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!

Today's Song
Hint:
Rolling Stone magazine famously referred to the studio version of this song as "without question, the best recorded track done by this band."
day26_LKUHEiKgztTWWbP_uncle_winterland.mp3
994 comments

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    ZonaPunk
    3 weeks 1 day ago
    Bring on the .wav files!

    Don't know if its a stoner move or a trend but I will take them. Thanks!!

  • iangillespie
    3 weeks 1 day ago
    Exactly

    Unfortunately this is typical of our post-Covid world
    The universe is out to get you but not the way you think!

  • dharmadawg
    3 weeks 1 day ago
    Both WAV and MP# posted…

    Both WAV and MP# posted. AWESOME!
    Thank you dead.net.
    Another 30 has started out very well.

  • ms.queen.jane@…
    3 weeks 1 day ago
    No Windows and DL directly…

    No Windows and DL directly to VLC player :)

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    Poneill378
    3 weeks 1 day ago
    Jamgol: Music Software

    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.

Yesterday's answer...
Albany, NY, Knickerbocker Arena
Attics Of My Life was in the repertoire quite often in 1970, and a couple of times in 1972 before it was seemingly dropped for good. Thankfully, though, it returned in October 1989, and would be played 30 times 1989-1995.
Yesterday's Winner...
BeaterMP
Richmond
VA

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