Tom Constanten

Musician, primarily keyboardist, born March 19 is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap years). ...March 19, 1944 was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...1944, best known for his stint with the Jerry Garcia later in life The Grateful Dead was an American rock band, which was formed in 1965 in San Francisco from the remnants of another band, Mother McCrees Uptown Jug Champions. ...Grateful Dead from 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...1968- 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ...1970. Known as "T.C.", he studied music at U.C. Berkeley, where he met Phillip Chapman Lesh (born March 15, 1940) was a founding member of the band Grateful Dead, and played bass guitar in the band from 1965 to 1995. ...Phil Lesh. At this age, T.C. was known to toss around phrases like "Music stopped being created in 1750 but it started again in 1950." He and Lesh studied with Luciano Berio (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian composer. ...Luciano Berio, the Italian modernist composer, and both were influenced by Gustav Mahler Gustav Mahler (July 7, 1860 – May 18, 1911) was best known in his own time as one of the leading Austrian conductors of his day, but is now remembered as an important composer linking the late 19th century with the modern musical period, particularly for his vast symphonies...Mahler. Though not a member of the Jerry Garcia later in life The Grateful Dead was an American rock band, which was formed in 1965 in San Francisco from the remnants of another band, Mother McCrees Uptown Jug Champions. ...Grateful Dead yet, T.C. played prepared piano on the group's second album, Anthem of the Sun, and formally joined them in November is the eleventh month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four Gregorian months with the length of 30 days. ...November of 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...1968, to supplement Pigpen's weak organ playing. He also played keyboards on 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ...1969's Aoxomoxoa release, and left the band in January is the first month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ...January 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ...1970. Dennis McNally (later the band's publicist) argues that he did not fit in with the Dead ethos; for example, he followed Scientology is a system of beliefs and teachings, originally established as a secular philosophy in 1952 by author L. Ron Hubbard, and subsequently reoriented from 1953 as an applied religious philosophy. It is most prominently represented by the Church of Scientology. ...Scientology and refused to take LSD blotter paper D-Lysergic Acid Diethylamide, commonly called acid, LSD, or LSD-25, is a powerful semisynthetic hallucinogen and psychedelic entheogen. ...LSD.

In terms of recorded output, Constanten became more active in the early 1990s, releasing an album of classical sonatas, as well as two albums mixing original material with a few Dead songs, and one album (Dead Ringers) entirely composed of Dead and Dylan songs. T.C. has toured several times over the last ten years.

References

McNally, Dennis. A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead. New York: Broadway Books, 2002. ISBN 0-7679-1186-5

External Links

Grateful Dead Family Discography: Tom Constanten (http://www.deaddisc.com/GDFD_Tom_Constanten.htm)