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 couple of songs from two consecutive early 1970s albums, with both songs being a big part of the repertoire from their debuts onward
day23_wmzXRhGHGOXeCRc_ramble_grow.mp3
844 comments

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    jeff4682
    4 days 23 hours ago
    The 5.6.7.8’s

    THE 5.6.7.8’s were the all-female Japanese band featured in KILL BILL VOL. 1. I believe that “Cassandra” (was that her name?) was the only woman in the band in WAYNE’S WORLD… excellent!

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    chipg1956@gmail.com
    4 days 23 hours ago
    Day 18

    Excellent, I think this is the best day of the current season so far!!

  • smallz
    5 days ago
    nut-thatched winters

    i'm so stoked about today's selection. another huge slab of Dead!! a nearly 16 minute EOTW. that eyes outro is very cool. weird sounds from all the players as it flows towards drumz...

    happy hunting, heads!

    someone mentioned the hint a few years ago (not mine) about "asian girl band" which was the 5678's from the Wayne's World movie. that was a good one lol

  • LeeBob802
    5 days ago
    Yesterday's Iko (or Aiko?)

    Several comenters on different sites bare eyewitness accounts about a Robert Hunter and Bonnie Rait afternoon show preceeding the GOGD in said city, and that the venue was ridiculously hot, as in sauna hot, and that during Iko Iko (which I have seen spelled Aiko Aiko on bumper stickers sold int he lot, and how I named one of my dogs), Jerry, Bobby and Donna were doing a hula hula dance. The drums pre-Iko came in at over 16 minutes, and 'twas Billy's 32nd B-Day. Before the encore, Phil says, "Actually, we seem to have lost our drummers. Let's give a hand for our drummers, shall we?"

  • Automaticslim
    5 days 1 hour ago
    ShadyJake

    Way too many clear directions to finding show. Those are not “hints.”

Yesterday's answer...
Indianapolis, IN, State Fair Coliseum
China Cat Sunflower and I Know You Rider were joined together in September 1969, and from their first time together it sounded like a natural fit. As the years went on, the Dead developed an intricate, composed jam to join the two, as heard here
Yesterday's Winner...
Howard
Tuxedo
NY

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