30 Days of Dead
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!
30 days november
30 days dead
30 years dead
1 song each day, scrambled of course, from each year 65 to 95
no repeats allowed.
be tough as hell to find a gdtrfb by itself from the eighties, for example
just one head with one idea
The combos are a win-win. A bit easier to narrow down, and you get MORE music to enjoy. There haven't been as many times this year (as in years past) where I listened carefully to the noodlings after the song ended to try to guess what was being played next to narrow it down.
This time, I had a feeling it was in the year of the really blistering Eyes, but this was a bit later on.
Those bombs, though. =8^O RIP Phil.
For all 30 DoDs from 2010, I have three of Brokedown Palace:
12/7/1971 given in 2012
9/16/1972 given in 2016
11/15/1972 given in 2020
Apt
First ever Eyes played at ants in your pants speed.