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 fall in love with Bird Song more every time I hear it, no matter the era, no matter the venue. Great job this year so far, keep it up!
I'm on my way, thinking I have gotten 12 of the 14 Days.
If you hear that same sweet song again, odds are it's from a completely different era...
All I know is something like this show would have been an awesome experience.
Farewell to you old Day 14, what's to be found, racing around these next 16 Days?
Enjoy this trio everyone, I'm gone, goodbye...
To my ears, what we have here are 3 classic GD tunes played as well as I've ever heard. Even despite the unfortunate one and one-half second drop out at twenty-eight thirty-five during Bird Song. And they played the shit out of that Tuning song at this show as well.
Thanks for sharing these extra special goodies! Toodeloo till tomorrow.
Clever Hints- Yes, Giving Show Hints- No, Wrong Show Hints- ??.
I rarely look at comments before entering anyways.
Year is a giveaway based on going directly into the Half Step coda without an instrumental break. Notice how I’m not giving away the exact show like others seem apt to do, but it was an easy find.