Burning Dervish

Keith Godchaux was the third keyboard player for the Grateful Dead. His tenure with the band (Oct 71 - Feb 79) coincides, at least for the first few years, with the widely-accepted peak years of the band, in terms of audience and artistic growth. Keith was a major contributor to the band's "free" approach to arena rock through 1974.

Today would have been Keith's 60th birthday, had he not died in an auto accident a little more than a year after leaving the band (...on July 23, 1980. Ten years later Keith's successor would play his own last show with the band before dying several days later...).

This compilation contains only a very few of hundreds of highlights of Keith's years with the band. Feel free to post comments about ones I missed or even better - upload me some!

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Burning Dervish Vol 26

The Tracks

1971: Bertha from Download Series Volume 3: 10/26/71 The Palestra, Rochester, NY

1972: The Other One from Steppin' Out with the Grateful Dead: England '72

1973: Jam from Dick's Picks, Vol. 1

1974: Weirdness from The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack

1975: King Solomon's Marbles/Stronger Than Dirt (Or, Milkin' the Turkey) from One from the Vault

1976: Uncle John's Band from Live at the Cow Palace: New Years Eve 1976

1977: Truckin' from Dick's Picks, Volume 34

1978: Werewolves of London from Dick's Picks, Volume 25

1979: I Need a Miracle from 1979-02-10 - Soldier's And Sailors Memorial Hall