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!
After listening to yesterday's selection, I decide to go to Taper's Section, which I do every Monday. Light bulb goes on as I listen to the Tapers, and I go with my gut, as this HAS to be the continuation of the 7/7 Piedmont show that was the correct answer. I don't think this has ever happened during my previous 30 DOD. My DB 9 has no setlist listed for these Piedmont Park shows, which is the only source I use. I know it's old, but my DB9 is my good friend. Plus, I don't have tons of time to do deep dives.
I guess the release of the .wav files was a stoner move.
OMG This Other One is Other Worldly and the Stella is a Beautiful Rendition. I know I have heard this before and have a good idea where to start. Hint: it ain't 67 or 72 :-D
Rock the Vote you all, Halloween is over and pumpkin headed felons are not where its at (IMO).
Should I follow suit and mention the media format, NO....NO I Shouldn't!
Peas'
Looks like all the files are 320kbps mp3s now. That's fine with me since I use iTunes and I like to add the album artwork.
Edit: Looks like Day 1 is still a 124kbps. Makes no difference to me though.
Never trust a prankster!
Try mp3tag. I will have a dot de domain