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
Mississippi Half-Step, Black-Throated Wind, Bird Song
Hint:
Three tracks, two of which debuted in 1972 and one in 1971
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567 comments

  • Birchwood
    1 week 2 days ago
    Adding jpgs.

    I often notice that when I rip some music to Apple Music in the iMac hard drive, and then, when finished, add a jpg. ("add artwork"), the volume suddenly drops. Is that because I've just made a greater demand on the computer to extract info from those files? It doesn't seem to diminish the audio quality but I do have to turn it up a few notches to get back to that pre-jpg volume. Any clues? Peace!

  • thismikebenz
    1 week 2 days ago
    Synching

    I don't know which is better, sychronizing perfectly the archive show with the 30 days show, or having them be a split second off. For Dark Star, it almost doesn't make a difference!

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    joeyarata
    1 week 2 days ago
    Please Send The 30-Day Tracker List!

    Thanks for offering this link...

  • Gleenco
    1 week 2 days ago
    Fun!

    Nice version. I've never heard this show before. Good fun primal Dead.

  • DRKSTARR
    1 week 2 days ago
    WOW

    What a day for the DRKSTARR

Yesterday's answer...
San Francisco, CA, Family Dog at the Great Highway
The St. Stephen>The Eleven combination was played frequently in late 1968 through 1969, and makes up a quarter of Live/Dead. Here, rather than heading to Lovelight or Death Don't Have No Mercy, they segue into Drums and High Time
Yesterday's Winner...
michael
Pittsfield
MA

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