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:
A second set jam sequence that is about as classic from this era/year as it gets, featuring songs from 1967, 1970, and a double dose of 1972. We always try to go out with a bang during 30 Days Of Dead, and this certainly fits the bill
day30_nESNvWbPtWdiCwn_gone_blue.mp3
1164 comments

  • Dan R.
    2 weeks ago
    These Shows

    David loves this run of shows. I kinda wish the keys had better sounds, because the band was clearly on fire.

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    ghah
    2 weeks ago
    Hornsby: more shows with GD than TC

    I'm not sure of the exact start and end dates per month for the guys but if we include the entire months:
    Wikipedia has TC from Sept 67 > Nov 98 (as touring, longer period for studio) Jerrybase shows 202 shows for that time frame
    Bruce Sept 90 > March 92 146 shows. Assuming they were at each show. So not a definitive answer but a place to start

  • geododge
    2 weeks ago
    Out of 13 Shows here

    This was a good one. Never saw a show here but have had many glimpses over the years of 30 Days!

  • Birchwood
    2 weeks ago
    Hornsby: more shows with GD than TC?

    Hornsby: did Bruce play more shows with the GD than TC did?

    Anybody here know?

    Peace!

  • jamgol
    2 weeks ago
    DB50

    yes, DB50 was just a reprint of DB9 with other extra sections added

Yesterday's answer...
Indianapolis, IN, Market Square Arena
The two tours that surrounded the Fall Tour of 1976 (Summer 1976's comeback tour, and Spring 1977's tour of excellence) often overshadow this tour, but there are many great nights from September and early October 1976, including this great show in Indianapolis
Yesterday's Winner...
Jonathan
Grand Rapids
MI

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