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!
Not tryin to get yelled at. Just sayin, is all.
I got it on my second try. I'll take credit for picking the correct year, but lucky to have stabbed where I did.
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Thanks Marye!
Amazing how some lose their dirt over free music. Every year my brother and I bet as to when we'll see the first, "We're X days in, and still no Pigpen. What a disgrace." post.
Once you confirm today's correct Candyman, you might like to check out one of the audience recordings, as it so nicely picks up how the crowd responded to the song, and then all joined in with Jerry and sing along. It adds another dimension to remembering what it was like to be at shows so many roads ago...