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Mickey Hart called him the real musician of the Grateful Dead.
Jerry Garcia said the band as they knew it died when he did.
He's been gone for 50 years.
On March 8, 1973, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, a founding member of the Dead, died at the tragically young age of 27.
Jerry Garcia said the band as they knew it died when he did.
He's been gone for 50 years.
On March 8, 1973, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, a founding member of the Dead, died at the tragically young age of 27.
It's hard to love the Dead without loving Pigpen. He was all energy, passion, raw talent.
In honor of the band's only ever frontman, here is a list of the Top 10 Pigpen songs.
In honor of the band's only ever frontman, here is a list of the Top 10 Pigpen songs.
Instead of just listing them (in no particular order btw) we tried our best to include an iconic performance so you can tune in and celebrate his life through the recordings.
The music never stops.
The music never stops.
[1/4] Augustus Owsley Stanley III, aka "Bear," was born OTD in 1935. Perhaps best known for making the LSD that fueled the Summer of Love (thus inspiring the Steely Dan song "Kid Charlemagne"), Bear was much more than that. [📸Amalie Rothschild]
[2/4] As sound man and mentor to @GratefulDead, Bear began the practice of taping the band every night so they could learn from their own performances. #Deadheads turned that into a global community. Bear's Sonic Journals also captured many other bands with astonishing clarity.
[3/4] Bear's innovative concepts for the @GratefulDead's sound system (based in his experiences of #synesthesia, and culminating in the awesome-sounding but impractical "Wall of Sound" in 1974) transformed modern concert sound for the whole rock-touring industry. [📸Kirk West]
