Word: pigpen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Other Ones," a band that, while not the Dead, is named after a Dead song and performs material from the Dead catalog. Weir, for his part, was eager to play the old Dead songs again but reluctant to tour under the Grateful Dead name. Says Weir: "Without Pigpen [keyboardist Ron McKernan, a band member who died in 1973], without Jerry, this band has taken a few too many hits to be called the Grateful Dead. It doesn't look too good when I see other bands out touring with one or two original members and the rest hired 30 years...
...dead. With rock stars, such news is a shock but not a surprise. Garcia, whose private funeral service was held Friday (the guest of honor attired in black T shirt and sweats), was the fourth Dead member to die. Three keyboard players preceded him: Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, in 1973 of cirrhosis of the liver; Keith Godchaux, in 1980 after a car crash; and Brent Mydland, in 1990 after shooting a speedball--cocaine and morphine...