Grateful Dead:

Vince Welnick (pictured here) dodged the proverbial bullet that seemed aimed at the Grateful Dead's most fatal position when singer/songwriter and guitarist Jerry Garcia died in 1995. Until then, Welnick had spent five years covering keyboard and harmony vocal parts -- a position... more previously held by Brent Mydland who died in 1990, Keith Godchaux who died in 1980, and Ron "Pigpen" McKernan who died in 1973.
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