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:
A classic trio of songs from 1973-1978, all of which stuck around for the duration after their debuts
day27_XgWAyFAjeSHDaAQ_shakedown_world.mp3
995 comments

  • MindLeftBody11
    2 weeks 4 days ago
    MSG . . .

    The Theater at MSG was known as the Felt Forum until 1989, holds between 2000 to 5000 people, and is located below the MSG main arena. I was at these shows in ‘94. They were held in the MSG main arena, same arena where the Knicks play, not in the Felt Forum.

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    rasta5ziggy
    2 weeks 4 days ago
    Felt Forum

    The only time GOGD played Felt Forum was a 4-day run December, 1971, and Dave's Pick 22 released 12/7/1971. No way were they playing that small venue in 1994. Somebody forgot to put out the pipe before inputting that answer. Even my DeadBase 9 shows only one run at the Felt.

  • driftin and dreamin
    2 weeks 4 days ago
    Good question

    In 94 the Boys were filling stadiums so were they really playing a small venue of 5000? MSG itself holds 20K for a concert which seems more reasonable for the time period.

  • JoeyMC
    2 weeks 4 days ago
    Felt Forum

    Yes,that was the name of the theater downstairs, (which had many names after)
    This one was MSG, let's hope it's a typo and correct answers weren't eliminated. To me, what they have for the answer there is not correct.

  • driftin and dreamin
    2 weeks 4 days ago
    Something seems to be a miss

    The Felt's venue name was changed in 1989 so.....

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
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