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 second set jam sequence that is about as classic from this era/year as it gets, featuring songs from 1967, 1970, and a double dose of 1972. We always try to go out with a bang during 30 Days Of Dead, and this certainly fits the bill
day30_nESNvWbPtWdiCwn_gone_blue.mp3
1142 comments

  • Wackaloonq
    4 days 17 hours ago
    get past 30 days

    i could try as i save each year as playlist. or burn cd.
    their is also someone with fifteen year spreadsheet of it all.
    send me pm and we figure it out.

  • Wackaloonq
    4 days 17 hours ago
    past years

    besides the fact that one of our regulars has a full excel sheet for all 15 years. i’m not that great at compressing or zipping but if u send me email i have each year for most as a album with the whole 30 days for each year at least as far back as 2014. i could try to copy and compress them for you or burn cd and mail them. might take some time but do able.
    let me know what u think
    peace
    wackaloonq Q

  • brassinthegrass
    4 days 18 hours ago
    Such a beautiful composition.

    Though I don't have much experience with this song and had kind of forgotten it until today. But it always draws me in and bends my ear to listen so to speak. I do always wonder who the "You" is in the lyrics, or who Hunter wrote those lyrics for, if he wrote them to anyone/thing at all. Too late to ask him now. Thanks anyway Bob.

  • dougbr1ne
    4 days 19 hours ago
    Phaser swoooshhh

    That phaser/chorus effect swoosh when you get the 2 audio players to sync up is always fun. Don't know much about this show. Never got to this venue but had friends that ventured and said it was a blast to see a show there.

  • MindLeftBody11
    4 days 20 hours ago
    In the book of love’s own dream . . .

    Today’s Attics just cleaved my poor heart in two. A stunning version that I’m now telling all those that I love to listen to asap.

    Love all you beauties here. Peace my friends.

Yesterday's answer...
Indianapolis, IN, Market Square Arena
The two tours that surrounded the Fall Tour of 1976 (Summer 1976's comeback tour, and Spring 1977's tour of excellence) often overshadow this tour, but there are many great nights from September and early October 1976, including this great show in Indianapolis
Yesterday's Winner...
Jonathan
Grand Rapids
MI

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