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!
same. an awful lot of hoop jumping only to be left in the dark regarding the reason I signed up.
now I found the entry calendar, only to realize you gotta scroll backwards for 10 minutes to enter a simple date. Something else..... oh look. prove you're STILL not a robot.
Dark Star magic
Digging for this one lead to some really fun shows and getting side tracked listening to Bobby's Slewfoot renditions! Wish they kept it in the repertoire. November Rocks.
I often notice that when I rip some music to Apple Music in the iMac hard drive, and then, when finished, add a jpg. ("add artwork"), the volume suddenly drops. Is that because I've just made a greater demand on the computer to extract info from those files? It doesn't seem to diminish the audio quality but I do have to turn it up a few notches to get back to that pre-jpg volume. Any clues? Peace!
I don't know which is better, sychronizing perfectly the archive show with the 30 days show, or having them be a split second off. For Dark Star, it almost doesn't make a difference!