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!
If it wasn't Tiger, it was most likely Rosebud.
This one went from pretty hard at first glance, to easier at first listen, all the way to extremely easy the second I looked at the downloaded file's name.
That being said, what a show
Got popped for a small amount of weed on the way to the previous night in Albany. Probably would have been let go without incident if a passenger in my car (howdy Ross!) hadn’t brought along a quarter-pound neatly measured out into 1/4 ounce bags in his guitar case. Of course no one else in the car was aware of this fact, but I was driving so… Missed the BERTHA and MINGLEWOOD openers that night.
Arraigned and fined ($150!) the next morning. Spent the day at the hotel pool and smoked many a doober (Ross had brought another quarter-pound with him as well. If I had known I would have kicked him out of the car in Worcester!). Great show that evening capped by that killer ATTICS.
Aah, memories….
Yes, there were some flubs but still so wonderful to hear this version at 3 am. It is reminiscent of a similar one, one of my favorites, from a show several years later that Dick released. I synced it up so perfectly to the web version that there was not even any echo and you couldn’t tell that there were two different sources playing at the same time. Thank you Dave!
So when I heard it and tried to find it I was under the impression that maybe it sounded like he was playing Wolf for Attics.
I looked it up and can not find anything.
Does anybody know/remember what guitar Jerry played on 6/12/92 in Albany?