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 could not agree more. In my 12 years of playing this is the absolute worst I have ever seen. Someone posts the obvious answer, through the obvious clue, gets reminded not to post obvious clues, then someone else does the same thing 45 minutes later.
Like I said: I could not agree more.
Yesterdays Beatles (hint) to me was not even a hint as smallz said 30K kids at the venue which I dismissed immediately for the time period (only Billy drumming Feb 71 Oct 74 ) was not drawing 30k. Later in the day firstshow mentioned that copper dome bodhi was a hint about the venue which to me again was not a hint as I had never been there and did know what the venue looks like, but they did mention Keith on Keys which I though was TMI.
Which is why I cant agree more mentioning names, dates, venues and other specific details ( like never miss a Sunday show is TMI in my book) and is a huge bummer to us that know a little and like to research and learn.
I do like reading the comments as cool stories and thoughts are part of the fun but it seems for me the comment section comes after I have submitted my answer for the day.
We are self modding this lil chat section so when we see something we need to speak up, it might be gray area as the line can get blurry when dropping a sneaky hint can be TMI for one person and not even be considered a hint to others, but let try and be mindful what we are saying.
Didn't take me too long to Ramble on to this show.
What shall we say on this 23rd Day?
Do yourself a favor, and listen to this entire show.
Looking forward to David letting it flow these next 7 Days.
Another era that I absolutely love. With the outstanding 2nd set rumbles, makes me wonder what the sky looked like? Did it open up? Was that thunder? Not sure but that 2nd set was lightning. Take a listen!
Please give NO dates, number of occurrences, band members, venues, cities, eras, or any other specific clue as to the answer for a particular day. Already someone has given a slightly misleading hint as to today’s answer. Keep it fun for all. There are those days when a clue might help, but if one day you actually don’t get the answer- well, perfection isn’t what this exercise is all about. That being said, I did appreciate the Beatles hint yesterday (and hit up SETLIST FM after to check) but too much will just give it away.
The little Jerry riff during the outro of RIDER was the giveaway yesterday. Find one thing to go on. Of course flubs or lyric mistakes make it easy as pumpkin pie, but for me, it’s always easy to rely on the first few or last few notes, or transitions/segues if they exist.