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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Been loving the band and music since '82... Love this month, Thanks Dave...When I have time or get lucky I try and find the correct show, (found 3 so far this year)... But this year for me that I haven't done in past years is listening to the full correct show the next day,. Thanks everyone and keep Dancin'
Never found it yesterday, and taking some comfort that I’m not alone. Set out to find it based on having the actual answer, and realized I’d been staring at that show most of the day in archive. Check out YouTube for the whole show.
CORRECTION: The YouTube version is labeled incorrectly. The show on YouTube is actually from 2-27-70, but has the following date in the cover art. Still looking for the correct recording for 11-8 posting.
2/28/70 was the only version that I couldn't find in the time period that made the most sense (compared to the other versions around it), so I went with it without hearing it. Anyone track down a copy that circulates outside of the vault?
mindbender ( confusions prince)
eac jam
alligator-caution
or the 2012 “jam”
something that takes us to multiple dimensions of time and space
bring it on dave….lol
so…. if you never visited this site before give it a try. you enter up to five songs and you get all the times they were played in that sequence.
promptly at 3am eastern i put todays in and…looks like it’s gonna take eons to find it. i mean choice after choice to go thru and look for anomalies, who has got that time.
thanks dave, i do appreciate all the songs in any format as this month truly connects some very old heads.
I currently have close to 18 sites in my 30 day bookmarks, some of them give info that you can’t get anywhere else. i like archive and make a november donation but their is so much out there.
i have a dead bibliography book 250 pages of every time the band was even referred to in any type of media, handwritten books of true poster dimensions and current prices. i’ll list a few more sites tomorrow, maybe some of you that go back beyond my first show in 1977 can add things as well.
good luck to all today sorting thru the choices.
Q