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Keith Godchaux

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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. [1]

80 relations: Alcohol (drug), Alcoholism, Audio engineer, Bebop, Bill Kreutzmann, Blues for Allah, Bob Weir, Boogie-woogie, BoomBox (American band), Brent Mydland, Carl Countryman, CEFCU Stadium, Chick Corea, Comping, Concord, California, Country club, Dan Healy (soundman), Dave Mason, Denny Seiwell, Dixieland, Donna Jean Godchaux, Down on the Farm (album), East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area), Electric grand piano, Electric piano, FAME Studios, Giza Plateau, Grateful Dead, Hammond organ, Heart of Gold Band, Heroin, Howard Wales, Jazz fusion, Jerry Garcia, Jerry Garcia Band, Keith & Donna, Little Feat, Little Richard, Lowell George, Marin County, California, Merl Saunders, Mickey Hart, Microphone, Modal jazz, Musical improvisation, Ned Lagin, Owsley Stanley, Paul McCartney and Wings, Phil Lesh, Pianist, ..., Piano, Polymoog, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Rhodes piano, Robert Christgau, Robert Hunter (lyricist), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, San Geronimo, California, San Jose State University, Savant syndrome, Seattle, Shakedown Street, Slide guitar, Spooky Tooth, Steinway & Sons, Steve Kimock, Stinson Beach, California, Swing music, Synthesizer, The Good Brothers, Tie-dye, Tom Constanten, University of Minnesota, Wah-wah pedal, Wake of the Flood, Walnut Creek, California, Yamaha Corporation. Expand index (30 more) »

Alcohol (drug)

Alcohol, also known by its chemical name ethanol, is a psychoactive substance or drug that is the active ingredient in alcoholic beverages such as beer, wine, and distilled spirits (hard liquor).

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Alcoholism

Alcoholism, also known as alcohol use disorder (AUD), is a broad term for any drinking of alcohol that results in mental or physical health problems.

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Audio engineer

An audio engineer (also sometimes recording engineer or a vocal engineer) helps to produce a recording or a performance, editing and adjusting sound tracks using equalization and audio effects, mixing, reproduction, and reinforcement of sound.

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Bebop

Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States, which features songs characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references to the melody.

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Bill Kreutzmann

William Kreutzmann Jr. (born May 7, 1946) is an American drummer.

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Blues for Allah

Blues for Allah is the eighth studio album by the Grateful Dead.

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Bob Weir

Robert Hall Weir (born October 16, 1947) is an American musician and songwriter best known as a founding member of the rock band Grateful Dead.

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Boogie-woogie

Boogie-woogie is a musical genre that became popular during the late 1920s, but developed in African-American communities in the 1870s.

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BoomBox (American band)

BoomBox is an American rock and electronic duo formed in 2004 by singer-songwriter Zion Godchaux and producer Russ Randolph (who parted ways in 2017), both of whom have backgrounds as DJs.

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Brent Mydland

Brent Mydland (October 21, 1952 – July 26, 1990) was an American keyboardist, vocalist and songwriter.

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Carl Countryman

Carl Countryman was President and Chief Engineer of Countryman & Associates of Menlo Park, California.

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CEFCU Stadium

CEFCU Stadium, formerly known as Spartan Stadium from 1933 to 2015, is an outdoor athletic stadium in the western United States, located in San Jose, California.

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Chick Corea

Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (born June 12, 1941) is an American jazz pianist/electric keyboardist and composer.

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Comping

Comping (an abbreviation of accompanying; or possibly from the verb, to "complement") is the chords, rhythms, and countermelodies that keyboard players (piano or organ), guitar players, or drummers use to support a jazz musician's improvised solo or melody lines.

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Concord, California

Concord is the largest city in Contra Costa County, California.

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Country club

A country club is a privately owned club, often with a membership quota and admittance by invitation or sponsorship, that generally offers both a variety of recreational sports and facilities for dining and entertaining.

