![]() I had never performed live before I went on stage with the Grateful Dead, and that was just months before boom, we’re off to Europe.” “That was my first foray into the Grateful Dead ensemble singing, and so I had to find my way,” she says. ![]() 31 of that year in San Francisco.Ī benefit for the Hells Angels followed at the Academy of Music in New York in March 1972, and then it was off to Europe, with Donna part of an unparalleled five-singer lineup for the Dead that included guitarists Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir, bassist Phil Lesh and harmonica player/organist Ron “Pigpen” McKernan. Her then-husband, piano player Keith Godchaux, joined in October 1971, and Donna sang live with the band for the first time on Dec. The tour arrived at the beginning of Godchaux-MacKay’s time with the band.
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