Browsing: this day in rock june 17

Ron “Pigpen” McKernan was a singer/keyboard & harmonica player with the Grateful Dead who last played with them on this day in 1972, and died the next year

The event, billed as “An Extraordinary Life,” featured a concert and rare video clips of the singer-bassist. But the biggest moment was the finale as Lisa Wetton joined the band onstage to perform their big hit