Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Performers · birth-card coordinate
Brent Mydland's Birth Card: The Ace of Clubs
The Creative Pioneer
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.
In the record
Brent Mydland (October 21, 1952 – July 26, 1990) was an American keyboardist, songwriter and singer. The birth-card coordinate for October 21 is the Ace of Clubs — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1994 Performers with The Grateful Dead induction.
Rock Hall record
- 1994 Performers — inducted member of The Grateful Dead
The Ace of Clubs coordinate
Brent Mydland's birthday maps to the Ace of Clubs (The Creative Pioneer). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame vote and not a verdict on Brent Mydland. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You start a new idea while it is still usable, and you let it meet the world unfinished.
Brent Mydland in the public record
He was a member of the rock band the Grateful Dead from 1979 until his death in 1990, a longer tenure than any other keyboardist in the band. Growing up in Concord, California, Mydland took up music while in elementary school. After graduation, he played with a number of bands and recorded one album with Silver before joining Bobby and the Midnites with Bob Weir and jazz veterans Billy Cobham and Alphonso Johnson. This led to an invitation to join the Dead in 1979, replacing Keith Godchaux. Mydland quickly became an important member in the Dead, using a variety of keyboards including Hammond organ and various synthesizers and singing regularly. He wrote several songs on the band's studio albums released while he was a member. In between touring, mid summer 1990, Mydland died of an accidental drug overdose.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Brent Mydland (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the cards
Cards in Brent Mydland's fixed path
Birth card and karma
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- Q♣ — Life Spread — Mercury
- 5♣ — Life Spread — Mars
- 3♦ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- A♠ — Life Spread — Saturn
- 7♥ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 7♦ — Life Spread — Neptune
- 5♠ — Life Spread — Pluto
- J♥ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
No sentence in the sourced record shows a clear echo of the published language for A♣, 2♥, 10♠, Q♥, 4♥, Q♣, 5♣, 3♦, A♠, 7♥, 7♦, 5♠, J♥, 9♣, 9♠. None is claimed here. The coordinate rests on the calendar date alone, and this page does not forecast induction.
Other inductees with this card
- Bruce Springsteen — 1999 Performers
- Charlotte Caffey — 2021 Performers with The Go-Go's
- Darryl "D.M.C." McDaniels — 2009 Performers with Run-DMC
- Eddie Kendricks — 1989 Performers with The Temptations
- Elvin Bishop — 2015 Performers with The Paul Butterfield Blues Band
- Elvis Costello — 2003 Performers with Elvis Costello & the Attractions
- Gene Simmons — 2014 Performers with Kiss
- Harvey Fuqua — 2000 Performers with The Moonglows
- Ian Paice — 2016 Performers with Deep Purple
- John Bonham — 1995 Performers with Led Zeppelin
- Lee Loughnane — 2016 Performers with Chicago
- Matt Sorum — 2012 Performers with Guns N' Roses
- 10 more inductees share this card.
FAQ
- What is Brent Mydland's birth card?
- The Ace of Clubs. October 21 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Rock Hall induction?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
- Where do Brent Mydland's dates come from?
- Birth date 1952-10-21 is the day-precision date on Brent Mydland's Wikipedia infobox, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Inductee identity comes from the Wikipedia Performers list, which cites RockHall.com. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: RockHall.com (induction record) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Performers list, Brent Mydland) + Wikidata CC0 (Q909786). Birth date 1952-10-21 is the Wikipedia infobox day, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).