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!
Thanks for the comment, clearly I need to dig deeper before I publicly look like a rookie, haha. Peas'
I just had to lay it on the line, and guess at this one today.
Now it's time to pass the whiskey 'round..
My way to enter the answer isn't coming right up today. Scrolled the whole page and it's not there. So adding another comment to see if it will appear here now that I've pinned it down.
He was never an official member of the band. In fact, from what I understand, the reason he stopped playing regularly is because he was told he either had to join or stop touring.