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!
This one took me a while, but I finally found it. So many variations to Billy's first 15 seconds!
... as I'm 2/2 and am sure to be 3/3 come midnight.
... so I went back to Archive and selected another version, which synched up perfectly with virtually no drift for minutes on end.
... about this is coming to a new appreciation of the songs through hearing several performances in a row, really listening close for those small bits that distinguish one from another. As a result, one hears the song itself simultaneously more deeply and broadly.
In a more general sense, I'm coming to actually like this song now.
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