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:
Three songs in a row sung by three Grateful Dead lead vocalists, none of whom are Jerry
day21_IuzIPpgBDAZPQtX_cassidy_box.mp3
792 comments

  • ladnarc
    8 hours 53 minutes ago
    Lets converge

    The show after this one was a high point for me and we all harmonically converged. I propose we converge harmonically again to pray/meditate/ruminate (whatever works for you) on Love and Peace.

    Peace be with you.

  • truckinup2buffalo
    11 hours 15 minutes ago
    Bombs away Phil

    How about this show..... Listen to it in its entirety. Phils BOMB bass is at it all show long. Great voice for your dad PHIL. I tripped over a great Tom Thumb yesterday, just amazes me how wonderful this Man was in his musical science.

  • White Fluff
    16 hours 29 minutes ago
    Rainbow spirals round and round

    Thanks for bringing that up. I agree with you 100%. Lots of Phil bombs all over this 30 days. Fare thee well Phil!

  • BirthaLove
    16 hours 49 minutes ago
    Pig Out, anyway you can man

    because the copyright thang is true. So enjoy him in the mix of whatever.
    Wow that "that's it for the other one"!! super shreddalicious! times two! and then Black Peter so sweet, slow, still and deliberate....heartbreaking. Great pairing.
    So going backwards in 30DOD time, was i tripping or did i hear an Andy Griffith show tease somewheres? between songs...11/18? i scrolled back to no avail.
    Giving SUPER ULTRA MAJOR THANKS to all Tapers!!!!!! i still have tapes!

  • deadheadned
    17 hours 39 minutes ago
    PNW hardship

    not only is the power out for several days (!!), but i lost internet halfway through my first listen last night.
    but luckily i already knew this one anyway, found it marked in my Deadbase from the last time around.

    thanks again, Dave !

    btw those Pigpen songs you mention are still written by other artists. can't be played on 30 Days for copyright reasons.
    enjoy what you have.

Yesterday's answer...
San Francisco, CA, Family Dog at the Great Highway
The Other One was a consistent part of the Dead's repertoire 1967-1995, with Jerry's Cryptical Envelopment portion of the suite around 1967-1972 and 1985. Black Peter arrived in 1969 and stuck around to 1995
Yesterday's Winner...
Craig
Hoosick fall
NY

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