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He led his own band as Merl Saunders and Friends, playing live dates with Garcia, as well as Mike Bloomfield, David Grisman, Michael Hinton, Tom Fogerty, Vassar Clements, Kenneth Nash, John Kahn and Sheila E. He also collaborated with Grateful Dead percussionist Mickey Hart in the band High Noon.
Grateful Dead is a live album by rock band the Grateful Dead. Released on September 24, 1971 [3] on Warner Bros. Records, it is their second live double album and their seventh album overall. Although published without a title, it is generally known by the names Skull and Roses (due to its iconic cover art) and Skull Fuck (the name the band ...
Oct 26, 2008 · The Dead Family lost another one of its finest when keyboardist extraordinaire Merl Saunders died on Friday, October 24, at the age of 74.
Sad Sad Day (10-24) 16:44 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Keyboardist Merl Saunders, the gentle lion of the San Francisco music scene best known as co-captain of guitarist Jerry Garcia's solo excursions outside the Grateful Dead, died Friday at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, after fighting infections.
Oct 24, 2021 · Perhaps more so than any other album, The Grateful Dead's second live LP 'Skull and Roses' created legions of Deadheads around the world.
Merl Saunders. Merl Saunders started his professional music career playing in show bands and jazz groups. He started to collaborate with Jerry Garcia in 1971 and their groups, the Garcia / Saunders Band and Legion Of Mary, were Garcia main away from the Grateful Dead vehicle from 1972 to 1975.
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Oct 24, 2008 · Keyboardist Merl Saunders, a longtime collaborator with the Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Band, died this morning at Kaiser Hospital in San Francisco after complications from a stroke.
