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
Hint:
A song that took a 17 year hiatus from the live set, returning for the final six years
day25_seGHOQczrHlMWZp_attics_life.mp3
920 comments

  • Default Avatar
    Mytime
    6 hours 27 minutes ago
    TWO MUCH INFORMATION!

    somebody even divulged that there were two drummers! Please, not in the comments! Lol.

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    ever grateful
    6 hours 34 minutes ago
    @doug - You can enter without being logged in

    True it's more streamlined to be logged in, but you don't actually need to be logged in to enter a guess. Logging in means you have a dead dot net account, and not everyone has one. It's set up so anyone can enter by just entering their name & contact info along with their guess in the drop down.

  • thismikebenz
    6 hours 50 minutes ago
    Found it!

    After missing a few this month, more than most years, I got this on my first try! Without reading the comments first. I've noticed this year more than others, more folks put TOO MUCH INFORMATION in their comments. Bummer. I do remember once in a while, someone would give a sufficently cryptic hint which just made things more fun. Anyhow, this jam is amazing!
    Go Phil!

  • deadbass36
    7 hours 21 minutes ago
    Hopefully

    no errers today.

    And BTW that Jam is great

  • dougbr1ne
    8 hours 1 minute ago
    Also... you need to be logged in when guessing...

    Also... you need to be logged in when guessing. You get much more streamlined answering options that way. "City, State, Venue" are all on one drop down that way. And you are not prompted to enter your first and last name. Just noticed this now. I must have restarted my machine and got logged out over the past 24 hours. I looked at the answering options and was scratching my head... hmmm... Why do they have so many entry fields today to try to guess the answer??? Oh yeah... looked at the upper right corner and bingo, no avatar pic. Aha... I am logged out. I logged in, refreshed and the entry form at bottom was back to good ol streamlined version.

Yesterday's answer...
Chicago, IL, Uptown Theatre
These three songs were often joined in this order to end second sets from 1973 to 1995, with all three being a big part of the Dead's live repertoire since 1971 or earlier
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