American Beauty 50: Operator | The Official Grateful Dead Podcast (original) (raw)

Episode Duration: 01:02:01

To celebrate “Operator,” the fourth song on American Beauty and the first Grateful Dead song written solely by Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, we examine his life and offer an extremely rare look into the Pigpen archives, a collection of journals, letters, and more inherited by an old family friend.

Guests: Bob Weir, Jim Sullivan, Brian Kehew, Michael Parish, David Lemieux, Gary Lambert

To celebrate “Operator,” the fourth song on American Beauty and the first Grateful Dead song written solely by Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, we examine his life and offer an extremely rare look into the Pigpen archives, a collection of journals, letters, and more inherited by an old family friend.

Episode Duration

01:02:01

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Guest

Bob Weir, Jim Sullivan, Brian Kehew, Michael Parish, David Lemieux, Gary Lambert