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 by three singers; only one of the songs appeared on a Grateful Dead studio album
day15_zeUavypGOFANeJO_box_mexicali.mp3
617 comments

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    Shindigger
    1 week ago
    I now feel better

    I've been in despair for the last few days, but while listening to 11/08/70 this morning, I noticed that the cloud had lifted. All thanks to "Ripple."

    Give it a try if you're feeling low.

  • ronmarley1
    1 week ago
    Venue Controversy

    Looks like our first one of the year. There's usually one or two every 30 DoD.
    For Day 1 this year, that venue is known by various names in CLE.

  • driftin and dreamin
    1 week ago
    Agreed

    It seems they would not go out of there way to select a winner with the wrong answer so yeah they hopefully selected from the pot of 10-19-94 answers..... But all answers are two part (seemingly for a reason) so it still seems like a glitch that a venue that was no longer in existence be the selected winner. On to Casey

  • JoeyMC
    1 week ago
    I remember this run, it was…

    I remember this run, it was Madison Square Garden, the theater wasn't even called Felt Forum in '94

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    tnjed98
    1 week ago
    Seriously?

    I am having to tell myself they selected out of all 10/19/94 MSG answers, because as others have pointed out - this show was not played at the Felt Forum. It seems odd that dozens of us idiots would have to correct the Holy Lemiuex on that.

Yesterday's answer...
Hollywood, CA, Hollywood Palladium
Both 1/2 Step and Black-Throated Wind debuted in 1972, with Bird Song coming a year earlier in 1971.
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