Good Ol' Grateful Deadcast: The Adventures of Pigpen (S07 E01)

[@alt0799]

Pigpen is a legend. He just had something the other members didn't have. What's so cool about him is that he never fought for the extra attention, but when it was his turn to shine, he SHINED. In any other band he probably would have been the lead. Most of his songs are absolute bangers, rarely a single one I dislike. All quality over quantity. Easy Wind, Operator, Mr Charlie, The Stranger, Hard to Handle and of course Turn on Your Lovelight!!

[@striderranger7384]

I thought the original vinyl of Bears Choice released summer 1973 was as close to a perfect Grateful Dead album as it would ever be during the life of the band. I was very fortunate to have seen the Dead over 20 times with Pigpen. One of those times , Stony Brook College I met Pigpen after a very long night of a peak performance from the Dead. It was just a “thank you Pigpen” to where he asked me “did you have a good time?” My reply “ an incredible time”( or something like that) and he then said “That’s good”. I remember where I was 50 years ago today, driving when the DJ on the underground radio station (WNEW?) announced his passing. I have my old Pigpen T-shirt 2nd printing 1990s from G.D. (murch) sic. Easy Wind, one of the great Hunter/ McKernan collaborations and vital electric blues jams in the “History of the Grateful Dead”. Without Pigpen there would have never been the Grateful Dead.

[@Tipi_Dan]

Yo.

[@mannyjackson1048]

Now i never followed all 🎶Dead🎶 tours. But i still can't count all the show's I've seen them play from 1969 until Jerry passed away from California, New York, New Jersey, Florida. Still love the 🎶DEAD🎶 AND THEIR MUSIC WILL COME WITH ME TO MY CREMATION THEN ASHED IN THE OCEAN SOON. 🌴🎶✌🏄‍♂️🏄‍♂️🏄‍♂️✌🎶🌴

[@Coolonhotwheels]

Your Pod casts bring tears to my eyes. MY GOD I WAS BORN IN 1961 AND THATS WHEN IT WAS JUST STARTING THE BEST MUSICIANS To me EVER All the interviews Fricking Awesome ❤love it.

[@noodle71110]

There's a lot of overlapping talking and voices. I checked and the same problem is on Spotify :/

[@timothykealey3595]

Yep noticed the same around the 7 min mark :(

[@michaelfrieze]

Yep, I’m sure they will fix it soon

[@susiefairfield7218]

Same...for trippy effect or editing snaffo? Happens again at 24 mins

[@BreadLobby]

Lol think of it as an acid effect

[@mannyjackson1048]

Talking about Pigpen reminds me when i was 14 and they played at Princeton University in New Jersey. Well at 14 i was about the size of a midget. But me and and my buddy we're so excited cause we lived in the next suberb down in Lawrenceville. So we hitch hiked into Princeton, 4 miles away, got to the auditorium as the Rodies we're setten up the bands equipment. Back then security was lax so they we're cool with 2 14 year old kids cruisen around in awe at the set up. Even got to see the band do some practice songs before the show and met them all cause my friend and me were the only people their at 4 in the afternoon pre show at 8. 😃😃😃 A memory i will never forget. I was so small that when the show started and the auditorium filled up. Me and my friend sitting on the stage. But when ya gotta pee ya gotta pee. To my advantage cause i could literally walk fast under big people's legs to go to the head, come back to my spot with no one getting upset with me. 🌴😃🤙🤙🤙🤙😃🌴

[@susiefairfield7218]

My first show..was 13..got grabbed and swung up into a Guy's shoulders at Lewistown Maine because of the crush. As the show went on..i felt sprinkles on me..i was swappin sweat with the Cat whose shoulders i was on. By mid set...bout when Feels Like A Stranger started...and i realized i was getting off! It was all i could do to hold on tight and not let go .. walstib...

[@gregoryg3256]

@@susiefairfield7218 ooh my gawd...wild story..wow..I remember u from the christmas Yule log dead thing...I 'm working on completing my remastered dead collection..I'm almost done, best wishes 2 u...🌠🔥🌎

[@ronniecapitanelli3729]

~ Summer Of “74” Roosevelt Stadium 🏟 Jersey City 😌 🎼Wave That Flag 🎶 🇺🇸☮️

[@burger698]

love your comment, I wish i could say i had you beat and that I was born at woodstok but I was only born on that same weekend, mom blames me for missing that one hehe.

[@mannyjackson1048]

@@burger698 Haha, poor mom. Hey, least u we're able to see the best jam band that ever lived. 🌴🎶😃✌🏄‍♂️🏄‍♂️✌😃🎶🌴

[@mikeopdenaker5573]

Fantastic, in depth,full of stories I never heard before!

