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 from two consecutive early 1970s albums, with both songs being a big part of the repertoire from their debuts onward
day23_wmzXRhGHGOXeCRc_ramble_grow.mp3
880 comments

  • 1stshow70878
    11 hours 45 minutes ago
    Oops

    You guys are right. I said Keith without thinking. For me Keith is a no brainer. If you can't tell Keith from the other keyboardists you aren't a deadhead. That said sometimes I have trouble telling Brent from Vince right away if I don't hear them singing. At first I thought you were complaining about me reminding of the Beatles hint which I thought ridiculous as that search would have been much harder than the Dead search. Did you look at that list? Holy crap, retracing all the Beatles venues against Dead setlists would have been a monumental task. I looked after I guessed and Indy fit his cross country description and his "30K crazy kids" was verbatim from the Beatles at Indy google. So I will be more careful. But the crew is right, it's just a game and from what I've read you might not get that calendar even if it said you won, lol. They are merry pranksters after all.
    Cheers

  • jamgol
    12 hours 7 minutes ago
    relax all

    agreed, just a game, people need to calm down. don't read the comments until after you submit

  • neuf512
    12 hours 34 minutes ago
    Life changing show

    This was my second show. It was what I often think and speak of as a truly religious experience. Being a Wall of Sound show, the sound was awesome and made a pretty crappy venue sound great. I was so happy to see that this Day of the Dead pick was from this show. The recording is fantastic. I only have an audience file of the show, so I was amazed by the sound quality. Bobby's guitar playing on China was as good as it gets. I wish I could get more of this show from this source...I am gonna play the hell out of this file!!!

  • driftin and dreamin
    12 hours 38 minutes ago
    eras

    Fer sure this is one of mine as well, then I started to wonder how many eras there are... hahaha. I think I fallen down the rabbit hole on day 23.

  • dougbr1ne
    12 hours 39 minutes ago
    Echo echo echo

    It was that echo on one instrument right at the beginning. Thinking it had to be from 1 or 2 certain years based on how they had a relaxed way of starting one of these songs. Nice guitar tones on this 2 fer

Yesterday's answer...
Indianapolis, IN, State Fair Coliseum
China Cat Sunflower and I Know You Rider were joined together in September 1969, and from their first time together it sounded like a natural fit. As the years went on, the Dead developed an intricate, composed jam to join the two, as heard here
Yesterday's Winner...
Howard
Tuxedo
NY

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