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!
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....
wow
just a few to look thru
for 47 years, 18 touring, this has always been my most favorite of all.
i could and probably will listen to them all day.
one of the comments and the easy time period helped a lot….got it down to a list of manageable proportions.
i usually never find these, but today i am determined to succeed.
good luck to all.
Some of you may remember Jonathan Wind Dancer from Early Dead Shows/Tour?He is not with us anymore,but it is his Birthday today,and there are NO coincidence that "China Cat" was one of the songs today,as it was his favorite song!When I lay in bed this morning,I said to myself,"What song will they play for Wind Dancer today"?And THIS?.....Thank You Spirits/Dave/Grateful Dead.for saving my brother,after he got back from Vietnam,and had No Family!You saved him.....
He was the quintessential Homeless Dead Head,who would,on an instant.up and go hitchhike to ANY show in the US...and make it there by show time!!!Thank You for your Life Wind Dancer!We LOVE you!!!We Miss You!!!!
my dear Mom loves to tell the story of when she saw the Beatles as a teenager at this venue with 30,000 other crazy kids. Everyone here has probably passed it as you crisscrossed America on tours over the years.
not a repeat as far as I can tell
Dave tossed it at us today.... We've been waiting for this for some time, I like the long search though, I freakin' nailed it quickly Thinking I would need a headlight on that north bound train..... Not today. This time period had some very intriguing setlist.