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 pairing of songs that appeared in 1967 and 1972, often played together in the latter portion of Dead shows
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260 comments

  • moribundjt
    1 day 17 hours ago
    Grand Prize

    Just one correct answer puts you into the entry for the box set. Good luck

  • driftin and dreamin
    1 day 17 hours ago
    Phil It Up

    I have always loved this Weir/Barlow tune and with Phil up front and center from start to finish in this rendition it is very fitting. It was not so "easy" for me to find it but I did. Not sure work will be happy with me this month as I search for the where and when all month :-D. Cheers You All

  • JoeyMC
    1 day 17 hours ago
    Grand Prize

    Do you have to win a calendar to be entered for the box, or do you just need to guess one day correctly?

  • mac0123
    1 day 17 hours ago
    BITRATE

    Please fix these downloads to 320, they are all 124 so far... thank you

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    gratefulhead82
    1 day 17 hours ago
    In the Phil Zone

    Great version of a favorite - may be me, but seems like Phil is turned up in the mix. Either way, he’s on fire here. Thanks for sharing!

Yesterday's answer...
Atlanta, GA, Piedmont Park
Recorded just a few months after the Live/Dead recordings, this terrific Dark Star shows the further evolution of the song after the Fillmore West gigs as the Dead transitioned into the Workingman's Dead/American Beauty era, while still easily playing primal music
Yesterday's Winner...

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