RIP Vince

Learned of this on Saturday:

Vince Welnick, a keyboardist who possessed a fluid and precise style and played with the Tubes, Todd Rundgren and the Grateful Dead, died Friday in Sonoma County at the age of 55.

The cause appears to be suicide, Sonoma County sheriff's department said.

That makes four out of four Grateful Dead keyboardists dead before their time (Pigpen: liver failure at age of 27, Keith Godchaux: motorcycle accident, Brent Mydland: cocaine overdose, Welnick: suicide).

Very sad.