McKernan developed a close friendship with Constanten based on their mutual aversion to psychedelics and eventually served as his best man when Constanten wed. After Constanten's departure in January 1970 over musical and lifestyle differences, McKernan resumed keyboard duties.

Adding to the psychedelic madness on the album was Tom Constanten, a friend of bassist Phil Lesh who joined the band in the studio to provide piano and prepared piano and " electronic tape " effects ( influenced by John Cage ) tracks ; Constanten would formally join the band in November 1968.

* Tom Constanten – keyboards, production, arrangements

* Tom Constanten ( born 1944 ), musician, former keyboardist for the Grateful Dead.

In 1967 and 1968 respectively, Mickey Hart and Tom Constanten joined the Grateful Dead, causing the band to take a stylistic turn from the blues toward full-blown experimental psychedelia influenced by avant-garde jazz, surrealism, and world music traditions.

In November 1968, Constanten was hired full time for the band, having only worked in the studio up to that point.

" A landmark live album that captured the Grateful Dead's improvisations at their best — Allmusic would write that " Few recordings have ever represented the essence of an artist in performance as faithfully as Live / Dead "— it is also the final album with keyboardist Tom Constanten.

The album was a financial success for the band in the eyes of their label, Warner Bros. Constanten had commented that " Warner Bros. had pointed out that they had sunk $ 100, 000-plus into Aoxomoxoa ... so someone had the idea that if we sent them a double live album, three discs for the price of one wouldn't be such a bad deal.

* Tom Constanten ( T. C.

) After transferring with sophomore standing to the University of California, Berkeley in 1961, he befriended future Grateful Dead keyboardist Tom Constanten before dropping out after less than a semester.

At the behest of Constanten, he studied under the Italian modernist Luciano Berio in a graduate-level course at Mills College in the spring of 1962 ; their classmates included Steve Reich and Stanford University cross-registrant John Chowning.

Following a a brief period rooming with Constanten in Las Vegas, a stint with the United States Postal Service, and a collaboration with Reich, Lesh was talked into becoming the bass guitarist for Garcia's new rock group, then known as the Warlocks, in the fall of 1964.

Constanten made it so that the piano pieces seemed like three gamelan orchestras were playing all at once.

It is also the first album with Tom Constanten as an official member of the band.

It is the first studio release to include pianist Tom Constanten as a permanent member.

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Wealth-producing primary sector jobs in the U. S. such as those in manufacturing and computer software have often been replaced by much lower paying wealth-consuming jobs such as those in retail and government in the service sector when the economy recovered from recessions.

The shooter is often replaced at the end of the round or when they lose a round with a seven.

The disks were worn around the neck on a 38 " length of cotton cord, this was often replaced by the wearer with a leather bootlace.

The Soroban system was notoriously unreliable, and often replaced with a modified Friden Flexowriter, which also contained its own punch tape system.

On some doors, especially antique ones, the battens are replaced with iron bars that are often built into the hinges as extensions of the door-side plates.

Infix "*" is often replaced by simple concatenation, as in standard algebra.

In web forums, instant messengers and online games, text emoticons are often automatically replaced with small corresponding images, which came to be called emoticons as well.

Demonstrated ability in reading, mathematics, and writing, as typically measured in the United States by the SAT or similar tests such as the ACT, have often replaced colleges individual entrance exams, and is often required for admission to higher education.

The 8080 device, often described as the first truly useful microprocessor, was eventually replaced by the depletion-load based 8085 ( 1977 ) which could cope with a single 5V power supply instead of the three different operating voltages of earlier chips.

These instruments often had bodies covered with animal skin, and it is unknown exactly when it became replaced with a wooden soundboard.

This was often accomplished by either pointing the vectors in ROM to a jump table in RAM, or through use of bank-switching to allow the ROM to be replaced by RAM at runtime.

Jingles are often replaced by recorded voice-overs ( called " stingers ").

As the Germanic kingdoms succeeded Roman authority in the West in the fifth century, Roman landlords were often simply replaced by Gothic or Germanic ones, with little change to the underlying situation or displacement of populations.

Defendants recall the ancient Chinese proverb ' Wealth does not pass three generations ', suggesting that the nepotism or cronyism of elitists will eventually be, and often are, replaced by those lower down the hierarchy.

