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!
Both WAV and MP# posted. AWESOME!
Thank you dead.net.
Another 30 has started out very well.
No Windows and DL directly to VLC player :)
Not being able to edit the metadata for the .wav file probably comes down to what program you are using for music playback. iTunes used to not be able to edit .wav metadata, but I believe they have changed that. Are you using Windows Media Player? I would suggest trying a different program. MediaMonkey is by far my favorite choice, since it handles basically every file format and allows full customization.
So I am getting WAV lossless files now for 2,3,4. Hope day 1 upgrades to WAV soon. That would be fantastic! You will be able to change/edit all data to clean it up, but if you are using iTunes to do it, you will not be able to add the artwork. iTunes doesn't really like WAV files. But use something like JRiver which is fantastic, and you will be able to edit everything. Or even convert the files then to FLAC, ALAC, MP3 whatever you need for your use.
Some claim that Dark Star is actually going on all the time, and the band simply steps in and out of it…
I have always loved this quote/idea if for no other reason than music itself is bigger than man made concepts, at least to me.
This is a deep cut fer sure, begin at the beginning and have fun.