Dead" from 1970 . Perhaps the Dead did not bother recording more improvisational jams. July 26: Mydland overdoses: Mydland dies of a drug overdose in Lafayette at age 37. The head Deadhead is immortal. The sports car he was riding in struck. http://jgmf.blogspot.com/2011/03/gd19710903-4-harding-theater-sf-ca.html, Its not known whether this benefit actually happened (probably not). (Theres also an oddly assertive moment before Cold Rain & Snow on the compilation, where Keith channels Keith Jarrett for a little solo riffing.) The couple began bickering heavily as lots of touring and drug use took their toll. Blair Jackson observes that Keith had also played on a James & the Good Brothers record (a band the Dead were friends with) Kreutzmann played drums on one track, and the album was recorded by Betty Cantor, so Keith may not have been a complete unknown to Garcia. The Dead managed to get through five tracks before their amps overloaded during "Turn on Your Love Light" and they finally called it quits for the night. What were the circumstances of Donna Jean Godchaux leaving The Grateful Dead? Favourite eras are always going to vary with Deadheads. Jan. 30: New Orleans bust: Police arrest 19 people and seize LSD, marijuana, barbiturates and dangerous narcotic and non-narcotic drugs in a raid of a French Quarter motel. How did they do that? They weave a spell. The band is locked in, Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir are lively and animated, Phil Lesh is commanding with his powerful bass playing, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart in sync pushing the tempo and building jams to a new level, Donna Jean Godchaux's vocals are on point, while her husband Keith Godchaux's fingers dance all over . Keith Godchaux was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Concord, California. According to sound engineer Owsley Stanley, The Countryman pickup worked by an electrostatic principle similar to the way a condenser mic works. Tambourines, drums, flutes and chiming bells appeared and the air was filled with the buzz of voices and the sound of music, wrote Gleason, who affirmed that there were no drunks., March 1: First album release: Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead release their self-titled debut album on Warner Bros. The Grateful Dead have recorded for Warner Bros. an album which has everyone excited, wrote Gleason. It raises $15,000. January: Garcia neckties: In addition to slinging a guitar, Garcia, who briefly studied at San Francisco Art Institute, painted abstract works of art. So they hit Garcia with just the right note. I want to play it. And it was like, Yeahhh! In one chapter in his candid new autobiography, he recounts how on a tour with the fabled Bay Area band in the . We wanted to write music to the Lord, because it didnt seem like there was much out there that was spiritual. June 18: Monterey Pop: The Grateful Dead play the Monterey Pop Festival, in between the Who and Jimi Hendrix (who famously sets his guitar on fire during his performance). The closest thing they ever came to a chart-topper was "Touch of Grey," a track they recorded in the mid-1980s. But their love of intoxicants was only the first in a series of mishaps that led to them playing lousy. Keith Godchaux was born on July 19, 1948 and died on July 22, 1980. As noted on Woodstock Story, a website devoted to recounting all the festival's various incarnations over the decades, the 1969 event's infamous rainstorms had turned the stage into a literal deathtrap around the time the Dead were originally scheduled to perform on the second night. Or, if Donnas memory is right, possibly Sunday the 26th was the first day Keith played with Jerry. (I would imagine Lesh might also have liked to play with Wales more back in 69 he had complained to Constanten: Phil pointedly remarked how much he preferred Howard Waless playing when he sat in with the band.) Sept. 29: Hart beats: Bill Kreutzmann invites Mickey Hart to sit in with the Dead, making the band a sextet with two drummers. Concert in Golden Gate Park with Grateful Dead and Jefferson Starship 9/28/1975 A touring iteration of the Keith & Donna Band with Kreutzmann on drums and former Quicksilver Messenger Service equipment manager Stephen Schuster on saxophone frequently opened for Grateful Dead-related groups in 1975, allowing Garcia to sit in on several occasions. : . That era in the band's history was riddled with countless incidents, both delightful and madcapped. Keith Godchaux Birthday and Date of Death. Following the dissolution of this ensemble, the Godchauxes performed as part of the Jerry Garcia Band from 1976 to 1978. 