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!
Either these are getting easier or I'm getting better at this. I think it's the former! Thanks Dave and Crew for all these years of 30 Days. Been on board since 2013 with 2 wins (could use another). It's great to see all of the die-hards every year!
I wanted to wish the US Deadhead community a very happy and Grateful Thanksgiving. And good luck to everyone for the final 3 days.
What would be a theme?? It would take more effort on DL's part.
Based on the 6 repeats (so far) this year and 7 last year, he may not even keep track of songs from previous years.
With ALL the shows available to him, repeats shouldn't occur at all.
Some songs are not even on records..eg: Iko Iko (1st time this year).
One timers: Standing on the moon ( first this year), Unbroken Chain (2017), Days Between(2016) West L.A. (2013).
Instead of the favorite standards we get every year, more of the seldom played would be good too.
Expanding the 30 Days list is ALWAYS a good thing.
Hasn't been so long since I felt this way, but I feel like we may have visited this trio in past Days. Not positive, but I did already have it marked in my study materials.
Sometimes the songs that we hear are just songs previously thrown.
But I got no time to be a critic, no. Wondering if David does this intentionally, or the dark is just from my eyes.
Tomorrow we wake up to find out that it is Thanksgiving.
I certainly have so much to be Grateful for.
Looking forward to waking to see which song that the morning brings.
Don't tell me these Days ain't got no heart.
when it becomes easier to search for the song from morbunjt than archive it is time to revise the format.
i loved years with
eac jam from a rehearsal
mindbender ( confusions prince)
we at least were guaranteed a bi yearly little sadie
this year will make a great playlist for me as well and even if things are the same i’d be back next year, but all are correct. we could probably have gone all 15 years without a single repeat and still have room to grow.
love ya dave.
to one and all happy turkey.
i b home tomorrow with dog as all housemates go to family and i wait for leftovers.
don’t forget Alice’s Restaurant at noon after macys parade santa goes by.
traditional and all that.
peace love and fun,
joel aka wackaloonq from ranch sturbridge ma.