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!

Today's Song
Candyman
Hint:
From 1970, with special guests sitting on on the studio cut. This song was played every year 1970-1995 aside from 1975, and only once in 1974.
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    Texron3808
    20 hours 52 minutes ago
    Love November

    Here we go!!!!!!!!

  • ronmarley1
    20 hours 58 minutes ago
    Another Year!

    Glad to be back for all the fun. Will have to wait until later to dive in. Happy that the Archive is back up or I'd be sunk!
    It’s Friday, 30 DoD has started, and Dave’s 52 is scheduled for delivery. It’s like the planets have aligned or something!

  • JustMotts
    21 hours 12 minutes ago
    Happy November

    Hello everyone and look forward to this time each year. Thank You to all involved. Going to try to beat last year and get more then half guesses correctly.

  • Wackaloonq
    21 hours 14 minutes ago
    welcome back yall

    so excited to b back again this year
    have had a rough time with health and life
    now a month of some thing to get excited about every day.

    i miss you phil. may the four winds blow you safely home.

  • deded54
    22 hours 13 minutes ago
    Beautiful

    Another Great start to 30 Days
    Unfortunate the low bitrate

Yesterday's answer...
Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Music Hall
The Playing In The Band reprise was sporadically played by the Grateful Dead after 1976, an always fun and unexpected return to Playing In The Band, followed by Jerry's The Heel from his first sold album
Yesterday's Winner...
Dan
Richmond
CA

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