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 pair of beauties joined together (mostly) for nearly 20 years
day12_ECpLaBJBtCnykpM_scarlet_fire.mp3
517 comments

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    Ivor GD Album
    1 week 1 day ago
    Format

    Thank you for listening to the format comments. VLC will easily convert .wav to .mp3.

  • deadmike
    1 week 1 day ago
    Start page

    Why isn't the start page working properly. How hard can it be to link this page to the one on the start page?

    Micke Östlund,
    Växjö, Sweden

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    tnjed98
    1 week 1 day ago
    Love it

    It always makes me happy to see them do a song that was played in a place I have set foot myself. This one was a great jam otw to work this am.

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    ZonaPunk
    1 week 1 day ago
    Bring on the .wav files!

    Don't know if its a stoner move or a trend but I will take them. Thanks!!

  • iangillespie
    1 week 1 day ago
    Exactly

    Unfortunately this is typical of our post-Covid world
    The universe is out to get you but not the way you think!

Yesterday's answer...
Kansas City, MO, Kansas City Municipal Auditorium
The first two songs in today's entry are from the only Kingfish studio album, Bob's solo project from 1975-1976 during the Dead's hiatus. The next three songs here are from Jerry's and Bob's 1972 solo albums, three songs that were a huge part of the Dead's repertoire right to 1995 but that were never recorded for a Dead album
Yesterday's Winner...
Steven
Natick
MA

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