They secured a project to design an English version of "Disneyland" for Billy Butlin, Ronnie Smart (of the circus family) and a cinema corporation. Garnett recognised the value of being associated with clients who had sufficient money to realise a good project, be it the entertainment magnate Billy Butlin, the royal family, or the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).After studying Architecture at Manchester University, and training with firms in New York and Los Angeles, Garnett formed a practice in 1959 with Anthony Cloughley. He founded a practice there, and married Derry Needham, a local girl, yet his work took the practice to an international panoply of building sites. He brought to British architecture a high-quality contemporary style that reflected key moments in the manifestation of popular culture in the second half of the 20th century. Garnett, a founding partner in the architectural practice Garnett Cloughley Blakemore & Associates, was born in the chilly North Wales resort of Rhyl. The architect Patrick Garnett made the rare achievement of designing for the masses and for the elite with equal panache, and his career is marked by the ability to embrace the fun, the fantastic and the serious in making exciting and pleasurable leisure spaces. I'd seen that a few times at big gigs, like, when the Tubes played with Led Zeppelin.

But really the vision came true when I stepped out on the summer tours with the Grateful Dead.. Patrick Barry Garnett, architect and designer: born Rhyl, Denbighshire 11 March 1932; married 1959 Derry Needham (two sons, two daughters); died 4 May 2006. But Welnick slipped in keyboard textures of a very different sort to anyone in the Dead keyboard circle. He once told me that "getting in the band was a culmination of a vision I had I was about 11": I slammed on the brakes of my Stingray bicycle under a streetlight one night and I saw this sea of humanity with their arms outstretched and I'm standing on a stage.

is that we would think of doing the same thing at the same time With his amplification he had a lot more beef than I did I wound up getting shunted off the highway Vince had something similar. Tom Constanten, the Dead's second keyboardist (after Pigpen), said: One of the problems I had with Jerry. The fundamental problem for any keyboardist was that there were very few places to slip in notes or textures beyond vamping chords. The Dead had an uncommonly dense melodicism because it had two people playing melodies in Jerry Garcia, its lead guitarist, and Phil Lesh, playing contrapuntal melody on electric bass.

He also worked with one of the original Dead members, Bob Weir, in Ratdog. Spencer Leigh As well as depth of feeling, musical finesse and a nice sense of weirdness, Vince Welnick brought a huge knowledge of keyboards to the Grateful Dead, writes Ken Hunt. He formed the Missing Man Formation (the very name a tribute to Garcia) and wrote songs for the group's only album, released in 1998. In August 1992, the police in Atlanta made 57 arrests over three nights and gathered a remarkable haul of LSD, magic mushrooms and cocaine. By way of irony, a few days later the Dead played for military personnel in Norfolk, Virginia. In 1994 the Grateful Dead were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but Jerry Garcia's health was failing, the result of 30 years' smoking He died in August the following year and the band broke up From then until his death, Welnick suffered from depression. Welnick wrote "Samba In the Rain" with the group's lyricist, Robert Hunter, which became a stage favourite.