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
1067 comments

  • Wackaloonq
    4 days 12 hours ago
    tanx crazy gravy

    that confirmed it.
    but when i look at a setlist that has wharfrat UP in the first set i move on.
    when you choose your date you get several tapers recordings to listen to. one prominent one is a friend and i trust him implicitly but his name was not offered. my platform had four, two of them had wild set lists, one had good set list but taping was scrambled, finally went to fourth one after a mumble sent me back and all fell in to place.
    the actual dod is amazing music.
    now i must listen to whole show.
    thanks for helping out people it helped but should not have given it away to others.
    cool beans
    peace

  • ronmarley1
    4 days 12 hours ago
    @ Wackaloonq

    PM sent

  • krazygravyhead
    4 days 12 hours ago
    If you know which way the Wind blows you know what's UP

    The sound of the drums and Bobby's tone should be dead giveaways as to the year. The fourth month of this year has almost as many official releases as the fifth a year prior.

  • 1stshow70878
    4 days 12 hours ago
    Love this era

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

  • driftin and dreamin
    4 days 13 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'

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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