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Dan Healy (soundman)

Dan Healy is an audio engineer who often worked with the American rock band the Grateful Dead.

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Dave Mason

David Thomas "Dave" Mason (born 10 May 1946) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist from Worcester, who first found fame with the rock band Traffic.

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Denny Seiwell

Denny Seiwell (born July 10, 1943) is an American drummer and a founding member of Paul McCartney's band Wings.

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Dixieland

Dixieland, sometimes referred to as hot jazz or traditional jazz, is a style of jazz based on the music that developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century.

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Donna Jean Godchaux

Donna Jean (Thatcher) Godchaux-MacKay (born August 22, 1947) is an American singer, best known for having been a member of the Grateful Dead from 1972 until 1979.

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Down on the Farm (album)

Down on the Farm is the seventh studio album by the American rock band Little Feat, released in 1979.

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East Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)

The eastern region of the San Francisco Bay Area, commonly referred to as the East Bay, includes cities along the eastern shores of the San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay.

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Electric grand piano

The electric grand piano is a stringed musical instrument played using a keyboard, in which the vibration of strings struck by hammers is converted by pickups into electrical signals, analogous to the electric guitar's electrification of the traditional guitar.

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Electric piano

An electric piano is an electric musical instrument which produces sounds when a performer presses the keys of the piano-style musical keyboard.

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FAME Studios

FAME (Florence Alabama Music Enterprises) Studios are located at 603 East Avalon Avenue in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, an area of northern Alabama known as the Shoals.

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Giza Plateau

The Giza Plateau (جيزة بلاتي) is a plateau that is located in Giza, Egypt.

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Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California.

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Hammond organ

The Hammond organ is an electric organ, invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935.

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Heart of Gold Band

The Heart of Gold Band is an American rock band formed by Keith and Donna Jean Godchaux in 1980 following their departure from the Grateful Dead.

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Heroin

Heroin, also known as diamorphine among other names, is an opioid most commonly used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects.

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Howard Wales

Howard Wales is an American keyboardist and occasional collaborator of Jerry Garcia.

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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.

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Jerry Garcia

Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best known for his work as the lead guitarist and as a vocalist with the band Grateful Dead, which came to prominence during the counterculture era in the 1960s.

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Jerry Garcia Band

The Jerry Garcia Band was a San Francisco Bay Area rock band led by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead.

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Keith & Donna

Keith & Donna is an album by Keith Godchaux and Donna Jean Godchaux.

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Little Feat

Little Feat is an American rock band formed by singer-songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist Lowell George and keyboardist Bill Payne in 1969 in Los Angeles.

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Little Richard

Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5, 1932), known as Little Richard, is an American musician, songwriter, singer, and actor.

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Lowell George

Lowell Thomas George (April 13, 1945 – June 29, 1979) was an American songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer, who was the primary guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for the rock band Little Feat.

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Marin County, California

Marin County is a county located in the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California.

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Merl Saunders

Merl Saunders (February 14, 1934 – October 24, 2008) was an American multi-genre musician who played piano and keyboards, favoring the Hammond B-3 console organ.

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Mickey Hart

Mickey Hart (born Michael Steven Hartman, September 11, 1943) is an American percussionist and musicologist.

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Microphone

A microphone, colloquially nicknamed mic or mike, is a transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal.

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Modal jazz

Modal jazz is jazz that uses musical modes rather than chord progressions as a harmonic framework.

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Musical improvisation

Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians.

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Ned Lagin

Ned Lagin (born March 17, 1948) is an American artist, photographer, scientist, composer, and keyboardist.

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Owsley Stanley

Augustus Owsley Stanley III (January 19, 1935 – March 12, 2011) was an American audio engineer and clandestine chemist.

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Paul McCartney and Wings

Paul McCartney and Wings, also known simply as Wings, were a rock band formed in 1971 by former Beatle Paul McCartney with his wife Linda on keyboards, session drummer Denny Seiwell, and former Moody Blues guitarist Denny Laine.

