I'm always looking for video footage of the Grateful Dead featuring Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, and here he is, belting out a very immortal (hmm, I guess "immoral" depending on your point of view) version of what was their best Pigpen song -- "Turn on Your Lovelight."
When and where, I don't know. The provider simply said "Had to share this,......whatever the date."
Whatever is fine with me. This is exactly the way the band looked and sounded when I first saw them and fell in love with their music.
(Not sure whether there are other early Dead fans out there, but in case there are, I posted another Pigpen video here.)
MORE: At the end of the song, I recognized John Dawson (perhaps it's David Nelson) of the New Riders of the Purple Sage standing in the back. This would date the video from 1970-1971 (when NRPS played as their opening act, and when I became a Deadhead).
(The Internet can fill in some very spaced out memory blanks....)
posted by Eric on 07.05.07 at 05:26 PM
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Small world. Their drummer has a house on Kauai and my sister was over their last weekend. She was a Dead Head for 20 years, lol. She took me, I was 12 or 13, to a Dead show. All I remember now is the guy in his underwear in the tall tree screaming. Oh, and the 30-40 minute guitar solo... WahhhWahhhhWahhhhWahhhhWahhh... Oh, another memory... was that my sister, computer science major, honor roll student, spinning around like a burlapped drunk dervish in slow motion? Hehehehe.
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Small world. Their drummer has a house on Kauai and my sister was over their last weekend. She was a Dead Head for 20 years, lol. She took me, I was 12 or 13, to a Dead show. All I remember now is the guy in his underwear in the tall tree screaming. Oh, and the 30-40 minute guitar solo... WahhhWahhhhWahhhhWahhhhWahhh... Oh, another memory... was that my sister, computer science major, honor roll student, spinning around like a burlapped drunk dervish in slow motion? Hehehehe.