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!

Today's Song
Uncle John's Band
Hint:
Rolling Stone magazine famously referred to the studio version of this song as "without question, the best recorded track done by this band."
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  • 1stshow70878
    2 weeks 6 days ago
    Yesterday's DS

    I impatiently jumped on the wrong one thinking it a lengthy task I wasn't up for and then went to this week's fresh Tapers section as I usually do early on Mondays. Took me about 5 seconds to realize Dave had slyly snuck the answer in there in plain sight. Doh! At least a couple of us saw that. Sneaky but brilliant Dave. Bravo!
    We got this. Don't worry. Be joyful warriors.
    Cheers

  • deadbass36
    2 weeks 6 days ago
    Where do we guess?

    Once you’re logged in you can scroll down to where it says “Enter the contest.”

  • deadbass36
    2 weeks 6 days ago
    No.

    “Dead freaks unite” is from the Skull and Roses album. First album didn’t have any message.

  • 44moose
    2 weeks 6 days ago
    where do we guess

    where do we guess?

  • ladnarc
    2 weeks 6 days ago
    bingo

    The vocal effect sounded familiar. Felt like I'd heard this tape before. Went to search and instead of starting at one end and working to the other, a show caught my eye and I started at that one. Bingo. Not only heard tape before, was at this show.

    Go vote like your life depends on it. Vote for peace not retribution.

Yesterday's answer...
Albany, NY, Knickerbocker Arena
Attics Of My Life was in the repertoire quite often in 1970, and a couple of times in 1972 before it was seemingly dropped for good. Thankfully, though, it returned in October 1989, and would be played 30 times 1989-1995.
Yesterday's Winner...
BeaterMP
Richmond
VA

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