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:
The penultimate song of the night from the Dead's penultimate show at this classic venue, where they played more than four dozen times
day28_XgWAyFAjeSHDaAQ_saturday_philadelphia.mp3
1056 comments

  • Wackaloonq
    2 days 1 hour ago
    wrong and impossible

    wow
    so many wrong and impossible guesses in comments already.
    would love to talk to some as to how they think their choice is even close.
    oh well
    maybe tomorrow
    enough cues, hints, and things in actual song today that for most no help is needed but a list and an ear.
    happy holiday to all

  • Dan R.
    2 days 1 hour ago
    Uncle John’s Band

    I heard two phrases of Jerry’s intro solo, and got this one on the first try.

  • driftin and dreamin
    2 days 2 hours ago
    Jer's Rig

    Rosebud 12/31/89 - 6/26/93
    Older guitars continued to be used: Wolf appears on 7/23/90 & 2/23/93 (among others), Tiger and Wolf in the Nov. 1991 JGB run.
    So you can assume Rosebud but Wolf and Tiger were not collecting dust and were used from time to time.
    Edit: VooDooNola2 on YT has posted video of this entire show, it was in fact Rosebud from start to finish this night.

  • driftin and dreamin
    2 days 2 hours ago
    A Mod

    This is where a Mod would come in handy as they could simply delete the post.
    The community can only do so much, if the Original Poster is not paying attention, the glaring fopaux remains.

    Anywho interesting day.... Thanks for the hint DAVE :-)

  • 1stshow70878
    2 days 2 hours ago
    Best year ever for me

    Maybe it is a bit easier this year.
    Hard to believe I'm better at it, lol.
    Missed one and the hardest one I skipped.
    Today was pretty easy too.
    Had my list and went backwards and had a near match that almost fooled me. Then of course it was the first one on the list. Why is it something is always in the last place you look for it? Because you stopped looking when you found it.
    Cheers

Yesterday's answer...
Providence, RI, Providence Civic Center
From 1978, 1977, and 1973, respectively, all three of these songs land on many people's Top 20 Grateful Dead songs list.
Yesterday's Winner...
Rock
Malaga
NJ

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