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
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1024 comments

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    dahainer
    2 weeks 5 days ago
    Today's Winner

    I think the winner had the correct answer and that a mistake was made in cut and pasting the venue, for the web results. No big deal a misprint per se

  • JackStrawBrighton
    2 weeks 5 days ago
    WAV files?

    Thanks again for the daily dose but why were the first four days WAV files and the subsequent ones mp3?

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    Shindigger
    2 weeks 5 days ago
    I now feel better

    I've been in despair for the last few days, but while listening to 11/08/70 this morning, I noticed that the cloud had lifted. All thanks to "Ripple."

    Give it a try if you're feeling low.

  • ronmarley1
    2 weeks 5 days ago
    Venue Controversy

    Looks like our first one of the year. There's usually one or two every 30 DoD.
    For Day 1 this year, that venue is known by various names in CLE.

  • driftin and dreamin
    2 weeks 5 days ago
    Agreed

    It seems they would not go out of there way to select a winner with the wrong answer so yeah they hopefully selected from the pot of 10-19-94 answers..... But all answers are two part (seemingly for a reason) so it still seems like a glitch that a venue that was no longer in existence be the selected winner. On to Casey

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
Yesterday's Winner...

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