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:
A classic trio of songs from 1973-1978, all of which stuck around for the duration after their debuts
day27_XgWAyFAjeSHDaAQ_shakedown_world.mp3
1024 comments

  • Michigan Head
    5 days 15 hours ago
    i wish i was a headlight... on a northbound train

    me too jerr, me too

  • FredHead-NY
    5 days 15 hours ago
    RE: pholkiephred - mp3's

    Great tip pholkiephred, thanks!! And actually, that's exactly what I've been doing each year (and then I make it into a little easy Christmas gift for the missus, who has been on the bus longer than me). At the rate we're going this year though, 30 days will total ~1422 MB total. And the tracks usually get longer toward the end, not shorter. Again, this is a happy problem! Hmm, I have a few "extra capacity" CD-R's lying around somewhere, that can store 800 MB, I think. Might work, but not sure they'd play on all CD players (or any at all).

  • pholkiephred
    5 days 16 hours ago
    mp3 cds

    Try burning cds as data cds rather than regular cds. You can then get 701MB/disc which means you can usually get 5-6 cds onto a disc.

  • FredHead-NY
    5 days 17 hours ago
    The heart has its beaches, its homeland and songs of its own

    For those of us who like to burn mp3's to CD's to play in the car, it's becoming abundantly clear that this year's collection isn't going to fit on two CD's, no matter how you slice and dice (not complainin' just sayin').

  • UK Deadhead
    5 days 18 hours ago
    Oh Blimey!

    Thanks Dave! This is going to take a long time to solve!!!

    Good luck everyone!

Yesterday's answer...
San Francisco, CA, Winterland Arena
The track that opens Workingman's Dead signals a new Grateful Dead sound, the Americana acoustic Dead focusing on vocal harmonies. It was often played as an encore in 1977, to very strong results as heard here
Yesterday's Winner...

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