With responsibility over personnel, working together with Andropov, 20 percent of the top echelon of government ministers and regional governors were replaced, often with younger men.

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This is often the subject of parody, for example in the Simpsons episode " Radioactive Man " where the onomatopoeic words are replaced with snuh !, newt!

Function calls and blocks of code, such as code contained within a loop, are often replaced by a one-line natural language sentence.

In the earliest rock and roll styles of the late 1940s and early 1950s, either the piano or saxophone was often the lead instrument, but these were generally replaced or supplemented by guitar in the middle to late 1950s.

Many rifles, often referred to as rifled muskets, were very similar to the muskets they replaced, but the military also experimented with other designs.

Although still used in general contexts, it is now often replaced by other words which are less emotionally charged, such as populations, people ( s ), ethnic groups or communities depending on context.

Starting around 1991, this symbol was often replaced by a variant star and swirl symbol as a public relations move, particularly toward Israel.

Changes in the council occur typically only if one of the members resigns ( merely four incumbent members were voted out of the office in over 150 years ); this member is almost always replaced by someone from the same party ( and often also from the same linguistic group ).

The men crying love poems in an orchard on any summer's night are as often as not the lutihaw, mustachioed toughs who spend most of their lives in and out of the local prisons, brothels, and teahouses.

Our collective policies, group and national, are similarly based on voodoo, but here we often lack even the empirically successful rituals and are still engaged in determing them.

She would often go up on the roof to see the attendant take down the flag in the evening.

Tolerance and compromise, social justice and civil liberty, are today too often in short supply for one to be overly critical of Trevelyan's emphasis on their central place in the English tradition.

The religious quest is often intense and deep, and there are students on every campus who are seriously wrestling with the most profound questions of meaning and value.

Those who do have occasion to deal with the invasions in a more general way, like T.W. Shore and Arthur Wade-Evans, are on the side of a gradual and often peaceful Germanic penetration into Britain.

But his greatest achievement, in his own eyes and in the eyes of his colleagues and teachers, was his amazing ability to produce literary Latin pieces, and he was often called on to do so.

The tiny hamlet of Chesterton to the north, with the fens and marshes lying on down the Ouse River, may have attracted him often, as it did many other youths of the time.

Sociological jargon, Germano-Slavic approximations to English, third-rate but modish fiction, and outrages to common sense have often disfigured Partisan, and in lesser degree, the other magazines on the list.

And to top it all I am often sentimental on purpose, trying to prove to myself that I am not afraid of sentiment.

Too often in the past Russian tactics have been used to justify like tactics on our part.

As another Thanksgiving draws near, let us take time out from the often hectic pace of our lives to try and recapture the feelings that filled the hearts of the Pilgrims on the first Thanksgiving.

Furthermore, unexpectedly rapid progress or a technological break-through on any one weapon system, in itself, often diminishes the relative importance of other competitive systems.

My friend often breakfasted with Vernon on the morning of the regular tallyho run.

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But even on these, the palette often takes over while the shotgun cools off!!

Except for a rich friendship with the painter, Chauncey Ryder who gave him the only professional instruction he ever had -- and this was limited to a few lessons, though the two artists often went on painting trips together -- Roy developed his art by himself.

Promotion is too often based on longevity and time in salary grade instead of merit.

Following observation of the fact that the reaction rates of supposedly identical reaction mixtures prepared on the same filling manifold and exposed under identical conditions often differed by several hundred per cent, a systematic series of experiments was undertaken to see whether the difficulty could be ascribed to the method of preparing the chlorine, to the effects of oxygen or moisture or to the effect of surface to volume ratio in the reaction tubes.

Quite often, honeybees form a majority on the willow catkins.

But the information on the dynamics of population was often quite misleading.

These students, although they might read various articles in popular magazines, more often chose to report on articles found in the journals.

A somewhat less fragmented hebephrenic patient of mine, who used to often seclude herself in her room, often sounded through the closed door -- as I would find on passing by, between our sessions -- for all the world like two persons, a scolding mother and a defensive child.

But the quest for such an index goes on ceaselessly, with all manner of investors and speculators participating, ranging from the sedate institutional type virtually to the proverbial shoe-string operator, all seeking doggedly, studiously, daily -- and often nightly -- for the enchanting index that will foretell the eternal secret: Which way will the market move -- up or down??