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 tracks, two of which debuted in 1972 and one in 1971
day14_qEcFNyvBPYufvkM_mississippi_bird.mp3
592 comments

  • Wackaloonq
    1 week 3 days ago
    can you say drama

    my house is going thru more drama and turmoil than i thought possible.
    i see new song at 3 am here while im not sleeping.
    got confused day 2 and spent time searching for studio that recorded american beauty, maybe next time i listen to song first. drama hit its final peak this morning so settled down with dark star map and narrowed it down , went to relisten, picked it, entered it, now…..long hot shower and sleep.
    hope yall enjoying november, wonder what we get tomorrow for voting day…nothin left to do but smile smile smile

  • elysofly
    1 week 3 days ago
    High quality wav files

    Many thanks to staff

  • proudfoot
    1 week 3 days ago
    DARK STAR
    hooray!

    DARK STAR

    hooray!

  • marye
    1 week 3 days ago
    All the files
    should now be up there in their .wav versions. Sorry for the glitch but enjoy the tunes!
  • dougbr1ne
    1 week 3 days ago
    Aha!

    The year in question was evident right at the go. Look for BIG PHIL THUNDER in the first minute was my guiding sound. Wow they take this for a ride. Found another Dark Star that I remember loving on the ol cassettes from a show that occurred a little while before this one. Enjoy!
    p.s. MP3 Tag is a good program for changing metadata. And dbPoweramp is a pretty good one for converting audio codec file types.

Yesterday's answer...
San Francisco, CA, Family Dog at the Great Highway
The St. Stephen>The Eleven combination was played frequently in late 1968 through 1969, and makes up a quarter of Live/Dead. Here, rather than heading to Lovelight or Death Don't Have No Mercy, they segue into Drums and High Time
Yesterday's Winner...
michael
Pittsfield
MA

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