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!
I'm reading about driftin and dreamin getting shown the light and I'm like - are you freaking kidding me?? Bowie (Glass Spider Tour) was playing *just down the block* during this run?? And I'm looking at setlist fm and sure as sh!t, Night 2. Crazy!! That said, I was very happy to be where I was!! Moon rise that second night during Quinn was amazing!!
I wouldn't want to forget anyone, and if I did (of course, I did), my apologies in advance. I appreciate Jack Kerouac's 'On The Road', the Beat writers and City Lights Bookstore/Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the Beatniks and Poets such as Allen Ginseberg, Cowboy Neal Cassady driving the original bus with Ken Kesey and The Merry Pranksters, including Ken Babbs and Mountain Girl, and appreciate sound guys Owsley Stanley III aka Bear, Dan Healy, Don Pearson, Harry Popick, lights guru Candance Brightman, Taper extraodinaire Betty Cantor, Promoters Bill Graham, Chet Helms, musicians Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, The Band, Allman Brothers, Miles Davis, all members full/part time related to GOGD and solo projects, and Vault heros Dick Latvala and David Lemieux et al. WALSTIB, and it wouldn't be what is was/is without all of you. Give yourselves a big round of applause, we are all grateful, we are everywhere.
You could almost close your eyes to see this trio in your various research tools.
Maybe you'll find direction in many different avenues.
It doesn't seem you really have to spend too much time to see clear through some of these Days offerings.
Just a short time to be there along the next 9 Days.
Loving the multiple tunes!
Thanks again David and the Grateful Dead family for sharing these gems.
And this show includes a first ever for the Grateful Dead. It would have been a lot of fun to be at this show, in that place at that time. The crowd certainly seems to be enjoying themselves.
Speaking of other selves, someone posted here a few days back about "feeling" the music. Like visually in colors/textures/senses etc. I too occasionally get these sensations with certain music. Far From Me is a good example. There's something about the flow of this tune that makes me feel the sensation of being on a big swing, going back and forth, higher and higher.
Nice to hear from Phil. Such a short time to be here. I don't recall many Box Of Rain's being offered on 30DOD? Maybe some of you kind record keeping types could address this?
those chants from the crowd bring a tear to my eye today. A lot of love for Phil this 30 Days. Thanks and peace.