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!
I am liking the relisten site for 30 Days 2024 as the archive is having some troubles this year. You can easily browse by year on relisten. But be sure to check the right margin where there are multiple listings for the same show's date. Checking another recorded version of the same show further down the list may have better song title information in the file list, a complete show rather than a partial, better sound, better pitch etc....
Have fun!
Just got our last issue of the subscription and now another 30 Days.
Will a guess of 1976 get me the box ?
Hey, I have a wild idea - if we can't have a simple fillout form, how about having instruction on this page about where to go, and how to enter? Suggestions to "find" a dropdown menu labeled "show" isn't enough if we don't know where to look.
Kudos to those who somehow found it :)
Hello and welcome back to all the 'usual suspects' for this wonderful month of music and friendly competition! Looking foward to the banter with others on the comments and this month this year should prove to be very interesting in so many ways.