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Ron "Pigpen" McKernan Playing Tambourine
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Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, keyboardist and percussionist for the Grateful Dead, sitting at his keyboard mid-performance, playing a tambourine. His t-shirt reads "Fillmore East."
April 26, 1970
Pulling, Robert
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