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!
Something tells me I've been here before.
if they didn't know then, they know now
I have it listed as "Cryptical-Black Peter" in my file catalog. It just randomly came up on shuffle this morning and I was like "waaaaaait a minute..." lol
I have often listened to this one as it was the concert just before I started my trips around the Sun.
Thanks Dave and Co. for the great November listens.
The clarity of the music preformed decades ago is jaw dropping. The care and love of Dave, Dead dot net and countless others to archive and preserve this slice of Americana has hit me like a ton of bricks this morning. Thank You Thank You Thank You!