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:
Paired since 1969, it's hard to imagine either of these songs without the other
day22_OEYTZMsSukmfCEa_china_sunflower.mp3
798 comments

  • hornsby
    3 days 1 hour ago
    another easy three

    nothing but net-count it

  • deadheadned
    3 days 2 hours ago
    Brent's keys !

    as i said about yesterday's quiz. ^

    to maybe start a topic of conversation, does anybody else experience the music as texture ?
    or any other synesthia ?

    along with many other factors influencing how i hear the Dead especially, like seeing colors etc, is seeing Jer's guitar like a rose vining up a trellis of Bobby's chords, or Brent's B3 (and sometimes his voice) feels furry.

    in some way, this helps me narrow down the different eras of the Dead's music for this game, because of the texture.

    all the ways to *hear* the music !

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    Swayne
    3 days 9 hours ago
    Bodhisattva and Mahlee

    I put this SBD up to one ear synched with an AUD of the same show in the other, causing both China cats observing to be very alarmed at the spontaneous dancing that ensued.

  • thismikebenz
    3 days 9 hours ago
    Such a mellow rendering

    of Estimated Prophet.

  • Bundubush
    3 days 9 hours ago
    Thanks for trying

    I think my brain is fried this time ... too weary to push further. I may have to bail which I never do. As I don't have dead base as a source, I suspect I am missing something or an error in setlist somewhere. I understand it is from right in there when I was seeing a lot of showa but I am lost today.

Yesterday's answer...
Morrison, CO, Red Rocks Amphitheatre
The final Grateful Dead show at Red Rocks featured this excellent first set closing sequence with Cassidy sung by Bobby, Far From Me sung by Brent, and Phil singing Box Of Rain to end the set
Yesterday's Winner...
Jared
Marlboro
MA

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