Missing Man Formation (1998) is the name of a band put together by former Grateful Dead keyboard player Vince Welnick, featuring Vince, Steve Kilmock, Prairie Prince, Bobby Vega and others, and is also the title of their first (and only to date) album. The album includes a version of "Samba in the Rain" (written for the Dead by Welnick and Robert Hunter) and another Welnick/Hunter song "Golden Stairs" and "Devil I know" by Welnick with John Perry Barlow and Bob Bralove]. The Grateful Dead was an American psychedelia-influenced rock band formed in 1965 in San Francisco. ... Image:Welnick lg. ... Prairie Prince Prairie Prince is a rock drummer. ... Robert Hunter may refer to: In politics: General Robert Hunter (1664/1666â1734), Lieutenant Governor of Virginia Colony, Governor of New York, New Jersey, Jamaica Robert C. Hunter (born 1944), U.S. judge, North Carolina Court of Appeals Robert E. Hunter, U.S. Ambassador to NATO Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter... John Perry Barlow (born Jackson Hole, Wyoming, October 3, 1947) is an American poet, essayist, retired Wyoming cattle rancher, and former lyricist for the Grateful Dead. ...