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!
Love hearing straight from heads who were there, even if they were almost there or showed up late or just partied in the lot. It's so cool to hear when one of you identifies a show you were at, and even cooler if it was your first one! Having never seen Jerry myself, I and all the latter-day heads rely on your lore. It's our manna.
This version of Attics is perfectly sublime. We've boogied here before.
Finally a show I was at! I remember showing up just in time, or so I thought, as there was a logjam at the entrance and we heard half the opener while outside the front doors...
Great start to the last week. Quite simply magnificent. Think I've got it.
WOW !!!
this one is breathtaking.
also sweet listening to the other versions over the years. such a perfect song. thank you, Hunter & Jerry.
this is from the show before my 1st of the 55 gd shows i caught...
setlist deliciousness...