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

  • chrisr777
    3 days 13 hours ago
    So happy for the music

    Just got our last issue of the subscription and now another 30 Days.

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    Danehead
    3 days 13 hours ago
    30 days..

    Will a guess of 1976 get me the box ?

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    jprisco
    3 days 13 hours ago
    Submission suggestion

    Hey, I have a wild idea - if we can't have a simple fillout form, how about having instruction on this page about where to go, and how to enter? Suggestions to "find" a dropdown menu labeled "show" isn't enough if we don't know where to look.
    Kudos to those who somehow found it :)

  • m-skjellyfetti
    3 days 14 hours ago
    And they're off!! Happy B day D-Rae

    Hello and welcome back to all the 'usual suspects' for this wonderful month of music and friendly competition! Looking foward to the banter with others on the comments and this month this year should prove to be very interesting in so many ways.

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    jdaunt
    3 days 14 hours ago
    Thank you! Finally found how…

    Thank you! Finally found how to enter, that was very helpful!

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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