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:
The penultimate song of the night from the Dead's penultimate show at this classic venue, where they played more than four dozen times
day28_XgWAyFAjeSHDaAQ_saturday_philadelphia.mp3
1036 comments

  • Wackaloonq
    1 week 2 days ago
    tasty

    ooh and a nice sized list to go thru makes it a proper search day

    anyone having trouble getting relisten or archive to play the show.
    had to use alternate means yesterday and had no way to sync which i like to do just to be sure.

  • 1stshow70878
    1 week 2 days ago
    Hoping for luck

    Dave narrows it down to 15 years, lol.
    Many, many possibilities.
    Just gotta poke around I guess.
    Maybe I'll just listen to the whole thing first which I seldom do. Usually save the full listen until after I enter. Nice lively start!
    Cheers

  • ohkicat
    1 week 2 days ago
    Relisten down for me too

    Archive is still working for me on my laptop.

  • DRKSTARR
    1 week 2 days ago
    ‘The Warlocks of Tokyo’

    Might just be my favorite GD cover band

  • truckinup2buffalo
    1 week 2 days ago
    In Attendance

    Great show in my newly located state. A 1st set song hade me in awe as I was never expecting it. Just 4 songs later another had me in happy tears. On to the 2nd set, WOW it just blew me away... Yes, SMALLZ you're spot on about EOTW outro... Amazingly they throw out something I've always got into for a long time. Encore wait for it, because that's what they did.

Yesterday's answer...
Providence, RI, Providence Civic Center
From 1978, 1977, and 1973, respectively, all three of these songs land on many people's Top 20 Grateful Dead songs list.
Yesterday's Winner...
Rock
Malaga
NJ

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