[@fesquemonkey9784]

Mike I bet you opt for knockers🎯🎯

[@jwconstruction9065]

Thanks for comin back. U guys were sorely missed

[@veneta72]

Is there an audio overlap problem here ie 7:40 in ?

[@drummer78]

I noticed that too…I thought it was just on my end.

[@susiefairfield7218]

Happy 50th Anniversary Ron PigPen McKernan🐺 🎩👌🏼🤗💓💖💓🔥💃🔥💞

[@billpolits7594]

Rich & Jessie - I have read about 10 books on the GD, avid amateur GD history buff, listened to all the GOGDcasts at least 2 x, and this installment beats everything out there from the amateur days of the band by far. The Palo Alto days are covered mostly from a Merry Pranksters angle, but this McKernan angle is the deepest so far when you think about the where roots music became rock. Illuminated by your work here on the 1st star/showman of the band, the picture is much richer. Thanks!

[@tonys9102]

Great surprise to hear a shout-out to the late Billy Miller and Miriam Linna at about 41:00. The two of them have overseen some spectacular reissues -- and were behind the Kicks fanzine, one of the more irreverent rock publications. These two, and their Kicks scribes, turned me onto tons of forgotten music like Ronnie Self, Sparkle Moore, Ron Haydock, the Bobby Fuller Four, and scads more.

[@poisin224]

I love the podcast, but the section from 24:20 to 24:36 is nearly unlistenable because of the competing voices.

[@bluesriot2]

wow thanks for this grate guided tour over some hallowed ground

[@75sliver]

Pigpen died of old age at 27. RIP.

[@BrandonYusufToropov]

great stuff but I think there's an unintended overlap at around 24:24. Love your podcast!

[@AylaRose]

If anyone knows how to contact Jim Sullivan... I'd forever be indebted....I had a dear friend, Jeff Perry, who passed a few years ago, that was also friends with Pigs little brother...and if he has any Jeff stories, I'd love to hear them. I'm so happy to learn, as would Jeff, that Sully is the keeper of the Pigpen archive. What a great episode. My journey with The Dead is extrinsically linked with Jeff, so to learn anything new would mean the world to me. Interesting to hear Courtney Loves father, Hank Harrison, mentioned. I didn't realize he had conducted any interviews with the members.

[@ronniecapitanelli3729]

🎼Big Boss Man ..!

[@sariathunderfalcon1764]

I love Pigpen!

[@floepiejane]

Oh, man. I can't listen until later, but yaaaaayyyyy! I'm grateful (~);-}

[@jasonlambert5552]

Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions was really an amazing album experience

[@mrdefinitely8769]

love the pig!

[@Tipi_Dan]

Very interesting. Is there enough material for a Pig Pen album? We were wishing for one after "Ace" came out. Then we lost Pig just a few months later.

[@nrps]

Such a short short time to be here and a long time to be gonnnhhhueeeeeeeyyylong long time to be there and a short time to be gone

[@ONSLAWTT]

Crazy to know the Dead fire him, along with Weir, for a short time in the late 60s

[@mattdavis911]

Live 5 years if I take my time, ballin that Jack n drinkin my wine

[@ocoeepicture]

the only Dead related sticker i've had on a car of mine is one of Pigpen

[@daveyboy8907]

He had such soul. 🐖

[@danielodom3839]

PP and Captain Beefheart ( Don Van Vliet )were made from the same mold.

[@kevink8074]

I wonder why he was nicknamed "rims" during his middle school years?

[@gregoryg3256]

🌠ooh Pigpen=Blues Man & 27 club..& Friend of Janis Joplin... maaan whats u think I'm tryin to do ? pigpen talk before Katie may

[@danrode104]

27! So so sad..

[@harambehigginsjr7681]

Love Pigpen He was the Grateful Dead and the band died when He died

[@rickdworsky6457]

it all happens in this moment while you're here, if you're here

[@mannyjackson1048]

Thank God for sanity for how fucked up this World is we live in here in 2023. 🎶🎶But the music keeps me going with THEE BEST JAM BAND EVER, EVEN TO THIS DAY🎶 MY FIRST SHOW. ATHEM OF THE SUN ALBUM THEY WE'RE PROMOTING. FILLMORE EAST 1969. 13 THEN. 67 NOW AND STILL A GROOVEN. PEACE UP ALL 🎶DEAD HEAD'S WORLD WIDE.🎶 Stevo in Bali. 🌴🎶😃🤙🐬🏄‍♂️🏄‍♂️🏄‍♂️🐬🤙😃🎶🌴

[@fesquemonkey9784]

Mike Opts for knockers 🎯🎯

[@davidhahnbirds]

👂 🌎 🐖