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!
The year in question was evident right at the go. Look for BIG PHIL THUNDER in the first minute was my guiding sound. Wow they take this for a ride. Found another Dark Star that I remember loving on the ol cassettes from a show that occurred a little while before this one. Enjoy!
p.s. MP3 Tag is a good program for changing metadata. And dbPoweramp is a pretty good one for converting audio codec file types.
Thank you for listening to the format comments. VLC will easily convert .wav to .mp3.
Why isn't the start page working properly. How hard can it be to link this page to the one on the start page?
Micke Östlund,
Växjö, Sweden
It always makes me happy to see them do a song that was played in a place I have set foot myself. This one was a great jam otw to work this am.
Don't know if its a stoner move or a trend but I will take them. Thanks!!