42 comments 458 Posted by 3 days ago Just got to Hilton Head for a beach getaway. Throughout the late 1970s, he was frequently embroiled in violent domestic scuffles with Donna, who also developed an alcohol use disorder. The Heart Of Gold Band name was resurrected in 2004, for the group organised by Donna Jean Godchaux Mackay and David Mackay, after they decided to ask Greg . Beginning in 1992, his works make an unlikely appearance on a line of neckties. Box 1065, San Rafael, California, 94901. It was the beginning of perhaps the best-known fan club in music history. The Deads spring 72 newsletter recounted: He added a Fender Rhodes electric piano in mid-1973 and briefly experimented with the Hammond organ again on the bands fall 1973 tour; the Rhodes piano would remain in his setup through 1976. He was known for being a Rock Singer. Donna: I had a dream that it was supposed to happen. I remember when we auditioned him. Not exactly a choir of angels, but some incredibly holy, pure and beautiful spiritual light. She remarried again to her present husband David McKay in 1980. After two weeks there, he would continue his treatment at the Serenity Knolls clinic. After moving to California, Thatcher married keyboardist Keith Godchaux in 1970 and then in 1972 Mr and Mrs. Godchaux (pronounced "god show") joined improvisation rock band the Grateful Dead, and . Getting connected with the Dead took a little longer, but surprisingly, in hindsight neither of them had any doubt it would happen. Garcia was nabbed again for drug possession during a traffic stop in New Jersey in 1973. Lenny Hart was arguably the most aggravating of them all. Throughout this period, Godchauxs rented pianos were outfitted with a state-of-the-art pickup system designed by Carl Countryman. He had a couple shows with Saunders in this month: Keith in happier times. Includes Obituary, Biography, Discography, Photo, and Links. 15. Keyboards, Vocals, Co-producer - Keith Godchaux. Keith and Donna Godchaux issued the mostly self-written Keith & Donna album in 1975 with Jerry Garcia as a member of their band. Oct. 31: Saturday Night Dead: The Grateful Dead make an appearance on Saturday Night Live. Tom Davis and Al Franken go backstage, asking the band to introduce them to the audience. The Grateful Dead did a fine set with some marvelously exciting and interesting guitar solos by Jerry Garcia and a great demonstration of their tightness and swing, Gleason wrote. People like Jerry Garcia arent supposed to die. Feb. 4: Deadheads for Obama: Ahead of the Super Tuesday primaries, Lesh, Weir and Hart perform together at the Warfield theater in San Francisco in support of candidate Barack Obama. The powers-that-be at the Grammy Awards were never big fans, either, but the Dead won an honorary Hall of Fame Award in 1999 and a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. 69) followed by "Sugar Magnolia" at a lowly No. The Grateful Dead lost two keyboardists and one lead singer/guitarist to substance abuse, one keyboardist (Keith Godchaux, who Lesh once said reached "an almost vegetative state" due to drugs. What was the location of death? He died the next year in a car accident. I played with Miles Davis for about a year. In 24 hours we created all the problems of our society in one place: congestion, violence, dehumanization, Gleason wrote. The decline of 1970's Grateful Dead piano player Keith Godchaux was sad but not entirely unexpected. It no longer had that sparkle and imagination that marked his best work ('72-'74). Watch Keith and Donna Godchaux Perform in 1975 at Winterland Keith and Donna regrouped and started the Heart of Gold Band, featuring a hot-shot Bay Area guitarist named Steve Kimock. After Godchaux's departure from the Grateful Dead, he cleaned up and formed The Heart of Gold Band with his wife; the ensemble included a young Steve Kimock on guitar. As the band's sound took a psychedelic turn, his role was continually reduced. After ongoing battles with his various addictions, Garcia checked into Serenity Knolls, a drug treatment facility in Forest Knolls, California. Like. This seems to have entirely slipped Donnas memory! The neckwear, nonetheless, became popular with the 9-to-5 set. Godchaux died in an automobile accident in Marin County, California, in July 1980, at the age of 32. Id never sung before an audience before, really, and Keith had done only very small gigs. Weir (no doubt rolling his eyes) recalled: We spurred him towards new heights of weirdness and he spurred us towards new heights of weirdnessmuch too weird much too quickeverybody backed off, scratched their head and said, Well, maybe, uh, next incarnation. A Dead Musician Directory Celebrity Page. There were allegations of marital abuse as Keith's drug use increased, and they were both booted in 1979. A statement issued by the band said: Jerry Garcia is in a hospital receiving treatment for the sudden onset of diabetes and a general systemic infection as a result of an abscessed tooth and exhaustion following a road tour. The bands publicist denies that drugs are involved. 19 July 1948; d. 23 July 1980) After years of ill-health through alcohol abuse, Pigpen died in 1973. Theres this whole mystical energy that happens when you see the Grateful Dead and youre ready to receive it. Following the Grateful Deads 1975 hiatus, he largely yielded to a simpler comping-based approach with the group that eschewed his previously contrapuntal style in favor of emulating or ballasting Garcias guitar parts. The Grateful Dead Hotline, which provides information on concert dates and tickets, was besieged with calls by early afternoon, Leary wrote. Lots of shots of spectators, fans and Deadheads, Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead at the Warfield Theatre Keith was brilliant for the first three years or so he was in the band, but he was sensitive and prone to depression, and the road ate him alive. Garcia would soon get the chance to play some more with Wales in the January 72 east-coast tour supporting the Hooteroll release. Ron "Pigpen" McKernan was the first member of the