Grateful Dead, Pigpen, Easy Wind 7-1-70 Winnipeg Canada
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This song should be the theme song for Swamp People...hehe.
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"Easy wind cross the bayou today
There's a whole lotta women, mama,
Out in red on the streets today.
And the river keep a talkin'
But you never hear a word it say"
Thanks to Hunter for the lyrics and PIG for the SOUL...RIP.
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@robicork TRUE STORY
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I live five years if I take my time,
Ballin' that jack and drinkin' my wine.....
He was dead within three...Rest in Peace!
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Amazing! This band rocks!
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I don't give a fuck what anyone says about pippen!!!!! He was and is simpley amasing...cuz ya know he's playing up above right now
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@pscans321 I didn't care for them much when a friend introduced me to them. Then, I listened to American Beauty. They have changed my life :)
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@TheElissaS Agree, but I'd also add that Lesh and Garcia had something going that was more than the sum of their parts.
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@sc0ner Yes, he was the most bad ass member of the band and had the biker cred. IMHO the Dead lost a step when he passed on. They would have even been bigger if Ron had lived. Kind of like you need a good running game, along with passing. Pig took the band in a much tougher bluesier direction, to the point where Jerry and the boys were a back up band at times.
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Happy Birthday Pigpen............
I am not a fan of the dead. I dont actually know to much about them. But this is amazing!!
pscans321 1 year ago 15
@pscans321 That reaction is how we all got started.
robicork 1 year ago 53
I like this antediluvian Dead material. Wigger blues. Pigpen brought that Hell's Angel fuck-off attitude to the band, adding the necessary balls to make it sexy. He was a sexy guy for an ugly man. Played a nice harp, too, though not extraordinary. Check it out at 2'38". Garcia's solo starts at 3'30" and builds from there. At that time, he wasn't able to do some of the more delicate playing he later did nor had he conquered playing over complex chords. But his fast blues chops were great.
sc0ner 1 year ago 4
@sc0ner That's one of the reasons I love Pigpen. He was very real. The material also suits me. Although my concert attendance was mostly in the late 70's and 80's, I love the more complex structure of later 70's music, but my soul resounds far clearer with this stripped down extremely honest music from the late 60's and early 70's.
robicork 1 year ago 2