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!
My way to enter the answer isn't coming right up today. Scrolled the whole page and it's not there. So adding another comment to see if it will appear here now that I've pinned it down.
He was never an official member of the band. In fact, from what I understand, the reason he stopped playing regularly is because he was told he either had to join or stop touring.
Why is Bruce Hornsby not represented as a member in the photo section of Dead.net's Dead101. Bruce played over 100 shows, played with the boys for nearly 2 full years and was an integral part of the band continuing to function as a touring band after Brents' passing. In the least respect Bruce's part with a very honorable mention. Just wondering.
Trying for an hour and can't find this Candyman. I want to win Friend of the Devils so BAD! :-0)). I listened to 271 versions of Jerry's 1st 6 notes and not one of them had Bob's C power chords chunking away (while somebody was looking at his amp... ;-) ) of the provided example. Come again?
Enjoy the month!!!