Grateful Dead to pass away. http://www.blairjackson.com/chapter_twelve_additions.htm I have to think that, if it was Sunday the 19th, due to the sudden turmoil of Pigpens illness, it seems unlikely Jerry & Bill would have jammed with anyone that day. Pin. And Keith did say he played with Garcia just a couple days after meeting him. : (July 19, 1948 - July 23, 1980) was a pianist best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead from 1971 to 1979. The Lionel Hampton Band. Photography By [Back Cover] - Cadillac Ron. The Keith highlight is the first few tracks of 9/30, with Keith in full barrelhouse mode. Dec. 6: Deadly Altamont: The Dead are scheduled to play the infamous Altamont Speedway Free Festival. (Possibly the first instrument he played with Garcia was the organ, though I dont think Keith had any experience with it; at any rate, organ was the Deads first choice for many of the new songs.) When the dull projections took over, as on Friday, it was nowhere. The interesting thing is that when he saw the Dead, he thought they needed more energy: When Id heard them play a couple of times, they really got me off; I was really high. Although they had been with the band for some years, Keith and Donna Godcheaux had never truly fitted in. Donna Jean Godchaux McKay Interview of Donna Jean Godchaux MacKay for the Roots of American Music Trail Donna has returned to live in the Shoals area and is active in the Christian ministry. But note: the jerrysite lists the New Riders playing the Friends & Relations Hall in San Francisco on Sept 17-19, which wouldnt preclude daytime rehearsals. He was in a car being driven by renowned tie-dye artist Courtenay Pollock when a truck cut in front of their vehicle. Keith & Donna Godchaux, whod married in November 1970 shortly after her first Dead show, were both already Dead fans. A year later, at just 27, he tragically died of internal hemorrhaging and his landlady discovered his corpse in his apartment in Corte Madera, California. His son Mickey played in the band in the late '60s, eventually becoming their longtime percussionist. He died two days later at the age of 32. Other violence during the concert resulted in two deaths. Rock Musician. He was previously married to Donna Godchaux. Increasingly frayed from the vicissitudes of the rock and roll lifestyle, Godchaux gradually became dependent upon various drugs, most notably alcohol and heroin. He died on 23rd July 1980,at 32 years of age. So Pigpen stayed at home until December, while Keith went out and surprised Dead audiences. Its also a curious detail that Keith initially got with the Dead to work out some tunes. This is frustratingly vague it may mean nothing; or it may mean that the initial intention was not to actually join the Dead. He had apparently stopped playing at the Matrix when too many people started coming to see Garcia! The following Sunday the Dead were having a rehearsal and Jerry told us to come on down, so we did. A year after leaving the Grateful Dead, Keith Godchaux was killed in a tragic auto accident. But McNally tells the story of Wales auditioning with the Dead around this time. Summer: Tour from hell: The bands summer of 1995 tour would become known to Deadheads as the Tour From Hell. At the time, Garcia was having issues with drugs and had also been receiving death threats, according to No Simple Highway: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead. To make matters worse, thousands of fans crashed a gate at one of the bands shows in, prompting the cancellation of the subsequent show because local police refused to work it. As she told Rolling Stone: "Keith and I, we were wasted. The Grateful Dead's Tragic Real-Life Story. After that the Godchaux's went on to form the Heart of Gold band, and released one album, but it was short-lived as Keith died in a car accident on July 23rd, 1980, just over one year after leaving the Grateful Dead. The word is that the first gig was sensational, and a few days later they went into the Deads Front Street Studio. Just playing cocktail lounges and clubs., He played jazz piano & cocktail music in a Walnut Creek club, but was just starting to get into rock & roll. A year after she and Keith left the band, in 1980, the couple formed The Heart of Gold Band. Keith Richard Godchaux (July 19, 1948 - July 23, 1980) was a pianist best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead from 1971 to 1979. This brings up the question of just which was the Keystone show where Keith & Donna met Garcia. It is followed only five months later by American Beauty, another classic studio album. Donna Jean and Keith Godchaux were in the Dead until 1979, and Keith died in 1980 following a car accident. The years on tour wouldnt be kind to Keith either indeed, the damage Dead keyboardists inflicted on themselves would become well-known but Keith started out feeling cosmically optimistic. Share. Someday, Godchaux. He was involved in an automobile accident, colliding with another car, and was ejected from the vehicle (he wasn't wearing a seatbelt). By then, they were pretty far gone on LSD (and who knows what else), according to John Fogerty, the former Creedence Clearwater Revival front man who recalled the incident during an interview in 2015. There had also been problems at several recent concerts. He notes (from a different Donna interview) that after meeting Jerry, she