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!
So many versions to sift through. Have it narrowed down to 2 years but so many versions (minus 1 distinct version) it could be. No vocal flubs as clues either.
...or Mr Charlie, Operator , Easy Wind (outtakes, perhaps). Why is this so hard?
How about Two Souls or Chinatown Shuffle? He wrote those, didn't he? Maybe not.
I get it now. Copyright reasons.
At over 500 shows with a China Rider, even with era clues limiting the stack you should scour, I have too much to do today. Good luck to all - and whomever of you fine people successfully find the show, you have my lifetime of respect.
Winner here should be receiving the box set in my opinion....