The scene when John Perry Barlow visits Pig Pen's grave and says "Oh Pig, why the hell would people put guitar picks down on the grave of a keyboard player. Answer me that... He was such a sweet man." #letitshine
Posted Mar 2, 2021, 11:00 PM UTC
Best part of the whole documentary is, “there was nobody in the truck.”
Beautiful little story that wrapped you in the moment for sure
Absolutely. Thankfully Wiz loaded a fresh tape on the deck before heading in to fix the mic. The rest is history.
You are right. That story and the retelling of it was really powerful. It's added a completely different dimensions to Morning Dew for me.
Pig was an accomplished guitarist, he just didn’t play guitar in the Dead. That line in the documentary landed weird for me.
Edit: it is pointed out below that Pig played guitar on a Grateful Dead record
Yea, that line felt weird to me too. Especially because he did play guitar. And he is actually on a Dead record playing guitar - Katie Mae, the opening track on ‘Bear’s Choice.’
But even if he hadn’t played guitar, the guitar picks could still just symbolize music and musicianship.
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I'm kinda confused by what you mean by that.
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I hear what you are saying, but I trust Barlow’s perspective and relationship w Pig over some randoms.
Your point about his words being misguided is a good one.
Perhaps Barlow is upset at the idea that Pig never got full recognition for his contributions or that he was “not properly grieved...”
Dude he picks one up makes his comment camera shows a shot of his face and that's it man. It doesn't show him taking picks from that grave! Don't know how you got that...wait a sec yeah I do...this is the perfect example of my comment to your first comment up above. You said it seemed like an elitist fascist thing to say about the pick/keyboard player thing and I just replied, you can read it but it's the same thing in that he made a flippant comment that just came out without much thought just in the moment AND he had a camera in his face so there's that affecting his nerves. So YOU do the same thing, make a flippant comment about him being a fascist then another person says they can't imagine what you would mean by that and in the human mind's desire to justify themselves at all times you either knowingly or unknowingly changed the facts of that scene where he just picks up one of those guitar picks and makes his comment and you changed it to he took ALL the picks off Pig's grave to disparage him so it would back up the first comment you made about him being an elitist...I'm sorry bro, I'm an out of work Psychologist ... don't feel bad we're just animals, these things happen without much control...
Ya know brother sometimes people just talk without every little thought that comes out being a part of or the sledgehammer to the very foundation of the person they are. I bet you do it all the time and just don't realize it...