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:
The penultimate song of the night from the Dead's penultimate show at this classic venue, where they played more than four dozen times
day28_XgWAyFAjeSHDaAQ_saturday_philadelphia.mp3
1056 comments

  • Pitzburg Felt Forum
    2 weeks ago
    Clue or question?

    Just logged on. Just started listening. Read the comments. Nothing to scathing on there. For a calendar. So my question is " Is not having Uptown Toodeloo a clue or question or typo?" For a band that was anti authoritarian we sure are sticklers round these parts.

  • Estim8ted
    2 weeks ago
    Bird Soar

    ...that was magical

  • Automaticslim
    2 weeks ago
    Hints

    Today's selection may be obvious to some but we are gettin' a little loose with the hints here.

  • JoeyMC
    2 weeks ago
    Man, I enjoyed that :)
    It's…

    Man, I enjoyed that :)

    It's hard to win a calendar...

  • driftin and dreamin
    2 weeks ago
    TMI?

    I was going to say that, but though it might be to much. Not wrong though this night was one for the ages.

Yesterday's answer...
Providence, RI, Providence Civic Center
From 1978, 1977, and 1973, respectively, all three of these songs land on many people's Top 20 Grateful Dead songs list.
Yesterday's Winner...
Rock
Malaga
NJ

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