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

  • JoeyMC
    1 week ago
    Felt Forum

    Yes,that was the name of the theater downstairs, (which had many names after)
    This one was MSG, let's hope it's a typo and correct answers weren't eliminated. To me, what they have for the answer there is not correct.

  • driftin and dreamin
    1 week ago
    Something seems to be a miss

    The Felt's venue name was changed in 1989 so.....

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    mproseph
    1 week ago
    Felt Forum

    Was the correct name for the Theatre at MSG for quite a while. But this was MSG proper in 94 right?

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    jeff4682
    1 week ago
    Felt Forum?

    Who calls it the FELT FORUM? Maybe for Ali/Frazier in 1970, but… I was expecting a possible issue with the Kaiser show a a few days back, but I’m totally thrown for a loop by this one

  • thismikebenz
    1 week ago
    Hard to find

    I have to go to work right now, but when I get home, I assume I am going to spend a LONG time tracking this Casey Jones down. The era is obvious, but gosh, they played it a lot!

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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