30 Days of Dead

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It's a Dead Head's most wonderful time of the year! Welcome to another 30 days of unreleased Grateful Dead tracks from the vault, one for every day of the month, selected by archivist and producer David Lemieux. The tracks are yours, 100% free gua-ran-teed, but the real fun is taking part in the challenge for the chance to win some sweet swag from the Dead.

Those of you who know what to do, feel free to skip right on ahead. For those of you who need a refresher, here's the drill:

You know your Ables from your Bakers from your C's, but can your finely tuned ears differentiate the cosmic "comeback" tour from a spacey 70s show? Each day we'll post a song from one of the Dead's coveted shows. Will it be from that magical night at Madison Square Garden in '93 or from way back when they were just starting to warm it up at Winterland? Is that Pigpen's harmonica we hear? Brent on keys? If you think you know, lob your answer in and you just might find yourself taking home our daily prize of a 2025 Grateful Dead wall calendar or the grand prize – a copy of limited, numbered, FRIEND OF THE DEVILS: APRIL '78 boxed set!

Hint:
A couple of songs that debuted in 1972, along with one from 1971. Played here on one of the Dead's most famous tours
day06_DiRcgmpCiCiIcsC_misssissippi_half.mp3
324 comments

  • Direwolf919
    41 minutes 56 seconds ago
    "If all you've got to live…

    "If all you've got to live for is what you've left behind
    Get yourself a powder charge and seal that silver mine"

    One of my all time favorite lyrics (today)
    & lyrics i try to live by

    Having a good time!

  • hornsby
    3 hours 13 minutes ago
    nice win

    congrats.

  • thismikebenz
    3 hours 20 minutes ago
    Another terrific show all the way through!

    Once I found it, I had to listen to the whole thing!

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    bpolits
    4 hours 9 minutes ago
    Yeah, the voices sound great…

    Yeah, the voices sound great but the whole sbd recording sounds amazing!

  • driftin and dreamin
    7 hours 21 minutes ago
    LLR

    Agreed Donna and Bobby sounded wonderful in this rendition of LLR

Yesterday's answer...
Oakland, CA, Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center
From the penultimate show at the Kaiser, this classic sequence of The Other One>Stella Blue was a frequent sequence coming out of Space
Yesterday's Winner...

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