![]() ![]() The upside, Parish said, was that “when you roomed with him, he’d break out his Martin guitar and play the blues in his cowboy boots, underwear and corduroy cowboy hat.” “I went to jail just for rooming with Pigpen,” Weir chimed in as the studio audience roared with laughter. If you could get through that, you made it to a new level in the Grateful Dead’s inner circle.” “When I started on the road with the Grateful Dead, the new guy always had to room with Pigpen first,” Parish recalled, noting that Pigpen’s drinks of choice were Rainier Ale (aka “Green Death”) and Southern Comfort. In his role as talk show host, Weir slipped on a sports coat and sat behind a desk with a vintage microphone on it and a coffee mug jammed with pencils. In the “on the couch” segment of the show, the two old friends were joined in their remembrances of the hard drinking Pigpen by “Big” Steve Parish, Jerry Garcia’s trusted roadie, and David Lemieux, the band’s music archivist. “The only time that Bob and Phil have done a duet is when they guest starred on ‘The View’ talk show a couple of years ago,” McCutcheon said. It was also something that doesn’t happen every day. Lesh and Weir opened the online evening singing and playing a couple of songs together on acoustic guitar and bass. ![]() “This has rarely if ever happened - the two of them talking about their history in public,” said TRI President Chris McCutcheon, the show’s producer. In his memory, Grateful Dead legends Bob Weir and Phil Lesh reminisced about their dearly departed bandmate March 13 night on “Weir Here,” the new live music and talk show that’s webcast weekly from Weir’s TRI Studios in San Rafael. Like his lover, Janis Joplin, and fellow rock icons Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, he was 27. ![]() FORTY YEARS ago this month, Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, a founding member of the Grateful Dead, was found dead of a gastrointestinal hemorrhage at his home in Corte Madera. ![]()
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