30 Days of Dead
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!
This is the best version of Althea I've heard.
My friend at school from another part of the state had the tapes. He knew about the show from his older siblings and their friends that attended as it was their big local city for rock shows. A great crystal clean tape. We played set 2 many times. Later on I found some other shows from this era, before and after this particular date and they all show a tight band with a clear sound heading off to the next big era. Highly recommend set 2!!! And the night before!
Way to easy!
This is an easy one, finally.
What a nugget from the vault yesterday! That’s wa ha hooo was a clear Alligator tee up, only 2 CJ>Alligators, uncirculated on the 28th, and pretty identical to the one they played and kinda botched on the 27th . Thank you Dave!