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- Katie Mae (Incomplete)
Ain't it Crazy (The Rub) (Fades in)
Roberta
Bring Me My Shotgun
The Mighty Flood
Black Snake
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan
Recorded at the Family Dog concert hall in San Francisco on April 18, 1970
Pig's set is two Lightnin' Hopkins covers, two originals/ad-libs and two John Lee Hooker covers. Given his more limited guitar skills, he stays in the same key and reuses the same couple of riffs for all songs. Setlists for decades included an unidentified "Walk Down the Street". It was later secured that this is Hopkins' Bring Me My Shotgun. But wait. While that song was missed by setlists, note that Pig plays that for a bit, but then he does continue with an original, featuring the "Walk Down the Street" lyrics. He also ad-libs through part of John Lee Hooker's Tupelo Blues (The Flood).
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Ronald Charles McKernan, known as Pigpen, was an American singer and musician. He was a founding member of the Grateful Dead and played in the group from 1965 to 1972.
Rock Scully said Pig was in his most natural state with a guitar and some Southern Comfort.
Pigpen…. He was the R&B soul of this band. Straight up. When he tears into ‘Lovelight’, honors Otis Redding with his rendition of Hard to Handle or the bouncing ‘Mr. Charlie’ it just was so killing! When I was 7 years old (1975) my babysitter was a family friend visiting from SF, and he had a tape of Skeletons from the closet. that was when I first heard the Dead and it was ‘Lovelight’ that knocked my socks off.
Deadhead since '66. Never knew anything like this existed. Very good.
you got me beat by 2yrs! rock on
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I had a bootleg a long time ago titled pigpen solos he was playing blues on a piano
much love and light Ron Mckernan...you and Janice were a hoot..
His guitar playing is super fluid. Pigpen is incredibly underrated.
Not by us in our seventies
He is truly special.
Pig pen was the best era of the dead. About the only era i listen too. So much soul in this man it brings tears to my eyes
He didn’t live long enough to get imprinted on people’s memories
@@keeganconnolly7409hes got so much charisma too. “Go on, pick out any one you want. Tell em Pigpen said it was ok” 😂
Lovin' a little
Ron McKernan
⚡️P I G P E N ⚡️
Og blue dawg
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Yes! Blue Dawg
Just happened to stumble on this EXACTLY 54 years later. Gold
Big Lightning Hopkins freak & natural blues singer-mind blower
Yes! Great comment from a man who can blow that harp like James Cotton
Great set! Pigpen was a natural blues man
Ron Sang The First Track😎👍 When Him And Jerry Were In Mother's Mc'Gees Up Town Jug-Band🙏
R-I-P Jerry🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶😭🎸🌹🪐
Fuck yes.
This! Is the most appropriate response.
great name for a band... pigpen! (with the exclamation point) what an awesome band that woulda been, 27 club.........janis, robert, john, jimi, jim, blind owl, chris, kurt, amy, we miss you all , and love you all. thank you for what you all gave us.
Brian Jones
Hippies with guns I love it
yes. somewhere out in cyberspace is the vid of the Hells Angels layin Pig to rest. dont know how the dead took that, and dont care. RIP Pigpen
🌹Rest easy beautiful Pigpen
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could listen to this all night long 💜✌🏼
I can't not listen to it but every day at 4:20. Long live the pig And Jerry 2.
i love me some pigpen. love me some grateful dead. tooo.
Im 40 this year, Pigpen was the man
Pigpen!! 😎
Ron Was Excellent....⭐⭐⭐⭐
....Did I mention this was amazing
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He is Eternal. 🙏🌹
Pigpen: Greatest of all the Deadheads! 🍺💪🏼(~):}
The song at 14:00...
I was just listening to the wake of the flood podcast about the vanport flood in 48.
Hunter lived there with his mom after his dad left them. He and a friend had a rowboat they would go adventure in and when the floods came they went out trying to save people and livestock. Row Jimmy anyone? Here comes sunshine... The whole album is about the story.
Neat pigpen picked up the story and made a song.
Love this
My favorite member of the Dead. May he RIP.
Rest in peace sir.
awesome totally
I love that photo o of Bob Dylan holding the Pigpen sign.
Thank you for an excellent collection of McKernan Blues.
So awesome! Thank you!
I love all the pictures. Thanks!
Incredible cuts!!!!! Thank you for this!
Am I seeing things only 2 likes thanks GT long live the pig long live Jerry
Pigpen was a wonderfully talented bluesman. I love listening to him to this day. His format became too limited for Jerry and the rest of the band's increasing talents. I miss Pig.
Beautiful. Great Photos!
It’s crazy to think that this is a show where Jerry was playing in Mickey in the heartbeats. Jerry was trying to see if he could have a band without Pigpen or Bob Weir in it - I imagine he was backstage, caught a little listen to this and realized, however, deep he was gone with dark star he couldn’t be as deep as Pigpen was singing Katie May
That happened long before this show . This show happened in 1970. Jerry forming a band without Bob and pigpen was several years before this .
😀cool upload!...🌺
superior slide show, GT!!!✌
GT, my dude... it's so cute... dat u think... I gots me an email... I ain't too tech savvy..
Its all good... well almost good... I got me... a big day 2morrow... I gotz 2 say... good byes... to my Bestest... NY friend... he's moving out of state... South Carolina... I'm devastated... be sides myself... really... C'mon, now... it's just too much for me to takes .. wish me luck ☘... for tomorrow... it's my last chance... at a hug... with one of my bestest... New York friends ☘
Sorry your friend is moving, but now you have the perfect excuse to visit S. Carolina. And you can stop and see Josh Daniel on the way.
Hey this is awesome ✨🙏✨
Riff on Canned Heat's 'London Blues' or Hopkins's War. #OutstandingIntro #Pigpen
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That picture at 14:46 must be near the end. Never seen one of Pig with Keith in it before.
Europe 72?
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Shotgun blues is by lightning Hopkins
Never knew this existed
the dead were always pigs rhythm section..... tha next dead were just as good, just not the same.......
How often did pigpen do this ? Im sure not often. Too bad he didnt record a solo album. This is great
Pig could of brought out some beautiful solo cowboy albums,may he rest.Just pigpen doing his thing could made some glorious albums.Original rocknroll outlaw that was him.
Crazy how much weight Pig Pen lost as his health started going downhill .
Pig should have been the deads opening act every show.. better yet, the dead should have been his opening act.
What the hell, Pigpen is a great guitar player too?
Reincarnated 20s bluesman in a 60s-70s world.
Tru leader be4 he was 27 club rip
This is great, except for the f’n commercials that hit like train wreck . Damn that hurts!😢
Get TH-cam premium. I share my daughters.
That’s not the point. No one should be making money of this music except the musicians and/or the producers.
datt sommtin orr wott?
I drank hard liquor every night till early in the morning in my twenties. And I’m fine. How much freaking drinking do you have do to get sirrosis of the liver and die at 27. Smh😢
That does seem crazy. Maybe another factor, another toxin. Or maybe people are just different.
Probably something else going on to,combined with the liquor it ain’t always booze that gets your liver.
He had genetic liver issues. That with heavy drinking is what hurt him.
100%. Not listening and most importantly, hearing this… is to not understand the beginning, the genesis of the Grateful Dead. Pigpen was the Grateful Dead. Don’t you ever forget that! @bryanswagerty
Try 1969, not 70
Pigpen was the shit
About as authentic it gets......real down home shit . Biggest influence to my playing next lightnin hopkins for sure.