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!
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Went with the sound, Jerry's guitar right after the chorus, and the similarities to the day before and after. But, man, you should listen to the whole show! What a scene that must have been.
So this morning I woke up with "Mama Tried" playing in my head; Guess I lost the connection - shoulda bought a lotto ticket yesterday!
what city am I in??? But I digress. Nice versions of all 3 of these streams. All three flow into one stream nicely. Very easy to love.
Till tomorrow, signing out from Happytown, USA.
BTW THANKS to those who shared info about the Tapers Section resource for searching out other versions of tracks not found in the standard search areas or ones that don't circulate. Very helpful.
@bundubush- hey brother just wanted to thank you for the very clever clue that you gave me. it actually took me to exactly the right place, alas to no avail thanks to my timidity. your clue that i had to look within myself convinced me that i was looking in the right place (early 70)- so i searched for missing Caseys and that took me to a blog post about 2/28/70, and someone else had said "trouble ahead, trouble behind", which convinced me that it was a missing Casey sandwich. So i said AHA! and searched for and found a youtube (audio only) of that show which contained said missing Casey. but i didn't hear Bill's 2 five- beat flams in the beginning, and then I remembered the comment about "take a step back" from someone else, which prompted my to took at 2/27/70, but that didn't sound right in the beginning either. i came back and saw posts about Jerry's solo, but i was too tired and just didn't enter. i should have just gone with my instinct about 2/28 and listened to you! Much appreciated my man. A clever and great clue.
This is the best version of Althea I've heard.
My friend at school from another part of the state had the tapes. He knew about the show from his older siblings and their friends that attended as it was their big local city for rock shows. A great crystal clean tape. We played set 2 many times. Later on I found some other shows from this era, before and after this particular date and they all show a tight band with a clear sound heading off to the next big era. Highly recommend set 2!!! And the night before!