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!

Today's Song
Hint:
Rolling Stone magazine famously referred to the studio version of this song as "without question, the best recorded track done by this band."
day26_LKUHEiKgztTWWbP_uncle_winterland.mp3
994 comments

  • 1stshow70878
    2 days 12 hours ago
    Love this era

    I got lucky again.
    2nd pull.
    Killing it this year!
    Cheers

  • driftin and dreamin
    2 days 12 hours ago
    I know the life I'm living's no good....

    A Chillin Wharf Rat IMO, Absolutely Beautiful.

    Plus that female voice harmonizing with the male voices on different songs is especially sensitive and gentle and IMO the Bass Player is VERY Strong Here. :-D

    Sundays are for football, RED ZONE BABY. Peas'

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    ShadyJake75
    2 days 12 hours ago
    Spelling

    And once again, I get dinged for choosing the wrong spelling and going with the Americanized version of the word rather than the King’s English. Knew it would be a problem as it’s been for other choices. Got lucky in finding today’s pick; found it from the Bobby mumble.

  • Wackaloonq
    2 days 12 hours ago
    nucking futs

    based on band that is playing and who they are i cannot find it during that time span.
    two different band members overlap coming and going but the choices in between don’t come anywhere close to this amazing truly beautiful piece of music.
    THEIR ARE NO HINTS IN THAT STATEMENT AT ALL
    Guess i will take break and start again with a different approach.
    Am actually reading setlists show by show to see if anything even close.
    Extremely frustrating after all these years this one should not be so difficult.
    ( thanks for letting me blow off some steam)

    maybe fellow old timer can send private message to help. yes i know all about the word jam and its connotations so i purposely started furthur down.
    Once again it is sunday and i am retired and it is too cold to go out so plenty of time if i have to listen to them all.
    GOT IT, FINALLY. DIFFERENT TAPERS SCREWED ME UP BUT CUES FINALLY APPEARED.

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    bong
    2 days 13 hours ago
    kinks in the sound

    The sound falls out in CRAS at the following time points (and more), at least for me: 1 min 56 s, 2 min 54 s, 3 min 33 s, 3 min 44 s, a.o.

Yesterday's answer...
Albany, NY, Knickerbocker Arena
Attics Of My Life was in the repertoire quite often in 1970, and a couple of times in 1972 before it was seemingly dropped for good. Thankfully, though, it returned in October 1989, and would be played 30 times 1989-1995.
Yesterday's Winner...
BeaterMP
Richmond
VA

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