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
Shakedown Street>Estimated Prophet>Eyes Of The World
Hint:
A classic trio of songs from 1973-1978, all of which stuck around for the duration after their debuts
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994 comments

  • driftin and dreamin
    3 weeks ago
    clues

    There are always lil clues to narrow down the choices but listening to numerous renditions is my only solution to finding the right show. My Hint: find one section in the song (a strange detail) vs listening the the entire song.

  • 1stshow70878
    3 weeks ago
    Tough one for me

    Not as familiar as most of you with this era so I struggled for many tries until frustrated, then in desperation I went to the comments for cryptic clues. That helped but Ladnarc has been to every show. And Bundubush, are you sure you have all your shows attended listed? I had it early on but didn't realize the person whose archive show I was listening to had the songs out of order which I realized the second time through. A worthy quest nonetheless!
    Cheers

  • cyberian00932
    3 weeks ago
    *.wav files

    Well Shucks, darn and other comments. I really enjoyed being able to download the .wav files. I like to rip to flac whenever I can. :-) Now...to put todays download on repeat while doing "chores"

  • vincenz7
    3 weeks ago
    uggh

    first time doing this. Sorry

  • FredHead-NY
    3 weeks ago
    vincenz7

    Please DO NOT enter guess in comments!! Thanks.

Yesterday's answer...
San Francisco, CA, Winterland Arena
The track that opens Workingman's Dead signals a new Grateful Dead sound, the Americana acoustic Dead focusing on vocal harmonies. It was often played as an encore in 1977, to very strong results as heard here
Yesterday's Winner...
jamgol

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