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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Judge dread - sometimes we just have to look within ourselves for the uncirculated items. Where would they be? It is possible!!!
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The harmonies are especially beautiful here, thanks for pointing this one out
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Has anyone found it? i've been going for for 2.5 hours and i'm an old hand at 30 days but i'm getting tired! Trying not to break protocol here, but to me there are three obvious years. the first 2/3 of the first year they had a few different chords to open. the middle year is plagued with missing files on relisten and archive. the last year they sound too polished. If you found it, please give us a clever, hopefully not too obvious, but helpful, clue. Can anyone thread that needle?