Jim Powell made an interesting comment: 
"Pigpen got his B-3 back before long.  He kept contributing keyboards
alongside T.C. and later alongside Keith.  At my first show -- Winterland
10/25/69 -- the Dead's stage set-up was remarkable for the two drum-sets
flanked by two keyboards, one probably a Hammond." 

I don't think I ever discerned two keyboards in the tape of 10/25/69,
or for that matter, in any show from 1969. We know they had two organs
briefly in fall 1968 before the Hammond was repossessed - not only
does TC have fond memories of playing with Pigpen, Phil also wrote
that on TC's first tour, "he and Pig shared the organ seat, giving the
band a rich, strange sound."  McNally and Lesh both say that in the
fall of '69, "sheriffs repossessed Pigpen's organ from the stage as
the show was about to begin" (AGAIN!) - so Pigpen must've had it at
least part of the year, along with Constanten's Vox.

So are there any tapes from the year where we can hear two keyboards? 

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