Live Review: The Dead in Inglewood, CA

Any show on the spring trek by The Dead will invariably bring up the dreaded question, "What would Jerry have done?" Saturday night at the 16,000-seat Forum, four original members of The Grateful Dead raised the specter of another deceased bandmate, Pigpen. Organist Ron "Pigpen" McKernan died in 1973, eight years after forming the band that would morph into The Grateful Dead. Wittingly or not, the Forum set was heavy on blues and psychedelia, jams and material from the 1960s as crucially shaped ...

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