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 is just the most wonderful song, thanks again dead.net for this November treat every year, very much appreciated. I always end up buying lots more GD stuff in November lol
I can't remember the year, maybe 2011?, when they used to do a small daily prize and a large weekly prize. I won the Warner Bros. Studio Albums Five LP Box Set. Took a couple back and forth e-mails to get it shipped.
First, a monster Dark Star, and then they updated the previous files to .wav. I don't recall ever getting .wav files since this started in 2010. Happy Monday!
This DS blew my mind quite early in the day (along with the others I heard during the search). Whew! Pretty sure I hadn't heard this before. Tracked it down within an hour. Definitely not a repeat!
I have a rough idea of the year but that’s all. Just grooving to this. What a fabulous version.