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
China Cat Sunflower>I Know You Rider
Hint:
Paired since 1969, it's hard to imagine either of these songs without the other
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801 comments

  • Bundubush
    22 hours 49 minutes ago
    Remove that please

    Answers are not posted in the chat even if they are wrong or right .... people want to hunt for the shows.

    Thanks and peace

  • driftin and dreamin
    22 hours 51 minutes ago
    Once in a while you get shown the light....

    I was at a Davie Bowie show this night, one thing led to another (as they often do) and I ended up in the hoosegow. While waiting for morning I met several heads who were at this show, had some great conversations, heard some amazing stories and this experience ignited something inside me....not long after I was on the Bus for Life.

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    22 hours 58 minutes ago
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  • bluecrow
    23 hours 44 minutes ago
    How About That

    Listening to this, groggy and sipping first coffee, needing to head out to work shortly, and deep in the remote recesses of my aging brain I have a thought - "this *sounds* like "X" show when we were second row center, not that show but . . . ."

    And lo and behold . . . .

    Have a grateful day folks.

  • ladnarc
    23 hours 56 minutes ago
    Lets converge

    The show after this one was a high point for me and we all harmonically converged. I propose we converge harmonically again to pray/meditate/ruminate (whatever works for you) on Love and Peace.

    Peace be with you.

Yesterday's answer...
Morrison, CO, Red Rocks Amphitheatre
The final Grateful Dead show at Red Rocks featured this excellent first set closing sequence with Cassidy sung by Bobby, Far From Me sung by Brent, and Phil singing Box Of Rain to end the set
Yesterday's Winner...
Jared
Marlboro
MA

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