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Jul 19, 2022 · Grateful Dead keyboardist Keith Godchaux was born in Seattle on this date in 1948. Godchaux played with the Grateful Dead from 1971 to 1979. Keith sadly died on July 23, 1980 — four days after...
Oct 3, 2023 · The singer and her husband Keith Godchaux joined the group in the fall of 1971, she on backing vocals and he on piano. Kreutzmann recalls a phone call he received from Garcia, who’d recently...
Jul 19, 2021 · [Originally Published: July 19, 2017] JamBase Collections. Birthdays. Live Music. On This Date in Music History. Celebrate what would have been late Grateful Dead keyboardist Keith Godchaux's...
JESSE: Keith Godchaux, the Grateful Dead’s brilliant piano player who dropped into their music and could pick it up perfectly by ear, was raised by a serious musician who, in fact, had written his own course in piano ear training. For his career as a mail order music teacher, Harold Godchaux became….
About Keith Godchaux. Songs with lyrics by Keith Godchaux. Songs with music by Keith Godchaux. The Grateful Dead has always been a focus of synchronicity -- of magic "coincidences" happening at just the right time. In early fall 1971, the Dead really faced up to the fact that they needed a keyboard player. Pigpen was too frail (he'd entered the ...
SHOW ALL QUESTIONS. Keith Richard Godchaux (July 19, 1948 – July 23, 1980) was an American pianist best known for his tenure in the rock group the Grateful Dead from 1971 to 1979. Following their departure from the Dead, he and his wife Donna formed the Heart of Gold Band in 1980, but Godchaux died from injuries sustained in a car accident ...
But who was Keith Godchaux? Where did he come from? A cipher even to his bandmates and coworkers, the shy piano player from the East Bay came with an incredibly deep musical education that prepared him perfectly for the Dead’s improvisation despite never having played in a rock band before.
