[FairTheeWell]

"From juicing! It's incredible, but he survived it, and he isn't dead. He survived it, and now he's got the option of being a juicer or not being a juicer. To be a juicer means to die, so now he's being able to choose whether to live or die. And if I know Pigpen, he'll choose to live. That's pretty much where he's at. For the time being he's too sick, too weak to go on the road, and I wouldn't want to expose him to that world. I don't think it's good for him at this point. It would be groovy if he could take as long as it takes to get him to feelin' right, and then to work on his solo album and get himself together in terms of becoming . . . it's sorta like stepping out of the blues story, 'cause Pigpen is a sort of guy who's like been a victim of the whole blues trip. It's like Janis exactly, in which you must die. That's what the script says. So Pigpen went up to the line, and he's seen it now, so the question is how he's going to choose."

Jerry Garcia 1972
Rolling Stone

Ironic? This really hit me lastnight and thought I would share...

Peace