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Phil Lesh

Philip Chapman Lesh (born March 15, 1940) is a musician and a founding member of the Grateful Dead, with whom he played bass guitar throughout their 30-year career.

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Pianist

A pianist is an individual musician who plays the piano.

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Piano

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.

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Polymoog

The Polymoog is a polyphonic analog synthesizer that was manufactured by Moog Music from 1975 to 1980.

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Quicksilver Messenger Service

Quicksilver Messenger Service (sometimes credited as simply Quicksilver) is an American psychedelic rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco.

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Rhodes piano

The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano or simply Fender Rhodes or Rhodes) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became particularly popular throughout the 1970s.

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Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American essayist and music journalist.

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Robert Hunter (lyricist)

Robert C. Hunter (born June 23, 1941) is an American lyricist, singer-songwriter, translator, and poet, best known for his work with the Grateful Dead.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, recognizes and archives the history of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have had some major influence on the development of rock and roll.

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Ron "Pigpen" McKernan

Ronald Charles McKernan (September 8, 1945 – March 8, 1973), known as Pigpen, was an American singer and musician.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Francisco Bay Area

The San Francisco Bay Area (popularly referred to as the Bay Area) is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun estuaries in the northern part of the U.S. state of California.

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San Geronimo, California

San Geronimo (formerly Nicasio Station) is a census-designated place (CDP) located in the San Geronimo Valley in Marin County, California in the United States.

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San Jose State University

San José State University (commonly referred to as San Jose State or SJSU) is a public comprehensive university located in San Jose, California, in Silicon Valley.

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Savant syndrome

Savant syndrome is a condition in which someone with significant mental disabilities demonstrates certain abilities far in excess of average.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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Shakedown Street

Shakedown Street is the tenth studio album by rock band the Grateful Dead, released November 15, 1978 on Arista Records.

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Slide guitar

Slide guitar is a particular technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues-style music.

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Spooky Tooth

Spooky Tooth was an English rock band principally active between 1967 and 1974.

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Steinway & Sons

Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway, is an American-German piano company, founded in 1853 in Manhattan, New York City, the United States, by German piano builder Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later known as Henry E. Steinway).

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Steve Kimock

Steve Kimock (born October 5, 1955) is an American rock guitarist who has spent most of his life around San Francisco.

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Stinson Beach, California

Stinson Beach is a census-designated place in Marin County, California, on the west coast of the United States.

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Swing music

Swing music, or simply swing, is a form of popular music developed in the United States that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.

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The Good Brothers

The Good Brothers are a Canadian country, bluegrass and folk music group originating from Richmond Hill, Ontario.

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Tie-dye

Tie-dye is a modern term invented in the mid-1960s in the United States (but recorded in writing in an earlier form in 1941 as "tied-and-dyed", and 1909 as "tied and dyed" by Charles E. Pellew, referenced below) for a set of ancient resist-dyeing techniques, and for the products of these processes.

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Tom Constanten

Tom Constanten (born March 19, 1944, Long Branch, New Jersey, United States) is an American keyboardist, best known for playing with Grateful Dead from 1968 to 1970.

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University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (often referred to as the University of Minnesota, Minnesota, the U of M, UMN, or simply the U) is a public research university in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota.

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Wah-wah pedal

A wah-wah pedal (or simply wah pedal) is a type of electric guitar effects pedal that alters the tone and frequencies of the guitar signal to create a distinctive sound, mimicking the human voice saying the onomatopoeic name "wah-wah".

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Wake of the Flood

Wake of the Flood is the sixth studio album by rock band the Grateful Dead.

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Walnut Creek, California

Walnut Creek is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States, located in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, about east of the city of Oakland.

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Yamaha Corporation

() is a Japanese multinational corporation and conglomerate with a very wide range of products and services, predominantly musical instruments, electronics and power sports equipment.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Godchaux

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