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 trio of songs from 1973-1978, all of which stuck around for the duration after their debuts
day27_XgWAyFAjeSHDaAQ_shakedown_world.mp3
1008 comments

  • neuf512
    4 days 1 hour ago
    Life changing show

    This was my second show. It was what I often think and speak of as a truly religious experience. Being a Wall of Sound show, the sound was awesome and made a pretty crappy venue sound great. I was so happy to see that this Day of the Dead pick was from this show. The recording is fantastic. I only have an audience file of the show, so I was amazed by the sound quality. Bobby's guitar playing on China was as good as it gets. I wish I could get more of this show from this source...I am gonna play the hell out of this file!!!

  • driftin and dreamin
    4 days 1 hour ago
    eras

    Fer sure this is one of mine as well, then I started to wonder how many eras there are... hahaha. I think I fallen down the rabbit hole on day 23.

  • dougbr1ne
    4 days 1 hour ago
    Echo echo echo

    It was that echo on one instrument right at the beginning. Thinking it had to be from 1 or 2 certain years based on how they had a relaxed way of starting one of these songs. Nice guitar tones on this 2 fer

  • Saintfilberto
    4 days 1 hour ago
    Lighten Up

    Holy Moses Malone Folks! Your supposed to be Deadheads, Hippies, free spirits.
    It's just a game ( And a silly one at that) Stop with the hate and anguish. Who cares ? we get free music and we all know you are so much smarter than the rest of us. Lighten up Francis !

  • driftin and dreamin
    4 days 2 hours ago
    This Show!!

    The Boys are "Firing On All Cylinders".

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
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