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 pair of beauties joined together (mostly) for nearly 20 years
day12_ECpLaBJBtCnykpM_scarlet_fire.mp3
520 comments

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    Ivor GD Album
    1 week 3 days ago
    Bit Rate

    Both songs so far are 124 not 320. Is there a reason why? Most unusual.

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    ever grateful
    1 week 3 days ago
    To Edubu Grey Hair re: low bit rate

    This has happened in some other years and the powers that be have always come back and reloaded 320 bit files. Hoping they see our notes & do the same this year!
    Meanwhile, I think I'll go enjoy me some candy.

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    Edubu Grey Hair
    1 week 3 days ago
    Are all of the 30 Days of Dead going to be very lossy MP3

    Candyman is playing 64 or 128 depending on the player. Looking for the 320!

  • deded54
    1 week 3 days ago
    AI?

    The answer box looks like it was taken over by AI....The Heel?
    the winner ' ??

  • TheeAmazingAce333
    1 week 3 days ago
    again, LOUD WRONG!

    its co.ical how loud wrong these newbie neophytes are... like everyone already said keep your loud wrong, comical guesses to yo self ,:•\

Yesterday's answer...
Kansas City, MO, Kansas City Municipal Auditorium
The first two songs in today's entry are from the only Kingfish studio album, Bob's solo project from 1975-1976 during the Dead's hiatus. The next three songs here are from Jerry's and Bob's 1972 solo albums, three songs that were a huge part of the Dead's repertoire right to 1995 but that were never recorded for a Dead album
Yesterday's Winner...
Steven
Natick
MA

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