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 trio of classic first set songs from an lesser known but excellent tour
day29_FSqWjgoxAwZCKBd_deal_devil.mp3
1073 comments

  • mark_mumper
    3 days 7 hours ago
    Support Internet Archive

    Also (following on my reply to driftin and dreamin) I suggest that anyone on this site here that uses the Archive should donate $$ support, especially since being recently hacked and offline for a few days (noted by others here); they could use the help now to improve security, and otherwise do depend on user support for the huge multitude of resources they provide.

  • mark_mumper
    3 days 7 hours 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
    3 days 9 hours 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
    3 days 10 hours ago
    Will Do

    Sounds Amazing
    I PMed you
    Thanks

  • driftin and dreamin
    3 days 11 hours ago
    Cheers

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

Yesterday's answer...
Philadelphia, PA, The Spectrum
One More Saturday Night closed this show's second set, and the very next night, the Dead's final appearance at the Spectrum, Phil broke out Unbroken Chain for the very first time
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