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!
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2/28/70 was the only version that I couldn't find in the time period that made the most sense (compared to the other versions around it), so I went with it without hearing it. Anyone track down a copy that circulates outside of the vault?
mindbender ( confusions prince)
eac jam
alligator-caution
or the 2012 “jam”
something that takes us to multiple dimensions of time and space
bring it on dave….lol
so…. if you never visited this site before give it a try. you enter up to five songs and you get all the times they were played in that sequence.
promptly at 3am eastern i put todays in and…looks like it’s gonna take eons to find it. i mean choice after choice to go thru and look for anomalies, who has got that time.
thanks dave, i do appreciate all the songs in any format as this month truly connects some very old heads.
I currently have close to 18 sites in my 30 day bookmarks, some of them give info that you can’t get anywhere else. i like archive and make a november donation but their is so much out there.
i have a dead bibliography book 250 pages of every time the band was even referred to in any type of media, handwritten books of true poster dimensions and current prices. i’ll list a few more sites tomorrow, maybe some of you that go back beyond my first show in 1977 can add things as well.
good luck to all today sorting thru the choices.
Q
Keep your eyes peeled today.
You and me bound to spend some time
wonderin' what to choose
Goes to show, you don't ever know
Watch each card you play and play it slow
Wow, well that was the hardest search ever, but now I'm jumping up & down!
So, I never actually found it. But I knew the time frame right away and listened to every date around it. The closest I could find was 2/27/1970. I wasn't focusing on Jerry's solo as much as others mentioned, but I zeroed in on the intro notes as well as Jerry's voice dropping down at the very end. 2/27/70 was SO close, but not exact. I couldn't find a match, but I saw that the setlist for 2/28/70 had every song available to hear on Archive, except for Casey. In the end, nothing else made sense so I chose 2/28 which I never actually heard. So....it was just my best sleuthed-out guess!
I hope others will say if they ever actually found the song to listen to, and how & where they found it. Cuz I was stumped on that end. Many thanks.
Now onward....today should be a breeze!