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deadHead321
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This is fucked up...
#5836972 - 07/08/06 09:37 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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according to Rolling Stone ( i cant find the obituary online)
vince welnick died of a depressin induced suicide....the obituary says that Welnick has been depressed over never being asked to participate in the Grateful Dead reunion tours......
i find that to be fucked up....and i was always left scratching my head as to why Vince was never included in "The Dead"...
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kosmic_charlie
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Re: This is fucked up... [Re: deadHead321]
#5837040 - 07/08/06 09:56 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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After Jerry Garcia died Bob Weir gave Vince a chance and they toured together as part of Ratdog briefly. But overwhelmed by Jerry's passing, Vince tried taking his own life on the Ratdog tour bus by downing a bunch of pills. That was in '95 I believe. He almost succeeded in killing himself. After that, I think the remaining Grateful Dead just didn't want to deal with that any more. Don't forget that the GD's previous keyboard player (Brent Mydland) killed himself from a speedball od.
Aside from that, Vince (rest his soul) really wasn't that great of a keyboard player in my opinion and in lots of peoples' opinions.
When they had that Grateful Dead family reunion in Berkeley last summer I agree that it wouldn't have killed them to invite Vince on stage for a few songs. But they didn't. But the only person responsible for the death of Vince Welnick was himself, nuff said.
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Edited by kosmic_charlie (07/08/06 10:27 PM)
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Re: This is fucked up... [Re: deadHead321]
#5837057 - 07/08/06 10:02 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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fuct up indeed.
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notapillow
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Re: This is fucked up... [Re: array]
#5837062 - 07/08/06 10:03 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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poor poor vince? he diddnt desrve that. here comes sunshine
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Re: This is fucked up... [Re: deadHead321]
#5837417 - 07/08/06 11:38 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Re: This is fucked up... [Re: deadHead321]
#5838122 - 07/09/06 09:26 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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there was a really strongly worded article on his website right after his death, basically saying "fuck you bobby, fuck you phil" 
i guess he played a show in some dive bar here last summer (i wasn't living here at the time, unfortunately), and nobody even knew he was Vince Welnick of the tubes and the dead..
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