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
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1062 comments

  • mark_mumper
    2 days 18 hours ago
    past 30 Days on the Archive

    to driftin and dreamin and others--

    Just found a few days ago that perhaps all the past 30 Days were posted last year, by individual year, by someone onto the Grateful Dead Collection on archive dot o r g.

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    Mytime
    2 days 20 hours ago
    Phasers set to STUN

    Another great version. Already overdozin’ on all these treasures and still more to come. Thanksgiiving
    came early this year!

    Jerrylist is pretty decent, also Relisten. But i’m still digging the Setlist Program and its Archive links as I’ve always done. It’s more fun!

  • driftin and dreamin
    2 days 21 hours ago
    Will Do

    Sounds Amazing
    I PMed you
    Thanks

  • driftin and dreamin
    2 days 21 hours ago
    Cheers

    Hey thanks for the offer, I sent you a PM.
    Lets figure something out fer sure
    I appreciate you

  • hornsby
    2 days 22 hours ago
    you-

    the annotated dead lyrics book i have gives a brief mention of Hunter's thoughts on the song and a little Alice in Wonderland reference. Doesn't really answer your question though. Although sounds like it's not meant to be answered.

    other topic i saw on here was using jerrylist and relisten, i have always used deadlist and archives. might have to give it a try, although i have an affinity for the archives, been digging around in there since before the 30 days even started. i'd feel like a traitor for going somewhere else.
    this one was a giveaway pretty much. some other good tunes worth a listen at this show.

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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