Conga

You've got Jamerson just crushing this bass line in here.

Conga sound great.

I don't know.

And I feel like Levi's vocal performance, it's a little less gravel, more like... oh like more like it has a dramatic feel to it yes

Yeah.

Who plays the Congas? I do not know.

Joey Lala.

Yeah.

And on stage with Gilberto and Tito Rodriguez, you know, you have at Tito Rodriguez Jr., you have Luis Balzó and Bongo.

You have Chembo Cornel and Congas.

Of course, you have Tito Rodriguez Jr., musical director, along with Carmen Labuey.

Bro, it was worth it.

The Dead had brought in Tom Constantin on keyboards the previous November.

and Pig, the man who'd brought the blues into the band, who'd been the frontman since the Warlocks, found himself relegated to Congas.

John McIntyre, who'd been brought on that summer to help road manager Jonathan Reister, put it plainly, it was really humiliating and Pigpen was really hurt, but he couldn't show it, couldn't talk about it.

McIntyre figured when Pig went for the bottle after it happened, that's when he said it to himself.