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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Do I focus on yesterdays "Felt" vs "MSG" proper or start the shifting through of the many Casey Jones' of the era. I might have heard the noodlings of the next song which would help in the process but I can't really be sure of it.
Yesterday was the curve ball we should expect when it seems all to easy but I did find that the LAST show in the FELT was in 89, then the name was changed to The Paramount Theater so the Felt seems to be the wrong answer whether the Boys played the Main MSG or the smaller venue.
Onward and upward.
TGIF
The MSG run ticket stubs did not have any reference to the Felt Forum. Lets assume all winners were thrown into the hat. I often wonder how the actual selection works I've been at it for a while. Also it would be nice if they posted who won the box sets as it would be nice to share their victory with a little congratulations,
The Theater at MSG was known as the Felt Forum until 1989, holds between 2000 to 5000 people, and is located below the MSG main arena. I was at these shows in ‘94. They were held in the MSG main arena, same arena where the Knicks play, not in the Felt Forum.
The only time GOGD played Felt Forum was a 4-day run December, 1971, and Dave's Pick 22 released 12/7/1971. No way were they playing that small venue in 1994. Somebody forgot to put out the pipe before inputting that answer. Even my DeadBase 9 shows only one run at the Felt.
In 94 the Boys were filling stadiums so were they really playing a small venue of 5000? MSG itself holds 20K for a concert which seems more reasonable for the time period.