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Grant or Barnard.
Barnard or Grant.
I’ve seen it both ways.

First name Veronica.
Also called Vee.
I’ve seen it both ways.

Pigpen’s black girlfriend.
Pigpen’s black girlfriend.
I’ve seen it both ways.

6 Comments

  1. smokingleather

    A lot prettier then in that other picture.

  2. salsedochris

    Pig & PBR.
    I remember reading an interview with Garcia not long after Pigpen’s death, Jerry lamenting that even when they were starting to make some decent money (Garcia had managed to get a new Bentley) Pigpen would always still buy the cheapest rotgut –MD 20-20, Richard’s Wild Irish Rose…’

  3. JES

    That’s some good poetizing there. Simple and yet not. Worthy of the Pig.

  4. Bil

    I’ve never seen this photo before,…..very nice. Thanks!

  5. Mike

    Why are you so hung up on the fact that Pigpen’s girlfriend was black?

    • Thoughts On The Dead

      Because that’s the reason no one bothered to nail down her last name. All the other girlfriends’s biographical information is complete, but not Veronica’s. It’s what the poem is about.

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