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!
I hear that Jer.
Interesting open to Esau.
This entire show is well above ave, to my ears.
Be Well You All
One and Done!
I am getting cut outs in this mp3. I deleted and redownloaded - same problem persists.
Can't believe I missed yesterday's while I was in the right year. I guess too many distractions at home but I did get back on track today. I would have caught this entire run in a venue I just love!
Another easy one today. Like the sound of Phil up front at the beginning of Cold Rain... Started out with same cut as on the source I found for today.
I thought yesterday was easy. Even the "hint" which I usually ignore did give the first year to try right away. I thought I would 'zero in' rather than take that so called hint as a call to search a full 15 year span. As soon as I heard the guitar, lead vocals and keyboard sound/tones I thought, Hmmm that sounds an awful lot like the 1980-81 sound and it does state "second half of career etc". I will just try looking at 1980 first. Sometimes simplifying helps. Bingo, answer popped up right away.