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
992 comments

  • mark_mumper
    19 hours 54 minutes ago
    past 30 Days on the Archive

    to driftin and dreamin and others--

    Just found a few days ago that perhaps all the past 30 Days were posted last year, by individual year, by someone onto the Grateful Dead Collection on archive dot o r g.

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    Mytime
    21 hours 35 minutes ago
    Phasers set to STUN

    Another great version. Already overdozin’ on all these treasures and still more to come. Thanksgiiving
    came early this year!

    Jerrylist is pretty decent, also Relisten. But i’m still digging the Setlist Program and its Archive links as I’ve always done. It’s more fun!

  • driftin and dreamin
    23 hours 10 minutes ago
    Will Do

    Sounds Amazing
    I PMed you
    Thanks

  • driftin and dreamin
    23 hours 16 minutes ago
    Cheers

    Hey thanks for the offer, I sent you a PM.
    Lets figure something out fer sure
    I appreciate you

  • hornsby
    23 hours 59 minutes ago
    you-

    the annotated dead lyrics book i have gives a brief mention of Hunter's thoughts on the song and a little Alice in Wonderland reference. Doesn't really answer your question though. Although sounds like it's not meant to be answered.

    other topic i saw on here was using jerrylist and relisten, i have always used deadlist and archives. might have to give it a try, although i have an affinity for the archives, been digging around in there since before the 30 days even started. i'd feel like a traitor for going somewhere else.
    this one was a giveaway pretty much. some other good tunes worth a listen at this show.

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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