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 second set jam sequence that is about as classic from this era/year as it gets, featuring songs from 1967, 1970, and a double dose of 1972. We always try to go out with a bang during 30 Days Of Dead, and this certainly fits the bill
day30_nESNvWbPtWdiCwn_gone_blue.mp3
1134 comments

  • driftin and dreamin
    3 days 23 hours ago
    Jer's Rig

    Rosebud 12/31/89 - 6/26/93
    Older guitars continued to be used: Wolf appears on 7/23/90 & 2/23/93 (among others), Tiger and Wolf in the Nov. 1991 JGB run.
    So you can assume Rosebud but Wolf and Tiger were not collecting dust and were used from time to time.
    Edit: VooDooNola2 on YT has posted video of this entire show, it was in fact Rosebud from start to finish this night.

  • driftin and dreamin
    4 days ago
    A Mod

    This is where a Mod would come in handy as they could simply delete the post.
    The community can only do so much, if the Original Poster is not paying attention, the glaring fopaux remains.

    Anywho interesting day.... Thanks for the hint DAVE :-)

  • 1stshow70878
    4 days ago
    Best year ever for me

    Maybe it is a bit easier this year.
    Hard to believe I'm better at it, lol.
    Missed one and the hardest one I skipped.
    Today was pretty easy too.
    Had my list and went backwards and had a near match that almost fooled me. Then of course it was the first one on the list. Why is it something is always in the last place you look for it? Because you stopped looking when you found it.
    Cheers

  • driftin and dreamin
    4 days ago
    When you get confused

    Listen to the play.
    Lyrically a mess but Jer has some shinning moments on this version

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    holysmokes
    4 days ago
    well.......

    naming a song and including winterland sort of narrows it down. doesn't it

Yesterday's answer...
Indianapolis, IN, Market Square Arena
The two tours that surrounded the Fall Tour of 1976 (Summer 1976's comeback tour, and Spring 1977's tour of excellence) often overshadow this tour, but there are many great nights from September and early October 1976, including this great show in Indianapolis
Yesterday's Winner...
Jonathan
Grand Rapids
MI

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