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 classic trio of songs from 1973-1978, all of which stuck around for the duration after their debuts
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1023 comments

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    ever grateful
    1 day 15 hours ago
    My birthday song!

    Was wondering what would show up for my birthday today. Seeing Uncle John's Band just put a big smile on my face! One of my very faves.

    Then I started listening and, HAH!, had to laugh at all the flubs with lyrics, and wrong chords, and verses. Seemed to take "God damn!" to bring them back. And then, Jerry's beautiful solo coming out of it, and the rest of the song...pretty sweet. Then they blasted out of it like no other ending I've ever heard. Thinking about it, it's kinda like my life....flubs & turns & twists, becoming quite beautiful over time, and well, not sure about the blast off part yet!

    A long ago memory...I remember sitting on the floor with friends listening to this album over & over in the summer of 1970 when it 1st came out, reading every word on the album cover (remember when we used to do that!), listening so close. Then hearing it again & again on KSAN, the radio station of such a special time & place. It'd just catch my ear every time, and it's wafted thru my life ever since.

    Wo-oh, what I want to know, where does the time go?
    So much gratitude for the band, for all of you, for this life, for the smiles!
    (~);-}

  • hornsby
    1 day 16 hours ago
    chock full of clues

    made for a quick find. there are some other killer highlights at this show worth a listen.
    we're running out of time already. wow. wish January and February went by this fast

  • RyXs
    1 day 16 hours ago
    Clues?

    Donna narrows it.
    Coder nails it!

  • Gleenco
    1 day 18 hours ago
    Knickers!

    Apropos of nothing, does anyone know an early 70s show where Bobby yells "Knickers, knickers!" I remember it but I can't recall the show at all.
    OK, for those of you who think that's too much, it's just for anyone lingering late in the game looking so deal with it. But I am serious about trying to remember where Bobby said it!

  • Direwolf919
    1 day 18 hours ago
    Attics

    I was lucky enough to be at the Warlocks show that brought the song back after 17 years and then the Charlotte show a couple weeks later.
    Today's version is quite beautiful, as they all are.

    I dont have the words to adequately describe Hunters lyrics . This song has meant many different things to me over time.

    When I had no wings to fly, you flew to me.

Yesterday's answer...
San Francisco, CA, Winterland Arena
The track that opens Workingman's Dead signals a new Grateful Dead sound, the Americana acoustic Dead focusing on vocal harmonies. It was often played as an encore in 1977, to very strong results as heard here
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