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!
This is an easy one, finally.
What a nugget from the vault yesterday! That’s wa ha hooo was a clear Alligator tee up, only 2 CJ>Alligators, uncirculated on the 28th, and pretty identical to the one they played and kinda botched on the 27th . Thank you Dave!
Man that was brutal in the best way possible, it was a deep dive fer sure. Maybe I don't need to hear that song for a week or so haha.
That's all I got to say about that.
After seeing the 28th at Family Dog on archive in which the notes said Casey Jones was one of the uncirculated tunes that night, I threw down the search in Deadnet and it popped right up. I have a DVD on this show somewhere but wasn't set up to check it. Yet, when the tune ends Jerry clearly says Haa haaa woo hoo and that left doubt. That must have been a satisfying end of a long trip!