Grateful Web - liquor en The Jam Stampede Remembers Ron “Pigpen” McKernan <p>The <a mce_href="" href=""><u><b>Jam Stampede</b></u></a> remembers Pigpen and will do a healthy dose of Pigpen on the day of his birthday, September 8. Plenty of <a mce_href="" href=""><u><b>Dead</b></u></a> tunes will abound and we do one more spin around the sun for Pig.</p> <p></p> <p><img src="" mce_src="/images/stories/crissy/pigpen.jpg" alt="" title="Ron McKernan (Pigpen)" class="caption" align="right" height="338" width="226" />Starting a rock band was actually <a mce_href="" href=""><u><b>Ron McKernan's</b></u></a> idea, and he was its first front man, delivering stinging harmonica, keyboards, and beautiful blues vocals in the early years of the Warlocks/Grateful Dead. Nicknamed "Pigpen" for his funky approach to life and sanitation, he was born into a family that was generally conventional, except for the fact that his (Caucasian) father was an R &amp; B disc jockey. And that sound put <a mce_href="" href=""><u><b>Pig's</b></u></a> life on the rails of the blues from the time he was 12. Liquor, Lightnin' Hopkins, the harmonica and some barbecue - it was an unusual life for a white kid from San Carlos, but it was <a mce_href="" href=""><u><b>Pig's</b></u></a> life.</p> <p>--</p> <p><a mce_href="" href=""><u><b>Mexicali Live</b></u></a></p> <p>Show Date: September 8, 2011</p> <p>Tickets : $8.00 in advance</p> <p>Doors: 6:00pm</p> <p>Show: 8:00pm<br /><a mce_href="" href=""><u><b></b></u></a><br mce_bogus="1" /></p> <p><a mce_href="" href=""><u><b>Band website</b></u></a></p> <p>201-833-0011</p> <p>1409 Queen Anne Road</p> <p>Teaneck, NJ 07666</p> <div class="og_rss_groups"></div><p><a href="" target="_blank">read more</a></p> barbecue blues dead disc father harmonica hopkins jambands jockey kid life lightnin liquor Newswire pig pigpen rails september sound time unusual white Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:12:57 +0000 press 3995 at