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!
I need more cowbell
The song that comes before One More Saturday Night at this show was a delightful suprise to hear. One of my favorite versions, for sure.
My community radio station here in Boulder played Alice's Restaurant about an hour before they played it on NPR, so I got to hear it twice today.
Happy Thanksgiving, y'all!
I somehow missed the reference to Bill and Steve. Will have to go back and listen again. Only one spelling for the venue. The hint was a good one, but I didn’t pick up on the most obvious giveaway until after I had already found it.
to explain tomorrow the "Bill" reference.
**edit to add after closing**
It refers to Clinton; "the President comes on the news"
"Steve,"presuming Parish, roadie for Jerry, but so much more, is spoken by Jerry at about one minute and fourteen seconds, probably to address some tech issue. "Bill," presuming Graham, but possibly Kreutzman, is spoken by Bob(Weir) a little furthur into the song, but not sure why? It's a first ever to me as I have never heard either call out names like that which weren't part of the "normal" lyrics. Kind of a funny hint.......maybe.
There's only one spelling for today's venue as far as I know.......but I'm also very nearsighted.