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Star keyboardist Merl Saunders dies

(10-24) 16:44 PDT SAN FRANCISCO—Keyboardist Merl Saunders, the gentle lion of the San Francisco music scene best known as co-captain of guitarist Jerry Garcia’s solo excursions outside the Grateful Dead, died Friday at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center after fighting infections.

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We toured with him several times.

That’s when you get to know someone.

What a beautiful human being…