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!

Today's Song
Shakedown Street>Estimated Prophet>Eyes Of The World
Hint:
A classic trio of songs from 1973-1978, all of which stuck around for the duration after their debuts
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  • 1stshow70878
    4 days 13 hours ago
    Persistence and luck

    Knew I had it within about a year from sound. Went around randomly, took a break, came back and started going one by one though a year and got there. Very first notes of the song by Keith helped. Even got it to synch. I'm guessing I tried at least 20-30. Sweet!
    Cheers

  • ronmarley1
    4 days 14 hours ago
    Dang

    If I can get the year and season, I'm calling it a win.
    Props to those that get it.

  • driftin and dreamin
    4 days 14 hours ago
    Yup

    Those were my exact cues

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    jeff4682
    4 days 14 hours ago
    WHERE DID THE MORNING GO?!?

    I so didn’t want to give up- felt that after a couple of softballs I would buckle down and get ‘er done…

    Finally got it- had the right era but there are a lot of CHINA/RIDER’s to get through in an any chosen time frame. A hint dropped earlier was correct, but really didn’t make the search any easier- if you chose that path it would have involved a completely different search, anyway.

    Amazing that the outro to every RIDER is so different from every other- at least in this era…

  • driftin and dreamin
    4 days 14 hours ago
    Phil's light shinned though oh so bight

    Phil Bombs and Beautiful Harmonies on Rider. This one took me a bit, even though I knew the specific era. Found some gems along the way, that's fer sure. Be Well Ya'll

Yesterday's answer...
San Francisco, CA, Winterland Arena
The track that opens Workingman's Dead signals a new Grateful Dead sound, the Americana acoustic Dead focusing on vocal harmonies. It was often played as an encore in 1977, to very strong results as heard here
Yesterday's Winner...
jamgol

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