tried calling the Deads office a few times with no luck she called the office and left several messages, but was ignored. The group becomes a staple at author Ken Keseys Acid Test parties. The Godchauxs remained with the Grateful Dead until 1979, when they left to try other avenues of music on their own with the band The Heart of Gold. If this is the best from their tour, what can the outtakes sound like?. Mime Troupe Appeal Party II. Without his technical innovations he was one of the first people to mix concerts live and in stereo the band might never have emerged from the San Francisco scene, Rolling Stone wrote in a 2007 profile. The pair become known as the Rhythm Devils. He would not be alone. June 18: Lesh on bass: Phil Lesh, recruited by Garcia to replace Morgan, plays his first show as bassist for the Warlocks at Frenchys in Hayward. Other founding members of the group were guitarist Steve Kimock, drummer Greg Anton, bassist Dexter LaBlanc, and vocalist Greta Rose. Six Feet of Snow, a collaboration with Lowell George of Little Feat, was featured on the latter groups Down on the Farm (1979); George had recently produced the Grateful Deads Shakedown Street (1978). According to Godchaux, I spent two years wearing dinner jackets and playing acoustic piano in country club bands and Dixieland groups I also did piano bar gigs and put trios together to back singers in various places around the Bay Areaplaying cocktail standards like Misty the way jazz musicians resentfully play a song thats popular that frustrated space I just wasnt into it I was looking for something real to get involved with which wouldnt necessarily be music. He met and married former FAME Studios session vocalist Donna Jean Thatcher in November 1970. : Wikipedia, Bookogs. Killed in a car accident July 23rd, 1980. At the break, Garcia walked by going backstage, so I grabbed him and said, Jerry, my husband and I have something very important to talk to you about. And he said, Sure. The next two in line: "Uncle John's Band" (No. Garcia spotted the phrase grateful dead, which the band later discovered to be from an Egyptian prayer, in a dictionary, and it stuck. I never had the pleasure of meeting him -although I came very close to it- met his wife, and had many occasions to be in close proximity during concerts by both the Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Band. But there were still a lot of ups and downs. July 23, 1980 Keith RichardGodchaux (The Grateful Dead) was born on July 19th 1948 born in Seattle, Washington, but grew up in Concord, California where he commenced piano lessons at five at the instigation of his father (a semiprofessional musician) and subsequently played Dixieland and cocktail jazz in professional ensembles as a teenager. Godchaux sustained massive head injuries after being involved in a car crash while being driven home on his birthday on 7/19/80 and he died four days later on 7/23/80 at age 32. Cheng was the bassist for the Grammy-winning Deftones. Donna told Blair Jackson, When Keith and I first got together, we wrote some music that we wanted to be meaningful and spiritual. They. Pigpen and Bob Weir were fined $100 each. (Ironically, he became unhappy with Brandeis and soon dropped out, to resurface on a later Dead tour), Merl Saunders, of course, was playing with Garcia all the time, plus he had done studio overdubs on several songs for the Deads 1971 live album that summer. He was still eager to rejoin the Dead, though, and went back on tour perhaps sooner than was wise. http://archive.org/details/gd71-09-xx.sbd.unknown.16897.sbeok.shnf compilation; Keith mixed up on some tracks The Grateful Deads full-throated roar drowned out a monotonous burglar alarm at one end of the street; the Tracys Coffee and Doughnuts people rolled their jukebox out on the sidewalk; and countless trios and quartets formed and dissolved in between., July 18: Anthem of the Sun: The Grateful Dead release their second studio album, the decidedly psychedelic Anthem of the Sun. With this recording, future bandmate Tom (T.C.) The Dead celebrated the closing as an approximately five-hour-long party and invited some guests including guitarist John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service and Ken Kesey as well as actor Dan Aykroyd who provided the midnight countdown. Welnick had replaced Brent Mydland, who died of a drug overdose in 1990. Three members have died: Brent Mydland in 1990 of a drug overdose, McKernan of liver disease in 1973 and Keith Godchaux in a 1980 highway crash after he left the group. Garcia struggled with three heavy addictions throughout his adult life: smoking, drugs, and overeating. Guide Prices. Garcia received a tip that the police were en route. A rumor went around claiming that it was simulated and had cost $50,000 to slap up in the sky during a 17-minute version of "Viola Lee Blues." He was 77. I didnt realize that everyone does that to him. Keith was killed in a car accident in Marin County, California on July 23, 1980. Keith Godchaux: Age 32 | Cause Of Death: CAR CRASH Grateful Dead (b. Garcia, whose signature look is a black T-shirt and coordinated jeans and who probably never wore a tie in his life, laughed when he recently received a box of samples, said Irwin Sternberg, the president of Stonehenge Ltd., which launched the ties. 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